Lesson 5
Lesson Plan Download pdf
Main (20 minutes)
Use the sports flashcards and presentation to introduce various different sports to the children. The Japanese words for many sports should be familiar to children, so concentrate on correct pronunciation. Ask the children to try and identify how pronunciation differs between the two languages.
| tenisu | テニス | tennis |
| ragubi | ラグビー | rugby |
| sakka | サッカー | soccer |
| chesu | チェス | chess |
| gorufu | ゴルフ | golf |
| bare | バレー | volleyball |
| suiei | 水泳 | swimming |
| joba | 乗馬 | horse riding |
| tsuri | つり | fishing |
| judo | 柔道 | judo |
| karate | 空手 | karate |
Language awareness point
As children become aware of the patterns for ‘translating’ English words into
loan words in Japanese, encourage them to try and predict what the
Japanese for the sports might be. Whilst showing the sports presentation, ask
for ideas before clicking the soundfile/ asking the Japanese teacher. Even
where the Japanese word is quite different, children should come up with
‘fishingu’ and ‘raidingu’ which would be the most logical answers given
previous patterns.
Hand out individual sets of sport flashcards (can be photocopied from the worksheet).
Read out a sport and have children hold up the corresponding flash card from their own set.
Introduce the following phrase:
| …o shimasu | …をします。 | I play/ do… |
| nani o shimasu ka | 何をしますか。 | what do you play? |
| tenisu o shimasu | テニスをします。 | I play tennis |
Talk to the children and ask if they know of any other Japanese sports (such as sumo and aikido etc).
Extension
You could expand this by writing up a diary on the board and talking through
the different sports you do each day of the week:
MON tennis
TUE football
WED karate
etc
You could simply point at the day of the week before saying the sentence, or you could teach the days of the week to expand the sentence:
getsuyobi wa tenisu o shimasu 月曜日はテニスをしますI play tennis on Monday
| 月曜日 | getsuyobi | Monday | (moon day) |
| 火曜日 | kayobi | Tuesday | (fire day) |
| 水曜日 | suiyobi | Wednesday | (water day) |
| 木曜日 | mokuyobi | Thursday | (tree day) |
| 金曜日 | kinyobi | Friday | (gold day) |
| 土曜日 | doyobi | Saturday | (earth day) |
| 日曜日 | nichiyobi | Sunday | (sun day) |
Do children recognise any parts of the kanji from the kanji presentation studied in Lesson 4? Can they remember their meaning? (月、火、木、日 all appeared and should be familiar).
Optional Extra (10 minutes)
Explain the rules of tamaire to the class (see the Sports Day Culture
Notes) and split the class into two (red team and white team).
Teach the children the following words:
| ganbare! | がんばれ！ | keep trying!/ don’t give up! |
| kachi | 勝ち | winner! victory! |
| make | 負け | loser! |
| aka | 赤 | red |
| shiro | 白 | white |
play the game!
How did you find the game? Is it different to games you’ve played here before? Do you know of any similar games? How many balls did you get into the bucket? Let’s count them in Japanese!
