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🇯🇵 🚨 Emergencies · Greetings and self-introductions (A1)
🤒 At the clinic
🎯 Explain where it hurts and simple symptoms
🎮 Play this in classUse the usual 50-minute plan: warm-up → key phrases → challenges → role-play → discussion → wrap-up. Share this page on Zoom so the student can see the phrases, but keep "Your card" to yourself.
💬 Warm-up questions
- げんき ですか? (Are you well?)
- かぜ を ひいた とき、なに を しますか? (What do you do when you have a cold?)
🔑 Key phrases
- あたま が いたい です (atama ga itai desu)My head hurts
- ねつ が あります (netsu ga arimasu)I have a fever
- きのう から です (kinō kara desu)Since yesterday
- くすり の アレルギー が あります (kusuri no arerugī ga arimasu)I'm allergic to some medicine
- えいご が はなせる ひと は いますか (eigo ga hanaseru hito wa imasu ka)Is there anyone who speaks English?
- だいじょうぶ です か (daijōbu desu ka)Is it okay? / Are you okay?
📚 Useful words
- あたま (atama) — head
- おなか (onaka) — stomach
- のど (nodo) — throat
- せき (seki) — cough
- くすり (kusuri) — medicine
- びょういん (byōin) — hospital
⚡ Speaking challenges
- Point and name 6 body parts.
- Say 3 symptoms with いたい / あります.
- Say since when with 〜から.
- Ask for an English speaker politely.
🎭 Role-play
A small clinic in Japan.
🧑🎓 Student's card
Tell the receptionist and doctor your symptoms and since when.
🧑🏫 Your card (tutor)
Be the doctor: 'どう しましたか?', 'いつ から ですか?', 'ここ は いたい ですか?' Point at body parts on screen.
🌀 Twist (halfway through): The doctor says: 'みっか ぶん の くすり を だします'. The student asks how to take it.
🗣️ Discussion questions
- どこ が いたい ですか? (Where does it hurt?)
- ねつ は ありますか? (Do you have a fever?)
- アレルギー は ありますか? (Any allergies?)
📌 Homework
Draw a body and label 10 parts in Japanese体の絵を描いて10か所に日本語で名前を書く