Japanese Teaching Topic
GEOGRAPHY, NATIONALITIES and WHERE YOU LIVE
Teaching ideas, art and craft, flashcards, games, lesson plans, songs, videos, useful websites, worksheets on the Japanese teaching topic GEOGRAPHY nationalities, nations, countries, maps, flags, chiri, chizu, where you live, ちり、ちず、にすんでいますetc.
Board games
Countries and nationalities board game
Practice asking and answering questions about various countries and nationalities. How to play: If a student lands on a flag they say the corresponding nationality/country. If a student lands on two numbers they find the two squares corresponding on the game board and ask if they are from the country from the first number and respond with no and say the nationality of the second number. If they land on a question mark and a number, the student asks where they live and respond with the corresponding number's country. (Sample dialogues are on the game board.) Created by I Foley
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Where do you live board game
Board game where students practise the expression '~ni sunde imasu'. Rules of the game included in the file. Donated by Stacey
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Flashcards
Country and Nationality Flashcards
16 different country flashcards. Useful for teaching nationalities and introductions. Created by I Foley
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Games and activities in class
Dominoes - countries
Ss match the English country names with the Japanese equivalent. Donated by: H Bunting
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Guess who
Divide the class into pairs. Each Ss in the pair secretly selects a person from the list. Ss then ask each other 'Yes/No' questions to find out who their partner has chosen. Ie. Q: Oosutoraria jin desu ka.オーストラリア人ですか。 A: Iie, chigaimasu.いいえ、ちがいます。/Hai sou desu. はい、そうです。 Ss continue asking questions until they have correctly guessed thier partner's chosen person. (In this 'Guess Who' Ss are required to be able to ask questions about nationality, home town, job and relationship.) Created by I Foley
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Mingle cards - jobs/countries
Cards contain information about name, nationality and occupation. Students can be asked to do role play and introduce themselves as the characters, to introduce those characters to the class, or mingle around introducing themselves to as many people in the class as possible in a given time frame. Donated by L Lopez
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Mingle cards 2 - jobs/countries
Students mingle around the room introducing their character (including name, nationality and job). As an extra activity: as they mingle they need to find people with similarities. Created by I Foley
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Nationality stack
Divide the class into pairs. Give each pair a copy of nationality cards. Students put the cards face down on their desk in a pile. They pick a card at a time, if the card they pick is their nationality the student says eg. オーストラリアじんです。 if it isn't their nationality the student says the sentence in the negative eg. ドイツじんではありません。 Created by I Foley.
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Where do you live survey
Ss survey their classmates about where they live then write 5 sentences in Japanese using the 'ni sunde imasu' construction. Donated by L Nipperess
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Lesson and Unit Plans
Unit Plan - Introduction to Japan (Yr 7)
Five week unit plan for term 1 of year 7. An introduction to Japan covering topics such as basic geography, kana, greetings, Japanese festivals, numbers, Ogenki desu ka?. (Based on Hai 1 textbook.) Donated by A Hoyn.
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Promoting attractions of Japan Lesson Plan
Video #23 shows how to teach the topic of Promoting attractions of Japan. http://www.learner.org/resources/series185.html?pop=yes&pid=2009# |
PowerPoints
Addresses and Meishi
PowerPoint introducing how to write addresses in Japan. Students design and make their own meishi. Using these meishi students can role play introducing themselves. Students watching can listen for who had the higher status. Donated by J Meck
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Countries Powerpoint
PowerPoint introducing countries vocabulary, also question and answers for asking about nationality. Created by I Foley
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Countries PowerPoint 2
Students guess the country by the picture prompts. PowerPoint introduces how to say nationalities with exercises. Donated by Masato
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Countries and nationalities
PowerPoint introducing 'Okuni wa nan desu ka? おくにはなんですか。' And '~jin desu. ~じんです。' To download go to PowerPoints and Audio Visuals - 'Countries' http://www.japanese-at-southwolds.org.uk//LearningResources/learningresources_games.htm |
Doko kara kimashita ka 1
PowerPoint introducing various countries and nationalities. Includes listening and speaking exercises. Donated by M Rose
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Doko kara kimashita ka 2
PowerPoint introducing various countries. Includes practise activities and kanji practice for Japan and China. Donated by L Gordon
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I live - sunde imasu
PowerPoint introducing the sentence pattern 'sunde imasu'. Includes reading and speaking activities. Donated by M Miller.
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Introductions and where you live
PowerPoint introducing basic introduction sentence patterns with 2 profile examples. Donated by D Powell
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Japan geography
PowerPoint outlining the main islands of Japan and the capital.To download go to PowerPoints and Audio Visuals - 'Japan geography' http://www.japanese-at-southwolds.org.uk//LearningResources/learningresources_games.htm |
Nationalities
PowerPoint introducing the concept of 'jin'. Includes a mingling game practising 'Kokuseki wa doko desu ka?' Donated by M Miller.
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Nationalities 2
PowerPoint introducing various nationalities, first in kana and then in romaji. Donated by A Ashby
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Videos
Countries by Puni Puni
Video introducing countries vocabulary. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYJtpHG_bYs |
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Nationalities by Puni Puni
Video introducing nationalities vocabulary. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceQh0gr1P50 |
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Where are you from? songLearn how to say where you are from with this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbNv6MgEYng |
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Websites
Interactive Japanese map
http://www.japantravelinfo.com/imap/flash.html Use this interactive Japanese map to learn more about places around Japan. |
Listening to Japanese city names
http://www.coscom.co.jp/mapofjapan/japanesemap-e.html Interactive map where you can listen to the names of major cities in Japan being read out by native speakers. |
Neighbourhood maps
http://www.bento.com/gmaps/mapindex.html Tokyo neighbourhood maps showing restaurants and other places of interest. |
Subway maps (Tokyo) http://www.bento.com/platform.html |
Worksheets
Countries and nationalities worksheet
Worksheet for Ss to practice describing nationality and distinguishing between 'I am (nationality)' and 'I am from (country)'. Donated by: M Miles
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Countries, nationalities and languages
Fill in the country names, nationalities and language spoken in the that country in Japanese. They are then to practice how to express which country they are from using the structure "(country) からきました". Donated by J Wong
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Countries in Katakana
Students read the Katakana for various countries around the world and then write the name of the country in English. (Answers included.) Donated by Margaret F.
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Countries in Katakana
A worksheet to go together with the flashcards above. Students write the katakana for countries and then guess the missing country. Donated by Crystal K.
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Dictionary Page Countries
List of countries, languages and nationalities in English, kana and romaji. Donated by H Claes
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Geography Worksheets |
Label and colour - flags
Students colour each flag and then below each flag write both the English and Japanese name of the country that the flag belongs to. Donated by H Thompson
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Label - Japanese cities
Ss label the picture with the name of the Japanese cities. Donated by: L Cumberland
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Label - Japanese islands
Ss label the picture with the name of the Japanese islands. Donated by: L Cumberland
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Nationalities writing
Ss learn how to write about various nationalities. Donated by R Mina
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Ni sunde imasu
Describing where you live using 'ni sunde imasu' にすんでいます and looking at the use of small tsu in Japanese place names. Donated by A Kendall
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Pokemon - Doko ni sunde imasu ka?
This worksheet introduces students to the どこにすんでいますか sentence structure using Pokemon characters. Donated by Jade Cleave
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Reading - Nationalities
Read about various people and their nationalities. Donated by Anna Y.
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Reading - Where I live
Ss read (3 various types available hiragana, romaji, mixed kana/romaji) about where various people live in Japan and then label them on a map. Donated by M Miller and J Smith
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Research a famous city
Students research a famous city online and then complete various tasks such as cutting and pasting images of famous landmarks, a map of the city etc. Donated by A Hoyn
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Trace and match up countries
Ss trace the romaji and kana for each country, then complete a matching activity. Donated by J van Engelen
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Where do you live?
Worksheet practising 'ni sunde imasu' with reading and writing exercises. Donated by B James
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World mapping activity 1
Put the names of the countries onto the world map. Donated by Anna Y.
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World mapping activity 2
Put the names of the countries on the map. Donated by L Gibbs.
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