School

Japanese teaching topic - School

Teaching ideas, art and craft, flashcards, games, lesson plans, songs, videos, useful websites, worksheets on the Japanese teaching topic SCHOOL, gakkou, 学校,　がっこう classroom etc.

Flashcards

Classroom expressions
Use these 20 flashcards to teach students common classroom expressions. Hang them on the wall as reminders.

Classroom expressions
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Kamoku flashcards
Japanese, English, art, manual arts, science, SOSE, music, PE, IT, maths, home ec. flashcards.

Kamoku flashcards
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School subjects flashcards
Ready to print A4 flashcards for common subjects in school.
http://flashcards.jpf-sydney.net/

To access this:
Go to 'Kotoba card 100' > 'Index topic A-I' Scroll down.

Stationery flashcards 文房具　ぶんぼうぐ
Common stationery flashcards including: eraser, notebook, pencil, stapler, scissors, sticky tape, folder, drawers, pen, pencil case, sharpener, and glue.

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Games in class

Gakkou sugoroku
http://activity-resources.jpf-sydney.org/ar/ar_07/2/2_1.htm
Students say what they have done in each place around the school.

Kamoku karuta
Cut up the karuta cards. Divide the class into pairs. Give each group a set of subject karuta cards. Tt yells out Japanese words and the Ss slap the corresponding picture karuta. The Ss in the pair that slaps the quickest gets to keep the card. The winner is the person with the most karuta at the end. EXTRA: To make this game more exciting when there are only a few cards left get Ss to put their hands on thier heads, on their hips etc. (This activity can get noisy so count back in Japanese 3, 2, 1 then say the word. Students are usually quiet by the time you reach 1 because they want to know what the next word is.)

Kamoku karuta
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Games online

Preparing for school
Game where students can learn common classroom expressions, dates, stationery.
http://info.ccw.vic.edu.au/lote/lang/main.htm

To access this:
Go to 'Watashi no sekai' > Topic 1 'Gakkou no jyunbi'.

Images

School images
Hundreds of images of Japanese school things.
http://www.printout.jp/clipart/clipart_d/26_school/clipart1.html

PowerPoints

Asking for things in Japanese (stationery)
PowerPoint showing how to ask for things in Japanese using ~o kudasai　～をください.

Resource created through funding by Brisbane School of Distance Education.

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Stationery　ぶんぼうぐ
PowerPoint introducing vocabulary for basic stationery items.

Resource created through funding by Brisbane School of Distance Education.

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Unit plans

School life and routines
10 unit plans on school life and routines including: 'Where in school?' 'What room?' 'Looking for someone' 'Dos and Don'ts in class' 'In a lesson' 'My study problem' 'School rules' 'School outing' 'Report on school outing' and 'Lunchtime chattering'. Unit plans include worksheets, ICTS, grammar, audio, and more!
http://www.jpf.org.uk/language/exercises/list.php

Videos

Japanese school system
A short video comparing the American and Japanese schooling systems.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J8gYFuQG6c

Jikanwari
Learn to talk about your timetable in Japanese. ~jikanme.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re-XkMxVd_I

Websites

Classroom Japanese
Useful expressions for in the Japanese classroom.
http://genkienglish.net/classroomenglishcd.htm

Classroom language songs
Some simple songs for remembering classroom expressions.
http://activity-resources.jpf-sydney.org/ar/se3/unit1/1_3.htm

Classroom language origami
Teach students how to fold origami with Japanese instructions.
http://activity-resources.jpf-sydney.org/ar/se3/unit2/2_2.htm

Worksheets

Hiragana kamoku renshuu
Practice writing about different subjects in hiragana. Practice ga, ki, ra, i, de, su.

Hiragana kamoku renshuu
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Japanese education system fact sheet
A four page PDF explaining the Japanese education system from elementary school to cram school.
http://web-japan.org/factsheet/pdf/EDUCATIO.pdf

For more fact sheets go to: http://web-japan.org/factsheet/

Kamoku label
Label the pictures with Japanese kamoku subject words.

Kamoku label
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Kamoku quiz
A word quiz and a find-a-word about Japanese school subjects.

Kamoku quiz
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Kyoushitsu
Match the common classroom objects to the pictures.
Adapted from www.eslprintables.com

Kyoushitsu
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Like Kamoku
A worksheet where students learn how to say daisuki, suki, suki jya nai, and kirai about various school subjects.

Like kamoku
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School rules list こうこう（高校）のきそく
Use this worksheet to help students list all the school rules in Japanese.

Donated by S Buck.

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School rules unjumble
Use this sheet to revise studied 'rules' grammar points and vocabulary.
Enlarge the sheet to A3 and students working in pairs have to cut out the parts of the jumbled sentence and glue them onto another A3 sheet in the correct order.

Donated by S Buck.

school_rules_unjumble.doc
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School system
Learn about the Japanese school system. Ss compare their school system with their own.
Donated by M Miller.

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Study pirate
Practice the verb benkyou shimasu and it's various forms (masen, mashita, masendeshita) when talking about subjects.
Donated by Anna Y.

study_pirate.doc
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Study verb poster
A poster of common subjects that can be used with the verb 'benkyoushimasu'.
Donated by Anna Y.

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Subject survey
Students survey the class to find out which subjects are liked and which are hated.

Subject survey
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Talking about your timetable
Learn how to talk about the timetable in Japanese.

Talking about your timetable
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Timetables - Jikanwari
Students complete their timetables in Japanese.

Timetables - Jikanwari
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Write pirate
Practice the verb kakimasu (masen, mashita, masendeshita).

Donated by Anna Y.

write_pirate.doc
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Write verb poster
A poster of common things that can be used with the verb 'kakimasu'.

Donated by Anna Y.

write_poster.doc
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