April 6, 2017 -- Thursday
平成２９年４月６日　－－　木曜日　　木＝Tree or wood (the subjstance)



Japanese television commercial:

New Zealand
Rugby
Team
in
Shibuya
(Tokyo), advertized by the New Zealand Rugby Team, the All Blacks

https://www.facebook.com/manga.afternoon/videos/10154345082245785/



Test on katakana vocabulary from Nakama Chapters 3 and 4



Reading, and students write a 2-paragraph reader response (NOT a summary)

Narrative by American engineer at Fukushima, published in

The Moth Presents:

All These Wonders: True Stories About Facing the Unknown

One of the most moving tales is “Fog of Disbelief,” by Carl Pillitteri, who was working as a field engineer on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear generating station in Japan when a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit the island in 2011, resulting in the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl; it left some 18,490 people dead or missing and led to the evacuation of more than 300,000.

After checking on his crew and colleagues, Pillitteri was most concerned about the older woman who ran the restaurant where he ate five, six times a week. He spoke no Japanese, she spoke no English, and he and his friends knew her, fondly, only as the “Chicken Lady.” The little building housing her restaurant was badly cracked by the quake, and she was nowhere to be found — even months later, when Pillitteri returned to the exclusion zone from America to look for her. Eventually, he enlisted the help of The Japan Times in tracking her down, and learned that her name was Mrs. Owada; the name of her restaurant, Ikoi, meant “rest, relax, and relief.”

Finally, almost a year after the quake, he received a letter from her: “I have escaped from the disasters and have been doing fine every day. Pillitteri-san, please take care of yourself. I know your work must be important. I hope you enjoy a happy life like you seemed to have when you came to my restaurant. Although I won’t be seeing you, I will always pray for the best for you.”

しゅくだい　　　宿題　　　Homework

Complete theprevious assignment, Nakama page 132, Section A, 1-5

NOTE:　　　　Tomorrow the class will go to the lab, with the following assignment:

Free apps for studying Japanese



http://www.nippon.com/en/features/h10020/