NAM: Overview

Naming Objects

Imagine that you are back in your kindergarten class. What do you see on the walls of the classroom? Pictures, charts, calendars, art work, and yes, labels. Labels are especially effective in learning new vocabulary.  As you go through this module, you might want to try labeling things again, of course this time, in Japanese because you are going to learn how to identify different objects around you and how to ask the names of those objects. So get your Post-Its ready.

Essential Questions:

• How do you ask or identify objects?
• How do you ask what something is called in Japanese or in English?
• How do you ask if you can use a pen?
• What are onomatopoetic words?
• What are some ways to decline a request without offending?
• What are some of the facts about the capital city, Tokyo?
• What is it like to be in Japanese schools?

Key Terms

Your key terms for this module will appear in the content pages that follow. Be sure to ask your instructor if you have any questions.

Goals

By the end of this module, for listening and speaking skills, you will be able to ask about and identify objects in a classroom or in a office, ask what something is called in Japanese or in English, ask permission to use objects, express appreciation, refuse a request politely, and describe an object in terms of color. For reading and writing skills, you will learn to read and write in hiragana ざじずぜぞ , たちつてと , and だぢづでど . For cultural understanding, you will learn about variety of stationery in Japan, Tokyo the capital city, and life in Japanese schools.

Japanese I Standards

• Japanese I Standards - NAM Links to an external site.
• National Technology Net Standards Links to an external site.

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