May 27, 2009 Wednesday A Block One Day

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 A Block One Day



INDEPENDENT STUDY JAPANESE


Upcoming important dates:

Tuesday, June 2– first day of all school exams　火よう日、六月二日
Autobiographies will be read aloud at 9:48 a.m.



Today students continued working on final autobiography project: 自伝

Handed out requested summary of grammar points, Chapters 1-7, “An Encounter with Japan” and associated information from Yookoso: Continuing…
Appears as a separate post on the blog

See material in Japanese 4/AP section, below





JAPANESE 1

This class does not meet on Block One days.


Upcoming important dates:

Friday, May 29 – first scantron day　　金よう日、五月二十九日
Monday, June 1 – second scantron day　月よう日、六月一日
Tuesday, June 2– first day of all school exams　火よう日、六月二日
Wednesday, June 3 – our oral exam (original dialogues)　水よう日、六月三日
At 9:48 a.m.




Friday’s Handout was an abbreviated First Year Japanese June Review.
1. verb and adj. tenses and vocabulary--active verbs, traveling verbs
2. vocab (categories)
food, places (destinations), activities, family members, means of transport, classroom objects
3. how to do self-intro
name, age, phone, address, birthday, astrological year
4. astrological animals and other animals
5. time
hours of day, months, days of week
today, tomorrow, yesterday, next week, summer vacation
6. relational particles
7. hiragana, katakana, kanji, ROMAji
8. sentence structure
9. kanji: 1-100, sun, moon, fire, water, wood/tree, gold/money, dirt/earth, days of week, months of year, rice field, river, mountain, forest, Japan, Japanese language
Students worked on final dialogues in class, with input by teacher:
Possible locales suggested by students: train, park, phone call, Koopa Village, cruise ship, downtown Chicago, tour bus, car, garden, the beach (ocean), spaceship
Possible characters suggested by students: grandchild and grandfather, Oprah and fan, Mario and Luigi, astronaut, spaceman, alien from another planet, …
Dialogue should be 5 pages long, running about 3 minutes, memorized.
Each student must hand in a copy of the dialogue in Japanese, and its translation in English.
Try to use as much of the vocabulary and grammar structures we’ve learned as possible.


JAPANESE 3



Upcoming important dates:

Friday, May 29 – first scantron day　　金よう日、五月二十九日
Monday, June 1 – second scantron day　月よう日、六月一日
Tuesday, June 2– first day of all school exams　火よう日、六月二日
And our oral exam at 11.22 a.m.


Katakana Practice Handout:
カタカナ: ラ から
ン まで

1・ラーク
2・リア王
3・リアーシート
4・リアリズム
5・ルイジアナ
6・ロシア
7・ルージュ
8・ベーブ・ルース
9・ループ・ヤーン
10・ルーブル
11・ルームメート
12・ルレット
13・レアーメタル
14・レイーアップ
15・レインコート
16・ロイヤル・
アカデミー
17・ローイング
18・ワークアウト

Also, hand out AP Kanji sheet from website to students who will take AP next year.
http://gatoh.marinebat.com/ap/index.number_index.html


On Board: 王、王さま、玉、国
おう、おうさま、たま、くに｛コク｝

Worked on Final Dialogues, in groups.

Rules:
1. One Place
2. One time
3. same characters
4. each student must hand in a bi-lingual script
5. use plain forms of verbs, since they were central to this year’s curriculum
6. use as much of this year’s vocab and grammar as possible

Reminder of Pattern sentences from final chapter of 3 Kimono:

Field　{の中}で　Subject　は　一番　Adjective (+ noun)　です。

A　の　方　が　B　より　＿＿＿＿（Adjective）　です。









JAPANESE 2


Upcoming important dates:

Friday, May 29 – first scantron day　　金よう日、五月二十九日
Monday, June 1 – second scantron day　月よう日、六月一日
Tuesday, June 2– first day of all school exams　火よう日、六月二日
Wednesday, June 3 – our oral exam (original dialogues)　水よう日、六月三日
At 8:00 a.m.

Relational Particle Review and Practice
Some Sentence Patterns:

1. T T P O V (active verb) 2. T T T D V(traveling verb) 3. は/が pattern
Time, topic, place, object, verb/active time, topic, transport, destination, verb/traveling

4. sentences with existence verbs [います、あります]
Place の position に subject が います // あります。

5. sentences that ask or give permission
Verbて も いい です か。
Verbて は いい です。 【Verbて は だめ です】

Relational Particles:

は 1. indicates topic/subject
2. after verb-te form when giving or refusing permission.
か makes a question out of a statement--end of sentence
を indicates direct object--receives action of the verb--is "victim" of verb
よ audible exclamation point at end of sentence
で 1. indicates by-means-of transport in sentence with traveling verb
先生 は でんしゃ で 学校 に 行きます。
2. indicates by-means-of tool in sentence with active verb
生と は フォーク で スパゲッティー を 食べました。
3. indicates place where action of active verb happens
に 1. indicates destination in sentence with traveling verb:
行きます、出ます、きます、かえります、出かけます、
はしります、あるきます、およぎます
2. indicates specific time (with a name or a number)
3. special idioms
わたし は ともだち に あいます。
おふろ に 入って 下さい。
はい
の indicates possession, like "apostrophe s" 兄 の じてんしゃ
can mean "of" or "from" フランス の チーズ
が 1. used in wa/ga pattern sentences
先生 は やきそば が すき です。
2. means "but" between two independent clauses
3. indicates direct object in sentences with verbs in potential tense of を)
と 1. "and" between nouns (closed series)
2. "with/accompanying"
や like と, means "and" between nouns, but suggests that there are more items than the ones mentioned in the sentence (open series)
ね asks for confirmation, agreement
"right?" at end of sentence
も 1. also, too
2. after verb- te form, when asking permission


1. Tomorrow I will go to a big restaurant. 2. I will go by bus.

あした____ ぼく は 大きい レストラン ______ 行きます。

バス _____ 行きます。
3. My friend will go by bicycle 4. I will meet my friend at 1:30 p.m.

うち ____ ともだち は じてんしゃ で 行きます。

一じ はん ____ ぼく は ともだち _____ あいます。

5. I will be late. 6. My friend also will be late.

ぼく _____ おくれます。 【ぼく _____ おそく _____ なります。】

ともだち _____ おくれます。

7. My friend and I like sushi. 8. My friend likes tenpura, too.

ともだち _____ わたし _____ おすし _____ すき です。

ともだち ______ てんぷら ______ すき です。

9. Sushi is delicious, isn't it? 10. Do you like green tea?

おすし は おいしいい です ____。

おちゃ _____ すき です _____。

11. My mother loves green tea! 12. Mother will drink green tea with my friend.

うち____母 _____ おちゃ _____ 大すき です。

母 _____ ともだち _____ おちゃ ______ のみます。

13. My father loves coffee. . 14. My father will drink coffee with my grandfather at the restaurant.

うち _____ 父 _____ コーヒー _____ 大すき です。

父 ______ そふ ______ レストラン ______ コーヒー を のみます。

15. There is green tea and coke (etc.) at the big restaurant. 16. There are also mice under the table!

大きい レストラン ____ おちゃ や コーラ _____ あります。

テーブル _____ 下 ______ ねずみ ______ います。

17." Mother, may I play with the cute white mice?" 18. "No, playing with white mice is bad/forbidden."

『お母さん、かわい____ しろい ねずみ _____ あそんで ____ いい です ____。』

『いいえ、しろい ねずみ ____ あそんで _____ だめ です。』



19." Eat your sushi with chopsticks, please." 20. At home I eat with chopsticks, but at school
I eat with fork, knife, and spoon.

『おはし _____ おすし _____ 食べて ください。』


うち【じたく】 で わたし は おはし ____ 食べます ____ こうこう ____
フォーク ____ ナイフ _____スプーン _____ 食べます。


Rules for Dialogues:
1. One place
2. One time
3. Same characters
4. Each individual must hand in a bi-lingual script
5. use as of this year’s grammar and vocab as possible

Some dialogue locals and characters reported so far:
1. two hunters in a forest
2. a teacher interviews for a job at a school
3. farm and farm workers
4. sushi bar, customer and owner
5. Husband and wife arguing


Teacher has already done an oral interview of some students regarding 池田｛いけだ｝利夫｛としお｝
百十六ページ：Song, Chan, Goldberg, Zavala、Amorntheerakul, Cambron, Mine, Yamasaki, Mascarenas, Diallo, Jackson
Pairs, Thimsuwan, Santoyo, and Tenorio were interviewed today. Wednesday, May 27th. Class as a whole was notified last Friday.




Reminder: We all must be polite in the Japanese language classroom. Not only is it important in our lives in general – it is an essential part of Japanese culture. ください、おねがい　します、ありがとう、すみません　Are the most important words and phrases in Japanese.





JAPANESE 4 and AP
This class does not meet on Block One days.



Upcoming important dates:

Tuesday, June 2– first day of all school exams　火よう日、六月二日
Thursday, June 4 – films will be shown at 9:48 a.m.

Requested grammar review material from “An Adventure in Japan”, chapters 1-7, plus correlative grammar material from Yookoso: Continuing… now appears as a separate entry on the blog.


Film project groups:

1. Howell,　Pasidparchya, Cerda, Liu

2. Hoogstraten, Edwards, Curran, Krogh

3. Feuer, Bingham, Dow, Lee

4. Mui, Williams, Potter, Reyes

5. Imaoka, Lai, Schabes, Wu



The plan has been to do a film project, in groups of four, 2 AP students and 2 fourth year students in each group.
Film 2:　星旅｛ほしたび｝　Or　星戦争｛ほしせんそう｝、
　　　　　　　　　Star Trek or Star Wars　





Reminder to all about oral answers to questions on page 73 of 日本との出会い。
Previously, Cerda, Krogh, Hoogstraten, Mui, Liu, Wu, Lai, Williams, and Lee gave their answers.
Wenesday, Dow, Howell, Potter, and Reyes were called upon.
Today, Pasidparchya and Curran answered questions.
Those students who have not answered, now have a zero in GradeQuick for that assignment. The zero will remain until the assignment is performed.