Hi, friends! 2

Lesson 1: Summary of Goals

4 class hours are recommended for Hi, friends! 2 Lesson 1 by MEXT - here's the official MEXT lesson plans pdf download.

Vocabulary includes animal names, numbers and the names of the English letters. Some animals were covered last year in Hi friends 1; numbers up to 30 were also covered; letters were also covered but this year lower case in included too.

Grammar includes "How many ~?" and "Do you have ~?". "How many ~?" is a review, covered in Hi, friends! 1 Lesson 3

Lesson 1 Class 1

Goals

• Review/learn new animal names.
• Review numbers 1 - 30, learn new numbers 31 - 50.
• Answer the question "How many ~?". (Pay attention to students being able to answer using plurals.) 

Activities

For practicing numbers:

• Guess the number
  A blackboard game where students try to guess the number you're thinking of.
• Counting around a circle
  Stand in a circle and each student says a number.
• Number shiritori
  Student try to say a number based on the last digit of the number they just heard.

For "How many ~?" review:

• The "How many fingers?" game
  Similar to janken, 2 students put out fingers then race to say the total.

Optional

In this lesson, the goal is lowercase English alphabet but you may also want to consider a review of writing uppercase with this official MEXT worksheet download (which includes worksheet 1, 2-1, 2-2, and 2-3).

Those four pages should also be done in 5th grade when studying Hi, friends! 1.

Homework

• Alphabet writing practice
  Download and print out these worksheets for your students to take home for homework.

Lesson 1 Class 2

Goals

• Start learning more new numbers 51 - 100.
• Review the alphabet but starting to look at lower case ABCs.
• Ask and answer the question "How many ~?"
• Answer the question "Do you have ~?"

Activities

For reviewing animals:

• Remember the animals without opening the text book

For numbers:

• Guess the number
• Counting around a circle
• Number shiritori

For learning ABCs (new, lower case):

• Let's Chant (Hi, friends! 2 Lesson 1, page 3)
• Letter Shuffle Word Hunt
  Students hunt for the words in the illustration as spelt out by a friend. Great for review!
• Use the cards from the back of the Hi, friends! 2 textbook (page 41, 43).

For "How many ~?" review:

• The "How many fingers?" game
• Students ask each other "How many ~?" questions, for example using the text book or items in the classroom.

For answering "Do you have ~?" questions:

• 5 of a kind
  Using the alphabet cards that students have cut from the back of the textbook, ask students to take out the 5 red cards (the vowels). Students walk around, find a partner, play janken and the winner asks "Do you have a 'U' card?" When they get a card, they hand back a card they don't want. When they get 5 of a kind, they sit down.
• Hidden stationary game
  Using stationary, a game about what I have behind my back.

Homework

• Alphabet writing practice
  Download and print out these worksheets for your students to take home for homework.

Lesson 1 Class 3

Goals

• Ask and answer the question "Do you have ~?"
• Start writing the lowercase English alphabet.

Activities

For asking and answering "Do you have ~?" questions:

• Hidden stationary game in pairs.

For writing the lowercase alphabet:

• This worksheet where the students rewrite the uppercase animal names in lowercase.
• This official MEXT worksheet download which included worksheet 3 - some uppercase and worksheet 4 - lowercase tracing.
• Spelling hunter (Hi, friends! 2 Lesson 1, page 4-5) In pairs, one students finds a word from p.4-5 and spells it out to their partner. Their partner hunts for it and when found, both students write the word. (I use the Activity 1 or Activity 2 spaces in the textbook.)
• Fill in the Alphabet
  Students compete in teams to write all the letters of the alphabet on the blackboard. You can start out just upper-case, move to lower-case, then double up and do both.

Also, look back and class 1 and 2 for activities to do again as review.

Homework

• Alphabet writing practice
  Download and print out these worksheets for your students to take home for homework.

Lesson 1 Class 4

Goals

• Review all Lesson 1 content.
• Complete a project or challenge relating to Lesson 1 goals.
  For example, you may like to do something artistic like drawing up a zoo poster to talk about as a class, with different groups contributing different animals.
  You may wish to try some kind of (self-introduction type) presentation like a show and tell. Students could present in groups, "I have a ~." and also use language from Hi, friends! 1 such as "I like ~." (although, Lesson 1 technically doesn't cover "I have a ~." grammar, only the question form).

Activities

Review Activities

For a series of snappy, fun activities to review Lesson 1, I usually redo all the activities from previous Lesson 1 classes interspersed with short conversation periods where I talk with the teacher using the grammar we just covered then I or the HRT talk with the students, or even have the students ask the teachers questions.

For numbers:

• Guess the number
• Counting around a circle

For "How many ~?" review:

• The "How many fingers?" game

For asking and answering "Do you have ~?" questions:

• Hidden stationary game in pairs.
• The "Do you have (something in your fridge)?" game
  Students think of 8 things they usually have in their fridge at home then ask around the class if others have that thing in their fridge right now.

For writing the lowercase alphabet:

• This official MEXT worksheet download which included worksheet 3 - some uppercase and worksheet 4 - lowercase tracing.

1 Hour Project

In place of a full review class, another option is a full class hour (a.k.a. 45 minutes) dedicated to a project.

Hi Friends 2 Lesson 1 Project

Students are divided into groups and are given the job of creating enough animals to fill a zoo. Each group should stick to one animal. Each group should decide how many animals they want to make then draw them (unless you prefer them coloring in clip art print outs), color them then cut them out.

Once all the group's animals are all cut out, they can be pasted into the enclosures on a large poster sized piece of paper.

English can be incorporated into this project by groups presenting what animals they have and answering how many.

Recently, English is taking a bigger role in Japanese school class time. To allow more time for English, art and P.E. class time has been reduced so these artistic projects are a nice way to bring art/craft activities back for students as well as hopefully leave them with a fond feeling for English.