Ideas for Forming Student Groups
Below are interesting ideas for grouping students and forming pairs in the Japanese classroom. (More ideas are coming!)
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Stack the Deck Adapted from http://www.etr.org/recapp/freebies/freebie0999.htm Stack your deck with two, three or four of a kind cards, corresponding with the number of students per group, two, three or four. Make sure the deck is shuffled. Pass out cards to each student. Ask students to find the other students who have the same numbered/face card.
Sing-a-Long Adapted from http://www.etr.org/recapp/freebies/freebie0999.htm Determine how many students will make up each small group, generate a list of that many popular Japanese or other famous musicians. Prepare strips of paper with the musicians' names on them. Hand the slips of paper out randomly to the students and ask them to create groups of like musicians. For some added fun, encourage students to sing a song (or hum a tune) from their assigned musician while they seek their other small group members.
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Line up http://www.eslcafe.com/ideas/ Get the students to stand in a line in order of either their birthday, age, alphabetically by name etc. The students need to ask in Japanese questions like: お誕生日はいつですか。or なんさいですか。or お名前は何ですか。 etc. When they are in order then pair off the students from the front of the line to the back.
Picture formation http://www.eslcafe.com/ideas/ C Payne Cut out pictures from magazines (or any picture relevant to Japanese) and cut them in half. The pictures should be a review of the last class; i.e. たべもの、のりもの、 かぐ、etc. As each student comes to class, tape half of a picture on his or her back. When the class starts, the students have to find their partner(s) by describing to each other what they see in the pictures eg. 「これはくるまです。」. When they find their partner, they sit together and tape the pictures to the front of their desks for all to see.