Japanese Level 3, Activity #6: “Holidays” / “休日” (Online)
Description:
The students will warm up with a review of holiday-related vocabulary. They will then be asked open-ended questions regarding holidays and traditions and answer them in pairs or small groups.
Semantic Topics:
Holidays, traditions, Japanese, 休日、伝統、日本語
NCSSFL-ACTFL World-Readiness Standards:
- Standard 1.1: Students engage in conversation, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
- Standard 2.1: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of Japanese culture.
- Standard 4.2: Students demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons of Japanese culture and their own.
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 2.1: Analyze the significance of a product (art, music, literature, etc…) in a target culture.
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can talk about how I like to celebrate holidays.
- I can talk about my family’s traditions with holidays.
- I can describe places near where I live.
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Warm-Up:
Students will play Hangman based on holiday-related words.
Using the private message feature, send students one of the following words:
- クリスマス
- チョコレート
- バレンタインデー
- ホワイトデー
- みかん
- ぬいぐるみ
- ホワイトデー
- ゆびわ
- りょうしん
- りれきしょ
Main Activity:
Students will chat about holidays and celebrations. Use the Question slides to move the conversation along.
Students will take turns reading the questions. The person will read it out loud. Then, everyone must answer or contribute to the conversation.
- アシスタントは学生から一人選びます。選んだらその学生は質問を読んで答えてみます。他の皆さんにはその質問に答えてもらいます。
Give the students an example that they can model on how to ask questions. Have the students answer the question and explain why.
What is the best place to buy a cake in Boise?
- “ボイシーで１番美味しいケーキ屋さんは、、、なぜなら、、、、”
What is the best present you ever received?
- “今までもらったプレゼントの中で１番嬉しかったのは、、、なぜなら、、、”
If you finish early, you can ask more questions.
Wrap-Up:
What question was your favorite?
- １番好きだった質問はどれですか？
What question was the hardest?
- １番難しかった質問はどれですか？
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 talk about how I like to celebrate holidays.
- I can talk about my family’s traditions with holidays.
- I can describe places near where I live.
