January 16, 2014 -- Thursday
平成二十六年一月十六日　－－　木曜日

Group reading out loud in class: pages 245 and 246 in Nakama
The goal is for students ultimately to be able to perform a similar, original dialogue　by the end of our work on Chapter 8.


On board:

おみやげ、おくりもの：Present
てんいん：Literally "store person" that is, clerk
くだもの：Fruit
おきゃくさま：Customer
下さい、ください：（Please) give
しょうひぜい：Sales tax
いかが　です　か：How about.....？
見るのが好きだ：I like watching (movies, for instance)
やすいのがすきだ：I like cheap ones.
です　Used to be で　Plus　あります
ございます：The honorific, very polite form of あります

馬年
うまどし
Year of the Horse (2014, or 26th year of the reign of the Heisei Emperor)

Learn the character for horse!!!


宿題　Homework:
Read and write a 3 paragraph summary of the article about kabuki from the Japan Times: "This special Horse Year kabuki's a real winner" by Rei Sasaguchi