November 6, 2014 -- Thursday
平成二十六年十一月六日　－－　木曜日






ワーム・アップ　　Kanji with gen-gon　　三　X　日本語、一　X　えい語
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On the board:
what the　漢字　（かんじ） parts mean, and how to remember them

Short Grammar Lesson １– word order.

＊＊＊Kimmel’s First Law:  The verb comes last; the verb comes last; the verb comes last.＊＊＊

Japanese is a SOV language (subject-object-verb language), but English is a SVO language (subject verb object language).  No wonder English-speaking students have found Japanese to be むずかしい。

So when you write a translation of an English sentence in Japanese, you have to move the verb to the end of the sentence.

“I saw a cat. ”

First Japanese version:  私　見ました　ねこ

Correct Japanese sentence order:　私　ねこ　見ました。

Adding relational particles:　私　は　ねこ　を　みました。

は　Is a flag that tells us “what comes before me is the subject/topic”

を　Is a flag that tells us "what comes before me is the direct object (victim) of the verb.”

Can you do the same with the following sentences?

The teacher hears the dog.         The student reads a book.           The cat eats a sandwich.

Verb conjugations (as we know them so far)

                                                Affirmative                                         Negative

Present/future                 （た）食べます                                           食べません

                      Eats, will eat                                      Doesn’t eat, will not eat

Past                                          食べました                                     食べませんでした

                                                  Ate, did eat                                        Did not eat

Can you do the same transformations with the following verbs?

（み）見ます                      （き）聞きます                           かえります

（はな）話します               （い）行きます                           （よ）読みます

べんきょう　します          （き）来ます                              （み）見ます

Nakama.Ch.6.oral.dialogue.exercise

Choose a partner and prepare to interview each other 日本語　で as follows:

What is your name?          How old are you?             

What year are you, in what school?

What do you do every day?　（Partner should answer with 3 sentences.）

What did you do yesterday?      （Partner should answer with 2 sentences.）

            You will comment on one activity with an adjective けいようし

 in the past tense.

What will do you do tomorrow?  (Partner should answer with 2 sentences.)

            You will comment on one activity with an adjective けいようし

in the present/future tense.

①　月曜日　に　You will perform the dialogue together, first with you answering the questions, and then with your partner answering the questions.

②　火曜日　に　You (each partner) will hand in the dialogue script in both 日本語　と　えい語。

③　水曜日　に　You will write a small さくぶん　Essay/narrative 日本語 で　telling about your partner。You will hand it in.

宿題　しゅくだい　Homework:

Work on the dialogue かいわ。