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Join the dots

Overview

Purpose

To recognise and respond to numbers in Japanese.

Learning outcome

Students use the numbers 1–99 in Japanese.

Skills used
Type

Individual activity

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Instructions

In this version of joining the dots, you call out the dot numbers in Japanese – in the sequence given below – and the students draw the picture by joining the dots n the order they are called.

Materials

To download the template for the dog picture, select from the following Word or PDF formats:

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Make one copy for each student.

Steps
  1. Give a copy of the dog template to each student.
  2. Call the first two numbers (in Japanese), pausing to let the students find the corresponding dots and draw the connecting lines.
  3. Call the next number in the sequence, checking that everyone is keeping up. If necessary, call the number several times.
  4. Repeat until all numbers are called and all students have completed the picture.
Number sequence for dog picture
1, 8, 21, 12, 30, 25, 11, 50, 77, 6, 80.
55, 48, 90, 17, 22, 81, 7, 15, 20, 95, 44.
33, 62, 4, 27, 40, 53, 98, 100, 34, 18, 92.
13, 28, 51, 23, 87, 63, 49, 22, 47, 10, 3.
21, 43, 69, 72, 38, 5, 18, 97.

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