If you’re just starting a new term, new class or even school year, here are a couple of articles I wrote last year that may help with some ideas:
First lesson of the year, if you speak the lingo
First Lesson when you don’t speak the lingo
First Lesson in Junior High School
If you have to do a self introduction type lesson then the best idea I’ve come across is the True or False Intro Game.
1. Tell the kids your name is David/Victoria Beckham.
2. Altogether the kids vote true or false.
3. Tell them your name is something else, they vote again.
4. Finally tell them your real name and they vote again.
5. Do the same thing with hobbies ( I have a black belt in Judo etc.), favourite foods, where you are from ( Mars?) etc. etc.
It’s especially good for lower level groups as long as you do have at least one thing to introduce that is a little out of the ordinary!
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12:33 pm on September 9th, 2008
I have found that a good JHS self-introduction, particularly for 2nd and third grade, is to simply write a list of my personal answers. In groups, the students have to find the questions.
Because they are in groups I have the chance to walk about within the classroom and speak to them in smaller numbers. I have found their confidence is a little better like this. While this is going on, the Japanese teacher can also be talking to different groups, correcting their grammar and so on.
Towards the end, with maybe ten or fifteen minutes to spare, and when I have spoken to each group, I call a halt and work as a whole class.
If the group gives a correct answer they get a point for their team. Here I can explain some of the more difficult questions and interesting answers.
I also encourange, if a group has finished early, to think of their own questions. I usually get “Do you have a girlfriend?” and “Do you like Japanese food”, but occasionally I am suprised by some quite inventive students.
Example questions for the worksheet:
24 (age)
England
I have two brothers
Pizza
Both of them are teachers (What is your parent’s job, a tricky one!)
Good luck, and have fun. The kids will love you!
9:38 pm on September 9th, 2008
try this…
write 6 (or more) numbers on the board. Ss try to guess (In English or native language) the meaning of the numbers.
e.g. 27 (shoe size) 175 (height in cm) 5 (members of the family) 29 (age) 70 (weight in kilograms) 4 (years in Japan or wherever)
try it, Ss are quickly interested in the guessing game, and learn a little about their new teacher.
6:10 am on September 14th, 2008
i found that to smile at the faces of grade one students is more important than any thing else here in palestine