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What Are We Wearing?
Activity 2: A vocabulary game using sticky notes
Date: Country: Author(copyright): Themes:
2003/1 Canada Yazawa Michiko Clothing and Fashion
Overview:
Students are given a note card labeled with a classmate's clothing items and they must find the person who matches their card. The one who finds the person on his/her card fastest wins the game.
Presumed class profile
Level of Japanese-language Japanese 2-
Grades and Ages Grade 11-12, Age 16-18, Secondary
Optimal number of students 20-30
Text book used n/a
Required language skills Students are expected to know and be able to use basic Japanese grammatical structures, such as nominal, adjectival, and verbal predicates. Students are expected to be at least in their second semester of Japanese language learning. Preferably students have already been introduced to the "V te imasu" pattern and its functions as an expression of progressive, and habitual action and of state description.
Others n/a

Points to be studied
Language objectives
Function Structure Vocabulary words/phrases
To describe what someone is wearing n/a Clothing nouns: ブラウス、シャツ、セーター、Tシャツ、スカート、ズボン、ジーンズ、たんパン、ベスト、ブレザー、ジャージ、リボン、ネクタイ、マフラー、めがね、かばん、くつした、くつ、サンダル、など
Cultural objectives
Target Process Aim
n/a n/a n/a

Activity type
Activity type Mode Oral/written Who
Comprehension check Interpretive Written Individual, Whole Class

Materials
From the Deai photo sheets From the Deai text booklet Other materials
n/a n/a For each student:, 3-5 sticky notes or pieces of paper and Scotch tape, 4x6 inch note card (approximately half of a letter size piece of paper)

Duration
Duration 30 minutes