Japanese Level 4, Activity #2: “Storytelling” / “ストーリーテリング” (Online)
Description:
In this activity, students will practice talking about different types of verbs and verb forms. They will also practice using these verbs.
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.
- Standard 4.1: Students demonstrate understanding of the nature of language through comparisons of the Japanese language 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 1.2: Identify patterns and explain discrepancies the sounds and the writing system in the target language.
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can distinguish between and utilize different types of verbs and their forms.
- I can create increasingly complex sentences and phrases using nuanced verb forms.
- I can describe the continuous or resultant state of a person or object in simple phrases.
Materials Needed:
Warm-Up:
For this section, we’ll make individual slides with pictures and each verb listed below. For each slide, the facilitator will ask the students to identify whether the presented verb is an u-verb, ru-verb, or an irregular verb, and then ask the student to conjugate the verb in Te-form.
Watch the Te-Form Speed Review and Song video for review.
- まずは、復習しましょう！それに、テ形を勉強しましょう。
The next slide also had a conjugation chart for students to fill out. Have them tell you the correct answer. After each verb, the answer will transition onto the slide if you press next on the slide.
- このテ形のリストです。活用を覚えてください。皆さんは動詞のテ形をください。
For each warmup activity slide, ask the students what kind of verb it is and have them conjugate it into the Te-form. Show them the correct answer so they can check their work (the answer will transition onto the slide).
- 「「動詞」はどんな動詞ですか。テ形何ですか。」
Main Activity:
Students will use the continuous state ～てる to describe what people are doing and wearing in provided pictures.
- 「テ形を使って写真を説明てください。」
- 「この人は何している？何着ている？」
The next activity will have students practice with the resultant state and transitive and intransitive verbs. The first slide has a review chart of common transitive and intransitive verbs.
- 「他動詞と自動詞を復習しましょう！チャートを見てください。」
Resultant State Practice: Use a room (yours, a volunteer’s, or a picture online) and ask the students about visible objects in the room.
- 「この部屋には何がある？「～ている」を使ってください。」
This is a good opportunity to help them practice transitivity as well as resultant state.
- 「物を説明するために、正しい他動詞か自動詞を使ってください。」
- 例：「ランプを付けた。ランプが付いている。」
Do this with windows, books, game consoles, lights, whatever comes to mind. Do this until the end of the lab or answer any questions students may have.
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 distinguish between and utilize different types of verbs and their forms.
- I can create increasingly complex sentences and phrases using nuanced verb forms.
- I can describe the continuous or resultant state of a person or object in simple phrases.
