Japanese Level 3, Activity #12 “Desires for the Future” / “未来への願い” (Online)
Description:
In this activity, students will practice talking about their hopes and desires for the future within a specific time frame and within a specific event.
Semantic Topics:
Desires, hopes, plans, future, 欲望, 希望, 計画, 未来
NCSSFL-ACTFL World-Readiness Standards
- 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:
- Given a time frame, I can express my hopes and desires for the future.
- Given a specific event, I can express my hopes and desires for the outcome.
Materials Needed
Warm-Up
Pictionary to review a grab bag of vocabulary words related to the questions. We can use any of these words that we so desire.
- 授業
- 試験・期末試験
- 卒業
- フットボール・野球・バスケットボール
- 空港
- 海外旅行
- 留学
- 日常
- 趣味
- 料理
- 母・父・祖父・祖母・妹・弟・姉・兄・いとこ
- 赤ちゃん
- 結婚式
- 健康
- 体育館
- 体に悪い・体にいい
- 付き合う
- 結婚
- 別れる
- 雨・雪・晴 ・曇・風
- 働く
- 仕事
- 面接
- クラスをとる
- クラスをサボる
Main Activity
Students will work together with a partner in a breakout room to answer questions about their hopes for 2021. Before putting students into breakout groups, be sure to copy and paste these questions into the Zoom chatbox. They are also located in the speaker notes for your convenience:
- 来年ボイシー州立大学に何が起こるといい？
- 来年スポーツに何が起こるといい？
- 来年旅行に何が起こるといい？
- 来年日常に何が起こるといい？
- 来年映画とテレビに何が起こるといい？
- 来年家族とペットに何が起こるといい？
- 来年健康に何が起こるといい？
- 来年愛と付き合いに何が起こるといい？
- 来年天気に何が起こるといい？
- 来年仕事の探しに何が起こるといい？
- 来年授業に何が起こるといい？
- 来年ビデオゲームに何が起こるといい？
After 5-7 minutes, they will come back together and share their partners and hopes and desires for the next year. You will use the slideshow to go over each topic with the students. (They will be a repeat of topics from the questions.)
If time permits, ask more specific questions about the students’ answers regarding their hopes for the next year.
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:
- Given a time frame, I can express my hopes and desires for the future.
- Given a specific event, I can express my hopes and desires for the outcome.
