Dull British Cities

Had another solo-teach with the third years today. This week it was pure activities; no use of textbooks. I'd prepared a couple of activities, a warm-up and a wordsearch, and Komata-sensei had prepared an activity too. My warm-up activity worked really well. I gave the students a sheet with the question "what would you do with 200 million yen?" on it. The students had to write down their idea, then pass the sheet to someone else. Then I went round the class asking the students to read out their friend's idea. This worked well because more confident to reading out their friend's idea instead of their own idea and also, whenever an interesting idea came up I could ask the students more about the idea; what kind of car? where would you travel? Then we moved onto the British City wordsearch. I'd made the wordsearch the day before and tried it out. I didn't think it was too difficult, but then I wasn't Japanese student who wasn;t familiar with cities like 'Sheffield' or 'Norwich'. So the wordsearch took way to long to finish and we didn't have time to do Komata-sensei's activity.

Meguro-sensei's lesson was cancelled.

I went for ton-kotsu ramen up the road and now I'm getting ready to go pick Neil up on my way to Shibata. I took Hiten up on his invite from last week so Tonight should be a good one with most of teh ALT team up near Shibata.