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Kristi

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  1. You can write down some questions on pieces of papers like "What do you usually read?"

    Then organize the students into pairs and give each a piece of paper with the questions. The questions ahould be the same. Obviously they would have to ask the questions from each other.

    If it's a lower level, make sure you model what they have to do. Make sure they can ask back after they answered, but point out that they shouldn't ask the same questions, just ask

    - ...and you?

    - How about you? etc.

    When they finished you can pick students to tell the class what his or her pair likes to read etc.

  2. When I was learning the english language (any language for that matter) paging through large encyclopedias and dictionaries are part of what made it fun. It made learning the language seem challenging, it was massive collection of words and knowledge packed into hundrads of pages. Now, I think todays youth are exposed to language in a different way. Spellcheck on computers, online resources, they won't go through the same struggles the older generation did. Will this make them less or more motivated to learn the language?

    I don't think it has anything to do with motivation. I think the question is whether it helps language learning better or not. I may be old-school here but I think you learn more if you have to go through a real dictionary yourself. I found that my vocabulary startedimproving significantly when I started using monolingual dictionaries.

  3. Hi,

    Can you recommend some useful way to start learning Japanese? I've always been interested in Japanese, now I know I won't be able to learn it very well and use it on a high level because of work and family reasons (don't have much time unfortunately), but I still want to learn some of the basics.

  4. Well, it's not the best, but you can give it a try.

    1. Give the students some categories like favourite actor, Favourite band etc.

    2. Tell them to write at least 5 names in each category.

    3. Put them in pairs and make them ask questions like "What do you think of Brad Pitt?", the other student can answer like "I don't like him." or "I love him" etc. This way they will learn how and where to use the object pronouns.

    4. You can also give them some additional adjectives, extra phrases so they can give more elaborate answers.

    Hope that helps!

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