Classroom Resources - The Japan Foundation, Sydney

Skit: The Whole Family is Sick

Students perform the sick family skit multiple times according to the Director’s instructions. He makes them do it “slower”, “faster”, “scarier” etc. There are 7 parts, including the Director.

Family Grammar Health_and_sickness Role_play Skits Primary Junior_Secondary Listening Reading Speaking
Survey: Daily Activities

Students circulate around the class asking questions of each other to find people who fit the description on the sheet. When found, students sign on the appropriate line.

Daily_routine Differentiated_learning Grammar Verbs Primary Junior_Secondary Senior_Secondary Listening Speaking
Play: Seven Goats

Students practise and perform the short play しちひきのこやぎ which has a cast of 9 players, including 7 “kids” (child goats), the kids’ mother and a wolf.

Animals Family Skits Primary Junior_Secondary Reading Speaking

Counting Shapes

Students use their spatial skills to count the number of shapes contained within a larger shape.

Numbers Primary Junior_Secondary Speaking Problem_solving
Card Game Ideas

Students play the following games with picture/word cards: Vocabulary learning, Grab, Card Matching, Concentration, Guess the word, Definitions, Soccer, On the Buses, Human Board Game, What’s Missing, Reading activities, Phrase/sentence building, Scattergories, Mime Game, Daily Activities, 3 Hint Game

Games Primary Junior_Secondary Senior_Secondary Listening Reading Speaking
Travel Agent Activity

Students create simple statements about places where they would like to go and work co-operatively in groups to gather information and make decisions about the 4 travel destinations in Japan: Kyoto, Sapporo, Nikkoo and Hiroshima.

Group_work Role_play Travel Primary Junior_Secondary Reading Speaking

Kanji: Radicals

Students learn how to recognise the structure of kanji and become familiar with the concept of identifying and looking up a kanji compound by looking at its radical.

Kanji Senior_Secondary Reading
Role Play: Japanese Tea

Students work in groups of four to write a script and role play a difficult situation involving some bad tasting tea! Julie doesn’t wish to offend her Japanese hosts so she distracts them with questions about their house.

Differentiated_learning Family Grammar Role_play Skits Junior_Secondary Senior_Secondary Speaking Writing
My Future Dreams: Giving Reasons

Students circulate around the classroom trying to find the person who has the other half of the sentence which matches their half. Each sentence is joined with the conjunction から.

Games Grammar Senior_Secondary Listening Reading Speaking

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