Japanese Level 3, Activity #10: “Directions” / “方向” (Face-to-Face)
Description:
Students will learn about navigating and paying for the train system in Japan. They will then practice their travel vocab with a game that pushes their vocab and requires them to talk about that vocab creatively.
Semantic Topics:
Travel, train, ticket, conversation, game, vocabulary, listening comprehension, 旅行, 電車, チケット, 会話, ゲーム, 語彙 ,リスニング理解
- 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 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 2.1 – Understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics.
- 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 compare and contrast transportation systems in the U.S. and Japan.
- I can explain travel-related vocabulary words to others.
- I can exchange ideas with others on words related to traveling.
Materials Needed:
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Warm-Up
Pull up the presentation and greet your students in Japanese.
Move to the next slide with the “Can-Do Statements” and read each Can-Do statement in English.
Show the students how to navigate and pay for the train system in Japan.
Show the slide with the map of the train system.
- これは日本の地下鉄の路線図です。
- とても複雑ですよね？これを見たら日本に行くのが心配になりますよね？
Show the next slide with the signs for each station.
- でも大丈夫です。駅にはサインがたくさんあります。
- 例えば他の線の場所を教えてくれます(point at the picture)。
- あと、大体日本語、英語、中国語、韓国語で表記されてます。
Show the next slide with the commuter passes.
- 電車に乗るときに切符かICカードが必要です。
- ICカードは地域によっていろいろあります。
- 例えば東京にはPASMOとSuicaがあります。
- 大阪ではICOCAを使います。でも、どこに行っても全部使えます。
Show the next slide with the Table of Fares.
- もしICカードがなければ切符が必要です。
- 切符は料金表を見ればいくらか分かります。
- 例えば真駒内からさっぽろに行きたかったら400円かかります(point at the picture)。
Show the embedded video on the next slide.
- 日本の通勤ラッシュのビデオです。
Main Activity
Move to the next slide that just says タブー。
Ask for a volunteer.
- ボランティアはいますか？
That volunteer will receive a random card from the travel vocab cards.
The volunteer cannot say any of the words written on the card, including the main word and the three smaller words.
The volunteer’s goal is to get the other students to guess the main word written on the card.
The volunteer should try to describe the word or give references to the word.
REMINDER: The volunteer cannot say any of the words written on the card to accomplish this.
The volunteer will have only 1 minute to get their peers to guess the main words of as many cards as possible.
Once that 1 minutes is up, the next student will receive a random card and continue the game, with only 1 minute per round.
Wrap-Up
Ask the following questions to finish the activtiy:
- ボイシーでの交通手段は何ですか？
- アメリカでの交通手段は何ですか？
- 日本とアメリカの交通手段の違いは何ですか？
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 actvities!
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can compare and contrast transportation systems in the U.S. and Japan.
- I can explain travel-related vocabulary words to others.
- I can exchange ideas with others on words related to traveling.
