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.
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Art and craft
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Canon paper craft
Free downloadable crafts for 'Tanabata' http://cp.c-ij.com/en/event/festival/japan/tanabata.html |
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Tanabata fukinagashi Tanabata paper crafts |
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Games and activities in class
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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
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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
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Tanabata song |
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Videos
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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
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Kids web Japan: Tanabata
Information about Tanabata, including the Tanabata song. http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/folk/tanabata/ |
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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
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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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