Japanese Level 1, Activity #6: “How Much Does This Cost?” / “これはいくらですか?” (Online)
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Description:
In this activity, students will practice talking about the cost of various objects. Students will also practice talking about where they can buy specific items and answer questions about the cost of items.
Money, objects, places, conversation, questions, お金, オブジェクト, 場所, 会話, 質問, これ／それ／あれ／どれ, この／その／あの／どの＋Noun, この／その／あの／どの＋名詞, ここ／そこ／あそこ／どこ, だれのNoun, 誰の名詞, Nounも, 名詞も, Nounじゃないです, 名詞じゃないです, 〜ね／〜よ
Products: Shopping Vocab, Store Items
Practices: Shopping Etiquette, Using Yen
Perspectives: Formality in Public, the general cost of items
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
Idaho State 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 1.3: Function appropriately in diverse contexts within the target culture.
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can ask and answer questions about what something is.
- I can ask and answer questions about the price of one object among a group of items.
- I can describe the location of an object to help someone understand the item I’m talking about.
Materials Needed
Warm-Up:
The assistant will show a store (mix of US and Japanese stores) and ask the students “What does this store sell ?” Once the students share, the lab assistant can also share items found at the stores.
ラボアシスタントは、店舗（米国と日本の店舗が混在）を表示し、学生に「この店舗は何を販売していますか？」と尋ねます。学生が共有すると、ラボアシスタントは店舗で見つけたアイテムを共有することもできます。
Target
- I can buy shoes, jeans, a smartphone, a clock, T-shirt, etc.
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靴、ジーンズ、スマホ、時計、Tシャツなどが買えます。
7/11
- I can buy an umbrella, newspaper, magazine, ice cream, a sandwich
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傘、新聞、雑誌、アイスクリーム、サンドイッチが買えます
Winco
- I can buy meat, vegetables, and other foods
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肉や野菜などが買えます
Takeshita Street
- I can buy crepes, clothes, fashion accessories
- クレープや服やファッションアクセサリー
Main Activity:
For this main activity, students will take turns being the shopkeeper and will be shown a virtual store with items from their vocabulary. Each student will go around and ask what something is, what it costs, and thank the shopkeeper. (If you have more advanced students or extra time, you can have them practice buying the object.)
このメインアクティビティでは、学生が交代で店主になり、語彙のアイテムを含む仮想ストアが表示されます。各生徒は周りを回って、何かが何であるか、それがいくらかかるかを尋ね、店主に感謝します。 （上級者や延長戦がある場合は、オブジェクトの購入を練習してもらうことができます。）
Show the students the instructions slide in English and give them a moment to read through it.
生徒に英語の説明スライドを見せて、それを読む時間を与えます。
To start the activity, go to the first “store” slide. Pick one student to be the shopkeeper (if you have a stronger student in the lab, this may be a good person to pick). Start off by modeling what you’d like students to do and share your screen:
アクティビティを開始するには、最初の「ストア」スライドに移動します。店主になる学生を1人選びます（ラボに強い学生がいる場合、これは選ぶのに適した人かもしれません）。まず、生徒に何をしてもらいたいかをモデル化し、画面を共有します。
- “すみません。(Point to an item or use annotate to circle)
- これは なんですか。
The shopkeeper should reply:
- ….です。
Next, use a location word to ask how much it costs:
- (location word)…いくらですか。
The shopkeeper should reply with the price:
- ….です
Last, the customer should thank the shopkeeper and if they feel comfortable, buy the object.
- そうですか。ありがとう ございます。
- OR
- じゃあ、その＿＿＿＿をください。
Now the next customer (student) will go and share their screen to help signal what they’d like to buy.
これで、次の顧客（学生）が画面を共有して、購入したいものを知らせることができます。
Repeat this process two times per store, then change the slide. (If you have more than six students, you may need to keep the last store slide up longer.)
このプロセスをストアごとに2回繰り返してから、スライドを変更します。(6人以上の学生がいる場合は、最後の店舗をもっと長くスライドさせておく必要があるかもしれません。）
If you have extra time, go through the activity again!
時間があれば、もう一度アクティビティをやり直してください！
Wrap-Up;
Ask students what their favorite store is! They may need definitions for 店 and 一番.
生徒に「どの店は一番ですか」を尋ねます。
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 ask and answer questions about what something is.
- I can ask and answer questions about the price of one object among a group of items.
- I can describe the location of an object to help someone understand the item I’m talking about.
