This lesson uses New Crown 3 Talk 4 pg. 63 "Could you tell me how to get to ~?".
Students choose a place they want to go by train from their school. Using Google Maps, they write a conversation where someone asks for directions to this place. Then, they talk in pairs!
Warm up question: "What is your favorite vehicle?" - Check the meaning and pronunciation of "vehicle" and give examples.
Explain the topic and goal of the lesson.
Introduce the new words. Repeat and check the meaning.
OTE and ALT read the textbook dialogue twice.
Check the meaning of the phrases in the dialogue in Japanese. Ask students if they know before translating right away.
Students stand up, read the dialogue in pairs, switch roles, read again, and sit down.
Check if students remember the key phrases without looking at the textbook.
Pass out the worksheet and introduce some other phrases that have the same meaning.
Read one more example of asking for directions but make it related to your own daily life, ie. your commute, or the way to a popular place. Don't dox yourself though haha!
Students choose a place they want to go by train from school! Please make an idea box of popular places near YOUR school. My example is Kobe, so unless you live there, please change this part. I also told students they chould choose some other place as long as they went by train. This made it really fun and some students even used the Shinkansen.
Students write the conversation either alone or in pairs.
Then students do the conversation in pairs. After time is up, switch the pair. I like to do this by having the first student in every other row go to the back, then every student in that row moves up a seat. Do this as many times as you can! The more different pairs, the better.
At the end, you can call on students to perform their conversation for the class.
Notes: I added the "About how much is it?" question and I think it really helped my third grade students review saying longer numbers in English! ex: "It's 495 yen" its "14,540 yen" (this was for a Shinkansen destination X).