Japanese Teaching Topic -
CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR
Teaching ideas, art and craft, flashcards, games, lesson plans, songs, videos, useful websites, worksheets on the Japanese teaching topic CHRISTMAS and NEW YEAR, kurisumasu, oshogatsu, クリスマス, お正月 etc.
Art and craft
New year お正月 crafts |
Christmas and New Year nurie
Colouring in pictures for Christmas and New year. http://www.sakunet.ne.jp/~hayaka1/nurie.html |
Cooking
Ozouni (New Years dish) recipe
Ss complete the ingredients list and then step by step learn how to make Ozouni. Donated by Junko
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Games
Christmas naughts and crosses |
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Lesson Plans
Happy New Year Lesson Plan
Video #22 shows how to teach the topic of Japanese New Year. http://www.learner.org/resources/series185.html?pop=yes&pid=2009# |
PowerPoints
Akemashite Omedetou! (New Years)
PowerPoint outlining the events and traditions of New Years in Japan. Includes content explanation in English. Donated by M Sarnicki
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Christmas in Japan
PowerPoint introducing Christmas in Japan includes quizzes, vocabulary activities, crosswords, colouring ins, Christmas letter writing, digital Christmas cards, carols, and useful Japanese phrases. Created by I Foley
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Nenmatsunenshi 年末年始
Powerpoint introducing New Year in Japan written in Japanese. Includes information about food, end of year cards, the big clean etc. (2013-2014) Created by Taku Okamoto.
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New Year in Japan
PowerPoint introducing New Year in Japan including writing and creating end of year cards, vocabulary exercises, and useful phrases. (2014-2015) Created by I Foley
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New Year PowerPoint 2
PowerPoint introducing various traditions of the Japanese New Year (Oshougatsu おしょうがつ). Donated by S Combes
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New Year PowerPoint 3
PowerPoint introducing the various traditions of the Japanese New Year including the New Year song, activities, food, useful expressions. Donated by Samonya
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Songs
Awatenbou no Santa Claus |
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Jingle Bells in Japanese |
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Rudolph the red nose reindeer |
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Santa Claus is coming to town |
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Silent night - Kiyoshi kono yoru
Silent night lyrics in Japanese and English with vocabulary. Donated by C Dudley http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ctyO4rRgsM |
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Websites
Japanese Christmas song lyrics Japanese Christmas lyrics Christmas lyrics for most songs in romaji. http://currythecat.com/christmas.htm |
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Worksheets
Awatenbou no Santa Claus
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Christmas クリスマス vocabulary
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New Years card reading
Students read a Nengajyou 年賀状 (ねんがじょう) (New Years card) sample and answer questions accordingly. EXTRA: Students look at other samples of 年賀状(ねんがじょう). Then make their own New Years card, deciding what to include on their card (such as animal year, year, Japanese and English greetings, あけましておめでとうございます etc). Students can also write an address in Japanese on the back. Compare Australian and Japanese address (such as line order) etc. Donated by A Kurasho
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New Year worksheet
Read about New Year in Japan. Learn common New Year expressions. New Year cultural activities and events. New Year Zodiacs. Write a New Year postcard. Created by I Foley
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New Years cut and paste
After viewing/ researching or listening to information about New Years in Japan students cut out the Japanese words for each New Year’s tradition and glue it underneath the corresponding picture. Donated by M Emmett
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Omedetou Kurisumasu
We wish you a Merry Christmas lyrics.
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Reading - Christmas (12 gatsu)
Read about December in Australia including information about weather, rainy season, Jacaranda trees in bloom, school vacation, comparing Japanese Christmas to an Australian one such as giving and receiving gifts, eating Christmas dinner etc. Level: Middle to Upper Secondary Donated by: L Trackson
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Rudolph song lyrics
Rudolph the red nose reindeer in Japanese song lyrics. Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfa3hPl0ukg Donated by: E von Nostrand
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