My goal is to really expand the students’ abilities with their greetings. Those of you that are English teachers here in Japan are probably all too familiar with the robotic sounding conversation:
“Hello!!” says the genki English teacher. “Hello,” respond the students. “How are you?” asks the teacher. (in perfect melatone unison) “I’m fine, thank you. And you?” respond the students.I want to get out of the “I’m fine” box and expand. So I made a chart that expresses the many different feelings that your average student may feel. You can find and download this chart here. But here is the preview:
I sent all of my schools copies for each of the classes I teach. I think there are about 70-ish classes and each one got a copy to hang in their classroom. Now when I ask how they are feeling they have a little more to say than “fine, thank you.”
I also decided to make a weather chart along the same lines. Many of my teachers routinely have me ask the students how the weather is so I thought I would make a cute weather chart for their classroom as well. This can also be downloaded full size from here. Here is a preview:
I love your “How are you” poster. Great way to teach that there are other feelings besides “fine”
I love your “How are you?” poster
We say What’s the weather like? and not How’s the weather?
Yeah, out of the 17 different schools I went to there were always various phrases used. Luckily the ALT before me made them all conform to one way, making it easy to reuse materials. Plus, its usually a good idea to go with the shorter phrase with less syllables.
Hi! I love the feelings chart but I cannot download it. Where I can find it? I love the smileys!