High School Activities

Phone Conversations

One of my JTEs recently made up an elaborate story for their phone lessons, She told them we (the two ALTs at our school) were unable to attend class that day because of a BOE meeting and that to practice phone calls her friend in Tokyo who works for a hotel said the students could call her. So the two of us sat in an empty classroom receiving calls on our cells from kids for 2 class periods. They really had no idea it was us and were so nervous. We could hear the cheering when they finished their call. We pretended to be hotel workers and they had to make a reservation for a room and dinner. It was pretty funny. I think they got graded on it more like a speaking test.

Another idea - I can't remember the details but I gave everyone in the class a phone number. One student stood up and called out/pretended to dial the number and the student with that number had to answer. Just makes it a wee bit more exciting since you don't know who it's going to be and all the students have to listen in case its them.