March 10, 2009 Tuesday A Block One Day

Tuesday, March 10, 2009, a Block One Day




Independent Study Japanese

Work on finishing assignment from Monday, translation page 174 in Yookoso: Continuing…(the automobile chapter --help with some vocabulary terms.
十分
ハンドル
Hand in Wednesday, if you haven’t handed it in already.

Students had time to pick 5 Chicago locales each for oral explanation to Japanese visitor – showing him or her around Chicago by car
見物する　｛けんぶつ｝　　　to do sightseeing

Chicago Sight-seeing by Car Oral Project　車でのシカゴ見物
1. 日本語でspeak from notes, not text, for 5 minutes
2. choose 5 places
3. be sure to mention streets, but you don’t have to give complete directions unless you want to.
4. doesn’t have to be realistic in terms of time taken getting from place to place
5. hand in note cards after presentation
6. Watkins will do: Sears Tower, Chicago Theater, Chicago Harbor Lighthouse, Wrigley Field, Statue of the Republic in Jackson Park
7. Schachtman will do: Millenium Park, Navy Pier, Old Watertower, Shedd Aquarium, Marina City
8. (this note added March 17) Barch will do the Civic Opera, the Planetarius, Soldiers Field, University of Chicago, and the Lincoln Park Zoo)

Homework: culture reading in Yookoso: Continuing… Ch 3
Page 140 and 141
Driver’s license in Japan
Katakana-izing words



Japanese 1

Class does not meet on Block One Days




Japanese 3

Performances of dialogues for Restaurant Kamehachi and Restaurant took place today, in groups. Scripts and menus were handed in.
We may re-do them and video them.

Kanji practice with handout from site for Japanese school children:

http://www.geocities.jp/ki07ji/08/1nen2008.html

Finish practicing these kanji for homework.

Monday Sensei MUST check pp. 88 and 89, and 87 and 93 (at least 12 sentences) in workbook

DON’T FORGET JAPANESE-LITERATURE-IN-TRANSLATION PROJECT!!!
Lalita Amorntheerakul has chosen “Snow Country” by Nobel Prize winner Kawabata Yasunari.






Japanese 2


2 Kimono 6 – asking, giving, and refusing permission
Sentence model on board

｛わたし　は｝　＿＿＿＿　を　　＿＿＿＿て　も　いい　です　か。
はい、＿＿＿＿て　は　いい　です。
｛いいえ｝＿＿＿＿＿て　は　だめ　です。

Checked workbook pages 64 and 65
Interesting discussion of differences of meaning and usage between members of verb pair borrow-lend かります・かりる　　　かします・かす

Homework: Imagine the worst high school in the world. It’s name is Hideous High ひどい　高校｛こうこう｝
Using the te-wa-dame form, write ten dreadful rules from this high school’s rule book!


Japanese 4 and AP

This class does not meet on Block One days.

HOWEVER...

Be sure to continue to work with kanji-learning website

http://www.jpf.org.uk/language/kanjifiles/kanjicard.html

AP people:
***Kanji test on Lesson 5 has been postponed to Friday.**