Wednesday, March 3, 2010

March 3, 2010 A Block Two Day

Wednesday, March 3, 2010 A Block Two Day






JAPANESE 3 -- First period

This class does not meet on Block Two Days






JAPANESE 1 – Fifth period。

Test on Chapter 5 of Kimono (school subjects, likes and dislikes, foods, adjectives, animals), plus sentences from “Come See the Paradise” and kanji/katakana practice sentences.

Handout of images of Edo Period townsmen at leisure-time activities: 塗り絵





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JAPANESE 2 Sixth Period

Many students could not complete homework for today: page 52 in workbook – reading about Florence Joyner.—so we worked on word-by-word translation in class, with special attention to katakana words. Homework was よみましょう for this chapter.

Next time we will discuss fashion project: start by finding a photo of a good-looking, well-dressed person in a fashion magazine (Ebony, Jet, etc. are of course OK) to describe.


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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

Film crew from Tokyo Broadcasting came to film first 10 minutes of class.

“Strive for a Five” reading units numbers 9 and 10: email messages and paragraphs about cell phones.
Some relevant vocabulary:
美術館 びじゅつかん
改札口 かいさつぐち
練習 れんしゅう
自動車 じどうしゃ
風邪 かぜ
経済 けいざい
試験 しけん
携帯電話 けいたいでんわ
目覚める めさめる
機能 きのう
聞く=聴く
料金 りょうきん
授業 じゅぎょう
場合 ばあい
定額 ていがく
絵文字 えもじ
急用 きゅうよう
病院 びょういん
喫茶店 きっさてん



We read out loud first two chapters Chapter 6 of “A Homestay in Japan,” discussing meaning, etc.

Handout from Yookoso about すぎる as a suffix ending with stems of verbs and adjectives to convey meaning of “too much”
食べ過ぎる、To eat too much
むずかし過ぎる、To be too difficult

Homework: read pages 205 to 209 in 2 Nakama, reviewing verb-stem +ながら with し as “and FURTHERMORE”

We will discuss new projects on aspects of Japanese culture on Friday.