Japanese Grammar Worksheets - ADJECTIVES
Japanese grammar worksheets, lesson plans, games and useful links for describing things using adjectives - i and na adjectives, いけいようし、なけいようし、形容詞.
Booklets
Adjective handbook (romaji)
Booklet with present and past tense adjective practise exercises all in romaji. (6 pages). Donated by T Fujiwara
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Booklet Describing pets and family
Booklet with various activities relating to describing pets and family looking at simple adjectives (5 pages). Created by I Foley Resource created through funding by Brisbane School of Distance Education.
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Keiyoushi booklet |
Flashcards
Adjective flashcards
Plain romaji adjective flashcards includes ookii, tanoshii, omoshiroi, furui, hiroi, ooi, kirei, yuumei, nigiyaka, takai, kowai, sabishii, ureshii, atsui, samui, and atarashii. (Based on Module 3 New Land, New Language.) Donated by N Notting
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Adjective flashcards basic Basic adjectives. Created by I Foley
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Adjective flashcards clothing
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Adjective flashcards describing people 1
Flashcards with adjectives used to describe people: beautiful, cool, bubbly, strong, funny, serious, cute, fashionable, kind, tall, short. Created by I Foley
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Adjective flashcards describing people 2
Flashcards with adjectisve used to describe people. List of adjectives included. Donated by S Mason.
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Adjective flashcards general Describing words including: semai, hiroi, chiisai, ookii, ooii, sukunai, yoi, ii, warui, kawaii, minikui, takaii, yasui, chikai, tooi, oishii, mazui, yuumei. Donated by M Miller.
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Games and activities in class
Two students come to the front of the class and face each other. The teacher calls out「おおきいものは?」and both students must call out the first ‘big’ thing that comes to mind. Beginner students could call out something in English and use the game as a listening comprehension activity. Whoever calls out the biggest object wins that round. Other examples…小さいものは?長いものは?短いものは?たかいものは?はやいものは?おそいものは?よわいものは?つよいものは?The rest of the class can help decide which is the best answer. Once students are confident with their adjectives, they could take turns calling out the question.
Adjective fish
Divide the class into groups of 3. Give each group a set of Adjective cards. (Hiragana/English or Romaji English). Each Ss receives 5 adjective cards. Put the remaining cards in the middle of the group in a pile. Each Ss asks in turns 'Adjective' ga arimasu ka? (Do you have 'Adjective'?) The Ss responds, Hai, Arimasu (Yes I Have it) and hands the card over OR Iie, Arimasen (No, I don’t have it), so then the Ss asking the question picks up a card from the centre pile. Continue around the group. The person with the most pairs at the end wins. Donated by N Notting |
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(Using the cards from adjective fish.) Print a set of cards per pair of Ss. In pairs Ss put all the cards facing down. The firs person in the pair turns over two cards. If they match, the Ss can keep the cards and turn two more cards. If they don't match, the next person in the pair has a turn. Continue until there are no cards remaining. The person with the most pairs of cards is the winner.
Adjective pirates
A game where students practice adjectives in the present tense, negative, past tense or past negative. Donated by D Shimada
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Dominoes - adjectives
Copy on to card and cut along bold lines. Play in small groups. deal out 5 cards each. Put remaining cards in the middle. Students take turns to join a card to a card on the end of the line which has the same meaning. They pick up a card if they cannot do this. The first to use up all cards is the winner. Donated by W Sheahan
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Dominoes - describing appearance
Ss are introduced to basic physical appearance words and sentence structures (page 1 and 2). Ss then use this knowledge to put together the dominoes style puzzle (page 3 = answer, page 4 = puzzle pieces). Donated by F Midroit
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Dominoes - describing personality
Ss are introduced to basic personality words and sentence structures (page 1). Ss then use this knowledge to put together the dominoes style puzzle (page 2 and 4 = answer, page 3 and 5 = puzzle pieces). N.B. Please note spelling error - on page 1 should be Yuumei ゆうめい not Yumei ゆめい (2nd file attached with correction) Donated by F Midroit
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Funny Profiles A Suzuki
Fold a piece of paper into 4. Ss see only the top square the rest folded away and then draw a head on it. When finished Ss fold back the head so that the other Ss can’t see it. They pass the paper on to the next person who then draws a torso. They fold and pass the paper on. The next person drawing from waste to knees. Then fold and passes the paper on to the last person who draws the legs and feet. The last Ss then unfolds the paper to reveal the character. The Ss then write a short profile about this character and describes it to the rest of the class.
Guess what 1 A Suzuki
Fold a piece of paper in four. Write a sentence about something on each section of paper. Eg. Fold one – ぼくはせがたかいです。 Fold two – ハンバーガーがすきです。Fold three – あかときいろのようふくがすきです。Fold four – レストランではたらいています。 Ss read each section aloud to their partner. Ss listens and tries to guess what the object is. The final fold should reveal what was being described. (The answer here is Ronald McDonald). This could be used to describe animals, places, famous people, careers etc.
Guess what 2
Divide the class into pairs. Ss select an object. Then the other Ss asks questions until they can guess what item was selected. Ss practise colours and describing words such as ookii, chiisai, nagai, mijikai etc. Donated by B Bright
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Guess who
Divide the class into pairs. Print and laminate a Guess Who game board for each pair of students. Each student chooses a person on their game board and secretly circles the picture with an erasible pen. In paris, students ask yes/no questions to discover who the other person has chosen. Onna no hito desu ka? Booshi o kabutte imasu ka? They strategically cross off people until they can guess who it is. The words around the border are ideas to get the students thinking. Donated by A Berrio
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Guess who
Divide the class into two teams. Have one team member sit at the front of the class facing away from data projector screen. The student’s team then gives a description in Japanese of the person projected. The student at the front must guess who it is. Once they have successfully guessed who the person is they can swap with another team member. Students keep rotating until the time limit set is up (e.g. 5 minutes per team). The other team then has a go to see how many they can get right. The winning team is the team that has successfully guessed the most people. Teams are disqualified if they use English or gestures and a point is then given to the other team. EXTRA: Once students get the hang of this game the time limit can be shortened. Also, have students make their own ‘Guess Who’ Powerpoint to use for this game. Donated by A Nolan
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Fold an A4 piece of paper into ½ vertically then fold that into quarters. Unfold the paper keeping the paper folded in ½ vertically. At the third crease cut a circle shape. Unfold the paper completely. Then fold it in half horizontally. One side of the paper will have a hole in the middle of it. The other side will not. Ss open the folded paper and draw an object underneath where the hole is. Then fold the paper up again and write four sentences around the hole. The Ss exchange their papers. By reading the description and seeing only the small portion of the object under the hole the Ss has to guess what the object is.
Sit the Ss in a circle. Write various celebrities on post-its. Put a post-it on each Ss head. The aim is for the Ss to guess the celebrity on their head before the other Ss. Each Ss takes turns at asking yes/no questions to the rest of the class. Eg. The class may answer or. If the question is answered with a 'yes' then the Ss may ask another question. Continue asking questions until one person guesses who is on their post-it. Celebrities can be replaced with objects around the house, animals etc.
Games IWB
Puzzle
Review adjectives vocabulary with this interactive puzzle game. Donated by J Veen
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Lesson plans
Families and adjectives Lesson plan |
Families and negative adjectives |
Families and joining adjectives |
Describing pets (with adjectives) |
PowerPoints
Adjectives
Powerpoint introducing the adjectives big, small, expensive, cheap, good, bad, delicious, not delicious, beautiful, famous, old, new, interesting/funny. Includes exercises for Ss to complete. Donated by K Johnson.
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Adjectives 2
PowerPoint introducing the adjectives, fun, easy, difficult, interesting and boring. Donated by M Stewart
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Adjectives 3
PowerPoint introducing various adjectives. Ss watch the PPT along with an adjective list worksheet (see below in Worksheets section) and write down the English translation. Donated by K Bullen & M Scheiwe
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Adjectives - Past tense 1
Practice various i and na adjectives and learn how to create the past tense. Created by I Foley Resource created through funding by Brisbane School of Distance Education.
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Adjectives - Past tense 2
PowerPoint introducing past tense adjectives. Includes speaking activity where students describe past events using past adjectives. Based on Obento Deluxe Unit 12. Created by I Foley
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Adjectives - Past tense 3
PowerPoint introducing past tense adjectives. Based on Genki I textbook. Created by I Foley
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Adjectives - Positive and negative
PowerPoint introducing positive and negative forms of adjectives. Based on Genki I textbook. Created by I Foley
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Describing my pets
PowerPoint introducing basic adjectives to describe pets including kawaii, kowai, ookii, chiisai, sugoi, nagai, urusai, and fuwafuwa. Donated by M Rose.
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Describing my family and pets PowerPoint introducing basic sentence pattern of THING wa ADJ desu. Resource created through funding by Brisbane School of Distance Education.
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Describing people and adjectives
PowerPoint introducing adjectives to describe people's appearances and personalities. Includes grammar points such as joining adjectives, negative adjectives, comparing people using adjectives as well as practise exercises. Donated by: J Wang
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い Adjectives
PowerPoint introducing basic い 'i' adjectives. Donated by H Lynch
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Negatives (adjectives)
PowerPoint outlining how to make negative adjectives with practise exercises. Donated by S Munro
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Tense changes
PowerPoint introducing how i and na adjectives change into negatives and past tenses. Created by I Foley
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Tenses and combining adjectives
PowerPoint introducing the present and past positive and negative adjective tenses. Also, introduces how to join two adjectives using kute or de. Donated by V Jain
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Using adjectives
Ss practise describing pictures using the adjectives boring, fun, easy, difficult, interesting, つまらない, たのしい, やさしい, むずかしい, おもしろい.
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Skits and plays
Commercial skit
Use adjectives to advertise a product. http://activity-resources.jpf-sydney.org/ar/wwroleplay/8/8_1.htm |
Videos
Adjectives |
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Describing pets and people
A short video describing a pet and a person. http://www.yodio.com/yo.aspx?cardId=wkI2gC2L0E6M9uimIyAreK |
Websites
Adjective examples |
Adjectives explained |
Adjectives game |
Adjectives quiz |
Adjectives quizzes |
My bike |
Worksheets
Adjective exercises
Practice basic adjectives and complete sentences with past tense adjectives. Donated by E Cataloni
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Adjectives list
1. Hand out adjective list 2. Students view ppt (see above in PowerPoints section). They locate the adjective that appears on the screen on their worksheet. From the picture, students can guess what the adjective might be. Answer given by ppt as well. 3. Students fill in their vocab list in English Donated by K Bullen & M Scheiwe
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Adjective tense rules with examples
i-adj and na-adj tense changes explained with samples warui and iya. Donated by A Sloman
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Adjectives practise worksheet
Worksheet practising various adjectives including describing people. Donated by Sandra
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Big and small booklet
Mini booklet for practising the adjectives big and small. Donated by K Severin
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Changing adjectives
Grammar explanations of how to change i and na adjectives when combining them. Includes various exercises. Donated by R Jacobs
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Changing adjectives to nouns
Ss learn how to use ~sa ~さ as a suffix to make a noun (めいし) out of an adjective(けいようし). Ie ひろい hiroi (wide) changes to ひろさ hirosa (width). Donated by C Newnham
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Colour the adjectives
Students decide whether an adjective belongs to the 'i' adjective group or 'na' adjective group and colour it accordingly. Donated by Sascha N.
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Describing characters - Shall we dansu
Using adjectives, students write descriptions of the various characters from the movie 'Shall we dansu'. Donated by S Lach
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Forming adjectives
Cheat sheet showing how i い and na な adjectives are formed in Japanese. Donated by A Seletkovic
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'I' Adjectives 'is' and 'is not'
Ss practise forming negative and positive 'i' adjectives. Followed by exercises creating sentences with the correct form of adjective. (Based on Hai 2 Unit 1) Donated by: W Mac
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I vs NA adjectives info sheet
Information sheet explaining the differences between い and な adjectives, how they join meaning and, as well as how they change into the past tense. Donated by V Shain
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I'm a kind person
Worksheet where students learn adjectives to describe people’s personality. Donated by R Liao
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Joining adjectives
Ss practise joining adjectives with kute or de when describing sports.
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Match the adjectives
Various adjective practise activities including match the adjective opposites, choose the correct adjective to complete the sentence and create sentences that best describes each picture. Donated by C Miskow
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Past Tense adjectives
Practising changing adjectives into the past tense and then complete some sentence translations and exercises. Donated by W Simpson
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Reading introduction with adjectives Read this introduction (including personal information, favourite subjects, food) and complete activities related to adjectives. Donated by N Oki.
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Which is the most?
Worksheet practising Dore ga ichiban ADJ desu ka? どれが一番ADJですか? Donated by J Milton
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Word search - Describing words
Find the describing words and colours. Donated by J Goldsworthy
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Word search - Keiyoushi
Find the adjectives.
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