CONNECT Magazine Japan #107 October 2021

CONNECT LANGUAGE The Halloween lesson is a hallowed tradition for Here is one of my lesson plans from the merry ALTs in Japan, so it’s not a bad idea to keep a few month of October. unique lesson plans in your back pocket. As Halloween approaches, please enjoy some of Grade Level: JHS 2nd Year these fun lesson plans put together by our Goal: Speaking, Listening, Writing. community and let us know if you use any of Future tense questions and answers. them!

My students learn the future tense in October, so instead of having them ask each other the usual dull questions (“Will you study English tomorrow?” / “Yes, I will.”), we use Halloween themed “cootie catchers” (the folded paper Rachel Fagundes (Okayama) fortune tellers of your middle school slumber parties) to peer into the mysteries of the future.

I’m a fiend for Halloween, so from the first of October—it’s ON. Students love anything to do What you need: with witches and ghosts, but most JHS teachers 1. Halloween Cootie Catcher printout are busy enough getting through the textbook 2. Worksheet and don’t have time to spend just talking about the holiday. So instead, I incorporate Halloween Prep: into every grammar lesson and activity that I do Print out worksheets and the cootie catchers. throughout the month. Are we practicing “I know Cut the extra paper away from the cootie how to” phrases? Great! It’s time for the students catchers. This will make it easy for the kids to fold to learn how to kill vampires, and so on and so them quickly in class. forth.

Also, talk to your JTE about how cootie catchers The point is to get students engaged and work and practice the demonstration with them. excited to use the language they have been learning in class by putting a Halloween spin on your English activities.

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