This unit aims to develop questioning skills in Japanese, from simple yes/no questions or choice questions to questions that elicit sentence level answers. Questions are vital for promoting interaction in the classroom, and are the first step in facilitating 'chatting' with students. This chatting creates a Japanese communicative environment, which in turn leads teachers to use the target language spontaneously in response to situations that arise in the classroom. 　 (1) Starting Point Checklist (2) Suggested Procedure & Key Language (3) Student Talk (4) Suggested Activities (5) Progress Checklist (1) Starting point Checklist Tick how often you use the following techniques in the classroom.   Never Sometimes Usually Take the opportunity to talk about what interests the class in Japanese 　 　 Tell/ask your students what you/they did on a weekend/holiday in Japanese 　 　 Chat in Japanese with students who are at a very basic level of Japanese in an unthreatening way 　 　 Prepare questions for chatting to adjust your talk to the level of your students 　 　 Respond to an unplanned event in class spontaneously in Japanese 　 　 Do you think that it is a waste of class time to talk about things that are not directly linked to the language syllabus? Why? Why not? List three situations which have come up in class and which could be used as an opportunity for talking to the class in Japanese.

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