Grade 2 Unit 1 Past Lives Survey

Unit 1 for second grade begins with the past tense of the verb to be and has the students reading and listening to a commerical for a sale at the Sports Store. Here's a link to the Past Lives Survey and some necessary materials for an activity which the students might find amusing.
First; the Japanese teacher has to explain the idea of the previous life and that one could have been a cat or a dog or some other creature.Second; each student is given a card of some animal that represents what they were in their previous life. The teachers model the conversation. The first speaker looks at the card they were given and asks if their partner was the same thing.

A: Were you a tiger?
B: Yes, I was.
or
B: No, I wasn't. I was a cockroach.

The students record their friend's names and answers in the survey sheet. As a variation you can have the first speaker ask, "What were you?" with the answer, "I was a ~." The word balloons coming out of the characters on the survey sheet provide examples for how the students can answer the questions. If you decide to ask. "What were you?" cut and paste the word balloons to show an appropriate example. For another variation that only uses the cards have the students use the first dialogue above to find other students who were the same thing that they were in a previous life. A simple matching game.

If you go to the link and the and find the survery is not formatted correctly get the username and password from me and you can edit it directly on the kasama alt google docs account.