日本への留学

Thematic Unit 1: Studying in Japan

Unit Title "日本への留学

Grade Level: College 3rd year (JAPN 301)

Estimated Time: 50 minutes X 12 days

Goals: Students will understand Japanese greetings and explain their own university and town.

Targeted Standards: =**COMMUNICATION** = **Communicate in Languages Other Than English**
 * **Standard 1.1:** Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions
 * **Standard 1.2:** Students understand and interpret written and spoken language on a variety of topics
 * **Standard 1.3:** Students present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics.

**CULTURES**  **Gain Knowledge and Understanding of Other Cultures**
 * **Standard 2.1:** Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the culture studied
 * **Standard 2.2:** Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products and perspectives of the culture studied

**CONNECTIONS** **Connect with Other Disciplines and Acquire Information**
 * **Standard 3.1:** Students reinforce and further their knowledge of other disciplines through the foreign language
 * **Standard 3.2:** Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures

**COMPARISONS** **Develop Insight into the Nature of Language and Culture** **COMMUNITIES** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica;">**Participate in Multilingual Communities at Home & Around the World**
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica;">**Standard 4.1:** Students demonstrate understanding of the nature of language through comparisons of the language studied and their own
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica;">**Standard 4.2:** Students demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica;">**Standard 5.1:** Students use the language both within and beyond the school setting
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica;">**Standard 5.2:** Students show evidence of becoming life-long learners by using the language for personal enjoyment and enrichment.

Final Outcomes:
 * Students will be able to introduce themselves and talk about themselves.
 * Students will be able to talk about their university and town.
 * Students will be able to compare a Japanese town and their

Lesson Activities:
 * 1) Discussing opinions (pair, small group, and class)
 * 2) Watching visual aids
 * 3) Speaking (self-introduction)
 * 4) Listening (classmates and Torrance High School students, CD)
 * 5) Writing (Facebook information page, a letter to host family introducing themselves, and a university website)
 * 6) Reading (textbook, Wiki pages of classmates and Torrance High School students)

Assessment Tasks A. Preparation for going to Japan 1. Facebook activity 1) Write a Facebook information page. 2) Read others' Facebook pages, correct group members' pages, and write comments or questions. 3) Use vocabulary accurately.

2. Writing a letter 1) Work with a group member. 2) Discuss the university and city information that Japanese students would like to know. 3) Gain information about their university and cities and create a website. 4) Collaborate writing. 5) Evaluate other groups' pages and create a class website. 6) Create a commercial. 7) Evaluate which commercial is the best and tell the reasons.

3. Japanese greeting 1) Read textbook and online materials about Japanese reading. Create a graphic organizer based on their readings. As a group of three people, compare greeting words and expressions between Japanese and English. Share personal opinions. 2) Role play asking a professor for a letter of recommendation.

4. Japanese gift-giving 1)