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Influenced by Karate, I start all English conversation classes with practice of "English Forms" or kata," by having students respond in the positive or negative to series of questions with only slight variation. This is the 9th week of the class so the students can handle quite a lot of variation but in the first weeks only the auxiliary verb would change. I find that students can respond very fluidly to questions when they are not required to think about the meaning but merely recreating the form. They clearly understand what they are saying after the event at least too, and this practice improves their fluency in the rest of the lesson.

They then go on to do conversation "sparring" in pairs using the materials posted last year, from which the verbs in the above forms are taken.
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Image from Kata por Equip by Luis LInero

Thanks also to Arinaga Sensei of the Yamaguchi Arinaga Dojo affiliated to the Full Contact Karate Association.

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Taken on: November 26, 2014

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