Author Archives: Victor Davidson

Japanese culture has shown great adaptability in taking art forms and “reinterpreting” them, and using technologies and “re-purposing” them. At high school music was one of my favourite subjects. I was particularly fascinated by piano music. One of the composers who hypnotised me was Claude Debussy and I still listen to his work weekly even […]

I was truly astonished with the calibre of the Assessment Tasks you submitted. I have almost finished marking. Next week I will give out the marks. Most submissions achieved full marks. Happy It is time to recap all the folk tales we have studied and consider how the core narratives might be universal to all […]

26 October. Please submit Assessment task 4 We will continue lessons on clothes and colours, and have a fashion parade. We will have a songs, a story and if time permits we will review a Mangajin magazine. Revision of Ue wo muite What is the summary of the story? Now a song you know the […]

Please note: you can email me the 1st page which constitutes 1 page of images and a map of the city you visited. Trap for young players. The map should be useful. Here are samples of maps of Kyoto. Page 2 MUST BE HANDWRITTEN! You can use the below grid.

Kaguyahime Introduction to wearing clothes on EP. Donna hito desu ka Take a Nihongo Journal. Find the coloured insert. Copy out the English text. Two students at time can practise hiragana. Chouchin obake.

Open a new page and write “12 October 2023” Your hands Vocabulary as encountered and verbs at the back. In English we use the one verb “to wear” for items we wear. In Japanese there are a number of verbs depending on which part of the body the item is worn on. Here is a […]

Yobidashi Yokozuna Ring-Entering Ceremony Foreign-born Rikishi Prize Money Choose between Howl’s Moving Castle and The Princess Kaguya

Edo Lullaby Edo Komoriuta 江戸子守唄 Lingo Ninja Choose an anime to play tomorrow. Choose a Nihongo Journal. Go to the colour insert with the English translation. Summarise in three sentences.

Soran bushi is a sea shanty from Hokkaido. As wish old songs and stories there are different versions. Soran bushi or with a dance Soran bushi The Mouse’s Wedding The story (nezumi no yomeiri) can be found in The Panchatantra of ancient India. Look at the Family Tree worksheet. Start from “watashi” then go to […]

Your Assessment Task marks are on the back page of your workbook. You were tested on Vocabulary Recognition and Listening Comprehension. Of course reading and writing hiragana, and speaking skills are also important. That is what I will address next with pens and microphones. A red rose has blossomed in the garden Bara ga saita […]