🇯🇵 🥳 Social · Greetings and self-introductions (A1)
🎌 Making Japanese friends
🎯 Talk casually, swap contacts and make plans
🎮 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
- しゅうまつ は なに を しますか？ (What do you do on weekends?)
- カラオケ は すき？ (Do you like karaoke?)
🔑 Key phrases
- LINE やってる？ (rain yatteru?)Do you use LINE?
- こんど あそぼう よ (kondo asobō yo)Let's hang out sometime
- しゅうまつ ひま？ (shūmatsu hima?)Free this weekend?
- いっしょ に いかない？ (issho ni ikanai?)Want to go together?
- いい ね！ (ii ne!)Sounds good!
- ごめん、その ひ は ちょっと… (gomen, sono hi wa chotto…)Sorry, that day's not great…
📚 Useful words
- ひま (hima) — free (time)
- いそがしい (isogashii) — busy
- あそぶ (asobu) — hang out
- れんらく (renraku) — contact
- カラオケ (karaoke) — karaoke
- のみかい (nomikai) — drinking party
⚡ Speaking challenges
- Turn 3 polite sentences into casual ones.
- Invite me with 〜ない？
- Decline with ちょっと… naturally.
- React with 3 casual reactions.
🎭 Role-play
After a language exchange meetup in Tokyo.
🧑🎓 Student's card
Talk casually (no です/ます!), exchange LINE, and plan to hang out this weekend.
🧑🏫 Your card (tutor)
Be a friendly Japanese university student. Use casual speech; react with 'まじ？', 'すごい！', 'いいね！'
🌀 Twist (halfway through): The friend suggests karaoke at 11 p.m. Decline politely with ちょっと… and suggest another time.
🗣️ Discussion questions
- しゅうまつ ひま？ (Free this weekend?)
- なに が したい？ (What do you want to do?)
- にほんじん の ともだち は いる？ (Do you have Japanese friends?)
📌 Homework
Write a LINE chat (8 messages) inviting a friend out, in casual Japanese友だちを誘うLINEのやり取りをカジュアルな日本語で8通書く