Japanese: When is your birthday?

This Teaching and Learning resource is designed for younger students of Japanese to learn to ask and answer the question たんじょうびは何月ですか。using the months of the year. 一月～十二月.

No romaji is included.

The unit does assume students have already learned how to count, at least to ten, in Japanese, and can recognise kanji number symbols. Some number revision pages are included, however, in the Student Book pages which can be included or omitted at the discretion of the teacher.

THIS RESOURCE contains:

· Australian curriculum alignment suggestions from F-2

· Detailed teaching sequence

· 17 Student activity pages, including several assessment tasks and rubric ( plus 2 kanji number review pages)

· Months of the Year Song Poster

· Months of the Year chart : Japanese and English

· Flashcards and playing card sets ( Japanese and English versions) + ideas for use

· 24 Bingo cards

· Months of the year ‘spinner’

· Set of headbands for game play—explained, with variations

· Pop-up birthday card to make

· 2 jigsaw puzzles ( sequencing cards in calendar order to create an image)

· Moon/Month Mobile

· Set of ‘I have, Who has’ game cards, with explanation

· 2 x peg match hexagon cards

· Mini-book template

· Links to YouTube video clips

I hope you and your students greatly enjoy using this resource!