This is a leveled up version of my Unit 2 activity, plus an added three hint quiz at the beginning using the same vocabulary to get them warmed up. Unit 9 being a story is kind of a waste of time, but there's things you can talk about for Unit 9 with the vocabulary and grammar structure the textbook uses. It's easy to review colors and add on a few basic adjectives to learn animals for this one.
Start off with the three hint quiz. Tell the students that the answer is an animal, but you shouldn't need to tell them anything else other than the three hints. The animals are all fairly common, so they should be able to answer in English, with the likely exception of the squirrel. As you do the quiz, make the kids repeat the names of the animals since they'll use them in the second activity.
After the three hint quiz, move onto the main activity: Forehead Cards. Show them the instructions in the PowerPoint (written out in Japanese with furigana, so it should be extremely clear to everyone). First, they'll move their desks together into groups. Then, you'll pass out one deck of cards to each group (see attachments; you'll need to make and laminate these beforehand; I usually make one deck 30 cards and enough for 10 groups, meaning laminating and cutting out 30 sheets, but it's up to you if you don't want to do that many). Additionally, there's a grammar sheet you should pass out (one per student is better, but at least one per group) which they can look at if they can't remember the English sentences. Have the students shuffle the cards before they start. Then, they should do rock, paper, scissors to decide who gets to take a card. The winner should take a card from the bottom of the deck instead of the top (since you can see through the top a bit) and put it directly onto their forehead without looking at it themselves but showing it to their group members. Then, starting with the person sitting on their left and moving clockwise around the group, the other group members tell them the hints on the card. After all the hints are read, the person has ten seconds to say which animal card it is. If they're correct, they can take the card and receive one point. If they're incorrect, or ten seconds pass and they haven't answered yet, they return the card to the deck. Then, the group should do rock, paper, scissors again to see who gets to do the next attempt. The person who gets the most card at the end of the time limit (I usually set it at 15 minutes) receives a sticker (or stamp or whatever reward you want to give them).
I've used my picture in the instructions for this, so you'll have to change that to yourself (or clipart or something) before you show the PowerPoint to the students.
I've included a lesson plan written in English and Japanese, so your Japanese homeroom teachers can read it and know exactly what the plan is.
The font used in this is UDデジタル教科書. It should be on all of your school computers, but I don't have it on my personal computer at home. I prefer it because it has the handwritten lowercase "a" as well as other handwriting differences, but doesn't look like garbage like Comic Sans. If you don't have it, there might be some formatting discrepancies.
Credit to flaticon.com for the use of the icons.
Slide 10 reads "I like zebras." and the answer is "I'm a tiger."
However, zebras live only in Africa, and tigers only live in Asia. Might wanna change that to lion or something.
Cute PPT though. Thank you very much for sharing.
This is the type of geography/zoology knowledge that I simply don't possess, it's nice to have people with different sets of knowledge looking at these things. This never even occurred to me while making it. I'm a little surprised none of my students/teachers pointed it out last year when we did this lesson. Thanks for the correction!