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The Deai Students and Transportation
Activity 3 : Commuting to School--Everyday Transportation |
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| Date: | Country: | Author(copyright): | Themes: |
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| 2003/1 | Canada | Yazawa
Michiko 矢澤理子 Alberta Learning (Ministry of Learning, Alberta) |
Transportation Nature and the Environment |
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investigate the ways that the Deai students commute to school, and compare
the transportation facilities in Japan with those of their own culture(s). |
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From the Deai photo sheets:
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Worksheets
and other materials: A
transportation route map InternetPhots
from Deai CD-ROM1
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Hang
the follow photos around the classroom showing scenes of the Deai students
on their way to school.
SM-D02 (walking) Ask the students to think about what the Deai students
are in the midst of doing, and elicit the answer "commuting to/from
school." (If you have difficulty getting this response, draw a picture
of a house and a school connected by an arrow (⇒) on the blackboard
and post a photo above the arrow.) You also might include my148, my054,
and yk066 from Deai CD-ROM 1. |
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Have
your students use Japanese to say what means of transportation they use
to come to school.
Confirm the names of various types of transportation,
such as school bus (スクールバス), car (車),
bicycle (自転車), on foot/walking
(徒歩／あるいて), public bus (バス),
etc. Poll the students and write these up on the blackboard in order
of most frequent use (e.g., school bus--11
people, car--5 people, and so on). You can also use noun-modifying
clauses like スクールバスで来る人, 車で来る人, depending on the students' level
of Japanese. |
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Show
the methods that the Deai students use to commute to school.
Reference:
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Alert
the students to the fact that there are no photos of school buses among
the scenes of the Deai students commuting to school. Have them discuss
why there is no school bus system in Japan, how students manage without
school buses, and what kind of transportation students who commute a long
distance use instead. (Using a transportation route map, show students
the densely developed public transit network of Japan's major cities, and
point out how it differs from their own social transit system.) |
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Alert
the students to the fact that none of the photos show the Deai students
driving a car themselves. (Note, however, that Yamamoto Takayuki is studying
to get his drivers license.) The teacher should explain that it is rare
for Japanese high school students to commute to school by car and that,
although some students ride motorbikes or motorcycles instead, many schools
prohibit these as well. |
| Reference: Deai Website, Mini Encyclopedia--Commuting to School  http://www.tjf.or.jp/deai/contents/teacher/mini_en/html/tsugaku_j.html
[Japanese] http://www.tjf.or.jp/deai/contents/teacher/mini_en/html/tsugaku.html
[English]
Teachers may also introduce data
from the following site regarding general tendencies in methods of
commuting to school (in order of most-used: bicycle, train, walking),
and compare this with their students' own statistics, which were
recorded on the blackboard in step two. Discuss with the students why differences in methods of commuting to school, including differences in the ways that people relate to cars, come about. If students have an e-pal in Japan, they can ask his/her opinion by e-mail. |
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