たのしい英会話ブログ – Page 2

クレヨン・プリント・Tシャツ作り PART 1
June 6, 2018 tarostay

Last week to break away from our usual English class, I thought it would be good fun to try and make crayon print t-shirts with the students. I gave them some homework to complete. They needed to fill in the names of the items we would be using to make the t-shirts. An iron, sandpaper, what I call wax paper but is apparently called parchment paper, guess the same thing as tin foil, anyways.. The kids did and excellent job at planning what they wanted there t-shirts to look like. Next week we will transfer our designs to sand paper. Stay tuned.

Restaurant role play
March 9, 2018 tarostay

For the past few classes we have been practicing ordering and taking orders at a restaurant.

My main goal of this lesson was to get the students to really get a grasp of and to use the phrase “can I….” Seems like such an easy phrase to learn and say, but it is a real challenge to students to use it. Memorizing the phrase is super easy but when it actually come to using the phrase it becomes a bit more difficult. Hopefully incorporating it into a fun tasty activity will drill it in and help the students to use the phrase naturally and without thinking about it.

Kids Christmas 2017
January 11, 2018 tarostay

Tried making snow globes with the students this year. Discovered the key was not to put too much snow in the globe. Unless you want a completely white snowstorm in your globe

Kids Class Halloween!!!
November 7, 2017 tarostay

Another year is done! And another great Halloween class filed with games and fright. Ahhhhh!!!!!

I was a bit worried that some of the younger kids would be too scared to come in to the class room but to my surprise, they were all fine with the blacked out scary dark classroom. Just a year before some of the kids wouldn’t come in unless I turned on the lights.

They all had awesome costumes this year as well. so cute!

Making candy dispensers in class!! Week 2
October 3, 2017 tarostay

Continuing from the previous week, we got down to gluing and screwing the top cap that would hold the jar in place. The kids had a choice of using either hot glue or screws. Most of them chose the glue. We then aligned the hole and the candy puller part?? and slapped everything together. Threw in some candy and we were ready to munch away one or two candies at a time. There were a few improvements we could make in the future to improve on the dispenser but everything worked good enough.

今日のひとこと英語！
September 29, 2017 tarostay


今日のひとこと英語！

またまた久しぶりになりましたが今日のひとことです。
今日は「間違えやすい英語」です！


これは、本当にみんながやってしまっているのではないでしょうか？
nothing 　の使い方です。

nothing の意味は何でしょう？
おそらく、ほとんどの生徒さんが「何もない」と答えてくれるでしょう。

では、辞書を引いてみます。
「何も～ない」とあります。微妙に違いますね。

つまり、nothing ＝「何もない、何も存在しない」とは少し違うんです。

よくある間違いの例をあげると…


teacher: Do you have any questions?

student: Nothing.


これです！皆さん、心当たりありませんか？（笑）

この student の答えは不完全な文章です。Nothing what? （何も…なに？）って
聞きたくなっちゃいます。

student: No. Nothing comes to mind. 
（いいえ、何も思い浮かびません）

と言えれば完璧ですが、ちょっと難しいですよね。



上の答えに近くて、ギリギリセーフかな？という答え方は

student: No, nothing.

これでも、質問からは微妙にずれているんです。

先生は、「質問はありますか？」と聞いています。

つまり、「質問」という特定のものを（頭の中に）持っているかを
聞いているのです。

でも、"nothing" （何もない）というのは、「質問が無い」ではなく
なんにも～ない、わけです。

ズレているのがわかりますか？

A:Do you have anything in your pocket?
（何かポケットに入ってる？）

B:No, nothing.
（ううん、何も）

これなら正解。「何か持ってる？」の問いに「何も…」と答えてます。
「質問ある？」と聞かれたら「質問は無い」と答えればいいのです。



では、"Do you have any questions?" と聞かれた時に
質問が無い場合、何と答えたらいいでしょうか？

No, I don't.

No. I don't have any questions.

No. I have no questions.

などなど。

つまり、素直に、シンプルに答えるのが一番ということですね。



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Making candy dispensers in class!! Week 1
September 22, 2017 tarostay

As me and the kids were looking around for a project to do in class, we stumbled across a simple candy dispenser design.

This is our story :

Week 1 started with gluing all the blocks together to build up the base of the dispenser. Their “homework” for the next need would be to bring in a glass jar to hold the candies.

A wonderful surprise.
August 23, 2017 tarostay

We haven’t really advertised this but this is our 10th year in business. One of our keen eyed students noticed from a post last year saying “it has been 9 years” and worked out this was our 10th and got us a anniversary cake. Soooooooo kind, thoughtful and wonderful!!! Myself and Junko never expected anything like this. What a wonderful surprise. Thank you so much “M” and thank you to all the students who have built us up along the way. I’m looking forward to another 10 amazing years of positive growth and to new exciting prospects.

Taro

Making Ice Cream in class アイスクリーム作り
June 7, 2017 tarostay

Homemade or should i say classmade ice cream!!!　A super simple and fun activity for the kids to do in class. We started of by mixing milk, cream, sugar, and flavours the kids had brought from home. Poured it into a ziploc bag, put the bag in a container filled with ice and salt and got to work shaking it for about 20 min. It tasted AWESOME!!! The kids did an excellent job!!