Japanese Elementary 4 Course Training
Course overview
Japanese Elementary 4 course has 10 lessons, to be taken over 10 weeks in any weekday evenings or over 5 weeks in an intensive course on Saturdays.
Our Japanese Elementary 4 Course is designed for students with good Hiragana, Katakana and basic Kanji foundation, and with 600+ words vocabularies.
In this course, students will continue recap all plain forms and practice casual style conversations across various daily subjects and start to learn direct and indirect speech. Another 25 Kanji will be introduced in this course too, adding to a total of 100 Kanji to your knowledge. Our key grammar points covered include:how to tell the pypothetical, to describe the result of actions, to express your emotions and impressions, and to learn present perfect continuous tense.
Understand the students
Most Japanese beginner students have strong interest in Japanese cultures and/or travelling to Japan. They might already have an idea of Hiragana, Katagana and Kanji, they might already think Japanese is not easy. But they admire the beauty of the language and fantasize this exotic culture, and have invested to learn speaking this exotic tongue.
Teachers should help them to bring that fantasy to live. Encourage them to practise writing and speaking everything Japanese. Teachers should use Japanese as much as you can, accompanied by English to help them understand.
In this course, it’s about balancing learning and fun for the students. Introduce the knowledge lesson by lesson, at the same time deepen their interests to this language lesson by lesson. You don’t want them to quit thinking it’s too challenging, you want them to come back for more lessons!
Understand the Material
For our Elementary learners, we’ve selected Japanese for Busy People. While Book 1 helped students bridge the significant gap between Japanese and English, Book 2 hasn’t quite met our expectations in terms of grammar coverage and pacing. To address this, our academic team has carefully adjusted the course to better suit our students’ needs. We ask that you follow our customized curriculum (using the PPTs and activities) to teach your students, without relying too heavily on the textbook itself.
We’re using four courses—Elementary 1 through 4—to cover the entire book. Each course consists of 10 lessons, totaling 15 learning hours, making 60 hours in all. It’s a bit of a challenge, so it’s important to stick to the learning objectives for each lesson, follow the pacing our academic team has set, and stay aligned with the flow of the PPTs, without expanding too much beyond the curriculum.
Each course also includes review lessons at the beginning, middle, and end to help students consolidate what they’ve learned, rather than introducing new material every week.
course Introduction – elementary 1-4
- Course curriculum
- Lesson flow
- Materials including PPTs, flashcards, activities and digital resources
- Your personal touch bringing culture and personal stories or interest
- Teaching techniques of a student-led classroom including lesson time control, varieties of interactions, ie T-SSS, S-S, S-TSS
- Teaching instructions and use of Korean in class
- Understand scaffolding and be aware of expansions
- Homework and student support
- Teacher training and support
How to use Kahoot
- We use Kahoot as an interactive assessment tool to test the students, best after students learn grammar or when they need a bit of fun to lift up the mood! In general, students love it! It can also be used as a review tool to refresh the knowledge students learnt before.
- It takes normally about 10 mins for 10 questions.
- Access to each lesson Kahoot links below, you will need to create your own account to use our Kahoot links.
Japanese Elementary 2 Kahoot Links
How to use quizlet
- Sign up to this course Quizlet class first, you and your students will need to request for full access, headoffice will approve when we receive the email notification.
- Look at the video, learn to use Quizlet functions, especially Live Group Game. It’s competitive and fun! However, it requires a minimum of 4 students to start the game.
- Encourage students to use Quizlet to review words after lesson on the phone. It’s effective and fun!
Understand
Understand the nature of active learning, is always by finding out “why” rather than hearing “why”.
Shift
Teacher shouldn’t be the busy person in the room, time and space should be given to the students to learn, practise and present.
Stand back
Except for tutorial part, most of the other activities should be done by students, become a facilitator, move closer to listen to students and help.
Class Management Tips
Class Dynamics
To warm up a group of strangers in the room, the teacher has to be the facilitator and set the tone.
Class WhatsApp
To maintain students sticking to the class, encourage them to share homework to their WhatsApp group.
Do things Together
The group bonds when they share good times together, learning in class, joining our workshops or going out together.