Chapter 1: Meeting Someone for the First Time Reference

Unit 1: Encounter
Chapter 1: Meeting Someone for the First Time

Reference

National Standards (5C)

Communication Cultures Connections Comparisons Communities

Interpersonal

  • Greeting
  • Social conversation

Interpretive

  • Simple messages and lists
    • Name cards
    • Class list
    • New Year’s cards

Presentational

  • Name cards
  • Class list
  • New Year’s cards
  • New Year
  • Japanese currency
  • Game & Song
    • haru ga kita
    • musunde hiraite
  • Mathematics (division and multiplication)
  • Computer Science (memory size)
  • Biology (animals)
  • Music (songs)

Language

  • The Japanese language in the modern world topics

Pronunciation

  • Short and long syllables

Kanji and kana

  • Kana
    Long vowels in katakana
  • High school social

Linguistic Information

Vocabulary Strategy Highlights Form Assessments

Notional

  • Numbers
    • 0 – 10,000
    • Telephone numbers
  • Schools
    • Type of school
    • Grade levels
  • Seasons
  • Weather
  • Sports
  • Year
    • Year by Common Era
    • Year by Japanese Era
    • 12 zodiac cycles
  • Size of computer memory
  • Currency units

Functional

  • Greetings
    • First time greetings
    • Daily greetings
    • New Year greetings
  • Performing calculations
    • Division and multiplication
  • Question words:
    nani, nan, nannen, nanban, nansai, nannensei, ikura

Affective

  • Appreciate the mindset/feeling associated with a first meeting

Cognitive

  • Guessing

Language

  • Ensuring thorough acquisition of information
    • Partial repeating
    • Confirming with desu ne
    • Asking again
  • Developing conversation with ja

Grammar/Function

  • Identifying things and people with the “be” verb
    – desu.
  • Asking questions
    • Asking yes-no questions
      – desu ka?
    • Asking questions using question words (Part 1)
      – Q-word desu ka?
    • Asking for confirmation
      – desu ne.
    • Asking for repetition
      – mooichido onegaishimasu.
    • Establishing a topic
      – Topic wa – desu (ka?)
    • Linking nouns
      – Noun A no Noun B
  • Self-assessment
  • Sum up
  • Video portfolio assessment

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