Japanese Level 2, Activity #2: “Adjectives” / “形容詞” (Face-to-Face)
Description:
In this activity, students will use a word bank on the whiteboard to describe people, places, and things in the presentation slides. Students will first be asked to provide adjectives for color, positive adjectives, and negative adjectives. Students will then flip two coins to determine the sentence they will construct.
People, Places, Things, Adjectives, Nouns, Colors, Objects, Coin, 人, 場所, 物, 形容詞, 名詞, 色, オブジェクト, コイン
NCSSFL-ACTFL World-Readiness Standards:
- Standard 1.1: Students engage in conversation, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
- Standard 1.3: Students present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers 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 use simple descriptions to describe people, places, and things.
- I can say whether an object is fast or slow, clean or dirty, etc.
- I can say whether an object is NOT fast or slow, clean or dirty, etc.
Materials Needed
- Google Slides
- Coin for Negation
- Coin for Tense
Warm-Up:
Start the lab by having the students make adjective word banks.
生徒に形容詞の単語バンクを作成してもらい、ラボを開始します。
Split any whiteboard into three sections/columns: one for colors, one for positive adjectives, and one for negative adjectives.
- ワードバンクを作ります！三つのカラムを作って下さい。
- 一番目のカラムは色のカラムです。
- 二番目のカラムは「positive adjective」のカラムです。
- 三番目のカラムは「negative adjective」のカラムです。
Make sure to write the list somewhere that the students will be able to reference during the remainder of the lab.
ラボの残りの部分で学生が参照できるように、必ずどこかにリストを書き込んでください。
Main Activity:
Using the Google Slideshow, a student will flip two coins: one to choose if the conjugation will be negative or positive AND one to choose the tense, past or present.
Googleスライドショーを使用して、生徒は2つのコインを裏返します。1つは活用が否定的か肯定的かを選択し、もう1つは時制、過去形、現在形を選択します。
The coins can be any U.S. coin or any Japanese yen if the lab instructors have access to one.
コインは、ラボのインストラクターがアクセスできる場合は、米国のコインでも日本円でもかまいません。
For negation, “表” is positive, and “裏” is negative.
For the tense coin, “表” is present tense and “裏” is past tense.
Once the coins are flipped, show the first picture in the Google slides. Every student will then make a sentence or so including information from the picture, the current tense, and if it’s negative.
コインを裏返したら、Googleスライドの最初の写真を表示します。その後、すべての生徒は、写真からの情報、現在の時制、およびそれが否定的であるかどうかを含めて、文章などを作成します。
This is what the adjective bank is for. Students may use any of the adjectives that have been written down or any they can come up with. But if students are ONLY using one adjective, cross that adjective out for the round.
これが形容詞バンクの目的です。生徒は、書き留められた形容詞または思いついた形容詞を使用できます。ただし、生徒が1つの形容詞しか使用していない場合は、その形容詞をクロスしてラウンドします。
Once every student has finished, have a new student flip the coins and change the picture! Keep going until there are no more pictures!
すべての生徒が終わったら、新しい生徒にコインを投げて絵を変えてもらいます！写真がなくなるまで続けてください！
Wrap-Up:
Ask the students the following:
- 昨日はどうでしたか？
Have the student flip to first coin to determine whether they describe something positive or negative about the day before.
生徒に最初のコインをめくってもらい、前日についてポジティブなことを説明するのかネガティブなことを説明するのかを判断します。
Go around the room until all of the students have responded.
生徒全員が応答するまで部屋を一周します。
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 use simple descriptions to describe people, places, and things.
- I can say whether an object is fast or slow, clean or dirty, etc.
- I can say whether an object is NOT fast or slow, clean or dirty, etc.
