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 An introduction to prepositions for 1 st  grade junior high school students.

1 2At the beginning of the lesson, give students apiece of origami paper and show them how tomake an origami box. Explanation should beminimal and mostly in English. If this box is toodifficult, there is an easier origami box that almosteveryone knows which works fine.

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 WARMUP EXPLANATION

After students finish making their boxes, everyone takes out an eraserand copies the teacher. The ALT places the eraser on the box andthen says “on the box”. Students imitate. In this way, introduce thefour below phrases.

ON THE BOX

箱の上

IN THE BOX

箱の中

BY THE BOX

箱のそば

UNDER THE BOX

箱の下

After the above repetition, the ALT places flash cards on the board showingthe four examples and the JTE explains each of the phrases in Japanese.The students then repeat each phrase several more times, at which point theJTE can quiz in Japanese and the students can answer in English.

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By Douglas Paul Perkins, 2011-10-12.This work is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.

For attribution, include the author's name and a link to https://dperkins.org.See also https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en.

Most images shared by OCAL, Public Domain. http://www.clker.com.Origami box sketches by David Petty, Public Domain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masu_%28Japanese%29.

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PAIR PRACTICE INTERVIEWS

Give each student the below worksheet. Ideally, put an A3 copy on theboard. The ALT and JTE demonstrate together. The ALT says, “1 – Where's the ball?” The JTE looks at picture 1 and replies, “It's in the box.”

Demonstrate and repeat with students until they understand the pattern.Then students can work in pairs, where each student asks or answersquestions for two minutes, at which point they switch roles and repeat.

Give each student a two-sided printout, where one side is the greensheet below and the other is the yellow sheet below (there is no need touse these colors – white is perfectly good). Also, give each student two

copies of the five objects. Using tape or glue and one of each of the fiveobjects, each student decorates his or her own room as he or she likes.This should be done somewhat secretively so that neighboring studentscannot see it.

The ALT and JTE demonstrate the interview using A3 printouts on the chalkboard.The ALT asks the JTE, “Where's the cat?” The JTE looks at his or her own greensheet and replies with the cat's location. For example, “It's on the bed.” On theALT's yellow sheet, the ALT takes a cat printout and tapes or glues it on the bed. Byrepeating for various objects, the ALT can make a copy of the JTE's room. Then

students make pairs and do the same kind of interview. At the end of the interview,they show each other their sheets and check that they match.

Where's the ball?(例) A: Where 's the ball? ボールはどこですか？

B: It's in the box. それは箱の中にある。

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