List of Learners' Seat Numbers.

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In the following you will look at a list of Learners' Seat Numbers, for example, in learning Step 8 
in The Basic Teacher. In Terada Method the list is used at all the stages of gradual teaching. 
The 1st column gives few words with which each statement is started in Step 8.
The 2nd column gives 5 learners' seat Nos. The 3rd column gives 4 learners' seat Nos. 
And so on. The list is used as mentioned below.

A teacher looks at the list only. A teacher is required to get used to saying all the
statements, questions, and answers smoothly under Step 8 without looking at any other
paper than the list. In the following example a teacher is teaching a part of Step 8 to a 
group of 5 learners.

Teacher :      No.1 please. Our garden is at the back of the house. Where is it ?
No.1 Learner : It is at the back of the house.
Teacher :      No.2 please. At the front we have a green plant in a pot. What do we have ?
No.2 Learner : You have a green plant in a pot.
Teacher :     Where do we have it ?
No.2 Learner : You have it at the front.
Teacher :      No.3 please. Near to the house are beds of flowers. Where are they ?
No.3 Learner : They are near to the house.
Teacher :      No.4 please. All gardens in England have flowers. What have flowers ?
No.4 Learner : All gardens in England have flowers.
Teacher :     No. 5 please. Friends who have gardens give plants to us. What do they have ?
No.5 Learner : They have gardens.
Teacher :      What do they give ?
No.5 Learner : They give plants.
Teacher :      Who do they give them to ?
No.5 Learner : They give them to you.
Teacher :      What friends do it ?
No.5 Learner : Friends who have gardens do it.
Teacher:      No.2 please. Our garden is at the back of the house. Where is it ?
No.2 Learner : It is at the back of the house.
Teacher :      No.3 please. At the front we have a green plant in a pot. What do we have ?
No.3 Learner : You have a green plant in a pot.
Teacher:      Where do we have it ?
No.3 Learner : You have it at the front.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------  and so on.

In this way, a teacher lets each of the five learners answer each question in the turn of Seat
Nos. 1, 2, 3,4, 5, /2, 3, 4, 5, 1,/ 3, 4, 5, 1, 2,/ 4, 5, 1, 2, 3,/ 5, 1, 2, 3, 4 in 2nd column of the list. 
Then the conversations are practiced under the five statements from (Our garden is) to 
(Friends who). This is a practice at one cycle. If a teacher lets the five learners go along 
Seat Nos. 1,2, 3,4, 5,/ 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, / and so on, he covers all the conversations started with
(Our garden is) and ended with (Some berries) in Step 8. If this is done until he lets learners 
go along Seat Nos. 5, 1, 2, 3, 4,/ 5, 1, 2, 3, 4,/ and so on, he covers Step 8 till each of the 
five learners is able to say all the answers in the conversations in Step 8. The 2nd column is for
practice at 6 cycles and 1/5 if the teaching goes at every cycle.

The question which a preceding learner answered is not ever given by a teacher to the 
next learner. This makes a learner serious enough to answer the question specially at a
stage where a learner has to answer by looking at nothing. It is like putting a
learner in a position to talk English for work. 

In order to give gradual teaching a teacher will let learners go through several stages but
at all the stages, a teacher has to have an ability to put the questions to learners in
the turn of Seat Nos. smoothly without looking at any other paper than the list of Seat Nos. 
This is because the system, which the list of Seat Nos. has, drives a teacher into 
having no time to look at each question in the conversations every time he puts a question.
The ability of a teacher has an attraction for learners who will then have a respect
for him. 

In Terada Method the answers are always already parts of the statements and 
questions.  So everyone is able to get the answers from them. We can give answers
because we are able to understand the answers. But what is understanding ? 
Understanding is to have a knowledge of the relation of one thing to another. Terada
system makes the relation simple between a statement and a question. By this way every
object is able to be made more clear in its relation to another object. Nothing substantial
is in the way.

Having a respect for a teacher and depending on what we are really able to depend on 
make it possible  to take pleasure out of the learning. Then learners are able to 
keep their interest in learning English.


In order to call each learner, the use of Seat Nos. is simpler than that of a learner's name. The 
system of Seat Nos. makes it possible for a present learner to use an absent learner's Seat
No. so that a teacher may select any column of a group of learners in the list of Seat Nos.
according to the number of learners who are already present on the teaching day whoever
and how many may be absent among learners. 

LIST OF SEAT NUMBERS for "IN THE GARDEN"
   
Statements     	
5 Learners 
4 Learners  
3 Learners  
2 Learners
Our garden is	
1  2  3  4  5
 1  2  3  4
     1  2  3
        1  2
At the front we	
2  3  4  5  1
	2  3  4  1
	2  3  1
	2  1
Near to the 	
3  4  5  1  2
	3  4  1  2
	3  1  2
	1  2
All gardens		
4  5  1  2  3
	4  1  2  3
	1  2  3
	2  1
Friends who		
5  1  2  3  4
	1  2  3  4
	2  3  1
	1  2
When we take	
1  2  3  4  5
	2  3  4  1
	3  1  2
	2  1
The bright  		
2  3  4  5  1
	3  4  1  2
	1  2  3
	1  2
I will take    	
3  4  5  1  2
	4  1  2  3
	2  3  1
	2  1
The bit of the	
4  5  1  2  3
	1  2  3  4
	3  1  2
	1  2
The potatoes	
5  1  2  3  4
	2  3  4  1
	1  2  3
	2  1
The fruit-trees	
1  2  3  4  5
	3  4  1  2
	2  3  1
	1  2
If a building		
2  3  4  5  1
	4  1  2  3
	3  1  2
	2  1
Our fruit trees	
3  4  5  1  2
	1  2  3  4
	1  2  3
	1  2
Between the	
4  5  1  2  3
	2  3  4  1
	2  3  1
	2  1
On bright days	
5  1  2  3  4
	3  4  1  2
	3  1  2
	1  2
The tree by the	
1  2  3  4  5
	4  1  2  3
	1  2  3
	2  1
Green apples	
2  3  4  5  1
	1  2  3  4
	2  3  1
	1  2
The fruit is  	
3  4  5  1  2
	2  3  4  1
	3  1  2
	2  1
I have a net		
4  5  1  2  3	
 3  4  1  2
	1  2  3
	1  2
This net which	
5  1  2  3  4
	4  1  2  3
	2  3  1
	2  1
It is a small net	
1  2  3  4  5
	1  2  3  4
	3  1  2
	1  2
The apples on	
2  3  4  5  1
	2  3  4  1
	1  2  3
	2  1
They are early	
3  4  5  1  2
	3  4  1  2
	2  3  1
	1  2
They may be	
4  5  1  2  3
	4  1  2  3
	3  1  2
	2  1
When they seem	
5  1  2  3  4
	1  2  3  4
	1  2  3
	1  2
When his 		
1  2  3  4  5
	2  3  4  1
	2  3  1
	2  1
We will keep	
2  3  4  5  1
	3  4  1  2
	3  1  2
	1  2
The friends to	
3  4  5  1  2
	4  1  2  3
	1  2  3
	2  1
I will put		
4  5  1  2  3
	1  2  3  4
	2  3  1
	1  2
In the shade	
5  1  2  3  4
	2  3  4  1
	3  1  2
	2  1
Some berries	
1  2  3  4  5
	3  4  1  2
	1  2  3
	1  2

Saburo Terada
Saitama Prefecture
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