In Japanese elementary school we often get the students to make a presentation of some sort for the units we cover. Unit 4 of a 5th grade text (New Horizon) involves introducing a 3rd person and saying what they can do. This is a worksheet we used.
Please feel free to adapt this any way you like.
I found a great way to do this was in small groups. Bear in mind it would take a few lessons to complete it.
By doing it in groups I mean as a lunch group of 3 or 4 students.
So of course the students each think of someone they respect. We figured family, teachers, pets or famous people would be ok.
Students fill out their own work sheet helping each other or getting help from teachers.
They need to practice saying what they have written.
And getting them to perform AS a group is the best point. If there are 4 students, Students A,B,C and D ask them to go to the front of the class. Students B,C and D ask A “Who is this?” . “A” answers with name, job/relation and ability of the person. While A says the ability B,C and D gesture that ability (say a gesture to swim). Rotate through the students so each one gets a chance to introduce their “person”. A might introduce a parent, B introduces a pet, C introduces a classmate and d introduces a famous person. When each student has introduced their person the group members react with a word like wow or wonderful.
An option is to draw the person they talk about too. This can be shown by the student or you could use a special camera that projects it onto a big screen. You could also ask the students to use their tablets to photograph the people they introduce and then show on the class tv but I feel this is time consuming.
Doing this presentation as a group is great. They help each other, egg each other on and the time to do the presentation seems quick. Doing a solo presentation seems to take time and doesn’t have so much interaction. As groups I feel strong students help/influence weaker students.
Presentation idea for 5th grade introducing others
A worksheet for this topic that gets filled in , practiced and performed by small groups of students in front of the class.
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