Level 4H: Goals/Objectives
By the end of each lesson, students will be able to...
Fall Semester (August - December)
Preliminary Lesson
Lesson 1: How Do You Do?
Lesson 2: Japanese High School Students
Lesson 3: Japanese Letter Writing
Lesson 4: Study of Japanese Language
Lesson 5: Review
Spring Semester (January - May)
Lesson 6: Japanese Entertainment
Lesson 7: Japanese House
Lesson 8: A Japanese Meal
Lesson 9: Trains in Japan
Lesson 10: Review
Preliminary Lesson
- Introduce themselves
- Identify key vocabulary, grammar, and culture topics from Adventures in Japanese 2 textbook
Lesson 1: How Do You Do?
- Introduce family members, including relationships, ages, occupation, hobbies, likes/dislikes
- State opinions
- Invite someone to an activity
- Use formal/informal speech style in an appropriate situation
- Recognize male/female speech style
Lesson 2: Japanese High School Students
- Use complex sentences to describe things
- Describe uniqueness of Japanese high school students
Lesson 3: Japanese Letter Writing
- Describe school life
- Write a letter to a pen pal and/or a formal Japanese teacher
Lesson 4: Study of Japanese Language
- Describe study of Japanese
- Use a Japanese Kanji dictionary to search for a meaning/readings of Kanji
Lesson 5: Review
- Identify key grammar, vocabulary, and cultural topics
Spring Semester (January - May)
Lesson 6: Japanese Entertainment
- Describe what you do before, during, and after an activity
- Describe person's appearance
- Describe what you hear from someone
- Use a metaphor
- Describe uniqueness of Japanese entertainment
Lesson 7: Japanese House
- State assumptions
- Describe a result of an action (by someone)
- Describe a sequence of actions in a formal way
- Describe uniqueness of Japanese house and customs
Lesson 8: A Japanese Meal
- Describe limited activities that someone does
- Explain how to prepare a dish
- State future plans
- Describe uniqueness of Japanese meals
Lesson 9: Trains in Japan
- Ask/answer a yes/no or Wh-question using "if (... or not)"
- Use an appropriate phrase to say "if" in various situations
- Identify functions of particles
- Describe major cities and landmarks in Tokyo, and how to get there by trains
Lesson 10: Review
- Identify key grammar, vocabulary, and cultural topics