Japanese Level 3, Activity #8: “Health and Medications” / “健康と薬” (Face-to-Face)
Description:
The students will be exposed to a few home remedies from Japan. They will then be shown medicine and will be asked to cure various symptoms of sickness using medicine or home remedies. The activity will finish with a comparison of Japan’s medicine to medicine from the students’ home cultures.
Semantic Topics:
Sickness, symptoms, home remedies, medicine, presentations, comparing culture, 病気, 症状, 家庭薬, 医学, プレゼンテーション, 文化の比較
- 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.
- Standard 2.2: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products 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 3.1 – Present information, concepts, and ideas to inform, explain, persuade, and narrate on a variety of topics using appropriate media in the target language.
- 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.
- CLTR 2.2 – Describe the connections of products from the target culture with the practices and perspectives of the culture.
- COMP 2.1: Identify, describe and compare/contrast products and their use in the target culture with the learner’s culture.
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can recognize home remedies from Japan and understand their uses.
- I can understand and discuss the symptoms of a sick person.
- I can choose medicine or home remedies to treat a sick person’s symptoms.
Materials Needed:
- Google Slide Presentation (hyperlinked)
- Sick Patient Cards
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Warm-Up
Using the presentation, show the students some pictures of home remedies in Japan. The students will try to guess what symptoms the home remedies are trying to relieve.
- ネギ
- 何のためですか？どうやって使いますか？
- 鼻づまり
- コットン又はガーゼをネギ汁につけて鼻に詰める(諸説あり)
- アロエ
- 何のためですか？どうやって使いますか？
- 虫さされ、日焼け
- アロエを切って、刺された場所に塗る
- ハチミツ生姜
- 何のためですか？どうやって使いますか？
- 風邪（喉の痛み）
- 生姜、ハチミツをお湯に混ぜる
Main Activity
Using the presentation, we will first show the students photos of medicine. The students will try to guess what symptoms the medicine is trying to relieve.
- これは何に使われますか？
- ケロリン
- ヒント：アスピリンが入ってます
- 生理痛、頭痛
- イソジン
- ヒント：うがいをします
- 風邪、喉の痛み
- キンカン
- ヒント：act it out, 運動・スポーツをしたあとに体はどうなりますか
- ヒント：夏場や、森とか山に行ったときに使います
- かゆみ・肩こり
Show them the home remedies again
- アロエ
- はちみつ生姜
- ネギ
Now, give the students the Sick Patient Cards. There will be 3 (very sick) people. Students will pretend to be doctors and discuss which medicine or home remedy to give the patient.
- どんな症状ですか？
- 何をしたほうがいいですか？
- どの薬をあげたほうがいいですか？
Have the groups present what they came up with.
Wrap-Up
Discuss similar products that we have in the United States (compare with the products from the main activity)
- アメリカではどんな薬がありますか
Ibuprofen, Advil, Motrin
Allegra, Zyrtec, Benadryl
Salonpas, IcyHot
- あなたの国ではどんな民間療法がありますか？
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 recognize home remedies from Japan and understand their uses.
- I can understand and discuss the symptoms of a sick person.
- I can choose medicine or home remedies to treat a sick person’s symptoms.
