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Post by regi2 on Apr 10, 2008 7:49:32 GMT 8
One of my new JTEs has managed to secure a room I can turn into an 'English Room'. I'm not sure if it will be used for classes (probably not, looking at the fact that the room is in use by other subjects when I have classes scheduled). Other than maps, any ideas on how to decorate my classroom? I threw out alot of my stuff at the end of last term in preparation for moving (I had sooo many posters too!).
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Post by dickflem on Apr 10, 2008 7:59:11 GMT 8
How about creating profiles for different English speaking countries?
Starting with your own; use the flag, picture or your PM, famous landmarks, celebrities, currency, national sports etc. You could accompany it with easy information about history, culture and useful links to websites.
Perhaps have a quiz or competition testing students research or writiing abilities?
Each month (or fornight / week etc.) you could add another country.
I want to start doing something like this at my schools but I don't know if I will have the time. Also, some of my students would probably rip it down or eat it. I love my kids.
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Post by junkdna on Apr 10, 2008 8:01:46 GMT 8
How about just telling her to do it yourself as you don't work here anymore.
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Post by Otaku on Apr 10, 2008 8:03:44 GMT 8
1. You can blow this 'Useful Classroom English' worksheet up into poster size and hang it. jhsenglipediaproject.com/Documents/JHS%20NonTextbook%20Game%20UsefulClassroomEnglish%20-%20Worksheet.doc2. Make an English pronoun grid for the students to quickly reference. My students can never seem to remember the difference between: he/him, she/her, they/them, etc. 3. However, my favorite idea that I've yet to try is an English graffiti wall where students can write new English words they learn. Of course, this will piss off the English teacher during spelling tests. 4. I know you mentioned a map, you could also do a black and white poster map and color all the countries that speak English - 72 to be exact.
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Post by yopparaisaru on Apr 10, 2008 8:37:41 GMT 8
I like otaku's ideas, but you'd have to worry about all the profanity they'd write, if your students are anything like mine then i imagine every anatomical word imaginable will be bold printed along with SEX, F***, and a slew of other curse words. Although it could make for a rather hilarious situation for your successor... If your going for the charts of common mistakes, or pronoun lists, you might also want to include a translation of the hiragana alphabet. You know a good one, that has "tsu and chi and fu instead of tu, ti, and hu." Cause there's nothing confusing about that... You could also dedicate seperate sections of the room to certain themes, one grammar and grafitti wall, a geography wall (as everyone seems to like , and maybe a popular culture wall, put up English pop culture icons, or for a kick english translations of popular japanese culture icons. Scans of common manga, or printouts of English-Japanese movies etc... If you like the english manga idea I'd recommend www.onemanga.com for translations. They have just about everything and its free. Well thats all i got for now, goodluck with it!
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Post by Otaku on Apr 10, 2008 8:55:26 GMT 8
If you put up ANYTHING on the walls, you risk the chance of having students write on it but the cool thing about a graffiti wall is that it takes focus away from writing on other posters and ENCOURAGES students to write on the graffiti wall. Of course, you would have to setup rules for the graffiti wall but if done right, could be a very positive experience for a lot of students, especially if you, the ALT, lead off the wall with some pretty cool graffiti font writing of textbook vocabulary.
And yeah, like YS (Yopparisaru) brought up, bad things could still get written on it, but it's nothing a big fat black marker can't take care of.
BTW, I like the 'shortening name' idea for you bastards that have paragraph-long names. I'm going to start calling JunkDNA, "JD". LOL!! Jack Daniels! ROFL! Man, I need to get out more...
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Post by regi2 on Apr 10, 2008 10:24:25 GMT 8
some wicked ideas- thanks alot When its done (prolly by the time i leave) ill take some pics and do that thing for the site! the frustrating thing is that i've been doing boards for the past two years (i had a heap of ones on english speaking countries) and then threw them out. bad timing i guess! and yes otaku- you need to get out more if you are laughing so hard about that
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Post by jackmule on Apr 10, 2008 11:52:13 GMT 8
2. Make an English pronoun grid for the students to quickly reference. My students can never seem to remember the difference between: he/him, she/her, they/them, etc. Maybe some of you have allready have a poster like this, maybe you don't.... But I stumbled across one a few months ago on another site. The creator also had an interesting poem that demonstrated pronoun use. If anyone is interested let me know and I'll look for it and post a link. or something...
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Post by gumby on Apr 10, 2008 21:40:31 GMT 8
4. I know you mentioned a map, you could also do a black and white poster map and color all the countries that speak English - 72 to be exact. Otaku, you wouldn't already have such a map, would you? If not, how about a list of the countries?
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Post by gumby on Apr 10, 2008 21:52:23 GMT 8
Sounds like a fun project! How about menus? I found a great menu of a sushi restaurant in the US. A lot of Americanized "california roll" type variety. The students really got a kick out of that! Or an English quiz about their teachers. Top ten lists. Here's one site that I googled up: www.top10land.com/I second Yopparai's comic and pop culture idea, too!
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Post by Otaku on Apr 10, 2008 22:44:44 GMT 8
I pulled this off Wikipedia BEFORE they started having the arguments about which countries should be included. BTW, I mis-spoke, there are 73 countries, not 72. And the list below includes countries that it is generally accepted that the country speaks English. Sovereign CountriesAntigua and Barbuda - 68,722 Australia - 20,800,000 Barbados - 279,254 Belize - 279,457 Botswana - 1,640,115 Cameroon - 16,380,005 Canada - 32,300,000 Dominica - 69,029 Fiji - 893,354 Ghana - 21,029,853 Grenada - 89,502 Guyana - 765,283 India - 1,103,600,000 Kiribati - 103,092 Lesotho - 1,867,035 Liberia - 3,482,211 Jamaica - 2,731,832 Kenya - 33,829,590 Madagascar - 19,280,000 Malawi - 12,158,924 Malta - 398,534 Marshall Islands - 59,071 Micronesia, Federated States of - 108,105 Mauritius - 1,230,602 Namibia - 2,030,692 New Zealand - 4,108,561 Nigeria - 128,771,988 Pakistan - 162,419,946 Palau - 20,303 Papua New Guinea - 5,545,268 Philippines - 87,857,473 Puerto Rico - 3,912,054 Republic of Ireland - 4,130,700 Rwanda - 8,440,820 Saint Kitts and Nevis - 38,958 Saint Lucia - 166,312 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - 117,534 Seychelles - 81,188 Sierra Leone - 6,017,643 Singapore - 4,425,720 Solomon Islands - 538,032 Sri Lanka - 20,064,776 South Africa - 44,344,136 Swaziland - 1,173,900 The Bahamas - 301,790 The Gambia - 1,593,256 Trinidad and Tobago - 1,088,644 Uganda - 27,269,482 United States - 300,007,997 United Kingdom - 60,441,457 Vanuatu - 205,754 Zambia - 11,261,795 Zimbabwe - 12,746,990 Non-Sovereign CountriesAmerican Samoa - 64,869 Anguilla - 13,254 Bermuda - 65,365 British Virgin Islands - 22,643 Cayman Islands - 44,270 Christmas Island - 1,600 Cook Islands - 21,388 Falkland Islands - 2,967 Gibraltar - 27,884 Guernsey - 65,228 Hong Kong - 6,898,686 Isle of Man - 75,049 Montserrat - 9,341 Norfolk Island - 1,828 Northern Mariana Islands - 80,801 Pitcairn Islands - 67 Saint Helena - 7,460 Tristan da Cunha - 273 Turks and Caicos Islands - 20,556 U.S. Virgin Islands - 108,708
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Post by regi2 on Apr 11, 2008 9:07:26 GMT 8
Maybe some of you have allready have a poster like this, maybe you don't.... But I stumbled across one a few months ago on another site. The creator also had an interesting poem that demonstrated pronoun use. If anyone is interested let me know and I'll look for it and post a link. or something... I would love to know that link jackmule. I think I can put it up on one of the four inner walls and outer walls on the room ;D
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Post by jackmule on Apr 11, 2008 10:52:32 GMT 8
This takes you to an explanation of a pronoun activity and the poster-which actually turns out to be just a chart, sorry . Maybe you could expand it to poster size. Hmm, I can't find a link that works to access the chart. The link at Eslhq appears to be blank. Though, I know I printed the same chart last fall. Well, its not the Eslhq chart but here is a chart of pronouns. I'll look through my materials at home this weekend and see if I can find the original chart.
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Post by regi2 on Apr 14, 2008 10:10:08 GMT 8
ok... anyone know a site/have a resource for the stroke order of the alphabet? I tried to search the niet for it, but came up with nothing. I'm a terrible searcher...
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Post by Otaku on Apr 14, 2008 10:44:02 GMT 8
I created one a couple years ago and changed up the stroke orders a bit. Just right mouse click on the image and save. Click HERE
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Post by regi2 on Apr 14, 2008 12:18:56 GMT 8
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