Japanese Teaching Topic -
INTRODUCTIONS AND GREETINGS
Teaching ideas, art and craft, flashcards, games, lesson plans, songs, videos, useful websites, worksheets on the Japanese teaching topic INTRODUCTIONS AND GREETINGS, jikoshoukai, aisatsu, しょうかい、しごと、さい、げんき、あいさつ、なまえ etc.
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Activities
Famous people speed dating
After teaching introduction vocabulary and expressions use this activity to rehearse the new target language. Give each student a famous person card. Make sure they know who the person is. Then put the group of students into two rows facing each other. Students introduce themselves as the famous person. Then after one minute the teacher rings a bell and all the students in one of the rows move down one seat (the student on the end of the row moves all the way to the back of the row). Each student should now have a new person to talk to. They introduce themselves. One minute passes and they move down to the next person again. They continue until they have introduced themselves to everyone in the row opposite. 
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Introduction cards Students mingle around the room introducing their character (including name, nationality and job). As an extra activity: as they mingle they need to find people with similarities.
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Booklets
Year 8 Term 1 Booklet
Topics covered: Introductions, saying your name, numbers, phone numbers, age, hobbies and likes/dislikes. Donated by Anna Y. |
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Flashcards
Greetings flashcards
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Games in class
Aisatsu game
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Collect the meishi (name card)
Everyone has one めいし or name tag. When the teacher says ‘go’ students do jan ken with the nearest person. If you win, you receive that person’s name card/tag. The person with the most cards at the end is the winner. If you do not have any cards, you can still challenge other students to jan ken to win their cards (one card at a time). At the end, the teacher calls the names on the cards collected by the winner and those people must introduce themselves to the class.
Jiko Shokai Bingo
Students draw a bingo grid in their books with a suitable number of squares for the class (3x3 for a small class)(4x4 for a larger class). They write their own name into one of the squares. Students go around the class introducing themselves to other students in Japan and asking for their autograph. They write their names in Japanese in the other person’s bingo grid. Once most students have filled or mostly filled their grid, the teacher calls the group to stop. The person with the most names starts by calling out one of the names in their grid. They cannot call their own name. Whoever’s name is called must stand and introduce themselves to the class in Japanese (name and age, name and something they like – whatever is relevant to what they are learning in class). That person then calls the next name. Usual bingo rules apply.
Games online
Greetings match up games
Greetings in romaji and hiragana. Includes audio. http://www.digitaldialects.com/Japanese.htm |  |
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Lesson plans
Personal details lesson plan |  |
Powerpoints
Aisatsu
PowerPoint introducing basic greetings vocabulary. 
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Introducing others - Goshookaishimasu
PowerPoint introducing basic words and phrases for introducing other people such as friends and family.
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Songs
Aisatsu song
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Greetings SONG |
Nan sai desu ka rap
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Videos
Basic Japanese greetings |
Frank and Obaasan |
Introductions |
Nice to meet you |
Self introduction じこしょうかい
Simple self introduction video. Name, where you live, job, likes and dislikes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKSSaI2Z-I4 |
Websites
Create your own Simpsons Avitar
http://www.simpsonsmovie.com/main.html Create your own Simpsons avitar and then describe what he/she is wearing, what he/she looks like, write a short introduction and much more! |  |
Listen to basic greetings
A list of greetings said in 'slow' or 'fast' mode. Read by a native speaker. http://webjapanese.com/sound/greetings/index.html |  |
Names translator
Find your name in Japanese http://www.japanesetranslator.co.uk/your-name-in-japanese/ |  |
Worksheets
Everyday conversation checklist
A list of general questions and answers you can give to students to start off a lesson. List includes: How are you?, What's your name?, How old are you?, What's your hobby?, Do you like...?, Who's your favourite...? etc. 
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Japanese greetings in hiragana
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Ogenki desu ka?
How are you? Practice saying greetings.
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Meeting your neighbours
Two dialogues practicing introductions with practice questions and activities. 
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Names list
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Needs Analysis
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Where I live in Japan
Ss read (ROMAJI) about where various people live in Japan and then label them on a map. Donated by M Miller.
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