Japanese Teaching Topic - COUNTING
Teaching ideas, art and craft, flashcards, games, lesson plans, songs, videos, useful websites, worksheets on the Japanese teaching topic COUNTING, counters, kazoeru, かぞえます etc.
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Flashcards
Flashcards counting people
Practice describing how many people there are in your family using these flashcards. 
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Flashcards hon
Teach how to count long thin objects using these flashcards.
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Flashcards hitotsu
Teach how to count general things using these flashcards.
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Flashcards mai
Teach how to count flat things using these flashcards.
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Flashcards satsu
Teach how to count books using these flashcards.
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Number flashcards |  |
Games in class
The teacher says 「大きな花火がとんできた。ドードン ドードン」 Students repeat each ドードン after the teacher. 「大きな花火がとんできた。ドードン(ドードン) ドードン(ドードン)」 Then the teacher calls 「ドン、ドン、あつまれ」. The teacher may say ドンas many times as he/she likes. Students must form groups according to the number of times the teacher said ドン.
Put Ss into small groups. Ss counts go round the group and count from 1 いち to 11 じゅういち. The Ss can choose to say one number, two numbers, or three numbers. Ie いち or いち、に or いち、に、さん. Continue counting around the circle. Whoever says 11 じゅういち is out. OR stands up. The next person to say 11 then stands up and the first person can now sit down. EXTRA: The number 11 can be changed to any number such as 21, 31, 41 etc. This game can also be done with money ie count from 100 en 百円 to 1100 en 千百円.
Sumimasen Buzz
Put Ss into small groups. Ss counts go round the group and count from 1 いち to 10 じゅう. But instead of saying 5 ご they must say simimasen すみません. If a Ss says the worng 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 number card from the Tt. This number can be any number. This then becomes the new starting number. Ie the Ss gets 3 さん so the group starts counting from the number 3 さん. EXTRA: Counting can be done in 2s, 5s, 10s; forwards or backwards; using Japanese counters; using timetables ie 2 x 1 = 2, 2 x 2 = 4 etc., money.
This game involves 2 students playing Jan Ken Pon. Gu (Rock) equals 1, Choki (Scissors) equals 2 and Pa (Paper) equals 5. The students play Jan Ken Pon. It does not matter who wins or loses or if both students do the same action (e.g. both do Choki). The students must quickly add the value of the actions together and call out the number in Japanese. For example, if one student did Choki and the other did Gu the value of both would be 3. The first student to call out ‘san’ is the winner. This could also be played between the teacher and a student in the front of the class. If the student playing or any student in the class can call out the correct number in Japanese before the teacher, the student wins.
Games online
Numbers calculator |  |
Numbers match up game
Numbers in kanji and romaji. Match up games with numbers from 1 to 12 and 13 to 20. http://www.digitaldialects.com/Japanese.htm |  |
Poster
Counting poster
A poster which shows the pronunciation of each number. http://www.sakunet.ne.jp/~hayaka1/hiratokatahyou/suuji011.html |  |
Songs
Counters song
Practice counting irregular things (hitotsu, futatsu) and long thing things (ippon, nihon) using this song that goes with 10 little indians.
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Videos
Counting from 1 to 20 |
Counting small objects |
Counting things |
Numbers around Japan |
Numbers song
Practice numbers from 1 to 10 in Japanese. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqNotzty3kE&feature=related |
Websites
Counter dictionary
A dictionary specific to Japanese counters. http://www.shurey.com/countdic/index.html |  |
Worksheets
Counting renshuu
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Maths problems
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Running numbers
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Numbers rule
Learn how to count from 1 to 100. Donated by M Miller.
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