Week+3-4+Dialogues+with+Farmers+and+Fishermen

Week 3-4 Dialogues with Farmers and Fishermen

** Students will learn how to create simulated conversations with farmers and fishermen. Students will have a list of terms relating to the farm, sea, and orchard. They will be expected to interview each other on the growing process. Students will take turns role playing as a farmer/fishermen or a student and demonstrate appropriate words. Each task group will be responsible for interviewing farmers or fishermen in their assigned regions. A transcription and summary of the interviews will be placed on the wikispaces for review. **

===** Lesson #1 Activity: ** **Students learn how to create talking avatars and dialogues relating to agricultural production. Students will also be studying agricultural themes and** ===

media type="custom" key="6540955" =** __Assignment Materials:__ **=
 * voki and sitepal
 * see list below*

__Directions for Students:__ 1. Go to voki.com or one of the other talking avatar sites and create a talking avatar for a student and a farmer or a student and a fisherman (depending on your assignment). 2. Record dialogues asking questions for the farmers or fishermen. Create another avatar (farmer or fisherman) with the answers. Display on wiki page.

Language Points: Review of previously introduced vocabulary and grammar**

Lesson #2: Students practice dialogues with each other in groups
= __Assignment Materials:__ 1. Prepared handouts from teacher with dialogue prompts. = === **__Directions for Students:__** **1. Practice within your groups the assigned dialogues and create more questions within your group to ask other groups (regions) 2. Each group will ask other groups about their region and take turns pretending to be interviewers or interviewees.** ===

=**Lesson #3:** Students listen to traditional fishing songs and learn how to record their own dialogue or work song on online software. =

1. Listen to this fishing song.
[|Soran - fishing song]

2. Look at the handout of fishing song examples, and worksheet on preparing a work song in Japanese.
Link on Kiyari (Japanese work songs): []

=**Lesson #4:** Presentation of Prepared Dialogue Projects: Students will present various types of dialogues with each other in groups =

c. Live performance of prepared dialogue in class.
__Unit Materials:__ (to be introduced in Lesson #1)

**日本語で**
[|お米作りおすすめサイト]

[|お米ができるまで]

[|お米の博士のQ&A]

[|グラフと絵で見る食料]

[|お米のしりりゾーン]

[|いちご]　　　　　　　　　　　[|メロン] 　　　　　　　[|りんご]　　　　　　　[|みかん]

いちごの[|ビデオ]

**野菜（やさい）**
[|野菜博物館（やさいはくぶつかん）]

[|Hello！野菜]

[|サツマイモ収穫のビデオ]

**その他**
[|かんたんなレシピー]

**In English**
Japan's [|Ministry of Agriculture, Farming, and Fisheries]

This [|Nova] special about rice has some basic information about seasonal changes and building a rice terrace.

A short video of showing images of the [|rice planting process].

Ever wonder how to [|de-husk] rice? Watch.

Overview of [|fruit] grown in Japan.

Takarabako [|rice 1].

Good pictures and a bit of information about [|rice growing] year round.

[|Essay] about rice growing.