SUBMITTED BY: Kate Saling     EDITED BY: まだ

V Criss-Cross

GRAMMAR: Holiday (Valentine)     DATE ADDED: Feb 12, 2010

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Detailed Explanation:

1. In case you're not familar with the Criss-Cross game, here are the rules:

   • Start by having all the students stand. Play Janken and the ‘ultimate’ loser must remain standing. While they might seem like a real loser, allow them to save face by letting them choose ‘horizontal or vertical’ (よこ or たて)’. Let’s say the student chooses ‘horizontal’. All of the students sitting in the horizontal of the standing student must stand up. You and the JTE take turns asking the students various types of questions. The easier the question, the faster the game goes and the more confidence the students gain. The first student to raise their hand and correctly answers the question may sit down.
   • The questions continue until there is only one student standing. Then, that student chooses ‘horizontal' or 'vertical’, and that line must stand.
   • To prevent the same students from always answering the questions, allow students to choose 'horizontal, vertical, or diagonal'.  (ななめ), and if you see a trend where students are consistently choosing 'vertical' only give students the choices of 'horizontal or diagonal' to choose from.
   • There is no end to this game, so how you finish the game is up to you.
2. Here are some V-related questions:
• What day is February 14th? ____day or Valentine's Day
• Name three Valentine's Day colors. White, pink and red
• What color is red and white put together? Pink
• Make a heart using your hands.
• In Japan, what food do girls give on Valentines Day? Chocolate
• In <your home country>, do boys give chocolate on Valentine's Day?
• Name two chocolate companies. (It's probably best know some Japanese companies because that is most likely the only chocolate companies the students will know)
• What month is Valentine's Day? February
• What is "_______" in English?
  • Hana = flower
  • Bara = rose
  • Aishiteru = love
  • Tomodachi = friend
  • Sabishii = lonely
  • Ustukushii = beautiful
  • Kareshii/Kanojo = boyfriend/girlfriend
  • Omoide = memory
  • Ureshii = happy
  • Kawaii = cute
• What month is White Day? March (This is a good time to explain that White Day is a Japanese-made holiday.  Here's some trivia for you.  White Day was first celebrated in 1978 in Japan. It was started by the National Confectionery Industry Association (全国飴菓子工業協同組合) as an "answer day" to Valentine's Day on the grounds that men should pay back the women who gave them chocolate and other gifts on Valentine's Day. In 1977 a Fukuoka-based confectionery company, Ishimura Manseido (石村萬盛堂), marketed marshmallows to men on March 14, calling it Marshmallow Day (マシュマロデー).  Soon thereafter, confectionery companies began marketing white chocolate. Now, men give both white and dark chocolate, as well as other edible and non-edible gifts, such as jewelry or objects of sentimental value, or white clothing like lingerie, to women from whom they received chocolate on Valentine's Day one month earlier. If the chocolate given to him was giri-choco, the man, likewise, may not be expressing actual romantic interest, but rather a social obligation.  Here's some trivia you probably don't want to know.  In South Korea, they actually created a third Valentine's Day.  It's called Black Day.  It's designed for single people.) 

Variations:

• To make the game last longer, try having the students draw cards or roll dice.

• Diamonds = yoko sits down
• Clubs = tate sits down
• Hearts = pick one other person to sit down with you
• Spades = pick one person to stand up