kr_self1a01b
Family
Activity 1: Describe Other's Family
Date: Country: Author(copyright): Themes:
2002/3 US Takahashi Megumi, Kiyozuka Chiho, Kubota Ryoko Self, Family, and Friends
Overview:
The students will meet the family members of the Deai people, and find out diversity of Japanese family, as the students study family terms in Japanese.
Presumed class profile
Level of Japanese-language Japanese 1
Grades and Ages Grade 9-12, Age 14-18, Secondary
Optimal number of students 25
Text book used Kisetsu 1: Haruichiban
Required language skills Novice-low in ACTFL Proficiency Guideline (finished 90 hours of instruction) / Asking and answering about their profiles / Counting people
Others n/a

Points to be studied
Language objectives
Function Structure Vocabulary words/phrases
- The students, given six family terms to describe other's family (honorific-polite terms), will be able to identify them with 90% accuracy.
- The students, given the family terms, will obtain information about the teacher and the classmates' families with 90% accuracy.
- The students, given the family terms, will label Deai families in Japanese with 85% accuracy.
- Exchange information about others' family members.
- これは だれ ですか。(Looking at a picture.)
〜さんの おかあさん です。
- これは だれの おとうさん ですか。(Looking at a picture.)
〜さんの おとうさん です。
- これは 〜さんの おねえさん ですか。
はい、そうです。/いいえ、ちがいます。〜さんの いもうと です。
- おとうとは なんにん いますか。
〜にん います。
- なんにんかぞく ですか。
〜にんかぞく です。
- おとうさん、おかあさん、おにいさん、おねえさん、おとうと、いもうと
- 〜にんかぞく
Cultural objectives
Target Process Aim
Diversity of Japanese family (Products) Exposure, observation and discovery The students will understand diversity of family structures in both U.S. and Japan through Deai families. / The students will identify where the Deai families live on a map of Japan.

Activity type
Activity type Mode Oral/written Who
Teacher demonstration, structure practice, playing with words and classifying information, narrative and description, information gap and jigsaw, interview and survey, discussion Interpersonal, Presentational Oral, Written Individual, Pair, Small Group, Whole Class

Materials
From the Deai photo sheets From the Deai text booklet Other materials
Deai friends: MY-P01, OK-P01, SM-P01, TS-P01, YK-P01, YT-P01, YY-P01, Deai family members: MY-P06, MY-P07, MY-P08, OK-P08, OK-P09, SM-P09, TS-P08, TS-P09, TS-P10, YK-P06, YK-P07, YT-P10, YT-P11, YY-P08, YY-P09, YY-P10, Deai families: MY-P05, OK-P07, SM-P08, TS-P07, YK-P05, YT-P09, YT-P11, YY-P07 n/a - Wall map of Japan, one on a transparency, or CD-ROM 2 to show where Deai friends live., - Worksheet #1-1: Deai Friends, - Worksheet #1-2: Map of Japan, -Worksheet #2: Information-Gap Sheet: Deai Families, - Article: Family Life (Japan Information Network. (2002). Electronic References. Retrieved Mar. 2, 2002, from http://jin.jcic.or.jp/today/society/society2.html#fam)

Duration
Duration 60 minutes (1st day of the unit)