Your teacher has EXPLAINED the 4区 structures of Japanese sentences AND English Questions. I HOPE you UNDERSTAND those two 4区 patterns now. If you DO, then it is time to PRACTICE them. If you DO NOT, then perhaps you will COME to UNDERSTAND them as you PRACTICE with the other students in your group.

Yes, you can LEARN by PRACTICING with other students. If you do not HAVE any confidence about the patterns as you TRY to USE them, 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).

Today we will USE Plan B and Plan A AND (Haruna's) Steps 3 and 4: sentences that are CONNECTED by questions. Plan B3 (Write Japanese sentences, then speak English) for the sentences in the Conversation AND Plan A4 (Ask English questions, then write them) for the Linking 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.

If you are online, be sure to turn your camera and your microphone ON, so that you can DISCUSS the choice of leader with the other students. Do NOT WRITE any group discussions in the Chat Box. TALK to each other with your microphones (and cameras) ON. The Chat Box is for your Heading, your Conversation Starters, and your Conversations about assigned videos ONLY.

Conversations START with a sentence (a Conversation Starter) and CONTINUE with connected sentences. Before the conversation BEGINS each student in the group will DECIDE how they would LIKE to START the conversation. They will DECIDE in Japanese and WRITE a 4区和文 (Japanese) Conversation Starter about a scene in one of the assigned video stories ... NO discussion（勝手に　ばらばらの和文を　出す）. Each student WRITES one (ONLY ONE) 4区和文 .

AFTER these three or four sentences have been WRITTEN in the Teams Chat Box, it is time to DISCUSS them and DECIDE which one will PRODUCE the best (longest, most interesting) conversation. TALK to each other with your microphones (and cameras) ON.

PUT「O」in front of the best sentence and「X」in front of the others. The sentence with the「O」is the first sentence in your group's conversation ... your Conversation Starter. It should clearly IDENTIFY an interesting scene in the story. The student whose sentence won the「O」SAYS the sentence in English, then everyone in the group should REPEAT it. The Japanese sentence should, of course, have been DIVIDED into 4区 (see the examples below).

After REPEATING the Conversation Starter, CONTINUE the conversation. All subsequent sentences must be CONNECTED to sentences that have APPEARED in the conversation before them. There should be NO more discussion, especially in Japanese--NO more 「O」or「X」s--just a natural conversation, written in Japanese, BUT spoken in English.

Questions are a very important part of communication. People who are skillful at THINKING of and ASKING questions MAKE excellent conversation partners.

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 「yes」 or a 「no」... sometimes FOLLOWED by a pronoun and an auxillary verb（助動詞）.

Some English teachers TELL their students that a conversation is like a game of catch (catchball in Japanese). Unfortunately this GIVES students the idea that they should ASK a question right after GIVING a short answer. That often BREAKS UP the flow of the conversation OR TURNS it into a 発表会 . Instead your converations should be more like baseball than a game of catch. THINK of the questions that people ASK ... as pitches. You are the batter. After you GIVE a short answer (a hit), you must RUN at least to first base (by ADDING more information in full declarative sentences).

But ... why STOP at first base? GO all the way home, if you can ... four CONNECTED sentences. Connected in the same way as the sentences in a smooth, flowing conversation (see Lesson 9). Let's try it NOW. Here is the pitch (a yes/no question): Is aspirin absorbed in the stomach?

Don't just write the sentences in your group's conversations today. Be sure to PRACTICE SAYING them over and over ... faster and faster ... with more and more feeling (like the Bounce Patrol). Yes, it's English Only Time until you RUN OUT of things to SAY and the conversation ENDS.

Then you START a new conversation with new Conversation Starters and another「O」「X」discussion. During the Group Work all students that are online should KEEP their cameras and microphones ON.