pages 10-13

I teach pages 10-11 in the first lesson (listening) and 12-13 in the second (speaking).

I only teach the phrases so I have to figure out how to make it 45 minutes and interesting.

Talk 1 was kind of boring.  I taught them different ways of replying to it (in addition to "No Problem/My Pleasure") and then made a game where they had to talk thank different people ( couldn't use the same person twice) and the person had to respond.  Each "thank you" was worth different points that progressed them on their game board. 

Talk 2 I made into Pet Peeves.  I taught them what a "pet peeve" was, introduced them to common pet peeves and then made them play charades.  Each team would send someone up to the front of the room and act out a pet peeve and the first team to guess by saying, "I can't stand [the pet peeve being acted out]" got a point.

Hi there,
Here are some activities which focus on "Would you mind...". "Not at all" or "Of course not"

The first is a charades game.I print just print a few copies of the cards, cut them up and put them in a bag. Then I divide the class into 2 teams. 1 person comes to the front and pulls out cards from the bag. As they act it out the rest of the team shouts out the target language "would you mind dancing?"

The second activity is called perfect partners. I give each student a card and they must move around the room using the traget language. If they have a match they must respond with, "not at all" but if they don't match they must reply, "sorry I can't". When they have found their perfect partner (3 matches) they must come and show me and then sit down.

The last activity is simply a chicken game. I chose two students (by pulling names from a hat) who come to the front of the class. They then play rock scissor paper. Winner choses a sentence and the loser has to choose a hand from the teacher or pull a slip of paper from another bag. In each hand is a slip of paper saying, "not at all" or "sorry, I can't." If they choose not at all then they must perfom the action. NOTE: I totally cheat and add way more "not at alls" to make the game fun.

Hi guys,
Here are two activities for the sentence structure, "I'd like to know about..."
First up is a rows and coloumns game. It's fairly simple and the instructions on how to play are in the ppt. I usually accept any language that uses the target sentence. My second activity is a very simple board game. To make it more exciting I use "yunori" rules. In other words if a player lands in the same square as another player, they 'kick' them back to start. This also makes the game last longer.