Japanese Teaching Topic - DATES & BIRTHDAYS

Teaching ideas, art and craft, flashcards, games, lesson plans, songs, videos, useful websites, worksheets on the Japanese teaching topic DATES and BIRTHDAYS たんじょうび、にち、ひ、がつ、しゅうまつ、tanjyoubi, nichi, hi, gatsu, shumatu etc.

Flashcards

Dates flashcards
Counting days of the month flaschards: tsutachi, futsuka, mikka, yokka, itsuka etc.
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Days of the week flashcards
Days of the week in hiragana and kanji.
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Flashcards and kanji writing practice
Kanji explained using pictures and then kanji writing practice for all days of the week. Worksheets from www.jakka.net and http://www.jpf.org.uk/language/kanjifiles/kanjicard.html
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Games in class

Skipping Months
Take Ss outside with a long skipping rope.  Get the Ss to stand all to one side of the rope.  As each Ss goes to jump the skipping rope they must say a month in Japanese.  If they get the month wrong then they need to go back to the end of the line of Ss.  If the month is their birthday month they need to stay skipping and say all 12 months.

Sumimasen Buzz
Put Ss into small groups.  Ss counts go round the group saying the days of the week getsu you bi げつようび  to nichi you bi にちようび.  But instead of saying sui you bi すいようび they must say simimasen すみません.  If a Ss says the wrong thing or takes too long to answer they must stand up.  The next person who makes a mistake then stands up and the first person who made a mistake can now sit down.  OR When a Ss makes a mistake they stand and take a week day card from the Tt.  This week day becomes the new starting point Ie the Ss gets do you  bi どようび so the group starts saying the days from do you bi どようび.  EXTRA:  This can also be done using days of the month, months of the year.  Ss can stand up if they say their birthday month or day.  When the next Ss stands they can then sit again.

Games on line

Days of the week
[ROMAJI]
Match the English and Japanese vocabulary.
http://www.digitaldialects.com/Japanese/Daysmonths.htm
Months of the year
Click on the octopus.  Listen to the month and then click on the English month. 
http://www.genkienglish.net/genkijapan/monthsoftheyearinjapanese.htm
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Dates
Learn how to say the various days of the month.
1. http://www.quia.com/jg/363854.html
2. http://www.quia.com/rd/8848.html?AP_rand=1201359922
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Dates in Japanese
Click on the link to calendar.  Then click on the various dates on the calander.  Listen and learn the words.
http://www.ajalt.org/sfyj/index.html
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Unit plans

Birthday Lesson plan 1
http://www.jpf.org.uk/language/exercises/list.php
Talk about birthdays and presents. (Hoshi) Includes grammar, speaking activities, worksheets, listening with downloadable MP3s and transcripts, and online ICT activities.
To access this go to M-10 Birthday1

Birthday Lesson plan 2
http://www.jpf.org.uk/language/exercises/list.php
Talk about different people's birthdays and presents. (Agemasu, moraimasu)
Includes grammar, speaking activities, worksheets, listening with downloadable MP3s and transcripts, and online ICT activities.
To access this go to M-11 Birthday2

Videos

Days of the month
Practice saying the days of the month with this simple song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ6daiEil8M

Days of the week song
A short song teaching about the days of the week in Japanese.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhYWvW3LNVM&feature=PlayList&p=D7F28BCD14C10AF9&playnext=1&index=23

Days of the week video
Days of the week in kanji, romaji and with voice over.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIfJ8o2MGNQ&feature=PlayList&p=D7F28BCD14C10AF9&playnext=1&index=7

Days of the week
Learn the days of the week and common time expressions such as today, yesterday, the day after tomorrow, the weekend.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2WiTpJvJGA&feature=related

Months in Japanese
Short video teaching the months of the year in Japanese.
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=1vapY3xQbPE

Time expressions
Learn various time expressions including today, yesterday, in the morning, in the evening, at night, weekend, this year, next week, last week, next month, last month etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXVBMPv5vC4&feature=related

Worksheets

Days of the month
Practice saying the various dates.  Sing a rap song to help remember the special days of the month.
days_of_the_month.docx
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Days of the week crossword
Practice the days of the week and kanji with this worksheet.
Donated by Anna Y.
Days week crossword.doc
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Nan sai desu ka rap
Teach students how to say their age with this rap song.
Nan sai desu ka rap
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