Teaching ideas VALENTINES DAY & WHITE DAY
(February 14 & March 14)
Teaching ideas, art and craft, flashcards, games, lesson plans, songs, videos, useful websites, worksheets on the Japanese teaching topic VALENTINES DAY and WHITE DAY.
Games
Valentines Descriptions - Adjectives Dave's ESL cookbook A Gould
Each student receives 3 blank Valentines and 3 names of their classmates. On the outside of the Valentine is written 'This Valentine is for the person...' and the students would fill in a physical description, such as 'with a gray sweater, that is a woman, and sitting near the window.' On the inside of the Valentine was 'I think you are ...' and space to fill in 4 NICE adjectives of personality (stress the nice part) and 'and I really enjoy having you in my class!' The students fill in these adjectives and adjective phrases, then put all the Valentines in a box. Each student pulled out 3 and then took turns reading the physical descriptions on the front while the rest of the class would yell out who the Valentine was for. When the student received the Valentine, they would read the personality description out loud and say thank you. To save time, you could also just have them walk around the room and find the person, but this does not allow for much monitoring of proper grammar.
Video
Valentines Video
This is an excellent video explaining the difference between Valentines Day and White Day in Japan. Ss watch the video and then discuss the differences in English.
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=k4yYBsWNce4
Websites
Origami heart
Printable instructions and a video on how to make an origami heart. More challenging than 'simple heart' below.
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-an-Origami-Heart
Simple origami heart
This heart is so simple even younger students should be able to master it.
http://www.origami-club.com/valentine/easyheart/index.htm
Valentines day readings
Hiragana times has a few articles about Valentines day in English and Japanese.
http://www.hiraganatimes.com/hp/topics/index.html
Worksheets
Love Kanji
Practice writing aishite iru.
| Love kanji |
Valentines Day vs White Day Discussion Divide the group of Ss into pairs. One Ss reads the information about White Day the other reads the information about Valentines’ Day. Then discuss together and compare the differences.
| Valentines and whiteday |







