Japanese Teaching Topic - CELEBRITIES
Teaching ideas, art and craft, flashcards, games, lesson plans, songs, videos, useful websites, worksheets on the Japanese teaching topic CELEBRITIES, stars, famous people, describing famous people, pop stars, ゆうめいなひと etc.
Flashcards
Famous jobs
Flashcards describing famous jobs such as: actor, actress, model, singer, band member, comedian, politician, and athlete.
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PowerPoints
Famous celebrities - PowerPoint
Listening exercise - Show students pictures of famous Japanese. Students listen to the teacher describe each celebrity. Students write down name, date of birth, job and likes.
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Websites
List of Japanese celebrities
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_celebrities
List of Japanese celebrities including comedians, idols, models, musicians, singers, talent, actors, actresses, tv and radio personalities.
Famous Japanese
http://www.cc.kyoto-su.ac.jp/information/famous/
List of famous Japanese including musicians, politicians, sport figures, tv and movie personalities, cultural leaders and writers.
Modern stars
http://www.japan-zone.com/modern/tv_star.shtml
Famous directors, actors and actresses, tv stars, comedians, musicians, sports start, designers and politicians.
Worksheets
Assignment Favourite celebrity
Students create a magazine article describing their favourite celebrity. See example poster - Hikaru Utada below.
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Biography Japanese pop star |
Famous Japanese
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Famous Japanese reading questions
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Famous people descriptions
Learn basic famous jobs and adjectives. Describe famous people. (Introduction of ~kute and ~de.)
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Magazine profile - Suzuki Anju
Short Youtube video of Suzuki Anju that can be shown along side the above magazine profile. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XN6HVcRPiw |
Onmyouza
Students read about a Japanese heavy metal band. Then watch them perform in the you-tube video below.
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Onmyouza video clip
Watch this video clip after reading about them in the worksheet above. Discuss with students their favourite musician/band. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee3lxSQtwO8 |
Poster - Hikaru Utada Students read and answer questions about a famous Japanese Hikaru Utada. They then create their own poster about someone famous.
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Poster - Hikaru Utada
Short Youtube video of Hikaru Utada's song from Akira that can be shown along side the above Poster information. |
Ulfuls Reading
Introduce students to Japanese music. Students read about the Ulfuls rockband then watch a short video of them performing.
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Ulfuls - gutsdaze
Video to go with the Ulfuls reading worksheet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSHiPHaCqCw |















