October 15, 2009 A Block Two Day

Thursday: October 15, 2009 A Block Two Day



JAPANESE 3 -- First period

This class does not meet on Block Two day.

Remember this story!
1. The supermarket is in Oak Park.
2. A golf course is next door.
3. Nicole is the owner of the golf course.
4. She is famous, but she hates golf.
5. Yesterday Olivia, Rajamer, and Will played golf at the golf course.
6. Olivia, Rajamer, and Will were vigorous golf players [GORUFU no senshu].
7. At twelve o’clock, they were hungry.
8. They went to Dominick’s Supermarket.
9. They ate at “Weird Coffee Shop” in the supermarket.
10. Olivia ate fish.
11. Will ate sushi.
12. Will, Olivia, and Rajamer saw customers and store clerks.
13. The names of the customers were Gunther and Dante.
14. Gunther was a German, but Dante was an Italian.
15. Gunther liked the store clerk, Yumi.
16. Yumi was quiet and pretty.
17. At lunch break, Yumi ate one candy.
18. Hiyashi was a store clerk, too.
19. At lunch break, big Hiyashi ate tempura and rice balls.
20. Dante liked spaghetti, but he bought RAMEN at the supermarket.
　22. Gunther bought chocolate strawberries.


REMINDER:
Sentence-ending conjugations for い adjectives：
――い　です、――よくない　です、――かった　です、　――くなかった　です。
Sentence ending conjugations for な　adjectives ：　
――です、――じゃない　です　｛Or　で　は　ありません｝、――でした、　――じゃなかった　です　｛Or　で　は　ありませんでした｝

｛Explanation for talking about kanji:
｛Kanji compound example –人口
｛えい語　で　いみ　は　Population　という　こと　です。
｛かんじ　は　「ひと」　の　じん　と　くち　の　「こう」　です。｝






JAPANESE 1 – Fifth period

Collected crosswords prepared from assigned vocabulary words. Class then listened to manga dialogue for Chapter 2 and practiced repetition.
Homework is to write manga dialogue in
ひらがな
ROOMAji
English.



Study!


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JAPANESE 2 -- Sixth period


Collected crosswords prepared from assigned vocabulary words.

Work on explaining and understanding the continuative/progressive forms of verbs:

て　います・いません・いました・いませんでした

Explanation of verb conjugational groups:




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 – Seventh period

This class does not meet on Block One days.


AP and Japanese 4 students studied lesson 2 of “A Homestay in Japan” from page 35 to the end of the Chapter.　 These pages were read out loud and there was discussion in of meaning and grammar continued while we read. Class worked verbally on the true-false ほんとう・うそ　section at the end of the chapter, page 37.


Important grammar points:

１．Adjective into verb: delicious into deliciousness おいしい、おいしさ；たのしい・たのしさ；
２．Must/ought to: Take plain neg form, add なければ　なりません：
Example: I must eat natto.　なっとう　を　食べなければ　なりません。
３．しか　ない　(Only, in the sense of it’s being not enough).
Example: We have only 20 minutes.　もう二十分しか　ありません　ね。
４．Plain past verb た・だ　こと　が　ある。To have had the experience of doing something.
Example: エミーはおはしを使ったこごがある。Amy has had the experience of using chopsticks.

Read 2　Nakama, Chapter 2, pages 84-88.　　Do exercise B in class. Didn’t get to Exercise C.

AP Japanese students worked with page 159 from Strive for Five, the AP test prep book. Phrases used in presenting an opinion about a topic were discussed, and then students tried to defend their opinion of what was "The best Japanese restaurant in Chicago" using that format. This kind of style rubric was unfamiliar to our students and took some getting used to.　　We will continue to work with it so that it comes to feel more natural.

Homework for AP:
Write out the speech performed (or planned ) today. Use only vocabulary you know already. Double space.

Homework for Jpn 4:
Read 90 to 93 in 2 Nakama. Arrange the manga on page 92 so that they fit the story on page 9２－９３．

There was time to work on planning project for Japanese 4 students:
Make a のれん、a split curtain which is customarily hung in a restaurant. An example was shown from last year’s class. Noren must have decorations appropriate to the winter season, but MUST NOT reference Christmas in any way. Decorations appropriate to Japanese New Year are acceptable. Noren must be the width of the classroom door and may be long or short. Due date is October 22, 2009.

From Wikipedia:
“Noren (暖簾) are traditional Japanese fabric dividers, hung between rooms, on walls, in doorways, or in windows. They usually have one or more vertical slits cut from the bottom to nearly the top of the fabric, allowing for easier passage or viewing. Noren are rectangular and come in many different materials, sizes, colors, and patterns.
“Noren are traditionally used by [shops and] restaurants as a means of protection from sun, wind, and dust, and for advertising space. Sentō (commercial bathhouses) also place noren across their entrances, typically blue in color for men and red for women with the kanji 湯 (yu, lit. hot water) or the corresponding hiragana ゆ. They are also hung in the front entrance to a shop to signify that the establishment is open for business, and they are always taken down at the end of the business day.”



Jerome-kun found outstanding website for watching and listening to Japanese weather forecasts:
http://weathernews.jp




Useful website for vocabulary: search for Denshi Jisho in Google, has vocab and also information on each kanji constituting a word.