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Japanese festivals and special occasions

 
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Japanese special occasions such as Valentine's day, White Day, Kodomo no hi (Children's day), Tanabata (Star festival), Obon festival, Taiiku no hi (Sports Day), Shichi go san (Seven five three), Hanami (Cherry blossom viewing), Hanabi (Summer fireworks), Hina matsuri (Girl's day),  Genbaku anniversary (Hiroshima attomic bomb) and more.  (More activities coming soon!)  CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE CALENDAR!

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Tanabata (July 7)

 Video: Tanabata dance

Video: Tanabata song

Hina Matsuri (March 3)

Hina Matsuri Mingle      Give each Ss a Hina Matsuri  mingle card.  The Ss reads their mingle card. Ss then mingle and discuss what is on their card.  Ss can mingle for about 5 to 10 minutes.  Warn the students they will have to answer a quiz at the end so they need to remember as much information as possible.  Once the time is up get the Ss to sit back down.  Give them the Hina Matsuri quiz.  Allocate a prize for the Ss who answers the most questions correctly.

Video: Japanese family celebrating the girl's festival

Video: Hina matsuri song showing doll display

Kodomo no hi (May 5)

Koinobori slide show  http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/koinobori/show/
Thousands of Koinobori hanging around Japan. MUST SEE!  ✰✰✰✰✰

Kodomo no hi songs http://www.tarogoi.com/info/index.html
Download MP3s of famous songs played on Kodomonohi.

Koinobori Craft http://kids.nifty.com/handmade/paper/event/12/index.htm
Make a Koinobori out of paper.

Sadako's Story - Hiroshima (Memorial day August 6)

Video: Sadako's story in origami

Video: Song about Sadako and the hiroshima bombing

Valentines Day (14 Feb.) Vs White Day (14 March)

Discussion      Divide the group of Ss into pairs.  One Ss reads the information about White Day the other reads the information about Valentines’ Day.  Then discuss together and compare the differences. DOWNLOAD DISCUSSION WORKSHEET.

Video          This is an excellent video explaining the difference between Valentines Day and White Day in Japan.  Ss watch the video and then discuss the differences in English. http://revver.com/video/312786/japanese-valentines-day-white-day/
 
Valentines Descriptions - Adjectives Dave's ESL cookbook A Gould Each student receives 3 blank Valentines and 3 names of their classmates. On the outside of the Valentine is written 'This Valentine is for the person...' and the students would fill in a physical description, such as 'with a gray sweater, that is a woman, and sitting near the window.' On the inside of the Valentine was 'I think you are ...' and space to fill in 4 NICE adjectives of personality (stress the nice part) and 'and I really enjoy having you in my class!'  The students fill in these adjectives and adjective phrases, then put all the Valentines in a box. Each student pulled out 3 and then took turns reading the physical descriptions on the front while the rest of the class would yell out who the Valentine was for. When the student received the Valentine, they would read the personality description out loud and say thank you. To save time, you could also just have them walk around the room and find the person, but this does not allow for much monitoring of proper grammar.

 

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