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place called Tokyo.". It's better to say "I'm from a place called Mejiro, in Tokyo." Other words can be used instead of “place”, such as city, town, village, and neighborhood. Vary your questions For more on how to teach this activity, please refer to page 8 of this manual. Open form : Where are you from? ➞ Closed form : Are you from ◯◯ ? Open form : Where do you live? ➞ Closed form: Do you live in ◯◯ ? How about you? • Again, the aim of this focused speaking task is to give students time to personalise their answers and to practiced the Model Sentences in a very focused manner. • Write “ How do you spell~? ” up on the board have have your students repeat this a few times. This will hopefully encourage them to ask you for help with spelling if need be. • When students are done writing their answers, go over the model dialog with them. • Model the dialog with several students. Feel free to switch up the open and closed forms of each question. For example, you could ask one student, “ So, (NAME), where are you from? ” Then with another student you could start by asking, “Are you from (CITY) too, (NAME)? This will help students avoid following the model dialog too rigidly. • Have students stand and complete this model dialog with several classmates. See page 9 of this manual for more ideas on how to vary this activity.

Sounding Natural Note: Ask for more details English transcript of audio track 1-8

In English conversation, longer answers tend to be better than short ones because they come across as more communicative. However, it will happen that your partner provides a short, vague answer. To help draw them out, try asking follow-up questions. For example, if someone just replies “I’m from Tokyo” or “I live in Tokyo”, you can ask: Whereabouts? (Dono atari desu ka?) or Whereabouts in Tokyo? (Tokyo no dono atari desu ka?) Also, if you haven’t heard of a place your partner mentions, just ask "Where's that?" It's a friendly thing to do because it shows you are interested in communicating. ❉❉ It’s near Sendai When describing where something is, referring to a well-known landmark will make your answer easy to understand. For example: “It’s near Sendai” or “It’s near the Japan sea.” “Near” is very common, but there are other prepositions of location you could use, which can be found online at cic-multimedia.com (Unit 1, Part 1). • Depending on your teaching philosophy, you may • If you have time and would like to cover more prepositions of location, write these items up on the board and go over them: • in ( ~ni ) • near / nearby ( ~no chikaku ) • (north) of~ ( ~no kita ) • in the (north) part of~ ( ~no hokubu ni ) want to print out and use the full Japanese transcript for these notes, which can be downloaded from cic-multimedia.com.

• in the center of~ ( ~no chuuou ni ) • not far from~ ( ~kara toukunai ) • northwest of~ ( ~no hokusei ) • just out of~ ( ~kara sukoshi hanareta ) • somewhere in~ ( ~no dokoka ni )

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