Japanese Teaching Topic - THE BODY
Teaching ideas, art and craft, flashcards, games, lesson plans, songs, videos, useful websites, worksheets on the Japanese teaching topic THE BODY からだ.
Flashcards
Body parts flashcards 1
Practice the various parts of the body. Created by I Foley
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Body parts flashcards 2
Practise the various parts of the body. Donated by R van de Bogart
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Games and activities in class
Body part number game
Copy the worksheet double sided. One side with the body parts and numbers, the other side with the body parts and the labels of each part written in Japanese. How to play: Give each pair of students a printed copy of the body part worksheet. Looking only at the numbers, one student says a number, the other students says the body part. The student calling the numbers can check the responses by looking at the answers on the back. OR One student reads the hiragana body part. The other students says the corresponding number. Donated by K Omsin |
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Bingo body parts
Use this class set of 30 different bingo cards to play body parts bingo. How to play: Tt calls out a body part. If the Ss has the picture of the body part on their bingo card they circle it. The first to get 3 in a row is the winner. (Alternative, the first to get a 'T' shape is the winner.) EXTRA: Cut up a few extra game boards and put them in a small bag or container, get volunteer students to draw out a card and call the name of the body part out in Japanese. Donated by S Braybrook |
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Hot seat
Put 3 chairs in a row under at the front of the class and another separate chair facing the PowerPoint, this chair is the 'hot seat'. Choose 4 Ss to sit in the chairs at the front of the class. The first Ss sitting in the 'hot seat' is shown the first multiple choice question. If the Ss answers the question correctly, they move onto the next question. If they answer the question incorrectly, the next person sits in the 'hot seat'. A new Ss from the ‘studio audience’ takes the empty seat at the front of class. Proceed through the questions. The person in the 'hot seat' for the last correctly answered question is the winner. |
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Label the model
Divide the class into groups of three or four and choose one of them to be the "model". Give each group a set of the body part cards. (Print off the body part cards, put sticky tape on the back of each.) Play a lively song. By the end of the song (or about 2 to 3 minutes) stop the students. Tt checks the words on the models. One point for each correctly labelled body part. The team with the most points wins! |
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Equipment: magazines, scissors, glue, blank paper (or student notebooks).
What to do: After reviewing body parts, give each student a few magazines. Students find and cut out the body parts being studied. Once all the body parts have been cut out, they glue them onto the blank paper (or in their notebooks) creating a 'monster' like human. They then label in Japanese each body part. EXTRA: Write a short introduction including name, age, grade, nationality etc. and present their monsters to the rest of the class.
Get two volunteer Ss to stand at the front of the class. One of the Ss tells the other to move certain body parts (in no particular identifiable shape). Eg. Migi te o agete kudasai. 右手をあげてください。 Continue giving instructions. Once the shape is complete then the rest of the Ss guess what the statue might represent. Extra: Each Ss in the class tells the statue one movement. Or, Ss write a story based on the statue. Or, each student writes down all the movement instructions that were given to create the statue.
Games on line
At the hospital |
Body parts listening |
Describing body parts |
PowerPoints
Animal body parts PPT PowerPoint introducing body parts vocabulary related to animals. Created by I Foley Resource created through funding by Brisbane School of Distance Education.
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Body parts PPT
PowerPoint introducing body parts includes pictures, hiragana and English.
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Body Parts PPT 2
PowerPoint introducing the body parts including a body parts song and quiz at the end. Donated by S Yoon.
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Body parts quiz
Quiz about animal body parts, colours and adjectives. Donated by R Power.
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Counting body parts
PowerPoint introducing the general counter 'tsu' to describe how many of each body part a monster has. To be used after learning body parts. EXTRA: Students find a monster they like on the internet and describe it and how many of each body part it has. Created by I Foley.
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Describing body parts
PowerPoint showing how to describe an animal's body parts. Created by I Foley Resource created through funding by Brisbane School of Distance Education.
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Descrbing body parts Alien
Students listen/read along with the description of an alien (written in romaji), then draw what they think the alien will look like. Donated by J Peck
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Describing a celebrity
Students learn basic adjectives to describe a celebrity's facial features. (Continuation on of 'Face Parts' PowerPoint below, Created by I Foley
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Face parts
Students learn the basic parts of the face then guess whose face parts are being shown. Students then label a famous person's face in Japanese. Created by I Foley
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Nara daibutsu body parts
Using the buddha as a way of introducing body parts vocabulary and basic kanji.
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Ponyo - describing body parts
Describing body parts using the Ponyo characters and story. Donated by: Collette.
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Unjumble the body parts
PowerPoint where students practise making sentences describing colours of body parts by unjumbling sentences. Students use a mini whiteboard to write their answer and then the first correct answer shown to the teacher gains a point for their team.
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Vocabulary - Body parts
PowerPoint reviewing the parts of the body. Donated by E Yoo
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Vocabulary - Karada PPT
PowerPoint introducing basic body parts. Created by I Foley Resource created through funding by Brisbane School of Distance Education.
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Songs
Atama hiza kata ashi
Head shoulders knees and toes in Japanese, practising body parts. Donated by M Iinuma http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98rDSRw7sv0 |
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Videos
Basic Japanese gesture 'Come here' is practiced in this video. Great for beginners or a culture lesson. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFh0oK8AFsI |
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Worksheets
Body parts in hiragana
Trace the hiragana for various body part words. http://happylilac.net/gakusyu-hiragana-4.html |
Describing body parts using 'no' の
Students use picture prompts to create sentences 'Person の Body part は Adjective です.' Includes PDF PowerPoint slides describing the particle 'no' の Donated by J Richard
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Dice - Body parts からだ
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Dictionary page - Body parts
List of body parts http://japanese.lingualift.com/blog/japanese-body-parts/ |
Dictionary page - body parts 2
Illustrations of all the body parts in Japanese. http://happylilac.net/kotoba-karada.pdf |
Dictionary - body parts 3
Illustrations of the main body parts in Japanese. Donated by T Simnam
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Describing body parts of your family
Worksheet where students review adjectives and translate sentences describing their family or pets' body parts. Ie My dad's eyes are blue. etc. Donated by T Carson
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Label Anime body parts
Label the various anime character body parts. Read an English description and then complete the Japanese translation. Read about Naruto and write a description of him in English. Donated by M Grace.
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Label Anpanman body parts
A worksheet of Anpanman with body parts labelled in hiragana with space to fill in romaji. Can be used with lower primary and go through the sheet together or with upper primary and have students race to read the hiragana and write answers. Donated by L McDonald
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Label Anpanman body parts 2
Students cut and paste the body parts, written in hiragana and romaji, onto the Anpanman. Donated by M Omori
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Label body parts
Label the body using hiragana words. Donated by N Sasipat
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Label body parts 2
Ss translate the hiragana for each body part into romaji and then label the body with each part. Donated by C King
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Label Mickey Mouse
Label Mickey Mouse's body parts. Donated by H Thompson
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Label Pikachu
Label the body parts by cutting out and pasting on the appropriate arrow the Romaji body part. Donated by L McDonald.
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Label soccer player
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Radio Calisthenics
Learn body parts and movements using this ラジオたいそう Rajiotaisou activity. Start the lessons with a new movement. Print the worksheet and each time a student completes the calisthenics put a stamp on it. Donated by M Ariaswa Adapted from: http://www.jp-life.japanpost.jp/aboutus/csr/radio/abt_csr_rdo_index.html
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Reading - Character decriptions
Students practise reading desciptions of various characters - includes 3 different reading levels - romaji, hiragana and hiragana with kanji. Then write sentences to describe the two characters at the bottom of the page. Donated by S Case
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Reading - Uchuujin
Read the descriptions of the aliens and match it to the correct picture. Then write a description of the other two remaining aliens. Donated by N Aboud
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Reading - Identikit
Read the descriptions of the people and draw the matching person being described. (Based on Japan Foundation 'Identikit' activity.) Donated by N Aboud
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Reading - pokemon descriptions
Read the descriptions of the pokemon and draw a line to the corresponding picture. Donated by N Aboud
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Word search 1 - Body parts (kana)
Write the body parts into kana and then find them in the word search. Donated by D Cowmeadow
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Word search 2- Body parts (romaji)
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