Quirky comics: Japanese – Alien! 2

This intermediate text is about a boy who sees an alien.

The Quirky comics video texts support the teaching of 'Understanding texts' outcomes in the Modern Languages K-10 Syllabus. This can be done in many ways, including:

  • Students can use the provided transcripts to read the stories aloud and record themselves perform the stories as plays.
  • They can summarise, sequence, extend and change the beginning or ending of the stories.
  • They can write profiles of the characters and then put them in different situations.

The texts can also lead to communicative 'Interacting' or 'Creating texts' tasks, such as, telling a nurse why you don’t feel well or writing an invitation to a birthday party.

Watch 'Alien! – Level 2' (1:27)

Alien! – Level 2

(Duration: 1 minutes 27 seconds)

やねのうえのうちゅうじん

Yane no ue no uchuujin

Frame 1-1

Boy with spiky hair: じゅん!じゅん!おにがいます!

Jun! Jun! Oni ga imasu!

Frame 1-2

Jun: へえ?

Hee?

Frame 1-2

Boy with spiky hair: からだはおおきいです!そしてみどりです!

Karada wa ookii desu! Soshite midori desu!

Frame 1-3

Jun: おかしいね!

Oksahii ne!

Frame 2-1

Boy with spiky hair: かみのけがありません。あたまのうえにアンテナがあります。Kaminoke ga arimasen. Atama no ue ni antena ga arimasu.

Frame 2-2

Jun: うちゅうじんですか?

Uchuujin desu ka?

Frame 2-3

Boy with spiky hair: はい。たぶん。めはおおきいです。ギョロギョロしています。

Hai. Tabun. Me wa ookii desu. Gyorogyoro shite imasu.

Frame 2-4

Jun: こわいなあ!

Kowai naa!

Frame 3-1

Boy with spiky hair: はなはながいです!きゅうりみたいです!

Hana wa nagai desu! Kyuuri mitai desu!

Frame 3-2

Jun: きゅうりみたい??へえ?

Kyuuri mitai?? Hee?

Frame 3-3

Boy with spiky hair: かおはゴリラみたいです!ひげがあります!

Kao wa gorira mitai desu! Hige ga arimasu!

Frame 3-4

Jun: そう??

Soo??

Frame 4-1

Jun: うでは?あしは?

Ude wa? Ashi wa?

Frame 4-2

Boy with spiky hair: ありません。

Arimasen.

Frame 4-3

Jun: しっぽは?

Shippo wa?

Frame 4-4

Boy with spiky hair: あります。くろいです。

Arimasu. Kuroi desu.

Frame 4-5

Jun: はやくそとへみにいきましょう!

Hayaku soto e mi ni ikimashou.

Frame 4-6

Boy with spiky hair: はい、いきましょう!

Hai, ikimashou!

Frame 5-1

Jun: ばかだなあ!!!ぼくのおとうさんですよ!

Baka da naa!!! Boku no otousan desu yo!

[End of transcript]

Syllabus

Please note:

Syllabus outcomes and content descriptors from Languages K-10 Syllabus © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2019

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