Lesson 9
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Plenary (5 minutes)
Children show their New Year cards to one another and then learn how to say ‘Happy New Year!’ – akemashite omedeto! The Japanese teacher could then write this in hiragana on the board and children could copy it onto their cards, along with their names in Japanese. They could also try using kanji to write the year. (If you decide to design the cards during the ICT session, then children could simply practise writing their New Year greetings in the Japanese lesson and put them on to the finished product at a later date).
Extension:
To refresh the numbers before writing them on the New Year cards, either you,
or the Japanese teacher starts counting aloud in Japanese – ‘ichi, ni, san’.
S/he then stops counting aloud and instead starts clapping. Each clap
represents a number. Children should continue counting in their heads. When
the teacher stops clapping, are the children able to state what the next
number will be? Variations could include counting up in twos, threes etc!
