School Activities

School activities in Japanese 🏫

This topic is about the **activities** you do at school - lessons, sport, music, trips, homework and tests. Every word comes with its **Japanese script**, the **romaji** in brackets to help you say it, and the **English** meaning. Japanese is written **left to right**.

Words for school activities 🗂️

Here are six to learn first. Each shows the script, how to say it, and what it means.

What does it mean? 🔤

What does 体育 (taiiku) mean?

• PE
• Music
• Homework
• A library

Match each word to its English meaning 🔗

How the script works 📝

Two things about Japanese writing. First, it mixes **kanji** (characters borrowed from Chinese, like 学校) with two syllable scripts, **hiragana** and **katakana**. Katakana is used for borrowed words, like テスト (tesuto) and クラブ (kurabu). Second, it is written **left to right**, with **no spaces** between words, and **romaji** spells it in our Latin letters.

More school words 📚

Four more, including a place and two objects you will need for the next check.

Which are activities? ✅

Select the THREE words that are school ACTIVITIES, not objects.

• 体育 (taiiku)
• 音楽 (ongaku)
• 遠足 (ensoku)
• 本 (hon)
• ペン (pen)

Match the script to how it is said 🔡

Where are you? 📍

You go to the 図書館 (toshokan). What is it?

• The library
• The classroom
• The music room
• The gym

How do you say it? ✏️

A lesson 授業 is said _____. Homework 宿題 is said _____. PE 体育 is said _____. A trip 遠足 is said _____.

Putting it together 🧩

Now you can talk about a whole school day. At **school** (学校) you sit in a **lesson** (授業), you might do **PE** (体育) or **music** (音楽), and there may be a **test** (テスト). There are also school **trips** (遠足) and the **library** (図書館), and at home there is always the **homework** (宿題).

Order the school day 🪜

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Pick the word 🧭

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Read the script 📖

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