ALTEC Language Class: Japanese Beginning II Class duration: 10 weeks, January 28–April 7, 2020 ( class March 24) Class meetings: Tuesdays at 5:30pm–7:30pm in Hellems 145 Instructor: Megan Husby, [email protected] Class session Resources before coming Practice exercises after Communicative goals Grammar Vocabulary & topic class class Talking about things that you Verb Conjugation: Past tense Review of Intro and あ column Fun Hiragana app for did in the past of long (polite) forms Japanese your Phone (~desu and ~masu verbs) Writing Hiragana か column Talking about your winter System: Hiragana song break Hiragana Hiragana さ column (Recognition) Hiragana Practice クリスマス・ハヌカー・お Hiragana た column Worksheet しょうがつ 正月はなにをしましたか。 Winter Sports どこにいきましたか。 Hiragana な column Grammar Review なにをたべましたか。 New Year’s (Listening) プレゼントをかいましたか/ Vocab Hiragana は column もらいましたか。 Genki pg. 110 スポーツをしましたか。 Hiragana ま column だれにあいましたか。 Practice Quiz Week 1, えいがをみましたか。 Hiragana や column Jan. 28 ほんをよみましたか。 Omake (bonus): Kasajizō: うたをききましたか/ Hiragana ら column Folk Tale うたいましたか。 Hiragana わ column Particle と Genki: An Integrated Course in Japanese New Year (Greetings, Elementary Japanese pgs. 24-31 Activities, Foods, Zodiac) (“Japanese Writing System”)

Particle と

Past Tense of desu (Affirmative)

Past Tense of desu (Negative)

Past Tense of Verbs

Discussing family, pets, objects, Verbs for being (aru and iru) Review of Intro and ア column Katakana Practice possessions, etc. Japanese Worksheet Counters for people, animals, Writing Katakana カ column etc. System: Genki I pgs. 107-108 Katakana Katakana サ column (Recognition) Practice Quiz Katakana タ column Counters Katakana ナ column Furniture and common Katakana ハ column household items Katakana マ column

Katakana ヤ column

Katakana ラ column Week 2, Feb. 4 Katakana ワ column

Verbs for Existence

Family

Animals

Occupations

Counting Samurai (People) Song

Basic Counters Jingle

Household Items Describing Adjectives in the present and Japanese Intro to Adjective Conjugations Week 3, things/people/events past tenses Writing and Practice Feb. 11 System: Kanji: Person Radical Introduction to I-Adjectives Present Tense Genki I pgs. 132-134 Kanji Adjective Conjugations Practice Quiz Adjectives Present and Past

Parts of the Parts of the Body body

Describing emotion Adjectives (2) Kanji: Go (to do) something Genki I pg. 174

Doing something with a Verb stem + にいく Emotions Expressing Happiness Practice Quiz purpose: Let’s go eat sushi! Week 4, Sushi Varieties Expressing Sadness Omake (bonus): Japanese Feb. 18 Emoticons Expressing Frustration

Sushi Vocab Talking about desires (what ~ga hoshii desu or Adjectives for Adjectives for Taste Genki II pgs. 54-55 you want, what you want to ~ hoshigatte imasu (for taste do) other people) Adjectives Modifying Nouns Genki I pgs. 254-255 ~mono/~ Describing nouns ~shitai (desu) /~shitakunai Food Practice Quiz (desu)/~shitakatta (desu)/shitakunakatta (desu) Drinks Week 5, or Feb. 25 ~shitagatte imasu (for other Expressing Desire people) Expressing Desire (2) Adjectives modifying nouns Colors

Clothing Making polite requests (please ~ form conjugations (verbs) Action Verbs Te-form Song Genki I pgs. 150-151; ~) 152-153; 170-172

Verbs for Week 6, Describing a sequence of events cooking Practice Quiz Mar. 3

Talking about actions that are Verbs for Omake (bonus) Vocab— in progress making things Kitchen Tools

Describing ~te form conjugations More Plain Style Speech Genki I pg. 173 things/people/events using a (adjectives) adjectives sequence of adjectives Plain Style Adjective Practice Quiz Short (plain) form adjective Conjugations Week 7, Holding casual conversations conjugations in present and Mar. 10 past tenses Response WordsExpressing Response words (aizuchi) Thoughts/Opinions

Expressing Emotional Reactions Holding casual conversations Casual conversation I think~ (~to omoimasu) Genki I pgs. 190-193 (2) ~to omoimasu Quotations (~to iimasu) Practice Quiz Week 8, Stating thoughts and opinions Mar. 17 ~to iimasu/iimashita/itte Quoting people imashita

Asking someone not to do ~naide (kudasai) More verbs I have the experience of_ing Genki I pg. 194; 256 something (negative requests) ~ (verb in past tense short Japanese places Practice Quiz Discussing past experiences form) koto ga aru/nai (shrines, Week 9, (things you’ve done before or temples, Mar. 31 never done before) mountains, hot springs, etc.), foods, and experiences Talking about what you like ~(verb in present tense short More verbs Making verbs into nouns Genki I pgs. 194-195; doing or don’t like doing form) no/koto ga suki 195-196 (desu)/kirai (desu) Week 10, Talking about what you can do Apr. 7 ~(verb in present tense short form) koto ga dekimasu

Particle が