1. Introducing the core of the J- culture Part 4 By Ms. Kumiko Obino and Carlos Silva

2. Quick review about last week ’ s lesson  Discovering the more about the Japanese Culture  Basic guide-lines on introducing a place to foreigners  Learning how to create a good guided tours fitted for foreigners  Finding out how to introduce your interests to others

3. Sharing about our interests  As we will listen from Mr. Genso in his video presentation, he values learning things that interest you; things that you are very excited about. Have some fun as you share about your interests to your classmates.  Ask these questions to your classmates:  When did you become interested in…?  Why do you like it some much?  How would you share it with your customers?

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5. The vocabulary continues  PhilosophyRoute  TraditionalFunction of Buddhism  SpiritualDialogue/monologue  CollectiveDiscourse  MeditationReferences  GuideHistorical  Mass mediaConfucius  PhotogenicPilgrimage  ProfessionShintoist  EnlightenCemetery  ArchaicSyncretism  CeremonyMonument  AncestorsAncestral

6. More practice  Megumi loves to have dialogues about how her favorite cartoon character, Doraemon was created.  Since Kaya is fascinated with art, she enjoys taking her tourism clients to a museum to look at some archaic paintings  Mass media informed us last week that Yoshiki is doing the best guiding tour ever done in Mt. Koya with all the students at W.U.

7. Now it is time for us to watch the video  Let’s take a look at the second part of the video provided us by Mr. Genso and Ms. Obino.

8. Now for some drama  In pairs, you will choose a theme you would like to introduce to your class and act out a role play in which you actually make a guided tour. One person is the tourist the other person the guide.  Let’s have some fun and make some interesting performances.