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==Lesson Plan Outline: Introducing New Grammar==

===Greeting, Day, Date, and Weather===
*Say good morning/afternoon and ask them how are you—individually if possible, or surveying the class 
*Ask them the day, date, and weather and write it on the board
===Warm-up===
*Choose a game that has a lot of students ask or answer questions
*Can practice writing, review generally (i.e. vocabulary or various grammar from the year before) or review specific points (i.e. the grammar they most recently learned). 
*Example activities
**[[Criss Cross]] (For smaller classes allow them to choose one person to sit down instead of a direction)
**[[Hot Potato]]
**[[Memory Writing]]

===Explain the Grammar===
*A lot of teachers use different colored chalk for subjects, verbs, and articles to help clarify sentence structure
*Depending on their level, ask if anyone can read it and figure out the meaning
===Practice Speaking===
*It can be boring but have them repeat it a few times to practice pronunciation, then insert words to practice it as a whole (i.e. 「do you like」, then 「do you like apples」)
*After they can pronounce it, ask them questions individually or they make examples with a partner
===Introductory Activities===
*For the first lesson it can be good to do listening-based activities, including the ones in the textbooks 
*To reinforce the new material, do an activity or two that takes little explanation and focuses more on saying/hearing the words and less on the meaning of them
*Vocabulary activities:
**Keyword Game
**Telephone
**Duck Duck Goose
*Grammar Activities:
**Battleship
**Guess Who 
**Board Games (put vocabulary on each square and have them make sentences)
===Closing===
*Ask them to put their desks back, clean up, and return reusable materials to you (e.g. cards or board games)
*Say thank you and goodbye/see you

==Lesson Plan Outline: Introducing New Grammar==

===Greeting, Day, Date, and Weather===
*Say good morning/afternoon and ask them how are you—individually if possible, or surveying the class 
*Ask them the day, date, and weather and write it on the board
===Warm-up===
*Choose a game that has a lot of students ask or answer questions
*Can practice writing, review generally (i.e. vocabulary or various grammar from the year before) or review specific points (i.e. the grammar they most recently learned).
*Example activities
**Criss Cross (For smaller classes allow them to choose one person to sit down instead of a direction)
**Hot Potato
**Memory Writing 
===Review the Grammar===
*Ask students if they remember how to say it, then write it on the board
*Again use different colored chalk for subjects, verbs, and articles to help clarify sentence structure
*After they have remembered it, ask them questions individually or have them make examples with a partner
===Review Activities===
*Comprehensive games that cover some combination of speaking, listening, reading, and writing and have students associate meaning with words (vocabulary lessons) or produce their own sentences/answers (grammar lessons) 
*Choose and adapt the game to the type and needs of each class (e.g. size, loudness, genki-ness, interest, how well they understand the grammar, and what they’ve done before)
*Vocabulary activities:
**Karuta
**Memory
**Janken Game
**Run and Touch Telephone 
**Bakudan Game
**Bingo
**Fruits Basket
**Missing Game
**Gesture Game
**Pictionary
===Closing===
*Ask them to put their desks back, clean up, and return reusable materials to you (e.g. cards or board games)
*Say thank you and goodbye/see you


==See Also==
*[[Teaching Resources]]
*[[Elementary School Lessons]]
*[[Detailed Example Lesson Plan]]
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