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Oral Classes Online
Week Nine (November 15-18) |
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This is an online lesson for Blair's Oral English classes at Aichi Gakuin University on:
Monday for the Health Dept. (36ผ) and Psychology Dept. (29ผ) at the Nisshin Campus,
1-minute Level Checks
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((Teams Recording ON))
Plan A3
Let's TRY to HAVE a regular conversation in English. BEGIN with a Conversation Starter and CONTINUE sentence by sentence. To KEEP the pace lively we'll TIME it.
Your group's leader will CALL OUT the times. TRY to KEEP the pace.
There will be NO time for discussion about grammar OR whose turn it is.
| Plan | Japanese Record |
Speaking Practice with Repetition |
English Record |
| Haruna | Speak Eng | ||
| A | Speak Eng | Write English |
Today we will USE Plan A AND (Haruna's) Step 3: sentences that are CONNECTED by Thought-Questions. At the beginning of your Group Meeting you must WRITE the Four-Message Heading at the top of the Chat Box. In the second message you WRITE the Group Leader's name.
Conversations START with a sentence, a Conversation Starter (checklist level 3) and CONTINUE with connected sentences (level 7). Unlike Haruna, we are TALKING (and writing) about events that have already TAKEN PLACE. Verbs should, therefore be in the past tensesi฿`A฿is`A฿ฎน`j. After REPEATING the Conversation Starter, CONTINUE the conversation. All subsequent sentences must be CONNECTED to sentences that have APPEARED in the conversation before them--just a natural conversation.
Conversations Continue
with Linked Sentences
uThe longest conversation BEGINS with a single sentencev--
that's the Conversation Starter, ... and CONTINUES with sentences that are LINKED to each other by questions (usually NOT STATED, just IMPLIED). Here is an example of the beginning of a long conversation. Today you will WRITE only the sentences (and questions that are ASKED out loud).
| S ๆ | V ๆ | O/C ๆ | +A ๆ |
| No Link: (Conversation Starter) | |||
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| Many people | were exercising. | ||
| Link: (What kind of people ... were they?) | |||
| They | were | all young women. | |
| Link: (What kind of exercise ... was it?) | |||
| They | were swinging | their hips | from side to side. |
| Link: (Why ... were they exercising?) | |||
| They | probably wanted to lose | some weight. | |
| Link: (Who ... was there? Where ... was she?) | |||
| Ellen Michaels | was | there in the front row. | |
| Link: (Did she want to lose some weight?) | |||
| In the last 6 months she | had lost | 40 pounds. | |
| And she | wanted to keep | it | from ... |
| ... | coming | back. | |
If anyone in your group (didn't WATCH the video and thus) doesn't HAVE enough knowledge about the events to ADD specific information and concrete details, they can actually ASK these kinds of linking questions.
When a wh- question is ASKED, it can usually be ANSWERED with a noun phrase (and its preposition), rather than a full sentence. In fact, that is more natural. Yes/no questions can usually be ANSWERED ... with a uyesv or a unov... sometimes FOLLOWED by a pronoun and an auxillary verbiฎj. People who are skillful at THINKING of and ASKING questions, by the way, MAKE excellent conversation partners.
People who DO have sufficient knowledge about the events will, of course, ADD the information they HAVE (without asking any questions). Since the questions were NEVER explicitly ASKED, they will USE full sentences to ADD the information and CONTINUE the conversation.
Don't just write the sentences. SAY them loud and clear within the first minute. During the next minute everyone in the group, one by one, REPEATS or CORRECTS that sentence. Everyone CONTINUES SAYING the final sentence as the person who SAID it TYPES it into the Chat Box of your Meeting on Teams. You must TRY to FINISH by the end of the third minute.
The person who SAID the sentence does NOT say the next sentence. Another member of the group must SAY the next one.
Exam #1: Making Questions
Next week you will HAVE your first of three exams. You will be SHOWN about 10 minutes of a video and be GIVEN directions like this:
For each of the following question words, write one (ONLY ONE) discussion question about something specific that you saw or heard in the video. Use a different verb in each question.
You will GET about 25 minutes to WRITE seven questions, one of which will BEGIN with each of these Wh- question words: who, what, which, when, where, how, and why. You will NOT be ASKED to divide the questions into 4ๆ , but you must use the question patterns correctly AND have the verb cluster (m V) in an appropriate tense. You might, therefore, WANT to REVIEW Lesson 7.
| ๏c Chat |
| Group X2@Week 9 |
| Leader: Hanako |
| Plan A: Say an English sentence, then write it |
| Levels: 3-(4-5-6)-7-(4-5-6)-7 ... |
| Stanley's team played a baseball game at a park. |
| They lost by a score of 37 to 1. |
| Stanley was very disappointed. |
| ((etc.)) |
| ---Next Conversation--- |
| Ellen met Gonzo in an examination room. |
At the top of your report WRITE
(message #1) your group's name, "Week 9",
(message #2) the leader's name,
(message #3) Plan A: Say an English sentence, then write it.
(message #4) Levels: 3-(4-5-6)-7-(4-5-6)-7 ...
Your sentences should be about the video clips your group Leader SHOWS the group (using the share function). If someone in your group is online, then someone in the classroom (with BOTH camera and microphone ON) should POINT their camera at the screen while the video clip is PLAYING.
If you HAVE any questions about what you are supposed to be DOING, first DISCUSS the problem with your group, then ... if you are still in doubt, DO what you or your group THINK is right, (RAISE your hand if you're in the classroom,) and SHOW your work to the teacher (the PDS Cycle).
((Teams Recording OFF))
((confirm online attendance
with camera/microphone functions))
| These lessons are DESIGNED to HELP Japanese students
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