Quirky comics: Japanese – Yuuko 2

This intermediate text is about a girl who encounters a sequence of bad events while trying to get to school.

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 'Yuuko – Level 2' (1:14)

Yuuko 2

Frame 1-1

Yuuko

ろくじですね。きょうはやくがっこうにいきます。

Rokuji desu ne. Kyoo hayaku gakkoo ni ikimasu.

Frame 1-2

Yuuko

かばんはどこですか?

Kaban wa doko desu ka?

Frame 1-3

Yuuko

ありません。

Arimasen.

Frame 1-4

Yuuko

ありません。

Arimasen.

Frame 2-1

Yuuko

ありました。

Arimashita.

Frame 2-2

Yuuko

コーンフレークはすくないです。

Koonfureeko wa sukunai desu.

Frame 2-3

Yuuko

ミルクはすくないです。

Miruku wa sukunai desu.

Frame 2-4

Yuuko

トーストはおいしくないです。

Toosuto wa oishikunai desu.

Frame 3-1

Yuuko

これはなんですか?はえ!!いや!

Kore wa nan desu ka? Hae!!! Iya!

Frame 4-1

Yuuko

いってきます!

Itte kimasu!

Frame 4-2

Yuuko

いや!くさい!

Iya! Kusai!

Frame 5-1

Yuuko

いやだなあ!

Iya da naa!

Frame 5-2

Yuuko

まって!

Matte!

Frame 5-3

Yuuko

がっこうへあるいていきます。

Gakkoo e aruite ikimasu.

Frame 6-1

Yuuko

しずかですね。

Shizuka desu ne.

Frame 6-2

Yuuko

せいとたちはどこですか?

Seitotachi wa doko desu ka?

Frame 6-3

Man

きょうは日よう日です。

Nichiyoobi desu.

Frame 6-4

Yuuko

日よう日!!!!

Nichiyoobi!!!!

[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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