Time: 20min
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This is designed for Reading, Listening and Speaking and is good for Junior High.

This game takes a simple sentences and gets students to convert it to either a negative or aquestion. For example;

• This is Teppei.
  • negative: This is not Teppei.
  • question: Is this Teppei?

Students build (convert) sentences to win new cards.

Contents 1 Materials Needed 2 Contents 3 Notes 4 See Also

Materials NeededEdit

Enough unique cards for at least one per student and enough cards for about 3 per student. The cards have a positive statement, with;

• The Japanese translation (optional),

• The negative equivalent of the statement, and

• The statement in question form.

ContentsEdit

• Demonstrate how to play with the JTE.

• Practice a few of the sentences and check with the students to make sure that they understand.

• A card is given to each student.

• Students stand up and walk around, looking for a partner to speak with. Saying "Hello" when they meet.

• They Janken, with the looser reading out the statement on their card.

• The looser either says "Negative, please." or "Question, please".

• The winner then must say the correct sentence in return.

• If the winner can do this, they get to keep the looser's card.

• If they can not, no cards are changed and both move on to find another person to talk to.

• If a student has more than one card, he/she can choose which card to read.

• If a student has no cards, then he/she should find a teacher and ask "Please help me, I have no cards.", where the teacher will give the student a new card.

• The aim of the game is to get the most cards and/or get specific "star" cards.

NotesEdit

As this is fairly early on (unit 4 of New Horizon 1), it might be too hard for many of the students, in that case you can try a similar activity with more of a team focus: Team sentence builder.

See AlsoEdit

• Sentence Building with point of view
• The "IF" string game
• Team sentence builder