Students will practice using descriptive language via a Head’s Up game. Each student will then assume the role of a popular Halloween character and push their ability to question and answer by playing 20 questions.
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The students will be exposed to a few home remedies from Japan. They will then be shown medicine and will be asked to cure various symptoms of sickness using medicine or home remedies. The activity will finish with a comparison of Japan’s medicine to medicine from the students’ home cultures.
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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.
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Students will be introduced to appropriate greetings based on the time of day. They will practice using the correct phrases and greetings they learn. Students will then practice recognizing and reading hiragana through the hangman game.
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Students will practice using the appropriate greeting based on the time of the day and who they are speaking to. Students will also practice uses of formal and informal greetings.
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Students will do simple self-introductions using their name, nationality, and year in school.They will practice introducing themselves and others.
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Students will review basic introductory phrases. The students will then take turns introducing themselves to their classmates, discussing their names, years in school, majors, and nationalities. They will review all of the information they learned with a challenge round at the end.
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The students will have a selection of bingo rounds to practice katakana with. Start with bingo 1 to practice the basic characters and prepare the students for a more difficult game. Then go to bingo 2 which will be a more exciting game where students will practice full katakana words. If time permits, you can continue into a third round and circle different items.
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In this activity, students will practice talking about their likes and dislikes. They will also practice asking each other about what they enjoy. Students will also describe what they do on a daily basis.
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Proficiency LevelNovice LowNCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:I can ask and answer questions about what something is.I can ask and answer questions about the price of one object among a group of items.I can describe the location of an object to help someone understand the item I’m talking about.
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NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:I can describe the location of familiar places on a map.I can ask a peer for the location of a familiar place on a map.
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In this activity, students will practice talking about themselves and others through a game of Two Truths and a Lie. Students will tell the group two things that are true about themselves and one lie. The rest of the group will then guess what is true and what is the lie!
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NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:I can describe the location of familiar places on a map.I can ask a peer for the location of a familiar place on a map.
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NCSSFL -ACTFL Can-Do Statements:I can introduce myself to the group. I can exchange information about my hometown. I can ask my lab mates about themselves and their hometown.
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In this activity, students will practice discussing their work and what they do while they are working. Students will also discuss the jobs they want in the future. NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:I can describe where I work and what I do. 私は働く場所と仕事のために何をするか写せるI can tell an employer why I want to work for them.私は 雇い主に働きたい理由を教えてあげられるI can arrange a meeting time that works for me.私は集まりのいい時間を決められる
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In this activity, students will practice talking about their childhood- toys they played with, activities they did. In the main activity, students will recall a story from their childhood and retell the story to the group. They will also discuss this story with their peers. NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements: I can tell a story about my life using complete, connected sentences. 私は完全なつないだ文を使って自分の生活について話ができることI can understand and ask questions about my peers’ childhood experiences.私のクラスメートの子供の話について質問が答えて理解できることI can contribute to a conversation about a story by identifying who, what, when, and where.誰、何を、いつ、どこで特定することで話について会話にこうけんできること
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This idea of this lab would be to ask “grab-bag” style questions regarding a number of topics. These will be loose questions that are meant to help spark conversation. So it is okay if you don’t get through all of them or if you change them a bit to better fit what students want to talk about! NCSSFL-ACTFL Can Do Statements: I can ask and answer questions about things I am doing in my free time暇の時間について質問を聞いて答えられます。I can exchange with others some ideas about ways to stay healthy.他の人と健康を維持する方法について話せます。I can exchange recommendations with my peers regarding things I do in my daily life.クラスメートと生活のお勧めことについて話せます。
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NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements: I can use drawing and clues to help lab mates guess a wordI can ask questions to a lab mate to help me guess a wordI can answer simple questions on a variety of familiar topics
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NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:I can talk about how I like to celebrate the holidays.I can talk about my family’s traditions with holidays.I can describe the places near where I live.
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NCSSFL -ACTFL Can-Do Statements:I can exchange preferences about which gifts I like or dislike.I can share my opinion on a good gift to give for certain occasions.When given a limited quantity of items, I can decide who to give them to and explain why.
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