- Review the countries from the previous lesson.
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2. Race around the world by having two teams, blue and green, fly to different countries and eventually fly back to Japan. Click the wheel icon to display the spinning wheel and the stop icon to hide it. Click the center of the wheel to both spin and stop it. Please feel free to change the bonuses. The map marker will move one space for every click and once a player/team reaches the ゴール, click the ゴール icon to reveal the boy holding the trophy. Click the boy to hide him if you choose to continue playing the game.
I only have two boys in my Special Needs class so I let them control the PC most of the time but there were instances when they clicked outside what they were supposed to click and it always stalled our games. I decided to add the ✖女 for such instances. She will easily disappear by clicking her image.
- Introduce the goal of the lesson. Teach the meaning by showing the flag of Japan then a picture of Tokyo. Explain that Tokyo is the capital city of Japan and in this lesson, they will learn more about other capital cities in the world.
- Introduce and practice each city but don't forget to elicit the names of the countries as well because they'd say them together later in the lesson. (Slide 11) Review what you just practiced by trying to say both the countries and cities. Give them some time to familiarize themselves with the pictures. I usually give them 10-15 seconds for memory games.
- (Slide 12) Match each flag to its capital city's picture. Decide who will guess first and the winner gets to pick a country. Using the pen toolbar of the presentation, draw a line from the flag to the picture. Check the answer by clicking the flag. Do this activity until all flags and cities are matched.
- Optional Supplementary Activity (Slides 13-19) Guess the City using the classic 3 hint quiz. You may also introduce the target language in this activity. In my case, we practiced "Cairo is in Egypt."
- (Slide 20) If you haven't yet, introduce the target language and teach the meaning using the image and necessary gestures. My students usually confirm their understanding of the target sentence by saying it in Japanese. Practice the sentence for each country.
- (Slides 21-27) Bonus spelling activity but I used it to further practice the target language. Click the circle to start the 59 sec. timer. They have this time limit to say the letters that are missing from the spelling of the capital cities. If a correct letter is said, click the underline where the letter should be. When time's up, click the small flag to reveal the correct spelling. You don't need to do that step if all the missing letters are revealed. Depending on the students, some might just recite the alphabet from A-Z. What I did to avoid it was saying the name of the city together with the students putting emphasis on each phonic sound. Practice the target language first before moving on to the next slide.