Quirky comics: Japanese – Alien! 3
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 3' (1:34)
(Duration: 1 minutes 34 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！あなたのうちの上におにがいます！
Jun! Jun! Anata no uchi no ue ni oni ga imasu!
[End of transcript]
Frame 1-2
Jun: へえ？Hee?
Frame 1-2
Boy with spiky hair: からだはすごく大きいです！そしてみどりです！
Karada wa sugoku 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。あたまの上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。たぶんそうでしょう。めは大きくてギョロギョロしています。Hai. Tabun soudeshou. Me wa ookikute gyorogyoro shite imasu.
Frame 2-4
Jun: こわいなあ！
Kowai naa!
Frame 3-1
Boy with spiky hair: はなはながくてきゅうりみたいです！
Hana wa nagakute 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！くろいひげがあります！
Kao wa gorira mitai desu! Kuroi hige ga arimasu!
Frame 3-4
Jun: そう？？
Soo??
Frame 4-1
Jun: うでは？足は？
Ude wa? Ashi wa?
Frame 4-2
Boy with spiky hair: うでも足もありません。
Ude mo ashi mo arimasen.
Frame 4-3
Jun: しっぽは？
Shippo wa?
Frame 4-4
Boy with spiky hair: ええ、くろいしっぽがあります。もうひとりはぜんぶくろいです。Ee, kuroi shippo ga arimasu. Mou hitori wa zenbu kuroi desu.
Frame 4-5
Jun: もうひとり！！！たいへんだ！はやくそとへ見に行きましょう！
Mou hitori!!! Hayaku soto e mi ni ikimashou.
Frame 4-6
Boy with spiky hair: はい、行きましょう！
Hai, ikimashou!
Frame 5-1
Jun: ばかだなあ！！！あれはぼくのお父さんですよ！！
Baka da naa!!! Are wa boku no otousan desu yo!
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