Japanese Level 4, Activity #1: “Introductions” / “自己紹介” (Online)
Description:
In this activity, students will practice talking about themselves and what they enjoy. They will also introduce themselves to their lab mates.
Verbs (同室), times (時), schedule (日程), activities (活動), self-introductions (自己紹介), interests (興味)
NCSSFL-ACTFL World-Readiness Standards:
- Standard 1.1: Students engage in conversation, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
- Standard 1.3: 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.
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can introduce myself.
- I can communicate basic information about myself.
- I can answer questions about myself.
Materials Needed:
Warm-Up:
Introduce yourself to the students! Take a few minutes to talk about whatever you’re comfortable with. Examples:
- Age
- Major (or what you’ve studied or graduated with in the past)
- Hobbies
- Where you’re from
- Why you started studying Japanese
- If you’ve been to Japan, how it was
These are just options. Use this as a chance to build the comfort level of the students, so that when they introduce themselves in the Main Activity, it’s less intimidating.
Main Activity:
One word answers
Ask each student the question on the slide and have them respond with single-word answers. Once each student has answered, have them explain their one-word answers.
Who am I?
Students will use the zoom private chat feature to text something interesting or different about themselves on individual whiteboards to the facilitator
Read what they texted and the students will try to guess who the whiteboard is talking about
Finding Common Things
Give the instructions about the activity (finding two common things from the broad and generalized list).
Break the students into two groups; students who will stay and those who will roam from break-out room to break-out room. Then make the appropriate amount of breakout rooms.
Have the students discuss until time is exhausted and then whoever found the most common things wins.
Wrap-Up:
- 今学期のラボでしたい事はありますか？
- 今学期もよろしくお願いします。
End of Lab
- 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 labs!
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can introduce myself.
- I can communicate basic information about myself.
- I can answer questions about myself.
