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How about you? • Have students spend a few minutes filling in the blanks with answers true for them. For the sake of practicing longer turns, encourage them to come up with three positive and three negative points: an overall evaluation using an adjective and some features using singular, plural, and/or countable/ uncountable nouns. • Remind everyone to ask for help if needed: How do you say~ in English? • Go over the little note under the model dialog before you model it with students. This is just a reminder to be accurate with the verb tense they use. • Model the dialog with several students. Feel free to switch up the open and closed forms of each question as you talk with your students. • Have students practice the model dialog with several classmates. Having them stand up while speaking can help them stay focused. Sounding Natural Note: Introducing new topics smoothly with “How about ◯◯ ?” English transcript of audio track 2-6 No doubt you are already familiar with the question "How about you?" This allows you to bounce the same question back to your partner that they asked you. But did you realize that "How about~?" can be used to introduce other topics in a smooth way? Use this question form to transition to a new related topic. You can then add an additional question to further narrow the focus. To see how this works, read the following sample conversations. A: What are the people like? B: They are quite friendly. A: What is the weather like? B: It’s always cold in winter. A: What are the people like? B: They’re quite friendly. A: How about the weather? What’s it like? B: It’s always cold in winter. While the first sample is not bad, the 2nd one sounds much smoother.

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Model Sentences 2 Romaji transcript of audio track 2-7 How about the people? Hito wa dou desu ka? What are they like? Karera wa donna kanji desu ka? They are friendly. Kisaku desu. How about the weather? Tenki wa dou desu ka? What’s it like? Sore wa donna kanji desu ka?

It’s hot in the summer. Natsu wa atsui desu. It’s hot in summer. Natsu wa atsui desu.

It’s too hot in the summer. Natsu wa atsusugimasu. ❉❉ in summer / in the summer Using "the" is technically correct, but native speakers

often leave it out in this situation. ❉❉ It’s too hot in the summer

"too" is optional in this answer pattern. Use it to add emphasis. Alternatively, you could say "really". For example: ◯ It's too hot. ◯ It's really hot.

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