Japanese Teaching Topic - ANIMALS
Teaching ideas, art and craft, flashcards, games, lesson plans, songs, videos, useful websites, worksheets on the Japanese teaching topic ANIMALS どうぶつ.
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Assignment tasks
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Animal Diorama (3D Model)
Ss research an animal and create a 3D miniature model (Diorama) and present it to the class in Japanese. Donated by: J Henson 
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Pets and food writing/speaking task
Ss choose a pet, write a description of it and then present their animal to the class. Donated by: Y Wang
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Board games
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Animals and plants sugoroku
Name the animal and plants board game. http://kotoba.littlestar.jp/sugoroku-ikimono.html |
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Booklets
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Describing pets and family
Booklet with various activities relating to describing pets and family looking at simple adjectives (5 pages). Resource created through funding by Brisbane School of Distance Education.
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Doubutsu no karada
Booklet with various activities relating to body parts and describing animal body parts (7 pages). Resource created through funding by Brisbane School of Distance Education.
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Family and furry friends
Various exercises and activities in romaji and hiragana relating to family and animals (8 pages). Includes teacher completion checklist. Donated by S Marshman
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Flashcards
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Animal flashcards 1
Colourful animal flashcards with hiragana. Donated by H Loyd 
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Animal flashcards 2 |
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Flashcards hiki
Teach how to count small animals using these flashcards. Created by Tomy
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Games in class
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Bingo - animals
Copy page 1 and cut out cards individually. These cards are the Bingo Calling cards. Put these cards into a small box. Print page 2 - 6 and cut into strips of four animals, laminate. These are the bingo strips. Give each Ss a copy of a bingo strip. Each Ss also needs 4 blank squares of paper. The game begins. The Tt takes one Bingo calling card out of the box at a time and says the animal in Japanese. If the Ss has the animal on their bingo strip then the Ss puts a blank square paper on top of the animal. Once all 4 animals have blank squares on them the Ss calls out 'BINGO' and is the winner. This Ss then must tell the Tt the 4 animals he/she has to check that he/she is correct. EXTRA: Tt can be replaced by Ss to call out the animals, and depending on their ability either picture or hiragana Bingo calling cards can be used. Donated by L Jerome |
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Bingo (listen and match) - animals
Students are to colour in 12 squares. The teacher reads an animal description and if the student has that square coloured in they cross it off. The first student to have all their coloured in boxes crossed off wins. Donated by: L Lally
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Dominoes- animals
Cut and laminate the domino cards. Divide the class into groups of four. Shuffle the dominoes. Randomly hand out the dominoes ensuring each Ss gets the same number of dominoes (approximately 10 each). Place the remaining dominoes to one side in a pile. Decide who will go first by playing Junkenpon. The first player puts down a domino then the next player puts down another domino that matches the word or picture of the previous domino(es). If he/she can't go they pass and pick up a domino from the pile. A player wins the game when he/she has no dominoes left. Donated by Nicole H |
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Find your other half
Create animal cards. Cut the cards in half. Ie. the head of a cow and then the bottom of a cow. Ss need to know the Japanese for animals, numbers, body parts, features, verbs associated with animals (fly, swim, walk etc). Give each Ss an animal card in random order. Ss mingle around the class finding their other half. Make sure Ss don't show their partners their card. Ss must ask their partner questions ie. Tobimasu ka? とびますか？ke wa chairo desu ka? けはちゃいろですか。Etc. When they find their animal they can sit down together.
Create animal cards. Cut the cards in half. Ie. the head of a cow and then the bottom of a cow. Ss need to know the Japanese for animals, numbers, body parts, features, verbs associated with animals (fly, swim, walk etc). Give each Ss an animal card in random order. Ss mingle around the class finding their other half. Make sure Ss don't show their partners their card. Ss must ask their partner questions ie. Tobimasu ka? とびますか？ke wa chairo desu ka? けはちゃいろですか。Etc. When they find their animal they can sit down together.
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Karuta - animals
Match the hiragana, romaji and picture for each animal. Donated by J Leung
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Karuta - animal words
Divide the class into small groups. Give each group a set of animal word cards and the animal picture cards (below).When the Tt says an animal the Ss match the words with the pictures. The group that matches the cards the quickest gets a point for their team. Once all groups have accurately matched all picture cards with word cards the Tt then says one of the karuta card words in Japanese. The Ss that can show the matching picture card to the Tt the fastest gets a point for his/her team. EXTRA: These cards can also be used to play memory. Donated by Nicole H |
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Karuta - animal pictures
Divide the class into pairs. Give each pair of Ss a set of cards. The Tt says the Japanese animal word (or words that relate to the pictures ie. describe a cat - ながい しっぽ nagai shippo, ちいさい め chiisai me, nyanya にゃにゃetc.). The Ss challenge each other to grab the card first. The Ss that does gets to keep the card. If both snap just as quickly they need to do rock, paper, scissors to see who keeps the card. Donated by Nicole H |
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Memory - animals (picture and word)
Cut out and laminate sets of cards (ensure the cards aren't see through). Divide the class into pairs. Ss place one set of memory cards face down onto their desks. Ss take turns to turn over two cards at a time trying to find a matching pair - a picture and its equivalent hiragana. The Ss with the most pairs in the end is the winner. Donated by E Moss. |
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Memory - animals (pictures)
Cut out and laminate sets of cards (ensure the cards aren't see through). Divide the class into pairs. Ss place one set of memory cards face down onto their desks. Ss take turns to turn over two cards at a time trying to find a matching pair. The Ss with the most pairs in the end is the winner. Donated by K Bowes |
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Games on line
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Animal listening games |
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Farmyard animals |
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Lesson plans
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Describing pets (with adjectives) |
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Melbourne museum resources
A unit on wild animals やせいのどうぶつ and their level of endangerment includes worksheets, PowerPoints, flashcards, etc. Various ability levels, for years 5 to 10. http://museumvictoria.com.au/melbournemuseum/education/education-kits/resource-for-students-of-japanese/ |
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PowerPoints
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Animals - Doubutsu (Kana)
PowerPoint introducing various animals. Introduces the grammar point "Kore wa" vs "Kono doubutsu wa". Donated by R Augustine
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Animals - Doubutsu (Romaji)
PowerPoint introducing animals includes sound and text. Also has flash style quiz at the end for reinforcement. (Corresponding worksheet is available below in 'Worksheets' section of this page.) Donated by T Parry.
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Animals - Doubutsu (kanji)
Ask students to use their imaginations to see how they can link the kanji to a picture of the animal. Students come up and point to different sections of the kanji with their own ideas. For example, "I think this is the elephant's trunk and here are the legs". (All answers are acceptable.) Guide students to make connections with kanji that have related radicals. The teacher can say, "Look! We have seen this part of the kanji in another animal? What was it?"
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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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Animals - Pokedex
PowerPoint introducing animals through Pokemon characters. Donated by A Walsh
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Animals review PowerPoint
PowerPoint reviewing animals. Select two Ss to come to the front and stand in front of a whiteboard. The Tt calls any animal from the board and the Ss then touches the correct animal. The student who touched the correct animal stays at the front of the class and other Ss swaps with the next student. The aim of the game is to see who can stay the longest at the front. EXTRA: Listening exercise, the teacher says the animal in Japanese and the Ss has to write down the corresponding number. Donated by A Baxter |
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Animal sounds
PowerPoint introducing the animal sounds of a pig, frog, cat, dog, and rabbit. Students learn 'Old MacDonald had a farm' in Japanese (romaji). Donated by B Christie
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Animal vocabulary
Click on the animals and hear a native speaker say the name of the animal. Ss can use this PowerPoint as a vocabulary revision tool. Donated by C Baldo
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Counting animals
PowerPoint introducing the various counters for animals. Based on Mirai 3+4 textbook Unit 6. Created by I Foley.
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Describing body parts PPT
PowerPoint showing how to describe an animal's body parts. Resource created through funding by Brisbane School of Distance Education.
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Describing my pets
PowerPoint introducing basic adjectives to describe pets including kawaii, kowai, ookii, chiisai, sugoi, nagai, urusai, and fuwafuwa. Donated by M Rose.
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Describing my pets and family PowerPoint introducing basic sentence pattern of THING wa ADJ desu. Resource created through funding by Brisbane School of Distance Education.
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Hachiko
PowerPoint introducing the story of Hachiko, Japan's most famous dog. Donated by J Chalmer
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Introducing your pet
Ss learn how to say the type of animal they have as a pet and what the pet's name is. Donated by M Lee.
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Katakana colour jumble - animals
Each slide has a variety of katakana in different colours. Students are told a colour (previous slide) and then try to decipher which animal is written in that coloured katakana. Donated by M Yoshino
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Native Japanese Animals
PowerPoint introducing native Japanese animals including their name, habitat, diet and distinct characteristics with videos and pictures. Donated by J Redfern
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Pets 1
PowerPoint introducing basic pets in Japanese. Resource created by I Foley through funding by Brisbane School of Distance Education.
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Pets 2
PowerPoint introducing 10 common pets. Introduces the question and answer 'Petto wa nan desu ka' 'Petto wa ANIMAL desu.' Can be printed as flashcards. Also, includes matching karuta set. Created by I Foley
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Pets Unit 5 Obento Deluxe
PowerPoint where students learn how to say what type of pets they have, saying the pets name, whose pet it is, describing the pet and what the pet eats/drinks. Based on Obento Deluxe Text Unit 5. Created by I Foley.
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Petto ga imasu ka?
PowerPoint introducing pet vocabulary and the structure 'Petto ga imasu ka' 'Hai imasu' or 'Iie imasen'. Includes practise exercises. Based on Obento Deluxe Textbook Unit 4. Created by I Foley.
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Talking about your pet
PowerPoint revising pet vocabulary and getting students talk about their pets including age and name. Created by I Foley
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What's your pet's name? Powerpoint introucing the structures PET wa NAME desu or PET no namae wa NAME desu. Resource created through funding by Brisbane School of Distance Education.
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What does the animal eat and drink?
Interactive PowerPoint where students are asked to move the words into the correct order to describe what each animal eats/drinks. Donated by A Yamaura.
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Zodiac animals
PowerPoint introducing the zodiac animals with a follow up task of completing a survey about pets. Donated by R Ellis
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Skits and plays
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Missing pet
Roleplay where students describe their missing pet. http://activity-resources.jpf-sydney.org/ar/wwroleplay/4/4_1.htm |
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Usagisan no okurimono
A skit where students practice the names of animals. http://activity-resources.jpf-sydney.org/ar/se1_skits/skit2/2_1.htm |
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Songs
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Elephant song |
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Bear song |
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Inu no Omawarisan
Watch this video about a lost cat and a helpful police dog. Students then complete, where they need to put the pictures from the video back into sequence and describe what happens. Donated by R Li http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNKDPKEank8
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Videos
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Animal sounds in Japanese |
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Animals speak Japanese
A short video showing Japanese primary students saying various animal sounds in Japanese. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qwuz8rnrt8 |
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Animals in Japanese |
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Counting animals - hiki
Video introducing 'hiki' for counting small animals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=042TsS0gnAY Other grammar videos see: http://www.punipunijapan.com/videos/ |
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Counting animals - wa
Video introducing 'wa' for counting birds and rabbits. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM7gyYWyPbY |
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Counting animals - tou
Video introducing 'tou' for counting large animals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA7lMGOTXVs |
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Websites
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Animal activities |
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Animal matching quiz |
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Animal matching quiz |
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Animal mazes めいろ
Various animal mazes. http://happylilac.net/meiro-g.html |
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Birds of passage |
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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 |
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Pets |
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Zoo map |
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Worksheets
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Animals and their cultural meaning
Ss read about various Japanese animals and learn about their cultural meaning. Ss then create their own story about an animal.
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Animal match up activity
Match the animal pictures with the hiragana and romaji. Donated by C Dern.
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Animal sounds and katakana
Students transcribe katakana animal sounds into rômaji and then try to match each sound with the correct animal. |
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Code breaker - Doubutsu
Students use the code to find out the names of animals in Japanese (romaji). Then label the animal pictures. Donated by T Chapple
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Counting animals
Worksheet introduces the three counters for animals: hiki, tou and wa. Donated by N Rees.
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Crazy creatures match up activity
Match the animals, body parts and colours in Japanese to their English meanings. Donated by Y Dodd.
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Crossword - Nihongo no doubutsu
Read the English descriptions of animals and complete the crossword in Romaji. Donated by P. Laidler
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Doubutsu
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Endangered animal gap fill
Students read the information about the endangered animals in Japanese and then complete the missing information. 7 different animals to read about. Donated by Anna Y.
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Herbivore vs Carnivore |
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Jikoshoukai - animals
Ss write and present an animal introduction including their name, sound, colour, size, and age. Donated by A Robinson.
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Kangaroo policeman |
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Label the animals
Ss write the names of the animals in Japanese. Donated by T Parry.
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Match up activity - animals
Match the Japanese words with their pictures then in pairs talk about what each animal is. Donated by R Patton
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Match up activity - At the zoo
Match the animal vocabulary with their corresponding pictures. Donated by B Sanchez
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Map Zoo
Ss trace the animal names in kana. Then cut and paste the animals next to the correct number on the map. Ss can give the zoo a name in the box above the map or write a short description of what animals they saw using 'o mimashita' をみました。
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Mini book - pets (romaji)
Students read the description of each pet and colour it in accordingly. (Folding instructions included.) Created by I Foley
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Pets colouring and tracing sheet
Colouring and hiragana tracing sheet for common pets. Donated by Brooke
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Pets worksheet
Various pet related activities including match the picture with the Japanese word, complete the hiragana pet word and draw a picture of the pet. Donated by: B McArthur
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Reading - Pets in hiragana
Students read the pet words in hiragana and write the pronunciation in romaji under each word. Donated by L Brown
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Reading - which animal?
Students read descriptions of various animals and try to guess which animal is being described (kana). Donated by DJ
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Reading - which animal? 2
Students read sentences describing an animal and try to guess which animal is being described (romaji). Donated by E Russell
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Reading - zoo animals |
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Sea creatures worksheet and activities |
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Speaking - Pet o katteimasu ka?
Worksheet where students survey their classmates about the pets they own including the pet's name and age. Donated by C Sullivan
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Speaking - Pet ga imasu ka?
Ss take turns asking about the animals available at their respective pet stores practising the 'imasu ka' construction. Donated by: M Rubida
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Survey - animals
Ss mingle around the class to find out which Ss like dogs, cats, cows or horses. Then Ss write sentences about the Ss likes in Romaji. Donated by S Shiau
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Tracing - animals
Students trace the hiragana, and write the Romaji for each of the animal names. Donated by J Rosenzweig
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Tracing - zoo animals
Students trace the hiragana and write the names in the boxes under each picture then colour in the pictures. Donated by Daniel Paxton
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Where's my bottom?
Ss cut out the animal pieces, match the heads with the correct bottoms & glue them into their notebooks. Ss then write in a table English, Kana and Romaji for each animal. Donated by C Lincoln
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Word search Doubutsu 1
A word search that that includes common pets and farm animals. Word lists are printed in grey, for students to trace over as they find each word in the puzzle. There are two versions, hiragana and romaji. Donated by J Tate. 
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Word search Doubutsu 2
Find the animals in the word search (romaji). Donated by C Burnett
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Word search - Giant
Find the animals in the giant word search (hiragana). Donated by D Paxton
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Zodiac Hiragana Writing and Colouring
Practice writing hiragana for the 12 zodiac animals. Target: Primary students
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