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JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Useful articles
A Quick Guide
Junior high school has a great range of teaching situations: the difference between first year students (who in their enthusiasm and friendliness are close to elementary students) and third year students (who tend to be either absorbed in cramming for tests or hopelessly rebellious) is great, and the level of English involved in each grade also varies wildly.
Trying to balance the needs of students and the demands of the curriculum can be challenging, particularly after the second year when language targets get progressively more difficult and more and more students are left behind.
ALTs need to be able to use a range of activities in order to keep their students interested and motivated to continue with their English studies. Some ALTs will also be involved with elective English classes, and may need to create a yearly curriculum for their classes.
Faced with this confusing array of needs and situations, ALTs should draw upon the resources available to them: other ALTs, educational support staff, online and printed materials, and perhaps most importantly, their JTE colleagues. JTEs at your school are most likely to have a good idea of what the students are like and what they need, as well as what they will respond to. Asking your more experienced colleagues for advice is also a good way to build your relationship with them.
Lesson plans and activities
3rd Person verbs
Advent Calendar
And everybody go to sleep
Answer - Questions
Astrology 101 - Whats your sign
Come here please
Celebrity heads
20 questions style game to practice questions and answers
Cleaning
An opportunity to interact with students outside of class
Comparisons
Connect 4 game
Continous Tense Practice
Conversation Flowcharts
A variation to practice conversations in a more natural way
Country Game
Adaptable speaking activity to practice country names and varied grammar points
Cranium for JHS
Creative Writing exercise
A great activity to ease students into free writing
Criss Cross 2
A simple variation for Criss Cross to make it more fun and interesting for students
Crocodile Attack(2007)
An adaptable warm-up to review and practice English in groups
Cultural Jeopardy
Cultural quiz game
Current English Board
A simple and effective idea for organising an English noticeboard
Days of the Week song
Dictionary Dash
Activity to allow JHS 1 students to practice using dictionaries
Directions activity
Treasure hunt activity to practice directions
Disappearing Man
A politically correct hangman variant: great for warm-ups
Do you have~
Do you know him - her
Doctor Doctor
Practicing body parts through a lively group activity
Doctor skit
Draw a Monkey
Lesson to practice comparatives while drawing monkeys
Drawing Personalities
A drawing and writing activity to practice describing people
Exquisite Corpse(2007)
An activity based around making group poems
Fictional self-intro from pictures
Finish my question
Fun and easy activity
Gambling with Comparatives
Gesture Communication Game(2007)
An activity to practice gestures and using English to communicate instructions
Gesture game
Getting All Students Involved
A simple classroom management technique to encourage student participation
Ghost Story movies
Graduation Posters
An end-of-year lesson for third year students
How Does It Sound
A lesson plan to help students pronounce past tense -ed ending verbs correctly
How Many Top Trumps
An activity to practice 'how many?' using a variation on the popular game Top Trumps
Hyperdia -Using the Web to Assist the Text
An internet lesson to complement NH3 p. 48-49 and introduce the students to English language websites
Instant Fairytale
Interview test
A simple and effective interview test incorporating body language and manners
Invitations
Jikoshokai
Lets go shopping
Letter Blitz
Quiz game to get students thinking about letters and sentence structure
Lost in Tokyo Disneyland
Make me a star
Filming commercials with students
Monkey Hunt
A variation of the typhoon game to spice up quiz activities
Months of the Year
Movie watch and questions
Necktie Game
A fun variant of pictionary that involves drawing while blindfolded. Good for practicing vocabulary.
New Horizon Unit Worksheet
Past Tense Battleships
Using a battleships-type pair game to practice the past tense
Pen Pal Exchange(2007)
Running a pen pal exchange
Pen Pal project
How to set up and run a pen pal exchange
Personal Pronouns Potential Cootie Catchers
A simple and fun activity to practice making sentences using personal pronouns and 'I can'/'I can't'
Phonics Little Preparation
A simple phonics practice activity based around worksheets
Phonics No Preparation
A dictation-based no prep. phonics activity
Picture Shiritori
Poetic Pronouns
Practicing Question Words
Questions and Sentences
Questions Game
An activity to help students practice making questions and use vocabulary
Quiz Show
A simple activity that can be quickly improvised in times of need. Students answer questions in teams
Quiz Show II(2007)
Another version of the quiz show activity.
Rhythm of English
Scavenger Hunt(2007)
Using a scavenger hunt activity to practice directions
Sensei-nator Gladiators
Simple Past Tense
Skit-Making 101
Slice and Dice
A number of activities using cut up words/sentences to practice reading, writing, vocab, etc.
Song Lyrics Scramble
An activity for practicing listening skills with simple songs
South African Gambling game
Surprises from your country
Talking In Class(2007)
Two activities to help encourage students to talk in class
Telephone Speed Dating
A lesson plan to practice speaking and listening in a 'speed dating' format
That Which Who game
Quiz type game to practice the use of that/which/who
Tic Tac Toe(2007)
An activity to use with special needs classes
Tips for JHS ALTs(2007)
Some tips for ALTs starting out in JHS
Tongue Twister Relay
An activity for students to practice tongue twisters with a view to improving their listening and speaking skills
Trivia for Questions
Warm-up Activities
2 simple warm-ups (one for speaking and one for writing) requiring only a timer
Waverunner
Board-based writing game that students do in teams (words or phrases)
Weekday Doubt
A version of the card game B.S. (or Liar) to help students learn the days of the week
What are you doing
Nice card based survey activity to practice the present continuous
What are you do-ing
Practice present continuous with gesture game
What are you talking about
What did you do yesterday
What is happening in the picture
What is she doing
An activity to practice the present progressive
What's your number
Where Am I
Lesson plan to practice locations
Who is this
Who is stronger
Activity to practice comparatives incorporating janken
Who Killed Johnny
Logic activity involving interpreting practice based on the present progressive
Write Poetry
Highly structured activity to allow students to write poetry and practice the 'it is A for B to C' grammar point
Yesterdays Schedule
Fun drawing activity to practice talking about daily routines
You must ~ activity
Advent Calendar
And everybody go to sleep
Answer - Questions
Astrology 101 - Whats your sign
Come here please
Celebrity heads
20 questions style game to practice questions and answers
Cleaning
An opportunity to interact with students outside of class
Comparisons
Connect 4 game
Continous Tense Practice
Conversation Flowcharts
A variation to practice conversations in a more natural way
Country Game
Adaptable speaking activity to practice country names and varied grammar points
Cranium for JHS
Creative Writing exercise
A great activity to ease students into free writing
Criss Cross 2
A simple variation for Criss Cross to make it more fun and interesting for students
Crocodile Attack(2007)
An adaptable warm-up to review and practice English in groups
Cultural Jeopardy
Cultural quiz game
Current English Board
A simple and effective idea for organising an English noticeboard
Days of the Week song
Dictionary Dash
Activity to allow JHS 1 students to practice using dictionaries
Directions activity
Treasure hunt activity to practice directions
Disappearing Man
A politically correct hangman variant: great for warm-ups
Do you have~
Do you know him - her
Doctor Doctor
Practicing body parts through a lively group activity
Doctor skit
Draw a Monkey
Lesson to practice comparatives while drawing monkeys
Drawing Personalities
A drawing and writing activity to practice describing people
Exquisite Corpse(2007)
An activity based around making group poems
Fictional self-intro from pictures
Finish my question
Fun and easy activity
Gambling with Comparatives
Gesture Communication Game(2007)
An activity to practice gestures and using English to communicate instructions
Gesture game
Getting All Students Involved
A simple classroom management technique to encourage student participation
Ghost Story movies
Graduation Posters
An end-of-year lesson for third year students
How Does It Sound
A lesson plan to help students pronounce past tense -ed ending verbs correctly
How Many Top Trumps
An activity to practice 'how many?' using a variation on the popular game Top Trumps
Hyperdia -Using the Web to Assist the Text
An internet lesson to complement NH3 p. 48-49 and introduce the students to English language websites
Instant Fairytale
Interview test
A simple and effective interview test incorporating body language and manners
Invitations
Jikoshokai
Lets go shopping
Letter Blitz
Quiz game to get students thinking about letters and sentence structure
Lost in Tokyo Disneyland
Make me a star
Filming commercials with students
Monkey Hunt
A variation of the typhoon game to spice up quiz activities
Months of the Year
Movie watch and questions
Necktie Game
A fun variant of pictionary that involves drawing while blindfolded. Good for practicing vocabulary.
New Horizon Unit Worksheet
Past Tense Battleships
Using a battleships-type pair game to practice the past tense
Pen Pal Exchange(2007)
Running a pen pal exchange
Pen Pal project
How to set up and run a pen pal exchange
Personal Pronouns Potential Cootie Catchers
A simple and fun activity to practice making sentences using personal pronouns and 'I can'/'I can't'
Phonics Little Preparation
A simple phonics practice activity based around worksheets
Phonics No Preparation
A dictation-based no prep. phonics activity
Picture Shiritori
Poetic Pronouns
Practicing Question Words
Questions and Sentences
Questions Game
An activity to help students practice making questions and use vocabulary
Quiz Show
A simple activity that can be quickly improvised in times of need. Students answer questions in teams
Quiz Show II(2007)
Another version of the quiz show activity.
Rhythm of English
Scavenger Hunt(2007)
Using a scavenger hunt activity to practice directions
Sensei-nator Gladiators
Simple Past Tense
Skit-Making 101
Slice and Dice
A number of activities using cut up words/sentences to practice reading, writing, vocab, etc.
Song Lyrics Scramble
An activity for practicing listening skills with simple songs
South African Gambling game
Surprises from your country
Talking In Class(2007)
Two activities to help encourage students to talk in class
Telephone Speed Dating
A lesson plan to practice speaking and listening in a 'speed dating' format
That Which Who game
Quiz type game to practice the use of that/which/who
Tic Tac Toe(2007)
An activity to use with special needs classes
Tips for JHS ALTs(2007)
Some tips for ALTs starting out in JHS
Tongue Twister Relay
An activity for students to practice tongue twisters with a view to improving their listening and speaking skills
Trivia for Questions
Warm-up Activities
2 simple warm-ups (one for speaking and one for writing) requiring only a timer
Waverunner
Board-based writing game that students do in teams (words or phrases)
Weekday Doubt
A version of the card game B.S. (or Liar) to help students learn the days of the week
What are you doing
Nice card based survey activity to practice the present continuous
What are you do-ing
Practice present continuous with gesture game
What are you talking about
What did you do yesterday
What is happening in the picture
What is she doing
An activity to practice the present progressive
What's your number
Where Am I
Lesson plan to practice locations
Who is this
Who is stronger
Activity to practice comparatives incorporating janken
Who Killed Johnny
Logic activity involving interpreting practice based on the present progressive
Write Poetry
Highly structured activity to allow students to write poetry and practice the 'it is A for B to C' grammar point
Yesterdays Schedule
Fun drawing activity to practice talking about daily routines
You must ~ activity
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