T: It’s spring now. In spring, many new things happen. You meet new people and make friends. When you make friends with people, do you ask their phone number? Maybe not. You ask their LINE accounts, don’t you?
– When you meet new people and make friends, do you ask their phone number or exchange LINE accounts? S1, Do you ask their phone number or exchange LINE accounts?
S1: I exchange LINE accounts.
T: Does your partner ask their phone number or exchange LINE accounts?
S1: She exchanges LINE accounts.
T: By the way, can you tell your phone number without looking at your phone? I know some of you can’t. – Can you tell your phone number without looking at your phone? S2, can you tell your phone number without looking at your phone?
S2: Yes, I can. I can tell my phone number without looking at my phone.
T: Can your partner tell his/her phone number without looking at his/her phone?
S2: Actually, she can’t. She can’t tell her phone number without looking at her phone.
<意図・注意事項>
When you meet new people and make friends, do you ask their phone number or exchange LINE accounts? や、Can you tell your phone number without looking at your phone? は、ペアでお互いに質問させます。
ペア活動のあとは、教師から生徒に対し三人称を主語とする質問をして、相手が話したことをクラスに共有させます。
T: Which do you like better, calling your friends or texting your friends? I like calling friends better as I can’t type fast on the phone. – Do you find it easy to type on the phone?
<意図・注意事項>
太字部分は、ペアでお互いに質問させます。さらにペアを変えて、最初のパートナーについて質問させてもよいでしょう。Do you find it easy to type on the phone? は、形式目的語を含む第5文型の文ですが、このようにコミュニケーションの中でコンテクストを設定して導入すると、生徒は特に難しさを感じずに使ってくれます。
T: Do you text your friends often? I text my friends about seven to ten times a day. – How many times do you text your friends a day? S3, how many times do you text your friends a day?
S3: I text my friends about twenty to thirty times a day.
T: Twenty to thirty times! That’s a lot! Then, how many times does your partner text his/her friends a day?
S3: She texts her friends more than fifty times.
<意図・注意事項> How many times do you text your friends a day? は、ペアでお互いに質問させます。状況によっては、クラス全体に投げ掛けてもよいでしょう。
生徒が普段多くの時間を費やしていることについての質問なので、生徒は自然に反応してくれると思います。