Meiwa Lesson 8: Family / Christmas

Grammar

"Who's this? It's my ..."

Making Christmas cards (or "guess who" game)

If you teach an Elementary School class once a month, this lesson should end up in December, allowing you to do a Christmas activity if you want.
Start by teaching a basic family structure, including mother, father, grandmother, grandfather, brother, sister, uncle and aunt.
Then you can teach them "to" and "from", as well as the sentence "To <Mother>, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. From <student>."
You can buy A4 sticker paper from Eiden, Joshin or any computer store, and print a collage of Christmas pics found on the net. The students cut out the images and stick them onto a folded B4 card to make their Christmas card.
If you want to do this activity but don't want to use Christmas, you can make it a New Year's card, or if it's at a different time of the year, perhaps a friendship card.
To practice family, you can make a "guess who" game by asking "Who is Kenta's mother's sister's nephew?" The answer is, of course, Kenta.
Start with simple, one level questions, then you can build to more difficult ones depending on the class.