Teaching ideas for
TANABATA (July 7)
Teaching ideas, art and craft, flashcards, games, lesson plans, songs, videos, useful websites, worksheets on the Japanese teaching topic TANABATA star festival たなばた.
Art and craft
Canon paper craft
Free downloadable crafts for 'Tanabata' http://cp.c-ij.com/en/event/festival/japan/tanabata.html |
Tanabata fukinagashi Tanabata paper crafts |
Games and activities in class
Tanabata story scramble
Ss read the story of Tanabata together with the Tt. Then the Ss are given a scrambled version of the story. Ss need to reconstruct the story. Donated by A Nish
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PowerPoints
Tanabata Festival
PowerPoint introducing the Tanabata festival story and song. Students learn how to make and write a wishing card (tanzaku) and make various tanabata decorations. Donated by B Brenen
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Tanabata PowerPoint
PowerPoint introducing the story of tanabata, traditions, tanzaku writing, and the tanabata song. Donated by S Rowland
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Songs
Tanabata song |
Videos
Tanabata festival
A short 'news' like video describing in English the origins of the Tanabata festival. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1MHo5gQFeY&feature=related |
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Tanabata Story
The Tanabata story told in Japanese. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBHrqHEyKN4&feature=related |
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Tanabata Story
Anime version of the Tanabata story. No words. Idea: Students watch the video and retell the story. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhR50uAMlOU&feature=related |
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Websites
Kids web Japan: Tanabata
Information about Tanabata, including the Tanabata song. http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/folk/tanabata/ |
Tanabata story
http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/stonemancabins/tanabata.html?mtbrand=AOL_US
Information about the origins and customs of the Tanabata festival.
Short story about Tanabata
http://www.jpf.org.uk/language/download/03-Tanabata-Script-WJEC.pdf
Tanabata characters and short story
Find a word and write a tanzaku
http://www.jpf.org.uk/language/download/07-KS2-Tanabata-WJEC.pdf
Tanabata find-a-word and write a wish for a tanzaku strip
Blank tanzaku strip
http://www.jpf.org.uk/language/download/09-Tanzaku-WJEC.pdf
Download a blank tanzaku (make a wish) strip and write tanabata wishes.
Worksheets
Tanabata
Worksheet introducing the basics of the tanabata festival and writing tanzaku wish strips with expression such as 'hoshii', 'naritai', 'ikitai' and 'aitai'. Donated by D Weatherley.
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Tanabata Nurie and Cloze
After watching/reading the story of Tanabata, students complete the cloze excercise and colour in the Tanabata picture. Donated by K English
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Tanzaku wish strips
Copy and give to Ss to create their own wish for the Tanabata festival. Donated by D Weatherley
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