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)
(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