Japanese Teaching Topic -
DIRECTIONS, PLACES AROUND TOWN, IKIMASU
Teaching ideas, arts and craft, flashcards, games, lesson plans, songs, videos, useful websites, worksheets on the Japanese teaching topic DIRECTIONS, PLACES, MY TOWN, IKIMASU, machi, michi, みちをたずねます、わたしのまち、町 etc.
Activities
Scavenger hunt using QR codes
Students move around the school scanning QR codes with their smart phone (or other device) and follow the recorded question prompts. (Detailed instructions in the file attached.)
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Flashcards
Places around town flashcards
Flashcards including: hospital, pharmacy, bookstore, police station, bakery, station, taxi rank, bus stop, hair dresser, convenience store and liquor store.
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Games in class
Board game - My town
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Dice game
Print out dice on different coloured cardboard e.g. Place dice - purple, Direction 1 dice - green, Direction 2 dice - orange, Side of road dice - pink. Depending on the number of dice, form groups e.g. 4 different dice = 4 people. Students sit in a circle and each person throws one dice. One student then has to make the sentence according to what is shown on the dice. Ie. Massugu itte, kado o migi ni maggate kudasai, gakkou ha migigawa ni arimasu. まっすぐいって、かどをみぎにまがってください’がっこうはみぎがわにあります。Continue around the circle until everyone has had a turn. Donated by A McLuckie |
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Karuta - places
Print of the cards and glue them back to back. (Japanese on one side, English on the other.) Cut up the karuta cards and laminate. Divide the class into pairs. Give each group a set of karuta cards. Ss place the Japanese words facing up. Tt yells out an English word and the Ss slap the corresponding Japanese word. (Then turn over the card to see if they were correct.) The Ss in the pair that slaps the quickest gets to keep the card. The winner is the person with the most karuta at the end. This game can be repeated but with English words facing up and Japanese words being yelled out by the Tt. EXTRA: These cards can be used as memory type activity too. Donated by N Bakonji |
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Games online
Direct the taxi around Kyoto |
Lesson plans
Directions lesson plan |
Where in the school Lesson Plan |
Listening MP3s
Getting lost |
Where is it? |
PowerPoints
Doko desu ka?
PowerPoint introducing basic place words ie. station, bank, department store, post office, hotel etc. Created by I Foley
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Giving directions 1
PowerPoint introducing basic vocabulary and sentences for giving directions in Japanese. Donated by E Janssen
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Giving directions 2
PowerPoint introducing the vocabulary for giving directions. Donated by J Hyde
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Ikimasu - where are you going?
PowerPoint introducing the verb ikimasu and saying where and when you are going to various places. Donated by T Watts.
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In my town
Basic powerpoint in romaji teaching places and how to say what there is/isn’t in town.Includes games and activities. Donated by L Ty-Harrison
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Koko soko asoko
PowerPoint introducing basic directions words koko, soko and asoko. Based on Genki I Textbook Unit 2. Created by I Foley.
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Maps
Practise giving directions using various maps. Created by I Foley
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North, South, East, West Kanji
PowerPoint introducing the kanji for North, South, East, West including mnemonics. Donated by F. Pensabene.
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Places around town
PowerPoint introducing places around town ie. bank, school, park, supermarket, convenience store etc. Donated by R Hill.
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Places around town 2
PowerPoint introducing places around town ie station, pool, beach, airport, park, supermarket, hospital, restaurant, department store, movies, shrine, temple, school, house, zoo, game centre etc. Intoduces the structure 'ni ikimasu'. Donated by P Firmin
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Places around town 3
PowerPoint introducin places around town including theatre, library, art gallery, ryokan, flower shop, butcher, bookstore, grocer, chemist, shoe shop, park, station, bakery, bank, post office, hospital, temple, supermarket, shrine, convenience store, department store, bus stop, hotel, taxi rank, underground. Donated by J Hyde
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Places concentration
Use the Powerpoint slides for a game of concentration with your students. Show the slide for 30 seconds only then hide it. See how many of the words the students can remember. Donated by A Nolan.
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Prepositions
PowerPoint introducing various prepositions in order to practise giving basic directions. Created by I Foley
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Where who how?
PowerPoint introducing the grammar points 'doko ni' 'dare to' 'nande'. Based on Obento Deluxe Unit 9. Created by I Foley
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Videos
VIDEO Directions in Japanese |
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Hyogo Boys - 'Directions'
Series of manzai (Kansai style stand up comedy) videos and scripts on various topics including: directions, cultural differences, food, gifts, hobbies, keeping a diary, aisatsu (itadakimasu), weather, where are you from. Includes a sample lesson plan. (Available from right hand side of main page.) http://hyogo.com.au/index.htm |
Websites
Intersection vocabulary |
Virtual neighbourhood |
Worksheets
Asking Directions
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Doko ni ikimasu ka? cards
Copy a set of cards for each Ss. First play a game of point to the place, where the Tt says a place and the Ss point to it on their worksheet. Then, Ss cut each card out and glue it into their notebooks. Under each card a Ss writes a question and answer in both Romaji and hiragana. eg. 'Doko ni ikimasu ka? どこにいきますか。 Umi ni ikimasu. うみにいきます。'
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Going places booklet
Part one of three booklet (23 pages) covering places in town, asking where places are, basic directions, describing locations of things, Japanese houses, includes kanji practice and grammar points - te form, particle no, prepositions, particle de で vs ni に. To download go to: Unit 4 'Out and about' Part 1. http://www.japanese-at-southwolds.org.uk//LearningResources/learningresources_gcsebooks.html |
Giving and receiving directions
Pair work activity where students ask each other where places are near their hotel using structures such as arimasu and basic prepositions.
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Ikimasu pirates
Practice the verb ikimasu, ikimasen, ikimashita, ikimasendeshita with various places around town.
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Places grammar
List of places and an introduction to the grammar of 'place' ni ikimasu. Donated by J Sgro
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Places match ところ
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Places ni ikimasu
Basic worksheet introducing places and the construction ni ikimasu にいきます. Donated by E Strickland
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Reading - Sensei no uchi
Students read the clue sentences and fill in the gaps on the map with the appropriate shop/place names in order to find out where the teacher's house is located.
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School map assignment
Students create a school map for their Japanese visiting students and teachers. Donated by D. Volokh
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Word unjumble - our neighbourhood
Unjumble the hiragana neighbourhood words in each box then translate them into English. Donated by R Lee.
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