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Definitely like the idea of having students bring in physical objects to "show and tell." You could make it thematic and just spend a few minutes at the beginning of class getting your students thinking in English (over foodstuffs, flowers, photo albums, what have you). Especially good if you don't ...

Hi Roger & Sally, Thanks for your thoughtful responses. I taught that class yesterday for my teachers and tried to get them interacting with each other as much as possible. They did a good job even though they reverted back to Japanese a lot. Perhaps a major difference between teaching Japanese stud...

Ha ha! I got 'teach' into my subject line 3 times! Wow. So, I'm teaching English in an elementary school in Japan. I'm the first ALT at my school and I'm there 5 days a week. This is sort of a pilot program to see if little kids can learn English better if they have a lesson once a week with the sam...

Wow! Congrats! Your site looks really great. Tried out the vocab quiz. Wish there was something like that to study for the GRE.

Scenario: I've been teaching English for 9 months in Japan. The past two I've been living just outside of Tokyo teaching English in an elementary school. I teach grades 1-6. Quandry: The other night I was having pizza with a fellow teacher and when I told her I usually play 2 games per 45 minute cla...