Japanese Level 3, Activity #9: “Ailments and Injuries” / “病気やけが” (Face-to-Face)
Description:
Students will start with a warm-up game to practice symptom vocabulary. They will then use that understanding of symptoms to give recommendations for various sick patients and their ailments.
Semantic Topics:
Symptoms, sickness, injury, giving suggestions, presenting, reading comprehension, group discussion, 症状, 病気, 怪我, 提案, 提示, 読解, グループディスカッション
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can recognize various symptoms, illnesses, or injuries in Japanese.
- I can give recommendations for a variety of ailments based upon the information given to me.
- I can discuss my own injuries in my life.
Materials Needed:
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- People Cards
- Situation Cards(Canva Template, free account required)
Warm-Up
Lay out all of the people cards on a table and put each student’s initials on the board.
Have all of the students gather around that table.
- テーブルの周りに来てください。
Explain that you will read a symptom in Japanese and the students should try to be the first to slap the corresponding people card.
- 今から誰かの症状を言うので、どの人か分かったらカードを取ってください。
Pick a symptom from the Flyswatter symptom list and call it out.
Whoever slaps the right people card first gets a point. Put a tally next to the initials of the student that won.
Play like this for 8-10 minutes!
Main Activity
Have the students pair up.
- ペアになってください。
Give each pair a situation card.
Tell the students that they should read the card through together and then discuss a suitable recommendation for that person.
- カードに書いてあるシチュエーションを読んで二人で何をしたらいいか決めてください。
Show the slide with 〜たらどうですか and 〜方がいいです and make sure that the students give their suggestions using these forms.
- 〜たらどうですか、〜方がいいですを使ってください。
Wrap-Up
Ask the students if they have ever injured themselves doing something. How did they treat the injury?
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 various symptoms, illnesses, or injuries in Japanese.
- I can give recommendations for a variety of ailments based upon the information given to me.
- I can discuss my own injuries in my life.
