Japanese Level 2, Activity #11 “Daily Life” / “毎日命” (Online)
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Description:
In this activity, students will practice talking their future plans. Students will also discuss their personal opinions about future plans.
Semantic Topics:
Daily Life, Small talk, future plans, previous activities, short form, past tense, quotation、毎日命、世間話、前アクティビティ、カジュアル話、過去形、〜と言う
Products: Short Form, Common vocab for daily routines
Practices: Small Talk about your day this far, talking about future plans, quoting what someone else said
Perspectives: Common Small Talk
- 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 talk and ask about mine and other’s daily lives.
- I can use plain form to discuss opinions
- I can ask questions to my peer’s concerning their days.
Materials Needed:
Warm-Up
Ask each student questions about their day:
- クラスはどうだった？ How was class?
- 朝ごはんを食べた？ Did you eat Breakfast?
- 何を食べた？ What did you eat?
- 美味しかった？ What is it good?
- 何も食べなかったならどうして食べなかった？ If you didn’t eat anything, why not?
- もう昼ごはんを食べた？ Did you already eat Lunch?
- まだ？ Not yet?
- 晩ごはんは何を食べる？ What will you eat for dinner?
Main Activity
Game：皆の毎日命を覚えよう Let’s Remember Everyone’s Daily Lives
For this game, students will not only have to describe their daily life through responses to prompted questions, but they will also need to remember their peers’ responses for the second part of the game!
このゲームでは、生徒はプロンプトが表示された質問への回答を通じて日常生活を説明するだけでなく、ゲームの後半での仲間の回答も覚えておく必要があります。
The instructions are in English on the slides, but the presenter’s notes have the instructions translated to Japanese for the facilitator to read.
スライドの説明は英語ですが、発表者のメモには、進行役が読めるように日本語に翻訳された説明があります。
Be sure to check for understanding, and go through the example dialogue.
- What did you do yesterday?
- Was it fun?
- Was it hard?
- What does your day look like?
- What did you do in the morning?
- What are you going to do tonight?
- What will you do tomorrow?
- Will it be fun?
- Are you looking forward to it?
- Is it bad?
- Why?
- 昨日何をした？
- 楽しかった？
- 大変だった？
- 今日は？
- 今朝何をした？
- 今晩はなにをする？
- 明日は何をする？
- 楽しみ？（to look forward to)
- 大変そう？
- どうして？
Memory game: now ask the questions from the last part but ask them in reference to different students’ answers. As instead of “what did you do yesterday,” it’s asking “what did X student do yesterday?”
記憶ゲーム：最後の部分から質問をしますが、さまざまな生徒の答えを参照して質問します。 「昨日は何をしましたか」ではなく、「Xの生徒は昨日何をしましたか？」と尋ねます。
Where students will answer in plain form, Xさんは何々したと言った
Wrap Up
例えば：私の一番好きなゲームは何だと思う
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 and ask about mine and other’s daily lives.
- I can use plain form to discuss opinions
- I can ask questions to my peer’s concerning their days.
