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Guided Speaking Practice • This dialog is structured to showcase a typical sequence of stating and reacting to preferences. • Listen to the audio track as usual, then practice a bit of pronunciation if need be. • Lower-level students might benefit from some time spent on the substitution vocab. These expressions are natural extensions of what has been previously presented. • After students finish reading this dialog, you could have them brainstorm an additional line of content in pairs and share it with the class. Sounding Natural Note: Talk about yourself • Here we have another note dedicated to the Golden Rule 3 technique for how students can talk about themselves. This repetition is intentional, as talking about oneself is not entirely natural for native Japanese speakers. • As always, feel free to print out and use the full transcript with your students if you feel this will help them. • This note has a short writing task embedded within it. Have students complete it in pairs. If possible, check their work and do a memorize and perform activity with them. English transcript of audio track 2-12 Again, Golden Rule 3 states that it’s natural to sometimes talk about yourself. Let’s practice that rule within the context of this unit’s theme, hometowns. Notice the following four-line conversation exchange. A asks a question, B gives a long answer, then A responds by reacting and then answer his or her own question. B then reacts to that and adds some more detail to his or her own previous answer. If you read the example with a partner out loud, you can feel how this works. This is a very common way that native English speakers talk. Finally, for added practice, write a similar four-line exchange using some of the agreeing/disagreeing expressions from above.

Listening Practice • Go over the Useful Expressions . • Play the three audio tracks continuously and have students fill in the blanks. • Go over an differences between the three versions. • (optional) Have students pair-read the dialog aloud in a “ Read-Look-Speak ” manner. This involves separating the acts of reading and speaking: 1. Read lines silently, memorizing as much of them as possible. 2. Make eye contact. 3. Speak the line aloud while keeping eye contact.

Note that it’s totally fine to look at the text as many times as needed ; the main thing is to read, THEN speak. This is a technique used by actors to memorize lines of dialog. Having your students stand while doing this activity will help them focus. When everyone sits after finishing, you'll know it's time to move on.

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