Ideas for activities with your visiting sister school.

July and August are popular times for Japanese sister schools to visit. In this section we will upload some of the activities we like to do including :

1. Bilingual Kahoots

2.Bilingual Amazing Race

3.Australian breakfast food survey

Idea 1. Bilingual Kahoots

These really get the students talking as the questions are in English about Australia but the answers are in Japanese.

Idea 2. Bilingual Amazing Race

This version of the Amazing Race is designed especially for when our sister school visits and you want to run an activity that forces both groups to work together using English and Japanese.

Step 1 : Download the station cards. Colour print them if you can and laminate them.

Step 2 : Download the student worksheet and teacher marking guidelines that are available as files at the bottom of this screen. Print off one worksheet per student.

Step 3 : Download the sound files for station 2 & 6 that are available as files at the bottom of this screen. Save these to a laptop or computer that the students can access when playing the game.

Step 4 : Buy a small toy kangaroo and put it in a cloth bag that you can not see through.

Step 5 : On the day :

• split your students up into roughly equal teams, teams of 4-8 are best, but more can work. Students sit at group tables.
• If you have coloured sashes, these can help with crowd control and encourage team spirit, but you can work without these. We sell packs of them for $30 a set of 30 sashes. Email us if you wish to order some.
• Stick the station cards around the room eg pin or blue tac to walls, or place on tables around the room.
• Use a splitter (see station 6 card for what this looks like) to create a listening post. Pop in a few headsets so that 2-4 students can listen at once.
• Hand out the worksheets and go over the rules.

Rules :

• Do not take anything with you to a station eg pen, paper.
• Only 2 members of a team at a time may leave the group table.
• All students must go to at least 2 stations.
• Use your textbook and each other to solve the tasks.
• Return to a station as many times as you need to.
• Only one group at a station at any one time.
• This is an immersion lesson so remember your teacher can only speak to you in Japanese.
• You need to share your answers with your group. You are scored as a group so errors on one sheet will bring down your average. Edit each other’s work.
• Read the question carefully!

Step 5 : Stand back and watch them go. Once you start you don't have to do much! They will come to you to do Station 4 and 8 so leave those cards on your desk.