Unit 1: Encounter
Chapter 1: Meeting Someone for the First Time

Notional

• Numbers
  • 0 – 10,000
  • Telephone numbers
• Schools
  • Type of school
  • Grade levels
• Seasons
• Weather
• Sports
• Year
  • Year by Common Era
  • Year by Japanese Era
  • 12 zodiac cycles
• Size of computer memory
• Currency units

Functional

• Greetings
  • First time greetings
  • Daily greetings
  • New Year greetings
• Performing calculations
  • Division and multiplication
• Question words:
  nani, nan, nannen, nanban, nansai, nannensei, ikura

Affective

• Appreciate the mindset/feeling associated with a first meeting

Cognitive

• Guessing

Language

• Ensuring thorough acquisition of information
  • Partial repeating
  • Confirming with desu ne
  • Asking again
• Developing conversation with ja

Grammar/Function

• Identifying things and people with the “be” verb
  – desu.
• Asking questions
  • Asking yes-no questions
    – desu ka?
  • Asking questions using question words (Part 1)
    – Q-word desu ka?
  • Asking for confirmation
    – desu ne.
  • Asking for repetition
    – mooichido onegaishimasu.
  • Establishing a topic
    – Topic wa – desu (ka?)
  • Linking nouns
    – Noun A no Noun B

• Self-assessment
• Sum up
• Video portfolio assessment