My Reflection on KMKM's Lesson

KMKM, You were all very charasmatic and the characters you made were hilarious! We all really enjoyed your lesson and I thought your interview activity and "Check Test" were very well done! Nevertheless, Naim seemed to struggle on both activities. Why did he struggle? I explained at length in my comment on Team Y's lesson that Naim did not understand the word "is". Also, I thought that when you practiced the numbers you were a little fast. Although a number of Japanese children can count to 10 before even starting Jr. High School English, Naim was learning 10 new words for the first time! I remember learning to count to 10 in Japanese and it took me 4 days of constant practice and drilling by a friend! Naim needed a little more time to practice saying the numbers. One idea is you can do choral practice (合唱練習） once or twice, then you can have the students practice saying the numbers in pairs for a few minutes, lastly you can call on individual students to say the numbers. I think we all learned a lot from watching your lesson. Not only did we get a lot of good ideas but I think that we all learned the importance of slowing down the pace in introducing new material. Thank you and have a nice weekend.