Japanese Teaching Topic -
DAILY ROUTINES & ACTIVITIES
Teaching ideas, art and craft, flashcards, games, lesson plans, songs, videos, useful websites, worksheets on the Japanese teaching topic DAILY ROUTINES and ACTIVITIES mainichi, seikatsu, nichijyou, まいにち、せいかつ、にちじょう.
Assignment ideas
Daily routine assignment
Students create a short video about their day in Japanese. Includes pre-activities and planning worksheet. Assignment example video below. NB: Photostory 3 is a free program from Microsoft. Download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx Created by I Foley
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Diary assignment
Students write a diary in Japanese. They are asked to write five diary entries, each of which is at least 3 sentences long. Donated by L Kato
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Booklets
Daily routines booklet
Booklet covering the topic of daily routines (76 pages) includes activity flashcards, reading passages, listening activities, pari work activities, board games, writing a diary, inviting people and making plans, writing an email, store hours, organising a party. As well as grammar points te kara てから、 duration じかん, gurai ぐらい and goro ごろ, adverbs of frequency ときどき たいてい etc, tari tari たりたり, kara から made まで. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxuaWhvbmdvYmN8Z3g6NTAzODM1YWY4NDRhOGYwMQ |
Flashcards
Daily routine flashcards
Practice common daily routine verbs and expressions with these 17 flashcards. Created by I Foley
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Games in class
Chatterbox
The four pictures on the outside represent せんせい、ともだち、かぞく & __さん (students insert any name they like) The numbers represent time (o'clock) and the pictures under the numbers represent verbs たべます、のみます、します、みます、うたいます、あそびます。 Students make sentences such as: かぞく と いちじ に たべます。 OR ともだち は しちじ に あそびます。 Then discuss with students how we could add more to the sentence by inserting the food that would be eaten, or adding other people to the story. How to fold, see: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/497777/easy_paper_chatterbox/ |
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Daily routine board game with flashcards
This daily routine board game goes with the flashcards above.
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Time game
Roll a dice. Ss say the time that they land on in Japanese. Then they say what they do at that time. Ie. Roku ji ni okimasu. ろくじにおきます。 Created by I Foley
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Games on line
Time of daily activities |
What shall we do? |
Where are you going today? |
Lesson plans
Daily activities (joining verbs with te) |
How to teach daily routines lesson plan Video #9 shows how to teach daily routines in an interesting and fun way. http://www.learner.org/resources/series185.html?pop=yes&pid=2009# |
Watashi no ichi nichi Lesson plan |
Watashi no isshuu kan Lesson plan |
PowerPoints
Basic verb powerpoint |
Daily routines PowerPoint
Daily routine grammar including time, verbs and tenses, asking questions, particle ni and de, adverbs of frequency. (100 slides including explanations and activities.) Based on the textbook Nakama 1 Introductory Japanese. To download go to Chapter 5 Grammar part 1. http://lbcc-japn1.wikispaces.com/Slides |
Daily routines sentence patterns
PowerPoint introducing the basic grammar patterns required when talking about your daily routine. Donated by H Na
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Describing what you do
PowerPoint introducing the basic sentence pattern to describe what you do each day. Donated by M Stewart
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My daily routine
PowerPoint describing someone's daily routine. Includes vocabulary list. Donated by R Broughton
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Usagi no ichinichi
Powerpoint introducing basic routine vocabulary through "my rabbit's daily routine". PPT can be used to revise vocabulary where students guess the appropriate vocabulary by looking at the pictures. Donated by N Oki-Cleaver
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Verbs - Daily routines (masu form)
PowerPoint introducing basic verbs used to describe ones daily routine. Donated by W Intan
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Verbs - daily routines (masu and te)
PowerPoint introducing basic verbs used to describe ones daily routine in the masu and te forms. Level: Year 9 / Secondary Donated by D Commons
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Tests
Daily life |
Webquests
A Day in the life of a Japanese child
http://www.cusd.chico.k12.ca.us/libraries/elementary/japan/
Students create a book that will tell about the daily life of a Japanese child. Students research and create a book from the viewpoint of a Japanese elementary school student. Each page in the book will tell about the child’s daily life and about their favorite things.
Welcome
http://www.geocities.com/loriblanke/
Students are asked to imagine they are a Meeter Greeter at their school and need to assist new students who have moved to Japan adjust to their new Japanese life. Together with three other classmates students gather information about the living conditions, recreational activities and school atmosphere.
Websites
Daily life |
Go Nihongo
Videos with lesson plans and other resources on introductions, pets, going on a date, gift shopping, my day. Develped by NSW department of education. http://lrrpublic.cli.det.nsw.edu.au/lrrSecure/Sites/LRRView/14346/index.htm |
Ken's day |
School life |
Worksheets
Daily routines ab speaking activity
Divide the class into pairs. One person in the pair gets an A sheet, the other gets the B sheet. Ss ask each other questions about the various people's daily routines and respond according to their answer sheet. ie Sensei nanji ni okimasu ka? Donated by M Fahey
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Daily routines conversation practise
Ss practise asking each other in pairs questions about their daily routine. Donated by K Vardy
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Ichi nichi rap
Practice daily activities with this rap. Donated by Anna Y.
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Particle train - my day
Ss practise writing sentences in the correct grammatical order with the aid of the 'particle train'. Donated by Ida
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Reading - Daily activities (kana)
Ss read and answer questions about a person's daily activities. Donated by: K Bagu
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Reading - My day (romaji)
Ss read and write about daily routines. Donated by: T Karhu
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Story - A week in my life (spare time)
Ss read the captions in the story and draw a picture accordingly. Ss also must write their own captions describing what they do in their spare time. Designed for multi-level class with romaji and kana. Donated by: A Law
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Speaking pair work AB activity
Divide the class into two. Give one person in the pair the A activity sheet and the other the B activity sheet. Ss ask each other questions to complete the missing information. Donated by: S Stone
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What will you do?
Practice basic verbs describing daily activities. Donated by Anna Y.
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Writing verbs - daily routines
Practice writing in hiragana the daily routine verbs. Donated by N Aboud.
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