In this activity, students will have the opportunity to express what they could do simultaneously. Students will also be able to express the idea of without doing.
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In this activity, students will have the opportunity to look at ingredients and use them to create a dish. Students will also be able to explain the cooking process to others. Students will learn more about food, shopping, and cooking. They will also learn how to read a recipe.
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In this activity, students will have the opportunity to practice describing and listing items/topics. Students will also explain what they would like to do in a given situation.
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In this activity, students will have the opportunity to create their own stories based on health-related vocabulary words. Students will also briefly learn about the difference in health systems in the U.S. and Japan.
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Students will review basic introductory phrases. The students will then take turns introducing themselves to their classmates, discussing their names, years in school, majors, and nationalities. They will review all of the information they learned with a challenge round at the end.
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In this activity, students will have the opportunity to practice giving directions to one another. They will also work together to think of different ways to give directions.
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In this activity, students will have the opportunity to learn how to express their desires. Students will also be able to express movement away from and toward an object/speaker. Students will learn how to describe timing and actions before, during, and after events.
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Students will practice using descriptive language via a Head’s Up game. Each student will then assume the role of a popular Halloween character and push their ability to question and answer by playing 20 questions.
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The students will be exposed to a few home remedies from Japan. They will then be shown medicine and will be asked to cure various symptoms of sickness using medicine or home remedies. The activity will finish with a comparison of Japan’s medicine to medicine from the students’ home cultures.
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Students will practice using the appropriate greeting based on the time of the day and who they are speaking to. Students will also practice uses of formal and informal greetings.
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Students will do simple self-introductions using their name, nationality, and year in school.They will practice introducing themselves and others.
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The students will have a selection of bingo rounds to practice katakana with. Start with bingo 1 to practice the basic characters and prepare the students for a more difficult game. Then go to bingo 2 which will be a more exciting game where students will practice full katakana words. If time permits, you can continue into a third round and circle different items.
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NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:I can describe the location of familiar places on a map.I can ask a peer for the location of a familiar place on a map.
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In this activity, students will practice talking about themselves and others through a game of Two Truths and a Lie. Students will tell the group two things that are true about themselves and one lie. The rest of the group will then guess what is true and what is the lie!
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NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:I can describe the location of familiar places on a map.I can ask a peer for the location of a familiar place on a map.
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In this activity, students will practice talking about their childhood- toys they played with, activities they did. In the main activity, students will recall a story from their childhood and retell the story to the group. They will also discuss this story with their peers. NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements: I can tell a story about my life using complete, connected sentences. 私は完全なつないだ文を使って自分の生活について話ができることI can understand and ask questions about my peers’ childhood experiences.私のクラスメートの子供の話について質問が答えて理解できることI can contribute to a conversation about a story by identifying who, what, when, and where.誰、何を、いつ、どこで特定することで話について会話にこうけんできること
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This idea of this lab would be to ask “grab-bag” style questions regarding a number of topics. These will be loose questions that are meant to help spark conversation. So it is okay if you don’t get through all of them or if you change them a bit to better fit what students want to talk about! NCSSFL-ACTFL Can Do Statements: I can ask and answer questions about things I am doing in my free time暇の時間について質問を聞いて答えられます。I can exchange with others some ideas about ways to stay healthy.他の人と健康を維持する方法について話せます。I can exchange recommendations with my peers regarding things I do in my daily life.クラスメートと生活のお勧めことについて話せます。
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NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements: I can use drawing and clues to help lab mates guess a wordI can ask questions to a lab mate to help me guess a wordI can answer simple questions on a variety of familiar topics
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NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:I can compare and contrast graduation in the U.S. and in Japan.I can explain what I want to do before a specific time.I can talk about my plans for the future.
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NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:Given a time frame, I can express my hopes and desires for the future. Given a specific event, I can express my hopes and desires for the outcome.
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