Information Gap: Family

1. Students form four groups.
2. Each group is shown one of the four pictures on Worksheet. Students make notes about the picture.
3. Students form new groups of four, one from each of the former groups. In their new groups, students report on the family they saw in the picture. Group members take notes, and the group disperses.Each student will say something like the following:　「はるなさんのかぞくは４人にんです。お父とうさんと　お母かあさんと　おばあさんが　います」
4. The teacher reads out the text. Students listen and match what they hear to their information. They assign the numbers 1 to 4 to the information they have on each family.

1. Students form four groups.
2. The teacher gives each group one segment of the Text. Each group chooses one member to read out the segment of Text given to them by the teacher. Students take notes about what they hear. This task is done in 4 different places in the classroom simultaneously.
3. Students form new groups of 4, one from each of the former groups. In their new group, students report on the family they just heard about. Group members take notes, and the group disperses
4. The teacher gives out the Worksheet, and students match the information to the pictures.

Text

1. 私わたしのかぞくは四よ人にんです。父ちちと、母ははと、祖そ母ぼがいます。きょうだいはいません。
2. 私わたしのかぞくは四よ人にんです。りょうしんと、弟おとうとと、私わたしです。二ふ人たりきょうだいです。
3. 私わたしは二ふ人たりきょうだいです。姉あねがいます。それから、祖そ父ふと、祖そ母ぼと、母ははがいます。
4. 私わたしは三さん人にんきょうだいです。兄あにと妹いもうとがいます。それから父ちちがいます。

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