• A set of picture and word cards is spread out face up on the desk
• The teacher asks students to match them up by saying
• The winner is the group that matches the cards up quickly and accurately

• A set of picture cards is spread out face up on the desk
• The teacher calls out a card, and players try to find the card and grab it
• the winner is the player who gets the most cards.

• One set each of picture and word cards is spread out face down on the desk
• Players turn over 2 cards at a time to find pairs
• If the cards do not match, they are turned down again
• The winner is the player who ends up withthe most pairs

Snap

• Four sets of picture cards are shuffled and placed face down on the desk
• Players take a card each from the pile without turning it over
• All players turn over their card simultaneously
• If there are identical cards, players say the word in Japanese
• The player who says the word fastest keeps the cards
• The winner is the player who ends up with the most cards

• A mixture of picture and word cards is dealt out to players
• Players remove their pairs
• Players take turns to ask for thecard that they need to make a pair
• If a player has acard he/she is asked for, itmust be handed over
• The winner is the player who collects the most pairs

• 4-5 sets of picture cards are placed face down on the floor
• The teacher plays music and students are told to walk aroud
• When the music stops, students pick up a card and have to try and find someone with the same animal by asking the other students, eg. 「ぞうですか」
• When all the students with the same card have found each other, they sit down quickly

• A set of flash cards for new words is placed on the blackboard ledge
• Students are asked to close their eyes while the teacher takes 1 or 2 cards away
• Students must identify the missing cards
• As a variation, all cards are put into a bag and students try to remember as many cards as possible

• Place flash cards on the floor next to one another
• Students throw the dice and move according to the appropriate card, saying the word
• Alternatively they can make a phrase or sentence with the word

• Students are divided into teams and sit on chairs in rows
• The teacher shows a flashcard
• The first student to say the word correctly gains 1 point for their team, if incorrect s/he loses 1 point
• The students in front then move to the back and all others move up 1 chair

• Begin with a sentence of ’どうぶつえんにいきました。ライオンをみました。’
• Each person around the circle adds to the sentence
  eg. I saw a lion. I saw a lion and a koala. ’ライオンとコアラをみました。’

• Students sit on chairs in a circle, except for one student who stands in the middle
• The teacher asks all students to close their eyes by saying ’めをとじて。’
• The teacher chooses 3 students to be 'lions' by tapping them on the shoulder
• The teacher asks all students to open their eyes by saying ’めをあけて。’
• The student in the middle goes to a student and asks ’とんとんとん、だれですか？’
• If the student is not alion, s/he answers with the name of another animals, eg. ’ぞうです’
• If a 'lion' student is asked s/he says ’ライオンです。’, and all students have to change seats (they cannot simply move to thenext seat)
• The student left without a seat is 'in', and the game starts again.

• 2-4 players come to front of the class
• The kana syllables of an animal's name are written on the board out of order
• The winner is the first player to write the word correctly

• Students are given a card containing pictures in a grid
• Teacher/students call out words and students cross out these pictures on the card
• The winner is the first to cross out a whole line or card

• A simple class survey of likes and dislikes can be conducted in class eg. 'favourite food', 'favourite animals'
• The teacher prepares a set of survey sheets on several specific items, as follows:

• Students circulate these sheets from different points inthe classroom, asking their neighbour whether they like the item on their sheet or not
  「バナナがすきですか？」
• The survey sheets are passed from student to student until everyone has responded to the surveysheets being circulated, and the sheet returns to the student who started that particular question 'chain'
• The survey sheets are given to the teacher who announces the results

• The teacher writes the lyrics in hiragana on a large paper or OHT
• As the teacher introduces the songs, s/he points to the lyric line
• Repeat the procedure each time to encourage/reinforce reading hiragana

• The teacher asks students to draw 6-8 animals on a piece of paper,and the names of the animals are given in Japanese
• Students are asked to colour the animals in the following colours;
  herbivorous in green, omnivorous in yellow, carnivorous in brown

• Students work in groups to complete a chart as below on a large piece of paper in hiragana
• Students may draw pictures under the names