February 4, 2010 A Block Two Day

Thursday, February 4, 2010 A Block Two Day

Notice to All Classes Regarding Extra Credit:

Attend the special film screening of
“Inside Hana’s Suitcase: The Story of a Suitcase that Traveled from Czechoslovakia to Auschwitz to Tokyo”

Saturday, February 20
5:00 to 7:30 p.m.
Arthur J. Schmitt Academic Center (SAC) #154
2320 N. Kenmore Ave.
Chicago, IL 60614

Free Admission

If Kimmel Sensei sees you there, you will get extra credit!

Useful website for hiragana and katakana and some other things as well:
http://66.110.202.42/peachstar/explorer/units/lrnactiv/hir-live/homepg.htm






JAPANESE 3 -- First period

This class does not meet on Block Two days






JAPANESE 1 – Fifth period

In pairs, students displayed their menus and answered questions about food and drink.

This was the menu assignment: With a partner, design your own menu on a full-sized separate piece of paper. What do you like? What do you dislike? Your restaurant serves only foods you like. You’ll have (at least 3) categories, like food　たべもの, drinks　のみもの, dessertsデザート, etc., with at least 5 choices within each category. Give your restaurant a Japanese name and make your menu beautiful. Don’t forget prices in 円（えん）or ¥ (this is the international symbol). Plan for an exchange rate of 100 ¥ = $1 U.S.

Students worked on a relational-particle practice sheet before class ended.

Homework: finish the practice sheet.

Be sure to register with Japanese site on Moodle。






JAPANESE 2 Sixth Period

On board:

Ｌｏｃａｔｉｏｎ　の　Ｐｏｓｉｔｉｏｎ　に
Ａｎｉｍａｌ／Ｐｅｒｓｏｎ　が　Ｃｏｕｎｔｅｒ　います。
Note placement of animal-counter just before verb, not before noun.

Checked on Page 36 in workbook -- students wrote out the whole grid in full sentence form.

Introduced animal booklet project, with handout and examples. Further discussion tomorrow.

Students began work on relational-particle practice sheet. Homework for tomorrow is to finish it.


Be sure to register with Japanese site on Moodle。



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



Class began with handout regarding characters for “love” as in “love marriage”
恋愛けっこん
Write on board: 恋、愛　
Note that 心　is part of both characters.

Students practiced the #16 listening “American Food” section from Strive for a Five, first without text, and then with text. The following vocab. was highlighted:
アメリカ料理（りょうり）
聞き取り＃１６: 大切な単語：

経験　けいけん
印象　いんしょう
失望　しつぼう
油　あぶら
醤油　しょうゆ
男性　だんせい
正直　しょうじき
当たり前 あたりまえ
食材　しょくざい
種類　しゅるい
調味料 ちょうみりょう
お塩 おしお
お砂糖 おさとう
甘い あまい
不思議な ふしぎな
必ず　かならず
豆　　まめ
お箸 おはし
従業員　じゅうぎょういん
感心　かんしん
探す さがす
計算　けいさん

Review of Japanese food vocabulary:

てんぷら
やきそば
やきとり
ごはん
とうふ
おちゃ
すきやき
つけもの
なっとう
ラーメン、そば、うどん
ぎょうざ、しゅまい
おこのみやき
もち
かつどん
とんかつ
やきにく

Assignments due Feb. 18th:
AP students -- video of “cooking show” demonstrating, in detail, the making of a recipe from Japanese cuisine
Jpn 4 students – つけもの, that is, Japanese pickles (each student must make a different pickle)




Class will not forget work from Tuesday, when students started Lesson 3 of 2 Nakama—
pp. 145 and 146 E and F in class
pp 146 and 147 G and H for homework