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Inter-class
exchanges by 4th graders |
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Objectives of the activity
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Using e-mails and videoletters,
we aim to promote international exchanges
by learning about the other’s life style. |
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Steps of the activity |
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Students watch a videotape
mailed from 4th-graders at Wahl-Coates ES.
・Self-introduction, math class, music class,
lunch time
・Scenes of going home
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Students exchange opinions
about contents in the videotape. |
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Why was there an 11-year-old
pupil in the class? |
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Why are there many
people with different colors of skin? |
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Why did they have
soft drink bottles on their desks? |
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They were having a
lunch in a big room. |
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We think it is nice
that they can eat what they like at
lunch. |
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The school looked
very spacious. |
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That they line up
when moving from one classroom to another
was the same as what we do at our school. |
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We send our thoughts to
Wahl-Coates ES by e-mail.
Replies from Wahl
Coates ES
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The 11-year-old student
is studying with us because the student
could not move up to the next grade. |
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We have soft drinks
in the classroom, but we never drink
them during class. |
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Lunch time is the
best. |
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If we are noisy when
moving to another classroom, we sometimes
have to redo it. |
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Students introduce life
at attached Mihara Elementary School
・They discuss what to introduce.
・They introduce themselves in English.
・They introduce a day at school.
・They videotape it by themselves. |
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Students filmed by themselves
the scene of going home, how they spend short
breaks, how they clean the classrooms, and
the scene of swimming, and prepared a videotape. |
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E-mails from Wahl-Coates
ES
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It is nice that you
can play in the morning after arriving
at school.
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Why are you all wearing
the same clothes? |
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Do you have fun at
lunch time? |
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Students don’t clean
rooms at Wahl-Coates ES, but why do
students clean the rooms at yours? |
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It is nice to have
a lot of time to play at school. |
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What do you do after
getting home? |
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Outcomes and issues for the future
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Since teachers can’t
speak or write each other’s language well,
communication did not go smoothly. |
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Having friends in America,
students became willing to get involved in
exchanges by looking up differences in life
styles, trying to speak English, and creating
videotapes by themselves. |
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We would like to promote
exchanges not only on a school or class basis,
but also on a subject basis. For this purpose,
we expect more teachers to get involved in
the exchanges. |
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