Japanese Level 3, Activity #11: “Planning a Trip” / “旅行を計画します” (Face-to-Face)
Description:
In this activity, students will have the opportunity to plan a trip to a place in Japan based on the information they are provided. Students will determine where they are going, and suggest travel locations. Students will also be able to identify and describe travel activities.
Semantic Topics:
Japan, Japanese, Nakama 2, Chapter 2, travel destination, travel plans, ask questions, answer questions, presentations, recommendations, 比較, 対照的に, 米国, JapaJapan, 日本語, 中馬2章, 第2章, 旅行先, 旅行計画, 質問, 質問, 質問, プレゼンテーション, 推奨事項, 将来, キャリア, 計画
- Standard 1.1: Students engage in conversation, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
- Standard 1.2: Students understand and interpret written and spoken Japanese on a variety of topics.
- Standard 2.1: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of Japanese culture.
Idaho Content Standards for World Languages:
- COMM 1.1: Interact and negotiate meaning (spoken, signed, written conversation) to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions.
- COMM 2.1: Understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics.
- CLTR 1.1: Analyze the cultural practices/patterns of behavior accepted as the societal norm in the target culture.
- CLTR 1.2: Explain the relationship between cultural practices/behaviors and the perspectives that represent the target culture’s view of the world.
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can exchange messages with a travel agent to determine a travel location.
- I can suggest travel destinations.
- I can compare and contrast famous tourist locations in Japan and the U.S.
Materials Needed:
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- Destination Cards (Canva Template, free account required)
- Travel Cards (Canva Template, free account required)
Warm-Up
Display the “Google Slides” and begin by introducing the Can-Dos for today’s activity.
Show the promotion video of Tokyo.
Ask students what they think about Tokyo? Have they traveled to Tokyo before? Would they like to travel to Tokyo? What would they like to see? Where would they stay? In a hotel, Airbnb?
Main Activity
Students will be acting as travel agents and vacationers, switching roles.
Have students partner up, with one acting as a travel agent and the other the vacationer.
- ペアになってください。一人は旅行代理店の人になってもう一人は客になってください。
Give a set of the Destination Cards to each travel agent, and give each traveler one Travel Card.
Travelers will discuss which activities they want to do, how much money they can spend on hotels, and how many nights they’ll stay (one bed = one night), and how many people will go.
- 客は代理店の人にアクティビティ、ホテルにいくら使うか、何泊、何人か伝えてください。
Make sure to tell the students that in Japan, you have to pay per person to stay at hotels.
- 日本ではホテル代は１部屋のではなくて１人あたりの値段です。
The travel agent will have to choose the best destination that fits the traveler’s needs.
- 代理店の人はそれを聞いて旅行先を決めてください。
Once the travel agent offers a “plan” to the traveler, the traveler will become a travel agent, and they will “plan” another vacation with a different Travel Card.
- それが終わったら役を交代してください。
This cycle will continue until everyone has been a travel agent.
Answer Key: price for hotel, activities, number of people, number of nights
- Kyoto
- $40, picture, walk, shrine, 1, 1 night
- Shizuoka
- $280, hiking, onsen, 2, 2 nights
- Hokkaido
- $420, food, snow, 2, 3 nights
- Okinawa
- $650, sun, ocean, 4, 3 nights
- Tokyo
- $2,100, shopping, picture, 5, 6 nights
- Oita
- $100, onsen, nature, picture, 2, 1 night
- Hiroshima
- $200, history, picture, shrine, 3, 2 nights
Wrap-Up
Ask students the following questions to finish the lab:
- この中で一番どこに行きたいですか？
- 日本で行ってみたいところはありますか？
- アメリカの有名な観光地はどこですか？
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 exchange messages with a travel agent to determine a travel location.
- I can suggest travel destinations.
- I can compare and contrast famous tourist locations in Japan and the U.S.
