Week 2 Line Application Lesson

Week 2 Line Application Lesson Lesson Last week I instructed the students to bring their smart phones to class for the lesson. Introduction: Teacher: “Hello, how are you today. I hop you had a good weekend.” Elicit language: Teacher: “What did as ask you to bring today?” “Yes, thats right I asked you to bring your smart phones. Show me your smart phones.” (Motion students to take out their smart phones.) Teacher: “And what's this?” (Points to smart phone Line Application) Teacher: “Yes. It's Line. Today we will get our friends line using English.” (Teacher hands out work sheet with the target language) Teacher Demonstrates the language A: “Hi. My name is ________. What's your name?” B: “My name is __________. It's nice to meet you too.” A: “Do you have Line?” B: “Sure. (Take out phone and get Line ID) “Is this you?” (Point to profile) A: “Yes, send me a message.” B: “OK. (Send a message) Did you get my message?” A: “Yeah, I did.” (Then the students repeat after the teacher. Teacher asks a student to help demonstrate the language in from of the class. Then two students demo the language.) (Pair up students in 2 groups. Have them practice the dialogue together and actually get their Line ID using the social media/messaging app. Then have them send a message.) (After the students finish have the students walk around the class and do the same dialogue and getting Line Ids. During this time all students will come up to the teacher and ask to get his Line ID .) (After the teacher has received Line I.d.s from all students. He will then invited them all to the Line messaging group called “English Class 101”. Explain to the students that the home will be try responding to the teachers messages in English before next class.) (The teacher will demonstrate some language Family members (Mother, father, brother, sister.)) (Then repeat and students demo. Then ask another student in the class.) A: “It was nice meeting you today. Do you have any brothers or sisters?” B: “Yes, I have one brother and one sister.”/ “I don't have any brothers or sisters.” A: “What's your father's name?” B: “His name is __________.” A: “What's your mother's name?” B: “Her name is ___________.” (Then have the students send the messages same as “A” asks to a friend.) Wrap up: Tell the students they did a great job today. Explain H.W.- Respond to the messages sent by the teacher in the group. And the teacher will send a message to the group over. If the students want to respond to other classmates in the group that's fine as long as they use English. These learners are Japanese University or college community college students they are low level. But they did have English classes in High school. The skill is a greeting and getting the other persons Line ID for future communication, something that happens often and is very applicable to Japan and Asia. Line Application smart phone application and is a great resource because just about everyone uses it in Japan and you can create messaging groups to invite others to. According to Wikipedia Line had 700 million users in 2015. In this group when one member sends a message all the members in the group get the message. The person that started the group invites people to it. Line has replaced traditional phone numbers between friends. Users can text in English and I believe it is a more fun way to talk in a second language. I used it while living in Japan and I would use Japanese when I could. The ability to switch between Japanese characters and English ones is not difficult on a cell phone. As a side note you can also download “stickers” and send them to your friend. There are thousands of different stickers you can download. I never thought about using Line as a classroom tool. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_(application) I would need to create handouts with the target language to practice in class. On the handout it would be helpful to have some Japanese translations for homework instructions. The students would also need to have been told to bring their smart phones to class during the previous class. Of course most students have them already. Tech support wouldn't be a lot since I'm dealing with younger Japanese students and they already know how to get a Line ID. If students forget to bring their smart phone to class that might be a problem. They can still practice the lesson and send me their ID over email so I can add them to the group chat later. Batteries dying might also be a problem but usually someone has a charger to use. If they have some difficulty with the homework they can always send me an email or message.