Teaching vocabulary

Today we learned about two approaches for teaching vocabulary: the Teach and Learn Approach and the Learning through Input Approach. You can see a PowerPoint presentation of the approaches here. I would like to tell you about the strengths and weaknesses of each approach as well as the approach I would use as a Junior High School English teacher.

1.Present and Learn
I think this is easy to acquire a new vocabulary and to understand how to use the word in a sentense for students but this simple and fixed task bore students .

2.Teaching Through Input
I think this interesting for some students .For example the techer talk a story in the class students can acqire new words accidentally . This is exciting for some students but some students can not understand the words so this may take student' motivation .

Maybe I will use "Present and Learn " because I think this is easier than the another for many students .

Comunicative activities

Today, I am going to review two of the "typical Japanese junior high school"communicative activities presented in ETM 3. The activities I am going to review are ''Using movement'' and ''Interview'' . You can view them here .

I thought I can improve ''Using movement'' . I think this activity is more interesting if students do this game with many people like jesture game than do this only he and his partner .

I thought I can improve ''Interview'' . A student who was asked ''What were you doing at 8:00 pm '' asks the partner ''How about you that time ? '' I think it improves student's English comunication skill .

My important thing

There are many important thing for me . Friends , family , money , cell phone and so on but now my most tresured thing is 'Nomura note ' . This is a book written by Katsuya Nomura . He is the manager of Rakuten Golden Eagles now . When he was player his position was catcher and my position is catcher too . I think he is the cleverest manager in Japan and I respect him . His ideas for baseball are written in this book . this is my bible so this is my important thing .