Hana Sleeps In: JAPANESE SCRIPT ONLY
Hana has slept in and doesn't seem to be able to get her day off to a good start. Her mother's attempts to be helpful don't improve the situation. Will Hana be ready in time? And what day is it anyway?
Teacher Note:
This book works well with Fox's Dream Day, with an opportunity for consolidation on time and verbs. This story introduces more typical after school activities in Japan. After reading this story, students can use this story as a base for developing a script in pairs, including their own favourite after school activities.
Hobby Vocabulary
けんどう
すもう
サッカー
じゅうどう
しゅうじ
ピアノ の れんしゅ
じゅんび
General Vocabulary
おはよう
はやく
たいへん
おかあさん
はい
ほんとう
いそがしい
ごめんなさい
あさごはん
かわいそう
Days and Time Vocabulary
きんようび
どようび
きょう
なんようびですか
なんじ
_じです
Leaving & Returning Home
いってきます
いってらしゃい
With free access to a bilingual and a Japanese-only audiobook and hiragana chart bookmark, this picture book has been written for Primary or Entry Level secondary beginners of Japanese, (ideally Year 3 and 4 or 5 and 6, or Entry 7 and 8).
Each colourful page is presented in hiragana only until the end of the story. Once the story is complete, there are easily identifiable white pages with the English meaning, clearly linked to the matching kanji page number, so that students are able to refer to this page when they are unsure of meaning as they go.
The book is generously sized at 20.6cm by 20.6 cm making it easy to hold and images and words clear and easy to see. Printed locally in Australia on quality paper, this book has been made to last in a classroom, library or home with long term use in mind. Additional purchase of the PDF Digital Copy of this book is also available.