Unit 2: Awareness
Chapter 4: Planning a Japanese Culture Week

Notional

• Telephone terms
• Time
  • Minutes
  • Relative time きょう、あした、あさって
• Japanese arts
  • Fine arts
  • Performing arts
  • Japanese martial arts
• School items
• Facial parts
• Kanji: 火、水、木、金、土、分、年、本、学、先、生

Functional

• Describing daily activities
• Useful words for writing event proposals
• Frequency of action
• Terms for calculation
  • Addition and subtraction
• Japanese system of counting
• Expressing existence
• Expressing possession

Affective

• Awareness
  • awareness of culture

Cognitive

• Awareness
  • awareness of one’s actions
• Self-monitoring comprehension while listening or reading

Language

• Changing topics and ending conversation

Grammar/Function

• Describing motions with reference to direction or destination
  – e/ni verb. (ie. – e/ni ikimasu.)
• Describing actions
  – o verb. (ie. – o tabemasu.)
• Negating motions and actions
  – masen.
• Indicating time of action
  – Time ni (ie. nichiyoobi ni)
• Structure of the Japanese sentence
  • Topic and comment
  • Basic word order
• Basic particles

• Self-assessment
• Peer assessment
• Sum up
• Portfolio assessment