Chapter 3: Let’s Write about Your Town Reference

Unit 4: Environment
 Chapter 3: Let’s Write about Your Town

Reference

NATIONAL STANDARDS (5Cs)

Communication Cultures Connections Comparisons Communities

Interpersonal

  • Writing essay
    • Examination of the draft
  • Discussing the draft

Interpretive

  • Writing essay
    • Reading the draft
  • Reading composition

Presentational

  • Writing essay
    • writing style
    • audience
  • Expository simple paragraph writing
    • topic sentences
    • supportingsentences
  • Expository paragraph writing tactics
    • attribution tactic
    • analogy tactic
  • Expository paragraph writing development
    • topic sentences
    • supportingsentencesc
    • examplesentences
  • Sum-up sentences
  • Town description

Practice

  • Town in Japan

Product

  • Town in Japan

Perspective

  • Comparing a town between Japan and your country
  • Comparing summer vacation between Japan and your country
  • Social Studies (Japan)
  • Mathematics (One stroke order)

Language

  • Standard languages

Pronunciation

  • Syllable-final consonants

Kanji and kana

  • Kanji
  • Recognition Kanji: 自然、人 口、交通、東京、家、会社、 工場、店、東西南北
    池、空、湖、海岸、砂漠、空 港、駅、公園、京都
    電気、電話、厳しい、遠い、 静か、便利、不便、重い、軽 い、弱い、強い
    時間、場所、昼休み、食べ物、 飲み物、入る、起きる、寝る、 大阪
    八百屋、市役所、案内所、火 山、交番、銀行、寺、神社、 勉強、復習、表現
    平野、土地、都市、教会、港、 橋、住宅、サッカー場
  • Additional Kanji: 出会い、風景、日本的、観光客、音読型
    道路、劇場、見学、遊ぶ
    野外、動物園、有名、習う、盆踊り、未来、地区、辺り、時代
    明治、昭和、建物、現代的
    国連、関係、博物館、中華街
  • Comparison between a town in Japan and your country.
  • Reexamine your town.

LINGUISTIC INFORMATION

Vocabulary Strategy Highlights Form Assessments

Notional

  • Describing town
    • restaurants
    • directions
    • events
    • facilities
    • geography
    • Japanese cities
    • nature
    • stores
    • weather
  • Academic subjects
  • Counters
  • Descriptive adjectives
  • Verbs

Functional

  • Indicating existence expressions
  • Comparative sentences
  • Potential statements
  • New Kanji: 森、川、山、 町、林、海、店、田
    雨、天、度、雪、晴、 暑、寒、化
    島、平、野、校、石、 道、市、村
    花、魚、屋、肉、東、 西、北、南
    公、交、場、所、通、 州、週、寺
    社、夜、買、家、京、 駅、園、地

Affective

  • Awareness of writer to audience

Cognitive

  • Organization of writing styles

Language

  • Writing strategies
    • Attribution tactic
    • Analogy tactic

Grammar/Function

  • Indicating existence
    Y ni Xga Iru/aru
    X wa Y ni Iru/aru
    Y niwa Xga Iru/aru
    Y no PW ni Xga Iru/aru
    X wa Y no PW ni Iru/aru
  • Comparative sentences
    X wa Y yori adj desu.
    X no hoo ga Y yori adj desu.
    X wa Y to hobo onaji desu.
    X wa Y to onaji kurai desu.
    X wa Y hodo + negative form of adjective
  • Counters
    -mai,hon, ken, dai, hiki, too, satu, ko, do, shuukann
  • Potential statements
    ~ kotoga dekimasu
  • Expressing uncertainty
    ~ deshoo
  • Adverb for indicating degree or existence of a state
  • Non-past negative
  • Self-assessment
  • Peer-assessment
  • Web-evaluation
  • Sum-up
  • Video portfolio assessment

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