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This is a good way for students to start using nuance and expressions of degree in their expression. The first time you introduce these patterns, explain to students that it sounds much more intelligent to say for example “Many Japanese people like to buy lottery tickets at the end of the year” than it is to say “ Japanese people like to buy lottery tickets at the end of the year.” It might be good to show students a table of these phrases (see an example below), and confirm that they understand their meanings and overlap. Gathering the data

If you are teaching in the classroom, in a completely analog way, you can tally numbers of students by counting raised hands for each response (if topics are particularly sensitive or embarrassing, you can have students close their eyes while they raise their hands to show their answer). Write the tally on the board. If you are teaching in the classroom, and students are able to use their smartphones, they can send their responses through Google Forms, and graphs and charts displaying the data will be generated automatically. This visual data can then be shared with the students via classroom projection. If you are teaching online, students can send their responses through Google Forms, and graphs and charts displaying the data will be generated automatically . This visual data can then be shared with the students over the share screen. Having students comment on the data It may be a good idea to write an example comment on the board, such as: Most of the people in this class sleep less than seven hours per night. All of us / All of the people in this class … (100%) Almost all of us / Almost all of the people in this class … (90~100%) Many of us / Many of the people in this class… ( ≈ 70~90%) Most of us / Most of the people in this class … (60~90%) (About) half of us / (About) half of the people in this class… ( ≈ 50%) Some of us / Some of the people in this class … ( ≈ 20~40%) A few of us …/ A few of the people in this class …

( ≈ 10~30%)

None of us … / None of the people in this class … (0%) If you have a more motivated or higher level class, you might like to have them add a personal reaction to the data, such as: This is a little surprising to me, since I thought that I was getting more sleep than most people.

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