How We Use Water

1. Using Tasksheet 1, ask the class to guess the percentage of water in humans. Answer: 70%
2. Students then annotate the picture on the worksheet.

Teacher Talk:

生いきものには､水みずがたくさんはいっています。
There is a lot of water in living things.
あなたのからだは、何なんパーセント水みずでしょう。
What percentage does your body have, do you think?

Tasksheet 1

1. Students in pairs or groups think of 10 activities related to using water and write them on Tasksheet 2 (What can you do with water?). As well as the obvious uses, students try to think of some interesting uses.
2. Using Tasksheet 3, students check their comprehension by matching the number to the activity. They can also check which activities are the same as the ones they thought of, and which are different. Each group decides which of their ideas is interesting or original, and an award can be given for the ‘most interesting water activity’ from among these.

Tasksheet 2

Tasksheet 3

Teacher Talk:

• 水みずで何なにをしますか。 What do you do with/in water?
• たとえば、およぎます。For example, swim.
• グループでかんがえてください。 Think of some things in your group.
• そして、おもしろいことをかんがえてみてください。 And try to think of some interesting things.
• 「おもしろ賞しょう」をあげます。 I’ll give a prize for ‘Most interesting idea’.
• 4ページを見みてください。これをかんがえましたか。 Look at page 4. Did you think of these?
• このグループのいちばんおもしろいアイディアは？ What is this group’s most interesting idea?

Additional Tasksheet 4 for advanced students – 「まいにちのみず」.
Students can discuss similarities and differences between Australia and Japan.

Tasksheet 4

Resource created by Cathy Jonak and Himiko Negishi-Wood (March 2001).