Grade 3 Unit 3 Homework to Do

Here's a worksheet that gives the kids a chance to practice some grammar from Unit 3. Work to do, book to read, letter to write, that kind of adjective. It must have a name. It's an infinitive modifying a noun so maybe it's an infinitival adjective or an adjectival infinitive. It doesn't seem to me to lend itself to a q/a format very well.

What do you have to do tomorrow?

I have a car to wash.

Sounds a little stilted. Like the kind of English you only encouter in a classroom, but that's what the JTE wants for that day, so...

There's some space on the left to add an illustration. I've been using Roy Lichtenstein prints and editing the word balloons to show example sentences. It's really easy to do with Microsoft Word but not so easy with the Google Documents. Or maybe it is and I just haven't found it yet. There's an online tutorial for Google Docs but I haven't had time to look at it yet.

Anyway. Copy the second page of the worksheet several times and cut the things to do into sections. Enough for each kid to have one. That's what he/she has to do tomorrow. Now they have to go around the room and ask the example question. They answer according to the paper slip they are holding. When the kids write down the information they have to adjust the grammar. The spoken answer may be I have a toilet to fix, but when it is recorded, Tomoyuki has a toilet to fix.

Now that they've had a chance to practice you can do a second round without having the tasks predetermined and the kids can answer according to their actual plans for tomorrow. Or, as a happyo, go around the room and ask the kids what they have planned for the next day. Doing a second round with a fresh worksheet eliminates the problem of shyness. And replaces it with the problem of having the usual suspects speaking Japanese instead of English.