I gave this lesson a try, but ended up abandoning it, and continuing to Lesson 8. I guess the point of the lesson is teach lots and lots of vocabulary, and demonstrate the relationships between the words. I did that a little bit, but without any grammar, the lessons just turned into repetitive vocab games.
Introduce the new song. And introduce tons of new vocabulary, and explain the difference between using "It's a ___" and "It's an ____."
Recall the vocabulary, and start grouping the vocabulary together in categories. Play the 3 hints game and see if the students can guess the word.
For the song, I sang "Sing" by The Carphenters. I choose this song because it's beautiful. Karen Carpenters has an amazing beautiful voice. Also, some of the students had already heard the song from their older siblings, or their mothers. It's in the Junior High english textbook, and I think they might teach it in Music class.
Only one of my classes really hated the song. But by the end, they were singing it just as well as the other classes.
Also, I tried to stick with only English for the lyrics by the students and teachers complaining about it, so I added Katakana after the fact.
I choose many words based on the ones in the book, and I added a few more. Rather than use the images in the book, I took to Google Image search and got something better.
There's certainly a lot more I could do with this lesson but I wasn't really sure how I could execute it.
There was a 3rd class I had planned for the lesson, but scrapped. It was using a mystery box, and students would bring in objects of their own from home. Students would be blindfolded, reach into the box, and try to guess what object they were feeling. I could not really conceptualize how this was going to work in my class, so I just continued to the next lesson instead.
There were tons of grammar, but a lot of the words were things they knew already, so I wasn't too worried about overwhelming the students.
Telling the difference between a and an was building of the previous lesson on how to spell words. Some students immediately figured it out and performed perfect. Others that were not paying attention did not understand.