Japanese+Total+Physical+Response+(TPR)


 * Classroom Commands**

Classroom commands are perfect for TPR because the motions are easy to make. When I taught classroom commands, I started out with the basics:

Please read (hands out like a book) Please write (pretend to write with a pencil) Please listen (hand up to ear) Please say (hand up to mouth, opening/closing like a puppet)

(more appropriate for class opening/closing in a Japanese school) Please stand up Please sit down

It is really important to make the motions while saying the commands. The students can imitate it. As they start to get more and more used to the commands, you can wait to show the motions after saying the word. When the students are comfortable with that, then you can put your hands behind your back while students do the motions without your direction. A Simon Says game works well and students who get out can be in charge of checking the rest of the students so they aren't just sitting around doing nothing.