🇯🇵 🎲 Fun speaking · Greetings and self-introductions (A1)
🎲 Word games: shiritori & guess the word
🎯 Build vocabulary and reading speed through games
🎮 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
- ゲーム は すき？ (Do you like games?)
- しっている どうぶつ の なまえ を 3つ！ (Name 3 animals!)
🔑 Key phrases
- つぎ は 〜 から です (tsugi wa … kara desu)Next starts with …
- わかった！ (wakatta!)Got it!
- ヒント を ください (hinto o kudasai)Give me a hint
- それ は たべもの です か (sore wa tabemono desu ka)Is it food?
- おおきい です か (ōkii desu ka)Is it big?
- まけた！ (maketa!)I lost!
📚 Useful words
- しりとり (shiritori) — word-chain game
- ヒント (hinto) — hint
- たべもの (tabemono) — food
- どうぶつ (dōbutsu) — animal
- のりもの (norimono) — vehicle
- かち・まけ (kachi, make) — win, lose
⚡ Speaking challenges
- Say 5 words starting with か.
- Ask 3 yes/no questions to guess my word.
- Describe an animal without saying its name.
- Play 10 rounds of shiritori without losing.
🎭 Role-play
Shiritori: each word starts with the last kana of the previous word. Words ending in ん lose!
🧑🎓 Student's card
Play shiritori with the tutor (write each word in the Zoom chat in hiragana). Then play 20 questions.
🧑🏫 Your card (tutor)
Pick words at the student's level. In 20 questions, think of an object; answer only はい / いいえ.
🌀 Twist (halfway through): Theme round: only food words (or only animals).
🗣️ Discussion questions
- すきな たべもの は？ (Favorite food?)
- すきな どうぶつ は？ (Favorite animal?)
- それ は なにいろ？ (What color is it?)
📌 Homework
Write a 15-word shiritori chain in hiraganaひらがなで15語のしりとりを書く