Pre-Activity:
Review English words for shapes, colors, letters through flashcards. (or other ways)
Optional: Do the Textbook activities related to Food (Guess the Food Silhouette, Hint Quiz)
5 minutes for Teacher to demonstrate/give 3 examples of a hint quiz, using the Food Menu.
15 minutes to make their own Hint Quiz
15 minutes to take turns in small groups in giving/answering Hint Quizzes (for large classes. small classes can immediately give hints for whole class)
5 minutes for volunteers to give the Hint Quiz in front of the whole class
Files include menu picture, and a hint quiz template.
1. Menu Picture:
- organized by shape (circle, square, triangle, rectangle, heart)
- Colors are easily seen
- with English word labels so students can copy/identify the First Letter of each word.
(We made the hints uniform in this way, based on past lessons for 3年生:colors, shapes and alphabet, since it would be hard for them to give other kinds of adjectives in English)
- Hint Quiz Template / Mind-Mapping Sheet This helps students organize their thoughts and make sure they have 3 hints to let their classmates correctly guess the answer.
- In one of my classes, the JTE asked students to write down memos and then give the hints orally.
- In my other class, after writing down memos, we made a nice Hint Quiz paper (fold the paper into 4, then draw each hint and the answer on each 1/4 section, and reveal the hints one by one) to help present the quiz more nicely, as they gave the hints orally. (Sorry, I didn't take a picture, a bit hard to explain, but we cut 1 of the fold lines , so that we can fold the hints and reveal it one by one. Imagine how they make and fold the nori sheet for a square shaped onigiri.) (It also helped those who haven't mastered English lessons still participate through the visuals and answer in the quiz.)
Sample Script:
Quiz-master: What's this?
Students: Hint, please!
Quiz-master: Hint 1: circle, Hint 2: white, Hint 3: S.
Students: Sushi!
Quiz-master: Yes, that's right! / No, sorry.