Japanese Level 2, Activity #12: “Tokyo Tours” / “東京ツアー” (Online)
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Description:
In this lab students will practice talking about time and distance through practice booking a tour. Students will role-play as a hotel worker offering different tours, and a customer deciding which tour they would like to book.
Semantic Topics:
Tour, Role-play, Time, Questions, Conversation, to want, ツアー、ロールプレイ、時間、質問、会話、〜たい
Products: Travel Conversation, Planning a trip
Practices: Talking about a trip, how to offer options
Perspectives: Famous Sites in Japan
- 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 understand familiar questions and statements from simple sentences in conversations.
- I can request and provide information by asking and answering practiced and some original questions on familiar and everyday topics, using simple sentences most of the time.
- I can express my preferences on familiar and everyday topics of interest, using simple sentences most of the time.
Materials Needed:
Warm-Up
Ask students how they get to school, and how long it takes them.
学校までどうやって行く、どのぐらいかかる？
Main Activity
Students will role-play using a chart of different tours provided in the powerpoint.
学生は、パワーポイントで提供されているさまざまなツアーの図を使用してロールプレイを行います。
One student is a hotel receptionist in Tokyo and another is a customer. The customer will ask questions about the various tours, that the receptionist will answer. Then the Customer will choose a tour.
学生の 1 人は東京のホテルのフロント係、もう 1 人は顧客です。お客様から各種ツアーに関するご質問をいただきますと、受付係がお答えいたします。その後、お客様はツアーを選択します。
Wrap-Up
Ask students, “What is the longest trip you’ve ever taken?”
これまでに行った最長の旅行は何ですか。
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 understand familiar questions and statements from simple sentences in conversations.
- I can request and provide information by asking and answering practiced and some original questions on familiar and everyday topics, using simple sentences most of the time.
- I can express my preferences on familiar and everyday topics of interest, using simple sentences most of the time.
