About two approaches for teaching vocabulary

Today we learned about two approaches for teaching vocabulary: the Teach and Learn Approach and the Learning through Input Approach. You can see a PowerPoint presentation of the approaches here. I would like to tell you about the strengths and weaknesses of each approach as well as the approach I would use as a Junior High School English teacher.

☆the Teach and Learn Approach☆
★strengths
・This way will go smoothly. Because students can understand easily what teacher tells them.
・Students will be able to review the words easily when they forget them.
★weaknesses
・This way may be bored with studying. Because This is a stiff and formal way.
・Students may forget the words easily. (I think that it is one thing to understand the meaning, another to memorize the meaning.)

☆the Learning through Input Approach☆
★strengths
・Students will be able to memorize the meaning with joy, because it is like a quiz.
・Students will think and study voluntarily more than the Teach and Learn Approach. Because it is like a quiz and they don't know when teacher calls them.
★weaknesses
・Maybe, some students can not catch up with the pace of the lesson. (Teacher sometimes have to check the understunding of students.)

Lastly as a junior high school English teacher I would favor a hybrid. Both methods have different strengths. And students or classes also different. (For example silentry, noisy,restless and so on.) So I think that teacher should change these methods to the state of students.

Review of the communicative activeities

Good evening!!

Today, I am going to review two of the "typical Japanese junior high school"communicative activities presented in ETM 3. The activities I am going to review are Matching game and Using movement. You can view them here.

☆Matching game☆
In last class, I did this activity. Then, I thought that it takes a bit of time for junior high school students to decide their plans. And the patterns of their plans are too much, so that it 'll take more time for them to find friends who have the same plan.

So, I have an idea. Some kinds of cards are necessary for this game.
Beforehand, teacher has to prepare for cards. these cards are painted some situation's pictures.
Students use these cards, and find friends who have the same card.

This way, teacher can balance the number of cards. In other wards, the rate of students keeps balance. So, I think that they can find friends easily.

☆Using movement☆
In last class, I did this activity too. This activity is interesting for me. And I think that it is wasteful for only pair.

So, I think that we can apply pair work to line work. it is what we call Message game with gesture.

About anything that is important for me

Good evening everyone★.｡.:*･ﾟ

Why do I write this contribution so late at night?
Because I had a part-time job at COOP TAKAMATSU. Today, I came home at 1:20!(´；ω；`)Uhhhh...
My job is hard but worth doing.　So I'll continue to do this work untill I graduate from university.(9￣^￣)9

Well, I'll write today's task.
It is to write about anything that is important for me.

I think that love is important for me. Fortunately, I am surrounded with a lot of love.ﾟ+｡v(｡･ω･｡)vﾟ+｡ For example, my family's love, my friend's love, and so on. Now I'll write about my family's love.

This G.W. , I must do my part-time job, so that I was in Morioka. I felt very lonly when I did nothing in my room.
But! The day before yesterday morning, I took joyful call. It was that my family were heading Morioka from Hachinohe to meet to me!! I was very surprised and happy.ヾ(*´∀｀*）ノ
We had a nice time ; Had a lunch, went shopping, had a dinner together. Of course we talked!talked!!talked!!!

When my family left my room, my mother said to me.
" We are happy because you look livery! Father and I always worry about you. Call us whenever you are depressed. We will come here right away!!"
That made me cheerful.(p*`・ω・)q I felt big love of my family. And I thought that I must take care of my family more than before.

I think that love makes everyone happy and cheerful. So I want to love a lot of people(my family, my friends, COOP's customers, and all around me.)