Japanese Teaching Topic - TIME
Teaching ideas, art and craft, flashcards, games, lesson plans, songs, videos, useful websites, worksheets on the Japanese teaching topic TIME, jikan, ima nan ji, itsu, kara/made, 時間、じかん、なんじ、いまなんじ、いつ、から~までetc.
Flashcards
Time expression flashcards
Common time expressions from yesterday, today to this year, next year etc. 12 flashcards in this set.
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Games and activities in class
Clock running game
Pin up each clock onto the whiteboard. Put blue tack on each black area of the clock. (The numbers need to stick to this so use plenty.) Divide the class into two teams. Allocate one colour clock each. Copy and cut out enough hours (black numbers) and minutes (red numbers) for each clock. Ie one set each. Tt then yells out a time. Students need to select the correct hours and minutes and stick it onto the clock. The team that has the correct time first gets a point for their team. The team with the most points in the end is the winner. (Tt saying the times can be replaced with confident students.)
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Time expression grid
Preparation- Copy a ‘Day, week, month, year’ grid for each pair of students. Cut up the Japanese words and put them into an envelope. What to do - Divide the class into pairs. Give each pair of student a copy of the grid and envelope of words. Students need to put the words under the correct heading and in the correct ‘time’ position. EXTRA: After completing the grid once, get the class to do the activity again but this time see which pair can complete the grid the fastest.
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Time game Roll the dice. Say the time in Japanese.
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Games on line
Time game - hours |
Time game - hours & half hours |
Time of daily activities |
PowerPoints
Ima nan ji?
PowerPoint explaining how to tell the time in Japanese. In Romaji for complete beginners. Created by I Foley
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Kakarimasu
PowerPoint introducing the structure どのぐらいかかりますか。Dono gurai kakarimasuka. Focussing on minutes, hours, days and weeks of duration. Includes examples and exercises. Created by I Foley
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Kakarimasu 2
PowerPoint introducing the structures 何時間、何日間、何週間 and かかります. Details of how to make 'for' minutes, hours, days and weeks. Includes practise exercises. Based on textbook Mirai 3+4. Created by I Foley
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Relative time and verbs
PowerPoint introducing ikimasu, kimasu and kaerimasu いきます、きます、かえります, using the particle ni and how to add relative time phrases (yesterday, today, tomorrow etc) to basic sentences. It also introduces basic destination/places vocabulary. Based on Japanese for Busy People 1. Created by I Foley
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Telling the time
PowerPoint introducing how to tell the time in Japanese. It is designed for student self directed learning with various links and activities students can complete prior to coming to their lesson. Donated by J Johansen
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Time - hours, minutes, am, pm
PowerPoint introducing time through digital clocks including hours, am, pm, minutes (1 to 50). Includes kanji and furigana for each clock. Donated by Thomas Tam.
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Time Explanation PowerPoint |
Time expressions
PowerPoint introducing basic time expressions to talk about what you do and when you do it. (Ie. After school, Friday night, in the morning,) Based on Obento Deluxe Unit 11. Created by I Foley.
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Time Grammar PowerPoint
Relative time, adverbs of frequency, duration of time, goro ごろand gurai ぐらい Based on the textbook Nakama 1 Introductory Japanese. To download Chapter 5 Part 2. http://lbcc-japn1.wikispaces.com/Slides |
Time - lateral thinking
A lateral thinking visual exercise for students studying time. Each student uses the red screen to predict what the time will be (in Japanese), then the black screen reveals whether they are correct. Donated by L Day
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Time test
Students test their time words and kanji knowledge with this 'time' test. Donated by R Jacobs.
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Videos
VIDEO Time |
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Ima nanji? minutes
Video showing how to say minutes in Japanese http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu7ycDxKKgk |
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Websites
Interactive clock
http://www.poissonrouge.com/clock/ Use this interactive clock to teach time in Japanese. |
Interactive time dictionary
Interactive picture dictionary practising time. Other interactive dictionaries including calendar, positions, colours, and numbers. See collections section at: http://words.marugotoweb.jp/top.php?lang=en |
Jikanwari (Timetables) |
Time quizzes |
What time is it? |
Worksheets
Cut out clocks by KF studio
Cut out the clock to practice telling the time. http://www.kfstudio.net/kidsstudy/tokei02/ |
Dictionary page - time
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How many times - nankai
This set of worksheets introduces the concept of 'kai' when talking about how many times you may do an activity per day, week, month year. Includes examples and practise exercises. Donated by K Iida
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Ima nan ji AB activity
Students ask each other in Japanese what time it is. They then complete their partner's missing times on the sheet.
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Ima nan ji desu ka?
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Kara made (From to time)
Students practice say から and まで.
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Kara made game
This is a relay style game practising the grammar kara and made using a school timetable. How to play: Select two Ss to become readers. These two readers are given a timetable with only 1/2 the answers each. They sit at the front of the class. Next, divide the class into two teams. Each team selects a runner. This person will run to the reader and ask him/her the day and time of a subject. If the reader has the answer they will tell the runner, if not the runner must go to the next reader and ask the question to him/her. When the team member has the information they need to complete a gap on their timetable worksheet they run back to their team share the information with their team who all must then complete the gap on their worksheets. A new runner is selected and continue until all the gaps are filled on their worksheet. The winning team is the first to complete their gap fill timetable accurately. All team members must complete the worksheet to win. Donated by A Kibby |
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Minutes
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Time and daily routine
Students review times and basic daily routine verbs. Then practise by survey students their classmates what time they wake up and go to sleep. Donated by S Greenan
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Time and day
Worksheet revising times, days of the week and basic verbs. Then students are asked to practise creating sentences describing what they will do at certain times during the week using the structure: Day のTimeにObjectをVerb. Donated by S Greenan
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Time karuta
Photocopy the A4 sized karuta sheet onto A3. Then cut out one set per pair of Ss. Each pair of Ss spreads out their set of karuta on the table in front of them, face up. The teacher then calls out times in English and students make those times in Japanese with the cards in front of them. Eg. 1 o’clock 一時 、2:30pm 午後二時半etc. The pair who makes the time first can get a point. An extra point can be allocated if they can say the time correctly in Japanese. The cards are then returned to the centre of the table to be reused. Continue the activity. The Ss with the most points at the end are the winner. Donated by A Smith.
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Time markers worksheet
Students learn the various time expressions and then create sentences in the correct tense. Donated by S Crossman
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Relative time expressions
Ss practice creating sentences in Japanese using time expressions such as kyou きょう, ashita あした, raishuu らいしゅうetc and the various tenses of ikimasu. ie. Watashi wa kinou ginkou ni ikimashita. わたしはきのうぎんこうにいきました。 Created by I Foley
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Relative time expressions summary
Table summarizing various time expressions in Japanese including kyou きょう, ashita あした, raishuu らいしゅうetc Donated by L Lopez
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Roleplay What do you do at...?
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What time is it?
Students fill in the blanks by writing the Romaji for the time given on the clock, or marking the clock with the correct time that has been given in Romaji. Donated by J Rosenzweig
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Writing - nanji desu ka?
Students practise reading and writing times in Japanese. (Available in romaji or kana.) Donated by J Tate
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Writing - time
Students trace the Japanese Romaji, kana and kanji for each of the times, and show the correct time on each of the clocks. Donated by J Rosenzweig
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