I have to teach a group of ESL Japanese JHS students a Christmas lesson.  Do you have any good  lesson ideas?
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use a jazz chant or chanting lesson that uses grammar from a christmas story. if it's too wordy, break it down.\n\nor you could show them a short movie or clip about the christmas story and then have them act out some of the main points (LEA)
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The important thing is for the students to want badly to express what they are thinking, so they forget about translating and just try to talk in the foreign language.  To do that, you have to choose stuff that matters to THEM.  Why not have a class where they generate 40 topics they would like to be able to talk about and you write them on the board.  Then each class you bring related vocabulary and conversation is on one of their topics.\n\nAnother way is to have them cut a story from the newspaper each day, and discuss the story or its topic.\n\nAnother is to do show and tell, and have people bring in something to talk about--an obsidian rock from their vacation spot, a fishing rod, their iPod, etc.\n\nTry word games that require complete sentences, like the one where you sit in a circle and tell a story, each person contributing one sentence and passing the story to the person on the right.  This can be hilarious.  "Gossip" is also a good game, since it encourages good pronunciation.\nEnjoy!
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variety of great ideas\nhttp://mariesmanor.fateback.com/Christmas-Decorations.html
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Check out some really cool websites to order classroom materials from. Some of them are listed below. Also, the Oriental Trading Company has some ideas for bulk items you might want to use in the classroom. You could brighten and Americanize the room by using red, white and blue colors for your theme. Maybe hang an American flag in the room along with the Chinese flag. But the sites below have some great ideas and also aren't terribly expensive. Good luck!
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BBC have got online courses for lts of languages, and they also include a seccion for "Quick Fix for holiday phrases", just go to\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/
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I used to teach preschool to.  Here is an idea, we did this one with 2yr-4yr olds but you could do it with just the 2yr olds and its groups so it's easy.  The setting is santa's workshop and we just used bulletin board paper for the backdrop and I painted shelves with toys on them on the paper.  Divide the children up into groups.  The groups could be dolls, tops, toy soldiers, and trains.  The groups each take their turn standing up and singing this song to the tune of Are you sleeping and doing what the song says....dancing, spinning, marching, or chugging.\n\nThe dolls sing:  We are dancing, we are dancing, yes we are, yes we are, first we dance one way then we dance the other way, now sit down, now sit down.\n\nThe tops sing:  We are spinning, we are spinning, yes we are, yes we are, first we spin one way, then we spin the other way, now sit down, now sit down.\n\nThe toy soldiers sing:  We are marching...........\nThe trains sing:  We are chugging.........\n\nIt was really simple and really cute!!  The parents loved it.\n\nYou can make train costumes out of cardboard boxes and the "dolls" can just wear pretty dresses, the tops can wear just about anything and the toy soldiers can all match (black pants/red shirts etc..)\n\nYou can have someone dress up like Santa if you want to and have them move through the "toyshop" while the toys are singing...whatever....you can just take this idea and add anything you want to.\n\nHave fun!!
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I used to teach Sunday School, and It's GREAT to do a craft with them. I would look in a children's bible and pick out a good story and base the class on that story and what it teaches. Find a craft to do relating to it- even if it's just coloring. Read the kids the story and talk briefly about what it means, then explain the craft you guys are going to do and how it relates to the story you just read. Then you guys can all do the craft until the parents come pick them up!
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awwww.....that was a really good thing you did! I actually helped teach one of my classmates a lesson when he wasnt understanding it from the teacher......he understood after I taught him.\n\n\n=) Have A Great Day! (=
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You could try the following two websites:\nwww.teachnet.com/lesson/langarts/reading/bookrepts1.html \nwww.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson109.shtml\nGood luck!
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There is a distance learning course at the University of Florida that teaches how to teach small groups ESL.\n\nI have included the link below.
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Did a good one once, long time ago now.....teacher was late, so we put the clock forward 5 minutes. Then they went out of the room briefly 3 times during the lesson, each time we put it forward another 5! So we got out 20 minutes from a 55 minute lesson!\n\nOne we did on a friend was spend a couple of weeks beforehand making suggestive remarks and hushed conversations about pulling something on her, then we did nothing. She was soooooo paranoid all morning, that was actually the most fun we ever had with pranks!
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First, decide on the grammar point you want to teach.  The idea here is really to teach a concept, and then give the students a chance to APPLY it ---hence, the game every few minutes.\nSo think of it as teaching the concept, and then playing the game TO REINFORCE THE CONCEPT.  I would leave time at the end of your lesson plan to REVIEW the concepts AND the point of the games to reinforce your theme.  That would pull your lesson together nicely.  The use of skillful questions in your lesson plan is a good way to summarize, and to see if the students learned from your lesson.
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First of all, don't worry too much about it.  Everyone will love it anyway.\n\nInstead of having the kids have a lot of lines, have a narrator, with occasional lines.  Keep costumes simple - towels, sheets, cardboard wings, etc., but focus on a well lit and well decorated stage and manger.\n\nA method that worked very well at our school was to do the nativity play mostly through Christmas carols and a narrator, with the kids mostly moving about the stage as appropriate.  We even kept the movement to a minimum - it can get confusing.  So as the play progressed the school choir stood in the background  (we used stands similar to bleachers at the back of the stage) and sang the best carol for the different stages and scenes of the play.   You will be able to incorporate Away in a Manger, Whose Child is This, We Three Kings, etc.\n\nBest of luck with it.  I hope these thoughts help.
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Sorry I'm the kind of teacher you parents despair of because thats the kind of home work I'd set.  My class have to design and make a thermal insulator to stop ice melting this week!!!\n\nTry this link it might help\nhttp://www.volcanolive.com/model.html
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Hi,  I used to do tutoring (up to GCSE) but gave up due to my health.  I would be willing to help.  Enable you're IM service on your profile and I'll email you my contact details.  Let me know what sort of thing you want and how old you are.  Also, are you an ESL or an EFL student?
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Contact your local library, they usually conduct classes for ESL and can help you.
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Ok, for your thesis, all you need to do is come up with 3 techniques/programs that you think the American educational system could use.  \nThesis:\nBy utilizing techniques from the Japanese educational system, specifically  _____________, ___________, and __________, the American educational system could improve.  \n\nI'm not sure about what techniques or programs that the Japanese currently use that America could adopt, but I'm assuming 1 of your 3 points could be that they spend more hours in the classroom than we do?? Anyway you should research and find out.  Good luck.