Japanese Teaching Topic - TRAVEL & TRANSPORT
Teaching ideas, art and craft, flashcards, games, lesson plans, songs, videos, useful websites, worksheets on the Japanese teaching topic TRAVEL 旅行、りょこう、ゆうめいなところ、日本、たび、海外、国内、etc.
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Flashcards
Norimono flashcards
Common transport のりもの including train, bus, car, taxi, bike, shinkansen, underground, plane, boat, on foot. 
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Travel activities Common activities done while travelling including picnicing, sightseeing, boating, going on a tour, swimming, fishing, camping, surfing, climbing, skiing.
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Travel destination flashcards Common travel destinations including park, zoo, museum, art gallery, hotspring, temple, shrine, amusement park, beach, mountain, river, the country.
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Games in class
Transport karuta
Give each pair of Ss a set of transport cards. Tt yells out a word. The first Ss to snap the card gets to keep it. Or the first Ss to show the card to the teacher gets to keep it.
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Travel karuta
Give each Ss a copy of one of the travel karuta. Ask around the class where each Ss is going. Ie. "Doko ni ikimasu ka?" The Ss looks at their card and says where they are going in Japanese. Ie. "Hakubutsukan ni ikimasu." EXTRA: Give each pair of Ss a set of karuta. Tt says each word, and Ss play snap. OR Give two Ss in the class the same card. Tt says one of the words. The first person in the pair to give the Tt their card is the winner. | 
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Travel run and find
Print off the travel where go cards. Place the cards randomly around the room. Divide the class into pairs. One Ss is a runner the other is a writer. The writer puts numbers 1 to 12 into their notebooks. The runner then needs to run around the room, finding all 12 different cards. When they find a card, the Ss needs to remember the name and destination on it. The Ss then runs back and tells their partner in Japanese in a full sentence eg. The card has 'Yuuki' and a picture of a park. The Ss needs to say "Yuuki san wa koen ni ikimasu." The writer writes down Yuuki and koen (park). The winner is the Ss who first writes down all 12 different names and destinations. EXTRA: Check the winning pairs answers by asking where each person will go, in front of the rest of the class. If the other Ss in the class also had the person and destination then they get a point. Find out who came 2nd and 3rd etc. | 
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Games on line
How do you get to school? |  |
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Lesson plans
Famous Japanese Places Lesson plan |  |
Diving holiday in Okinawa Lesson Plan |  |
Going places |  |
Packing your suitcase Lesson Plan |  |
Powerpoints
Vocabulary review Use an interactive whiteboard (or copy onto an OHT). Tt says a work in English or Japanese and Ss run up and circles the vocabulary. Or the Tt points to the picture and Ss yell out the Japanese.
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Speaking activities
Travel agent speaking activity |  |
Videos
Vehicles in Japanese |
Traffic signs
Learn how to read some traffic signs in Japanese. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxqvwLk_zHU |
Webquests
Japanese holiday
http://www.cap.nsw.edu.au/bb_site_intro/stage2_Modules/japan/japanese_holiday.htm
The students imagine that their family has won a two week holiday to Japan to be taken any time throughout the next twelve months. Students need to consider three cities to stay in – Tokyo, Nagasaki or Hakone. Students write up their findings and present them to the rest of the class.
Travel Japan
http://sd71.bc.ca/Sd71/Edulinks/countries/japan/
Students imagine they have just been hired by a travel agency. Students create a brochure for the company to use to advertise their latest vacation package to Japan.
You are moving to Japan
http://web.viu.ca/webquests3/2001/japan/japan.html
Students imagine that their parents have decided to move to Japan. There are three cities they can chose from Sapporo, Nagoya or Fukuoka. Students research the net to determine which city would be the best for their family. They then make a brochure to show their parents highlighting all the positive things they have found out about that city.
Websites
Japan National Tourist organization
http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/ Information about tourist destinations and what's going on in Japan. Videos and pictures of travel around Japan. |  |
Japan Ryokan Association |  |
Japan travel guide |  |
Japanese geography |
Worksheets
Akihabara reading worksheet
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Assignment - Alien in Japan Year 6 or 7 assignment where students plan a trip to Japan for an Alien and then create a poster.
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Assignment - Alien in Japan EXAMPLE
Cut these pictures and descriptions out, put them on a poster and show the students in the class the requirements of the assignment above.
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Discover travel in Japan Use this worksheet to get students thinking about places to travel to in Japan. (Can be used as inspiration for the assignment above.)
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Doko ni ikimasu ka Practice places and the verb ikimasu. Practice future - masu and past tense -mashita. Practice talking about who you go with -to.
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Holiday reading and writing
Basic reading about where students will go on their holidays, how they get there and what activities they will do. Students read and answer questions then write their own.
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Tokyo Tower reading worksheet
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Norimono match ups
Students match the Japanese words with the various types of transport. Then practice saying means of transport with the particle de.
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Norimono
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Postcard reading
Basic reading of a postcard about the weather and what someone will do or has done on their holiday. (2 postcards with questions.) Donated by M Miller.
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Reading a timetable worksheet |  |
Travel activities
Match the travel activities in Japanese to the appropriate pictures.
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Travel destinations
Match the travel destinations in Japanese to the appropriate pictures.
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Travel find-a-word |  |
Ueno reading worksheet
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What did you do on your holidays?
Reading worksheet with questions about what various people did on their holidays. Donated by M Miller.
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