授業計画 | テーマ | 内容 | 授業を受けるにあたって |
第1回目 | Greetings, Introductions and Classroom Management (rules). | Focus on Description: review and getting to know each other again. | * Complete written homework over any handout
* Complete any Grammar Book assignment
* Review vocabulary from handouts and grammar book |
第2回目 | The most interesting person I met this summer. | Focus on Description and use of adjectives: My boss is a really smart guy! | 〃 |
第3回目 | Jobs, Jobs, Jobs. What was the most interesting job I have ever had? The kind of job I would like to have some day. | Focus on verb tense forms:past perfect tense/present perfect/future perfect. | 〃 |
第4回目 | I have a dream. My dream is to become/achieve/fulfill/accomplish. | Focus on verb forms and meanings of become, come to be, came to be, and began. | 〃 |
第5回目 | What’s my horror scope? | Focus on if conditionals: Students will predict each other’s fortunes; If you study hard this term, you will get straight A’s. | 〃 |
第6回目 | Food Glorious Food. | Focus on comparatives: Which sushi is better? tastier? Tastiest?Which is least tasty? | 〃 |
第7回目 | Restaurants: Fast and Fastidious? | Focus on ordering in restaurants/show when polite and less polite forms are used. | 〃 |
第8回目 | Food preparation: Let’s make Omochi! | Focus on critical thinking tasks of measurements: students will translate Japanese recipes into English using imperative forms and will convert from the metric to the American standard of measurement. | 〃 |
第9回目 | Shopping for the perfect cell phone. | Focus on understanding options and the correct use of articles and demonstrative forms. I want that cell phone. I want a hot pink cell phone. I want the gray cell phone on your desk. | 〃 |
第10回目 | I can’t get any satisfaction:complaints (polite and impolite forms). | Focus on consumer’s complaints in all situations: I am dissatisfied with___. This lobster is not cooked enough. The dress is too large for me. The pain in my stomach is terrible. | 〃 |
第11回目 | Staying healthy in life. | Focus on subject-verb-object (active sentences versus passive). I drink fresh juice. I go to bed early. Stress that active forms are more desirable than are passive sentences in certain contexts. | 〃 |
第12回目 | My dream vacation. | Darling! Why don’t we take a vacation in Bali during the winter holidays.Focus: making suggestions and using logical forms of cause and result. | 〃 |
第13回目 | How can I make Japan a more beautiful place. | Focus on “I can... I can’t” | 〃 |
第14回目 | If I could travel to any place in Japan, I would travel to. | Focus on possibilities and subjunctive mood; If I were to....I would” | 〃 |
第15回目 | Review of material and grammar points for final exam | Review | Prepare for final exam |