Title
Unit/Activity No.
Topic
Function
野球の応援
Baseball/Activity 7
Sports
Describe, compare
Focus
Understand the different styles of cheering in the U.S. and
Japan
Background
Instructions
1. Before class prepare the handout and the transparency.
2. Ask the students about their own experiences cheering for their favorite
baseball teams by using Script 1.
3. Play a segment of a video showing people cheering at a Japanese
baseball game. (See the materials section below.) If no video is available,
obtain pictures on Web sites listed below and the pictures of high school
games in the visual section. Use Script 2.
4. Distribute the handout. Have the students work on #1 in pairs. Go over the
answers. Have the students act out each method of cheering when
possible. Have students describe any other actions they observed in the
videos or in the pictures.
5. Have the students do #2. Have them share their answers.
6. Review the following structures: connecting disjunctive sentences using が
or でも, both ～ and ～ (～ も ～ も). Have the students do #3. Review
the answers with the class.
7. Have the students do #4 in groups of three. Have them on aware that
baseball fans in Japan can cheer for their team only when the team is at
bat.
Scripts
Script 1
野球の試合を見たことがありますか。応援する人はどんな服を着ますか。何を持
ちますか。どうやって応援しますか。大きな声を出しますか。
Script 2
日本では、どうやって野球の応援をするんでしょう。日本の人達がしていること
をよく見て、アメリカとどう違うのか、考えてみましょう。
Answer key
1.
a) 5 b) 7 c) 12 d) 2 e) 8
j) 10 k) 9 l) 4
m) 11
2.
アメリカ: l.
両方: c. d. g. k. m.
日本: a. b. e. f. h. i. j.
f) 3
g) 13
h) 1
i) 6
Materials
A video or pictures showing how people cheer at a baseball game in Japan
1. Videos with scenes of fans cheering for baseball teams:
(1) Mr. Baseball (1992)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104926/
(2) ヤンさんと日本の人々 国際交流基金ビデオ教材
Episode: 7 A Baseball Game
2. Web sites
(1) Bob Bavasl’s JapanBall.com
http://www.japanball.com/gallery1.htm
(2) Japanese Baseball by Dave Willard
http://www.jlhs.nhusd.k12.ca.us/Classes/Social_Science/Japan_Visit/Japanese%
20Baseball/Baseball.html
Note
The Japanese organize cheering in large groups during baseball games. They
wear the team colors and team happi-jackets and chant in unison. During U.S.
baseball games, generally individuals and/or small groups cheer spontaneously.
Activity
1. The following sentences describe how fans cheer at a stadium. Match each
activity with a picture and put the corresponding Hiragana in the parenthesis.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
i.
j.
k.
l.
m.
グループで応援（おうえん）します。
メガフォンをふります。
歌を歌います。
チームのぼうしをかぶります。
はっぴを着ます。
応援団長（おうえんだんちょう）がいます。
拍手（はくしゅ）をします。
トランペットをふきます。
旗（はた）をふります。
はちまきをします。
メッセージや名前を書いた紙を見せます。
太鼓（たいこ）をたたきます。
大きい声を出します。
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2. Categorize each of the activities above based on how people cheer in Japan
and in the United States. Write the letter corresponding to the cheering style in
the circles where they belong.
3. Compare the Japanese way of cheering for one's favorite team at the ballpark
with the American way of cheering and write sentences describing each as
examples.
Examples:
 日本では、たくさんの人がグループで応援しますが、アメリカではあまり
しません。
 日本もアメリカも、大きい声を出して応援します。
1) ___________________________________________________________
2) ___________________________________________________________
3) ___________________________________________________________
4) Imagine that you are who is leading a group of fans cheering for a baseball
team. In groups of three, devise a rule as to which cheering method to be
used when and write it down.
Example:
せんしゅがホームランを打ったら、トランペットをふいて、たいこをたたい
て、大きい声を出します。
______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
Visual
Same activity as above.
＜高校野球とその応援の写真＞