Japanese Level 4, Activity 9: “Affirmative and Negative” / ” (Face-to-Face)
Description:
Short 2-3 sentence description of what students will do in the activity. (Try to cover the warm-up and wrap-up)
Semantic Topics:
(These are keywords, or words to help someone find the activity. They can be in both languages)
Products:
Practices:
Perspectives:
NCSSFL-ACTFL World-Readiness Standards:
- Bullet 1
- Bullet 2
Idaho Content Standards for World Languages:
- Bullet 1
- Bullet 2
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can express limited degree using だけ〜affirmative and しか〜negative.
Materials Needed:
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Warm-Up
- Each slide will have a picture of an object.
Instructions in the target language. - The students will guess the counter for each object.
Instructions in the target language.
Main Activity
- Hand out one set of character cards to each student and lay the other set face up on the table.
Instructions in the target language. - Have each student take turns describing the items their character has with 〜だけ/〜しか.
Instructions in the target language. - Have students guess the character, and the fastest to grab the card gets to keep the character card.
Instructions in the target language. - Repeat until everyone has described their character.
Instructions in the target language. - The students with the most cards will win!
Instructions in the target language.
Wrap-Up
- What stationery do you have and how many?
なんの文房具をいくつ持っていますか。 - Have them answer using 〜しか/〜だけ if the number of items is small.
Instructions in the target language.
End of Activity
- Read Can-Do statements once more and have students evaluate
their confidence.
(Use thumbs up/thumbs down or download our student cards.) - Encourage students to be honest in their self-evaluation.
- Pay attention, and try to use feedback for future activities!
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can express limited degree using だけ〜affirmative and しか〜negative.
