Week 7

HOMEWORK FOR FEEDBACK

Don't forget that you need to hand in your paragraph for feedback this week. I will email feedback to you before the Easter break so keep a copy for yourself so you can see what I am talking about.
The topic is your daily routine.
Use phrases from the book as well as words and phrases from other sources (internet etc)

About 80-100 characters.

JAPANESE LANGUAGE AND PEOPLE

In the first week back after Easter, there will be a showing of some episodes from this BBC programme.
Weds 21st in the usual room
Thurs 22nd in Foss 219
From 5.30 onwards

It is a bit dated but still interesting and relevant.

Week 6

This week the topics were a review of saying where things are in the town, then moving on to talking about future/regular activities and introduction of verbs in the masu form.

See the folder on Blackboard for more infortmation to help you with the verbs and how to form the +masu/masen form.

The masu form is a polite form of the verb which is used in everyday speech, it does not change for person, gender or number, and it is used to express things you do regularly e.g. Mainichi terebi o mimasu I watch TV everyday
As well as things you intend to do in future:
doyobi ni kaimono shimasu I will go shopping on Saturday.

Make sure you read the section in the book carefully as all the grammar is explained there.

Week 4

In this session we finished off the chapter on shopping in JFBP.

There was a lot of grammar in this chapter in particular PARTICLES, ADJECTIVES and COUNTERS.

See these websites for more info.
Particles:
http://www.timwerx.net/language/particles.htm
http://www.tofugu.com/2009/03/25/japanese-particles-cheatsheet/


Adjectives:

http://rcl.pliable.us/J-adj.html
http://japanese.about.com/library/weekly/aa040101a.htm

Counters
http://japanese.about.com/library/weekly/aa061001a.htm

We also looked at the masu form of verbs
Note that this website refers to group 1 abnd group 2 verbs, which is the terminology used in Japanese for busy people. I use the Japanese terms - ichidan and godan because it is easier to remember which is which.
http://japanese.about.com/od/grammarlessons/a/031101a.htm

I asked you to produce a piece of written work for next week on the topic of shopping. This is your chance to practice all these different bits of grammar.
(Sorry not all the links are clickable - the blog was playing up and wouldn't let me paste links)

Week 2

We started Japanese for busy people book 1.
We completed the first chapter about meeting people for the first time.
Although this was a revision chapter there was quite a lot of new vocab and the challenge of reading the dialogue in hiragana/katakana.
Make sure that you complete the exercises in the book for this chapter.

We also did a vocabulary building exercise (and exercise in using the possesive "no") talking about what people had in their bags.
here are some of the words in case you forgot:
さいふ
ペン
けいたい
じょうぎ
じしょ
イヤーホーン
みぶんしょうめいしょ
アイポッド
きょうかしょ
くつした
みず
きって
カード
メモリーカード
かさ
ティッシュー
てぶくろ
けしゴム
ホッチキス
ぼうし
でんしじしょ
マフラー

I apologise if I forgot any of them! If you can't remember the meaning (or would like to know the kanji), look them up. Copy and paste into http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1C

Japanese preliminary

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