4-Overview

This is the overview for "Play".

Students will experience Japanese "遊び" by exploring different activities done both in Japan and in America by high school students. They will be able to use Japanese vocabulary, phrases, and simple setences to talk about these activities. They will also be able to invite friends along to join them in these activities. Finally they will construct their own

In this part of the After-School Life (放課後の生活) theme, students will be able to talk about fun activities and hobbies in Japan. By the end of the lesson, students will have been introduced to general vocabulary and phrases to help them in comunicating with Japanese students while discussing or participating in these activities. They should be able to tell them about thier likes and dislikes and to invite students to join them in fun activities. They will also have the oportunity to compare these activities with those in there own lives to find differences and similarities. At the end of the Unit they will have the oportunity to use some of the Japanese they know to create their own (movie, short story, manga, roll play game, childrens song).

Topics: video games (going to the game center), movies and books (reading manga and watching anime), and music (singing at the karaoke center). Interview students to find current activities and put those activities here. Be Sure to include the "forbiden" activities (age appropriate) that students have an interest in,but are not allowed to do.

Vocabulary: Hobbies (play activities), describing activities, After finding more "authentic" activities, construct appropriate vocabulary groups and put here.

Language Functions: Describing Likes and Dislikes, Invinting a Friend to do an activity Listen to the interviews and find materials and decidie whether or not this is enough for a single Thematic theme.

Final Project: One of the following (make a Role Play Game, write a short story[anime], write and sing a song [can be to the tune of a kids song], make a short movie. Again, after deciding on all of the activities that will be discussed, add and take away from this list to offer better options for students to work from