1. Getting students to work things out for themselves
Inductive Learning
Getting students to work things out for themselves

2. Deductive Inductive Teacher = Teacher = Guide by the Side
Teacher gives examples
Students come up with rules
Teacher =
Sage on the Stage
Teacher gives rules
Students come up with examples

3. Students work from…to…
Examples
Rules

4. Man library went woman sorry
Match the words in the box with the Japanese below.
Uketsuke = reception
otoko no hito =
toshokan =
ikimashita =
ona no hito =
sumimasen =
(Tips – two words have similar endings. –mashita is a suffix like –ed.)

5. Listen to the joke and answer the questions below.
Where does the man go?
What does he ask for?
What does the woman say?
What does he misunderstand?

6. Translate (don’t worry about translating each word, translate the idea)
Aru hi, otoko no hito wa toshokan ni ikimashita
So one day, this man went to a library right,
Suru to, Uketsuke ni ikimashita

7. Translate “Bigumaku hitotsu onegaishimasu”
Suru to, Kono toshokan no ona no hito wa “sumimasen koko wa toshokan des”
Suru to, kono otoko no hito wa “sumimasen, gomen kudasai, Bigumaku hitotsu onegaishimasu”

8. Syntax Identify the subject, object and verb
Aru hi, otoko no hito wa toshokan ni ikimashita
English Syntax goes – S V O
Japanese Syntax goes --

9. ni Identify the place and the verb toshokan ni ikimashita
Uketsuke ni ikimashita

10. resutaran makudonarudo
Japanese
English
resutaran ni
ikimashita
Went to
(a)restaurant
makudonarudo
e.g. object

11. toshokan ni ikimashita
How would you say this in English?
What is the translation of ni ?
Where does ni come in the sentence?
What kind of word is ni ?

12. Underline all the Subjects
Aru hi, otoko no hito wa toshokan ni ikimashita
Suru to, Uketsuke ni ikimashita
“Bigumaku hitotsu onegaishimasu”
Suru to, Kono toshokan no ona no hito hito wa “sumimasen koko wa toshokan des”
Suru to, kono otoko no hito wa “sumimasen, gomen kudasai, Bigumaku hitotsu onegaishimasu”
What is the function of wa?

13. Summary
Japanese syntax –
ni –
wa –

14. Re-write the joke in Japanese
Aru hi, otoko no hito wa toshokan ni ikimashita
Suru to, Uketsuke ni ikimashita
“Bigumaku hitotsu onegaishimasu”
Suru to, Kono toshokan no ona no hito hito wa “sumimasen koko wa toshokan des”
Suru to, kono otoko no hito wa “sumimasen, gomen kudasai, Bigumaku hitotsu onegaishimasu”

15. Japanese Writing (and pronunciation)
1. Look at –
McDonalds – Makudonarudo
Big Mac – Bigu Maku
a. What is happening? Why?

16. マ ク ド ナ ル ド Ma ku do na ru do b. How many…?
d. The romanisation ‘makudonarudo’ contains ________ letters
e. The Japanese above contains ________ mora
f. Japanese mora are made up of one ______________ and one ______________

17. g. How many mora? Koko Desu Tofu Kamikaze Sushi Sashimi Karate
 Kono
Koko
Desu
Tofu
Kamikaze
Sushi
Sashimi
Karate
Teriyaki
Judo
Kimono
sudoku

18. 2. What’s different here? Sumimasen  Su mi ma se n Ramen  Mirin 
Manga 
Bento 
Shogun 
Kendo 
Zen 

19. 3. What’s different here? Origami  o ri ga mi Arigato  Umami 
Haiku 
Bonsai 
Karaoke 
Koi 
Sensei 

20. Look back at tasks 1 to 3. What rules did you work out?1. 2. 3.

22. Summary
The teacher provides examples, designs tasks and functions as a guide
The students work together and complete tasks to help them work out the rules