May 7, 2010 An Eight Period Day

Friday, May 7, 2010 An Eight Period Day








JAPANESE 3 -- First period



Comprehensive quiz on chapter 3K6 took place this past Tuesday.

Collected homework:
1. translate pages 90 – 93 in chapter 7 (new photo story) into English
2. write one-page summary of NY Times article

Listened to tape of photo dialogue pages 90 – 93 and did repetition – discussion

On board: Question words and transformation into “indefinite pronouns”

何　What　　　何か　　Something
いつ　When　　いつか　　Sometime
だれ　　Who　　　だれか　　Someone

Example：
何を食べるの？　What will you eat?
何か　食べる　と　思う（おもう）　I think I’ll eat something．

Homework:
1. read page 103 of text and translate paragraphs about Golden Week
2. read page 107 – grammar explanation of “plain volitional,” the non-polite form for ましょう







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JAPANESE 1 – Fifth period。

Class worked with flash cards for family members.

Sensei discussed individual grammar problems on family posters with Taylor, Thurman, and Khepereh. Further discussions next week.

REMINDER: We are at the point where we should no longer be using ROMAji. We now can write everything in hiragana and katakana.

List of class members’ names in katakana was handed out. In the future, students should write their names in katakana on their homework and tests.

Students started page 102 in the work and will finish it for homework. There are particular requirements:
1. start each sentence on a new line
2. fill up the entire page


Don’t forget sentence structure:

Time に Topic/subject は Destination に Traveling Verb

Time に Topic/subject は Direct Object を Active Verb

Homework for Friday is still: flash cards for kinship terms, i.e. vocabulary for family members


Ｒｅｍｉｎｄｅｒ:

Traveling verbs:
いきました、いって　　　Ｗｅｎｔ
きました、きて　　　　　Ｃａｍｅ
はいりました、はいって　Ｅｎｔｅｒｅｄ
かえりました　Ｒｅｔｕｒｎｅｄ　（ｈｏｍｅ）
Family words, i.e. kinship terms:
ちち、おとうさん、おかあさん、おばあさん
New adjectives, and in the past tense!
あたらしい　です。　あたらしかった　です。Ｉｓ　ｎｅｗ．　Ｗａｓ　ｎｅｗ．
あつい　です。　あつかった　です。　Ｉｓ　ｈｏｔ．　Ｗａｓ　ｈｏｔ．
たのしい　です。　たのしかった　です。　Ｉｓ　ｅｎｊｏｙａｂｌｅ．　
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Ｗａｓ　ｅｎｊｏｙａｂｌｅ．








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JAPANESE 2 Sixth Period

Students showed their price lists to Sensei and to each other. They are to rewrite them in yen (rather than in dollars – use 100 円　＝　＄１ for your exchange rate.

Class reviewed family members with flash cards, as follows:
おとうさん、ちち
おかあさん、はは
おにいさん、あに
おねえさん、あね
おとうとさん、おとうと
いもうとさん、いもうと
いとこさん、いとこ
おばあさん、そぼ
おじいさん、そふ
いとこさん、いとこ
おばさん、おば
おじさん、おじ
むすめさん、むすめ
むすこさん、むすこ


Lesson 7 in 2 Kimono – buying and selling things.
Homework
1. write dialogue for Chapter 7 in English
2. refined, rewritten price list for chosen store


店のリスト

でんき屋　　Quinton
パン屋　　　Camille
ペット屋　　　　Nora
本屋　　　　Alice
くつ屋　　　Ed
じどうしゃ屋　　Jason
ぶんぼうぐ屋　　Betty
おもちゃ屋　　　　Gavin
おかし屋　　　Nicole
デパート　　Perry
きっさ店　　Ami
ようせき屋　　Martina
八百屋　　　Darren　　（やおや）
はな屋　　　　Dashona
にく屋　　　Ray

Indicate new kanji for this lesson:

店　みせ　　
store or shop or place of business -- a noun that can stand by itself

屋　や　　　
this kanji never appears alone, but only in combination with other kanji – often used as a suffix to indicate “store”


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JAPANESE 4 and AP – Seventh period

母の日お目出度う、お母さん、ありがとう
Students wrote two cards each, handing one of them in

Discussion of story project – students must write original stories – students began work on stories

Topics of stories due on Monday


All students have the opportunity to read two folktales 昔話（むかしばなし）so that they can begin to think about the original children’s stories (which must be illustrated) of similar (or longer) length that they will be writing for their final projects.

Handout on transportation vocabulary:

“Transportation” from 電子辞書　Denshi jisho

運輸 うんゆ transportation
Common word, Noun
通運 つううん transportation
Noun
運搬作用 うんぱんさよう transportation
Noun
トランスポーテーション transportation
Noun
陸運 りくうん land transportation
Noun
陸送 りくそう land transportation
Noun, Suru verb
水運 すいうん water transportation
Noun
運搬費 うんぱんひ transportation charge
Noun
公共交通機関 こうきょうこうつうきかん public transportation