Teaching visual literacy is everyone's responsibility! This poster was designed as part of a cross-curriculum promotional campaign to teach staff in all faculties in a New England NSW high school about visual literacy being a component of literacy in every area of the curriculum and also to provide students with an example of how a visual image can be deconstructed to find the hidden messages. This poster is an example of how the techniques of visual literacy can be used in Japanese language classes. It applies an excellent template developed by the English Teacher's Association of NSW to a tourist magazine cover.
The kimono is the national dress of Japan. Traditionally made of silk, it is a beautiful, long dress with wide sleeves.
This resource enables children to design their own kimono using Japanese patterned paper and a collage technique. Children need to cut or tear the patterned papers and then glue them onto the kimono template.Once dry the kimono can be cut out and displayed.
This is a fun and engaging activity that produces individual and creative results.
This resource has been used with children aged 4 -7 but could be suitable for other age groups too.
This resource includes:
A kimono template
10 different Japanese pattern papers
LI: to learn about different aspects of japanese culture.
discusses in depth different aspects of japanese culture - dress, food, festivals, currency etc.
this can be used as a stand alone lesson or as part of a japanese topic (as I did)
Sino-Japanese War - WWII - InterWar Years - War in Asia.
A full lesson focusing on the Sino-Japanese War. A great lesson for all KS3 / possibly KS4 students. Suitable for both British curriculum and the international curriculum.
Attached is a great learning resource - very straight forward and easy to use. All resources are included for a full lesson. A great supplement to which ever textbook you are using and exam board studying. No specific exam board is mentioned or needed.
Excellent for PGCE students / NQTs / non-specialists as all the work has been done for you.
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Key Stage 3
MYP
Individuals and Societies
History
Sino - Japanese War
China
Japan
Marco Polo Bridge incident
Nanjing / Nanking Massacre
a powerpoint to introduce Japanese to a Yr7 class. Starting with a short ‘what do you already know section?’, saying hello/goodbye & numbers 1 to 5 using a combination of romanji, hiragana é kanji characters.
a powerpoint on some common expressions & days of the week using both hiragana and Kanji characters. There is also a quick recap of Kanji numbers at the end. The powerpoint starts off with some Japanese words in English and a few views of Tokyo.
Japanese Kanji Match – Numbers (Sino-Japanese) and Colors is a versatile vocabulary resource that works as a matching or memory activity. They are well-suited to language centers and group rotations. The cards are compatible with other vocabulary categories, so they can be mixed with other topics as the need arises.
It is recommended that these cards be complimented with spoken Japanese lessons to ensure correct pronunciation.
This resource contains:
71 cards (35 matches and one title card)
Numbers: 0-20, 100, 500, 1000
Colors: blue, black, brown, red, green, pink, grey, purple, orange, white, yellow
PDF and PNG files
Also includes the English version as a bonus extra!
Instructions:
Print, laminate and cut the individual cards.
Mix the vocab and picture cards and have students match the picture with the vocab.
Play the memory game. After mixing, place the cards face down and have students turn over two cards. If the student matches the picture with vocab, the student keeps the set before trying to find another match. If no match is found the next student takes a turn. Continue until all cards have been matched. The student with the most cards at the end is the winner.
Cards are versatile and can be divided into as few or as many sets as required.
Enjoy!
34-slide Powerpoint with activities, sources, images, questions and information covering the history of the Rise of Japanese Militarism up until and including WWII. Should cover 2-4 whole lessons.
Includes:
- Militarism (what is it?)
- Japan after WWI
- Japan’s strategy for dealing with the Depression
- Natural resources (what they had and what they needed)
- Invasion of Manchuria 1931
- The ‘Rape of Nanking’
- The move into South East Asia
- The attack on the United States
- Pearl Harbor (Attack and significance)
- Japan's threat to Australia
This pack contains a Powerpoint and worksheet which takes you through a simple jikoshoukai step by step. This is intended for beginners. It also contains links to my website with authentic native speaker audio examples (tap / move your mouse to find the enable audio icon), one model and one adaptation of the model to use as a listening with a fill in the gaps exercise. By using red acetate sheets against the worksheets, you can hide the words that need to be changed in the jikoshoukai. This is presneted in romaji but there is a hiragana / kanji version of the text on the final page.
Japanese Internment
The worksheet consists of an information text. Based on this text, there are various exercises such as matching tasks, multiple-choice questions, open questions and true-false questions.
You receive the material and solutions in PDF format for easy printing and in docx format for individual customization.
Japanese Empire
The worksheet consists of an information text. Based on this text, there are various exercises such as matching tasks, multiple-choice questions, open questions and true-false questions.
You receive the material and solutions in PDF format for easy printing and in docx format for individual customization.
Complete lesson - All resources required for lesson are attached in the PowerPoint. This includes YouTube links in the notes and worksheets.
PowerPoint is self explanatory and lesson can be taught without adaptation.
AFL and differentiation throughout.
Fans of Japanese culture, anime or manga will love this lesson exploring how to write your non-Japanese name in Japanese. You don’t need to know any Japanese to be able to deliver this, as all the rules and information are laid out on the slides.
The lesson looks at borrowed words and the Katakana alphabet which is used for non-native Japanese words, including names. It explores borrowed words in English to help clarify what this means in Japanese - there is a quiz to help this become clear.
An introduction to the Japanese language and culture that I made for my secondary school Japanese club. It covers introductory phrases, an outline of the three alphabets of Japanese (hiragana, katakana and kanji), simple questions and answers, numbers and a bit of calligraphy using hiragana.
Contains a 58 slide PowerPoint and Hiragana/Katakana handouts.
I designed this lesson as a one-off lesson for a whole school Multiculturalism day and it went down a treat!
I have included a worksheet which follows on from the Powerpoint. I taught the lesson 4 times in the same day to different classes in Year 9 and they loved it. It lasts the full hour.
I included greetings, numbers 1-10, how to have a brief conversation and one or two cultural things.
It could be used during Form periods, PSHE lessons or for any other special event.
I hope you like it - leave a rating!
This resource is aimed at KS2 / KS3 students. It includes a powerpoint with links to example videos as well as a match up worksheet and gap fill, both in word document format. Intended for delivery across 2 lessons.
