September 24, 2013 -- Tuesday

平成二十五年九月二十四日　－－　火曜日

In class, students made flash cards for 漢字　verbs on pages 383 and 385 of text:

eats, drinks, reads, writes, sees, hears, goes, comes, 

食　　飲　　読　　書　　　見　             聞　　    行　　来　　　

 returns (home), leaves/emerges, meets, buys、speaks

帰　　　　　         出　　　　　　会　　買　　　話

plus components:

says, gate, ear, sells, shell, eye

言　　門　耳　売　　貝　　目

also, handout for verb (SHAWAA wo) abimasu　｛シャワー　を　｝浴びます（あびます）

Building on the concept of past-tense verbs, Sensei gave an introduction of concept of past tense adjectives, using adjectives on page 163 of text.   The concept of the past tense of an adjective is one which is distressing to a lot of people because no such phenomenon exists in English.  Class practiced saying the adjectives in both present and past tense forms.

"i" Adjectives from page 163

おもしろい　omoshiroi            omoshiroi desu        omoshirokatta desu

たのしい　　tanoshii

やさしい　　yasashii

むずかしい　muzukashii

iいそがしい　sogashii

"na" Adjectives from page 164

ひまな　　　hima(na)            hima desu                 hima deshita

たいへんな　taihen(na)

ざんねんな　zannen(na)

Examples:

Today I eat sushi.  It is delicious.

Kyou sushi wo tabemasu.   Oishii desu.

きょう　おすし　を　食べます。おいしい　です。

Yesterday I ate sushi.   It was delicious.

Kinou sushi wo tabemashita.  Oishikatta desu.

きのう　おすし　を　食べました。おいしかった　です。