No. tjf_edu2a01
Journey to Visit the Seven Deai Students
Activity 2: Travel Itinerary and Diary
Date: Country: Author(copyright): Themes:
2001/11 Japan The Japan Forum Transportation
Self, Family, and Friends
Overview:
Students plan a travel itinerary for a journey to visit a Deai student and keep a travel diary in Japanese.

From the Deai photo sheets:
Photo sheet map of Japan

MY-P11 OK-P12 SM-P03 SM-P11

SM-P12 TS-P03 TS-P07 TS-P13

TS-P14 YK-P09 YK-D07 YT-P15
   
YT-P16 YY-P12    
From the Deai text booklet:
The "My Town" section of each student’s "My Story"
Captions for the above photographs

Worksheets and other materials:
Worksheet #1 from the Lesson Plan "Where I Live"
Worksheet #1 "りょこうけいかく"
Worksheet #2 "もちものリスト"

Students plan a travel itinerary to visit the Deai student chosen in Activity 1. Use the sample plan (Worksheet #1) as a model, students write their own itinerary. Include the month and day, period of time, means of travel, kind of activity, place of lodging, etc., as much as possible in Japanese.

Tip:
Teachers may want to include a letter to the Deai student as part of the project. Teachers (or students from another class) could answer the letters with appropriate suggestions and advice.

Tip:
Students make a list of things to take on their trip (use Worksheet #2). The list should include clothing appropriate to the season, climate, and activities planned, passport, first-aid kit, and other travel supplies, presents for the Deai student and his or her family, presents for others they might meet, and pictures and other objects they could use to explain themselves, their families, and their own hometowns. Presents should take into account what students know about the Deai students and their families and reflect something of the giver.

Students write a travel diary in Japanese based on the travel itinerary they developed. Encourage students to use the information they have and their imaginations to make the diary "real." Original illustrations or photographs taken from the Internet or magazines can be included in the diary.

Suggest to the students that they keep their travel plan and imaginary travel diary until the day when they actually do go to Japan, and then compare it to what they actually experience. Suggest that it may be interesting to show their work to their host family. Explain how comparing the images we create from pictures, travel guides, first hand accounts and other sources with actual experiences can be the first step toward studying and understanding other cultures throughout their lives.

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