Japanese Level 2, Activity #13: “Invitations” / “招待状” (Face-to-Face)
Description:
In this activity, students will practice accepting and rejecting invitations. Students will practice talking about events and why they can or cannot attend an event.
Semantic Topics:
event, invitations, reject, accept, discussion, Japanese, イベント, 招待, 拒否, 受け入れる, 話し合い, 日本語
- 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.
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.
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can accept or reject an invitation.
- I can invite and make plans with someone (such as the store, the movie theatre, a concert, a restaurant).
- I can exchange information about different events and discuss what happened at the event.
Materials Needed:
- Google Slide Presentation (hyperlinked)
- Invitations
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Warm-Up
Start by asking the students how they would invite someone to an event.
まず、生徒にイベントに誰かを招待する方法を尋ねます。
- 「皆さん、どうやって人をイベントに招待しますか。」
The slide after the Can-Do statements has ways to accept and decline invitations. Go through each way with the students!
Can-Doステートメントの後のスライドには、招待を受け入れたり拒否したりする方法があります。生徒と一緒にそれぞれの道を通り抜けてください！
- 「色々な招待を受け入れると断る方法があります。」
Using the invitation slide, invite the students to your event! Give them time, where it will be held, what the students would need to bring, etc.
招待状のスライドを使用して、生徒をイベントに招待します。時間、開催場所、生徒が持参する必要のあるものなどを伝えます。
- 「私の誕生日は八月31日の土曜日です！皆さんが誕生日パーティーに招待されてします！午後七時に私の家でパーティーが始まります。」
After you invite them, ask the students: Do you want to go? For either answer, they need to give a reason. So, why they want to go to an event, or what they like about it. And if they can’t go, why not?
あなたが彼らを招待した後、学生に尋ねてください：あなたは行きたいですか？どちらの答えでも、彼らは理由を説明する必要があります。だから、なぜ彼らはイベントに行きたいのか、それについて彼らは何が好きなのか。そして、彼らが行けないのなら、なぜですか？
- 「皆さん、パーティーをしたいですか。どうして？」
Main Activity
Working individually: Let students choose among the invitation cards. Each student is going to choose an invitation that they like and plan to propose the activity to their friends.
個別に作業する：生徒に招待状の中から選択させます。各生徒は好きな招待状を選び、友達にアクティビティを提案する予定です。
- 「皆さん、インヴィテーションのカードを選んでください。一人が同級生をアクティビティに招待します。」
Give them a couple of minutes to read, and then the students are going to walk around the room and take turns inviting other students.
数分読んでから、生徒たちは部屋の中を歩き回り、交代で他の生徒を招待します。
You may also have students pair up with another student sitting across from them, instead of having them stand up.
また、生徒を立ち上がらせる代わりに、向かいに座っている別の生徒とペアにすることもできます。
Everyone should accept or reject the invitation. The student being invited should ask questions like, who, what, where, when, how much, what should I bring. They can explain why or why not they want to go.
- 誰もが招待を受け入れるか断る必要があります。招待された生徒は、誰が、何を、どこで、いつ、いくら、何を持っていくべきかなどの質問をする必要があります。彼らはなぜ行きたいのか、なぜ行きたくないのかを説明できます。
The Google Slide has example questions the students can ask!
- 「いつですか。何をしますか。誰が行きますか。」
Wrap-Up
Ask students the following questions to finish the activity:
What are you doing this weekend?
- 今週末何をしますか。
What is your favorite hobby?
- 一番好きな趣味は何ですか。
What is a hobby that you want to start?
- 始めてみたい趣味は何ですか。
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 accept or reject an invitation.
- I can invite and make plans with someone (such as the store, the movie theatre, a concert, a restaurant).
- I can exchange information about different events and discuss what happened at the event.
