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Post by hellndie on Jul 22, 2008 16:36:59 GMT 8
the monbusho created the 5th and 6th year ES English textbooks for next year's English classes. The textbook is called "English notebook" -- in Katakana.
5th year textbook; lesson 1 - say hello in different languages and introduction games. lesson 2- lets do gesture (sports and feelings). lesson 3 - how many ... lesson 4 - i like ~. lesson 5 - learn about different cultural clothes lesson 6 - what do you want? lesson 7 whats this lesson 8 =- days of week lesson 9 =what would you like to eat
6th year ; lesson 1; abc lesson 2- abc lesson 3 - when is ur birthday (months) lesson 4 - CAN lesson 5 - directions lesson 6 - countries lesson 7 - time lesson 8 -please help me lesson 9 - occupations
Teachers are testing out the textbooks next year before monbusho make it official. I think the topics aren't as bad since those are what ES students learn in ALTs classes anyway... just that now, 5th and 6th year students are learning them every week. I think the 6th year textbook is probably better than the 5th year (topics wise). What do you think?
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Post by yopparaisaru on Jul 23, 2008 8:07:44 GMT 8
I agree I think it makes more sense to start teaching the ABC's in 5th grade instead of 6, aty least that way when your teaching lessons in 6th grade they can already write and read some more. One question is though, since they already start teaching romaji in 4th grade, how are they going to reconcile teaching it again in 6th? ISeems kinda redundant especailly since the 6th graders still retain much of their romaji skills from 4th grade. Its just that 2 week break between ES 6th grade and JHS 1st that all their english seems to go out the window.
I would mix and match some of the lessons from both both books, like I think time and occupations can be taught to 5th graders, and months can be as well, maybe i'd move How many to 6th grade to give the 5th graders more theme activites as opposed to grammar structures to memorize. Also in order to be truely effective, I also think they'd have to try and organize the grammar lessons to include material from past lessons to keep the STs practicing what they've already learned in addition to what they're learning now. Also if they put these into effect it would completely render the JHS books obselete so they'd need a completely new set of JHS textbooks, especially if they find a way to bypass that I forgot everything I learned in ES 2 week vacation.
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Post by Otaku on Jul 23, 2008 8:17:05 GMT 8
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Post by jed on Jul 23, 2008 8:26:46 GMT 8
yes, I agree pretty much with all that yopparisaru wrote
ABCs for 5th graders please! and yes, all the JHS textbooks will need to be changed, a major over haul
I also heard a hint that they might actually start in 4th grade? but I suppose that will be further down the line
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Post by rollypop on Jul 23, 2008 8:48:50 GMT 8
Please tell me it really was "lesson 3 - when is ur birthday (months)". Either way, I lol`d.
Yeah, they start studying romanized characters in 4th grade, for typing purposes. I have some kids that rock out at it, thanks to a lunch-time computer game they fight over the computer for. Seriously. There`s a little girl who was probably typing 50 or 60wpm.
The caveat is it`s the ta-ti-tu-te-to style of romanji. While they know all the characters, they only connect them to Japanese.
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Post by yopparaisaru on Jul 23, 2008 9:59:38 GMT 8
I've actually played some of those typing games at game centers before. When I was student in Tokyo they were a huge item in a Sega land game center near my school, Lupin III typing game. help Lupin and his crafty companions get through their burgarly and escape the people trying to capture/kill them by typing really freakin fast. For the most part the game was actually pretty fun, and the typing was easy, since i don't have to look at the keyboard to hit the right letters. But the hard part was the grammar and spelling mistakes in the game. It was awful with sentences mispelling simple words and sentences missing vital parts, like verbs. In the end, my friends and I became japanese typing wizards, as cool as this was, it didnt go over very well with our profs back home...
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Post by crustpunker on Jul 24, 2008 14:11:16 GMT 8
I just saw English typing of the dead on sale for Wii or was it PS3?
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