You can create various teaching materials by using the resources on ‘Minnna no Kyozai’ website. Please feel free to use resources on the site to create teaching materials for different needs and situations.
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This section provides useful classroom activity ideas for elementary as well as intermediate and advanced levels, which include ‘reading’, ‘listening’ ,‘conversation’,‘writing’, ‘cultural understanding’, etc. Classroom activity procedures and ready-to-use task sheets are available. Classroom Activities come in five types:
‘Kyokasho o Tsukuro Classroom Activities’,
‘Kisetsu no Katsudo’,
‘JFS B2 Teaching Materials’,
‘Learn Japanese from the News dialogue materials’,
‘JFKL Lesson IDEAS’,
’Going Out With Chie-chan’.
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There are six types of reading comprehension materials:
‘JFS Reading Activities’,
‘KC Yom Yom’
‘Nihongo Kyoiku Tsushin Essays’,
‘Elementary Reading Comprehension’,
‘Intermediate Reading Comprehension’,
‘Now in Japan’.
There are also materials featuring vocabulary lists, grammar lists, practice questions, audio recordings, and illustrations.
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This section provides pictures for Japanese-language education, made mainly for the elementary level. There are seven types of pictures:
‘Elementary Vocabulary Pictures’,
‘School Life Pictures’,
‘Seasonal Pictures with Erin’,
‘UME Pictures’,
‘Pictures by Sakura & Musashi’,
‘Kyokasho o Tsukuro Pictures’,
‘CASTEL/J Pictures’
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This section provides photos of Japanese society, lifestyle and cultural events. There are four types of photos:
’Let’s See’ (in ’Erin's Challenge! I Can Speak Japanese.’),
‘Photos by Sakura & Musashi’,
‘The Photo Panel Collection’,
‘Hirogaru, get more of Japan and Japanese’
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Realias
This section provides images of store signs, restaurant menus, job application guides, and other realia that are useful for teaching Japanese. There are 198 materials used in the "JFS Reading Activities".
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This section offers videos for Japanese language study, and videos related to Japanese society and culture, and Japanese people’s lifestyle. There are four video series:
‘Erin’s Challenge! I Can Speak Japanese.’,
‘MARUGOTO + (MARUGOTO Plus)’,
‘Hirogaru, get more of Japan and Japanese’,
‘JFS B2 Teaching Materials’.
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These are teaching materials for learning the basics of teaching methods by theme. The contents of "
The Japan Foundation Nihongo Kyojuho (Japanese-language teaching methods) Series,
" the concept of the
JF Standard for Japanese-Language Education
, and findings in language education are used as references.
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Basic knowledge of how to teach Japanese and specific class ideas and hints are provided.
These are "
JFS Lesson Plans
" for specific examples of task-oriented classes, Nihongo Kyoiku Tsushin "
Ideas for Japanese-Language Classrooms,
" and Nihongo Kyoiku Tsushin "
The First Step for Teaching Japanese.
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This section provides two types of grammar explanations:
‘Kyokasho o Tsukuro Grammar Explanations’
and
‘Nihongo Kyoiku Tsushin ‘Enjoy Japanese Grammar’’
,‘Kyokasho o Tsukuro Grammar Explanations’ provides brief explanations and example sentences for grammar items and expressions from beginner to advanced levels. ‘Nihongo Kyoiku Tsushin ‘Enjoy Japanese Grammar’’ provides more detailed explanations.