Thursday, March 29, 2012

4/2 Japanese 1 A4

Lesson

  • Checked homework (workbook exercises 5-1)
  • Corrected homework
  • Reviewed hobbies
  • Writing about hobbies (5 sentences)
  • New grammar (suki, dai suki, suki jyanai, kirai, daikirai)
  • Pink exercise in pair
  • Watched nihongo dekimasu about suki & suki jyanai

Homework: Pink exercises

4/2 Japanese 1 A3

Lesson

  • Checked homework (workbook exercises)
  • Corrected homework
  • Went through some activities that could be use using the smart board as a review of Japanese 1 material
  • Writing about hobbies
  • (5 sentences including suki, sukijyanai, daisuki, kirai, daikirai, and 1 sentence including I used to like ______, but I like _______ now)

Homework: Finish writing about hobbies

4/2 Japanese 1 A1

Lesson

  • Checked homework (workbook exercises)
  • Corrected homework
  • Gave writing back and talked about some common mistakes
  • Added more sentences to the writing and collected sentences
  • Reviewed oral questions
  • New grammar

Homework: Next class computer lab. Study your flashcards.

3/30 Japanese 2 B4

Lesson

  • Reviewed Kanji
  • Kanji quiz
  • Talked about 4th term projects (24 hour speaking assignment & skit)
  • Vocabulary worksheet
  • Corrected worksheet
  • Oral test questions translation


  1. しつもんをきいてもいいですか。
  2. あなたの学校のきそくはきびしいですか。
  3. せいふくをきるのがすきですか。
  4. どんなふくを学校にきますか。
  5. ネックレスをいつもしていますか。
  6. 日本語のクラスでぼうしをかぶってもいいですか。
  7. 日本語のクラスでガムをかんでもいいですか。
  8. としょかんに本をかりにいきたいです。何がいりますか。
  9. としょかんでたべてもいいですか。
  10. たばこをすいますか。
  11. ときどきごみをすてますか。
  12. ところで、パスポートはもうもっていますか。
  13. アメリカ人はなんさいで車をうんてんしますか。
  14. うんてんめんきょはもうもっていますか。
  15. だれからうんてんをまなびましたか。
  16. ごりょうしんはあんぜんにうんてんしますか。
  17. ごりょうしんはたいていきいろいしんごうをいきますか。
  18. ごりょうしんははやくうんてんしますか。
  19. たくさんのじこがありますか。
  20. シートベルトをいつもしていますか。
  21. ごかぞくはどんな車をもっていますか。
  22. ところで、なにがこわいですか。

Homework: Answer the questions above in 日本語

3/30 Japanese 3/AP

Lesson

  • New vocabulary list
  • Corrected vocab list
  • 10 minutes speaking practice using the new vocabulary learned today
  • Listening practice from http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/japanese/listen/
  • Reviewed Base ta + ra
  • Exercises

Homework: Finished Base tara exercises

3/30 Japanese 2 B1

Lesson

  • Reviewed Kanji
  • Kanji quiz
  • Talked about 4th term projects (24 hour speaking assignment & skit)
  • Vocabulary worksheet
  • Corrected worksheet
  • Oral test questions translation
  1. しつもんをきいてもいいですか。
  2. あなたの学校のきそくはきびしいですか。
  3. せいふくをきるのがすきですか。
  4. どんなふくを学校にきますか。
  5. ネックレスをいつもしていますか。
  6. 日本語のクラスでぼうしをかぶってもいいですか。
  7. 日本語のクラスでガムをかんでもいいですか。
  8. としょかんに本をかりにいきたいです。何がいりますか。
  9. としょかんでたべてもいいですか。
  10. たばこをすいますか。
  11. ときどきごみをすてますか。
  12. ところで、パスポートはもうもっていますか。
  13. アメリカ人はなんさいで車をうんてんしますか。
  14. うんてんめんきょはもうもっていますか。
  15. だれからうんてんをまなびましたか。




Homework: Answer the questions above in 日本語

3/29 Japanese 1 A4

Lesson

  • Checked homework (flashcards)
  • Reviewed flashcards in pairs
  • Went to the commons area and practiced all the questions with a train game
  • Reviewed vocab P. 97-98
  • Speaking practice しゅみはなんですか。
  • Gave exercises 5-1

Homework: Finish exercises 5-1

3/29 Japanese 1 A3

Lesson

  • Checked homework (flashcards)
  • Reviewed flashcards in pairs
  • Reviewed hobbies
  • Corrected exercises 5-1 in class
  • Reviewed vocab P.101-102
  • Started exercises 5-2

Homework: Finish exercises 5-2

3/29 Japanese 1 A1

Lesson

  • Checked homework (Oral test flashcards)
  • Reviewed the questions in pairs using flashcards
  • Talked about 4th term projects (24 hours speaking & Japanese culture poster)
  • Reviewed hobbies
  • Finished first page of hobbies exercises (worksheet 5-2)
  • Writing practice about hobbies (the students had to turn in at least 5 sentences)

Homework: Finish worksheet 5-2

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

3/28 Japanese 3/AP B3

We went to the media center and watched the semi-finalists movies.

No homework
Japanese AP students will have K Quiz Part III

Reminder about extra credit tomorrow

Tomorrow we have the World Language Night at the cafeteria from 7 to 9 p.m. Please come and support our Language program! Some of our Japanese students made to the finals for Culture Bowl and movies and the World Language Department will be awarding $1200 total in cash prizes to the winners!!!

Make sure you sign in and sign out with me in order to get 40 points of extra credit!!

3/28 Japanese 2 B1 & B4

Went to the media center and watched all the semi finalists movies

Homework: Kanji quiz

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

3/27 Japanese 1 A3 & A4

Watched the movies from all the languages in the media center

Homework: Oral test questions flashcards

3/27 Japanese 1 A1

Lesson

  • Train game in the commons area. We practiced the second half of the oral questions.
  • Reviewed suki and suki jyanai.
  • Learned new grammar daisuki and daikirai from P. 101
  • New vocab P.101 and 102
  • Started exercises using new grammar in pairs

Homework: Finish your oral questions flashcards

Monday, March 26, 2012

3/26 Japanese 2 B4

Lesson

  • Reviewed Kanji in pairs using flashcards
  • Played Kanji karuta game twice
  • Reviewed informal form
  • Informal form writing game using small white boards

Homework: Study for your Kanji quiz (due Friday)

3/26 Japanese 3/AP B3

Lesson

Finished Kanji exercises
AP students took Vocab quiz K Part II

No homework

3/26 Japanese 2 B1 (Minimal day)

Lesson

  • Reviewed Kanji using flashcards in pairs
  • Kanji karuta game
  • Reviewed informal form
  • Informal form game
  • Watched some movies that junior high students made for the movie project

No homework, but on Friday you'll have a Kanji quiz Unit 4

Friday, March 23, 2012

3/23 Japanese 1 A3 & A4

Scavenger Hunt at the cafeteria

Reviewed Katakana with writing game
Reviewed hobbies
Hobbies writing practice about yourself and family members (Refer to P. 98-99)

わたしのしゅみは_____です。 My hobby is _________
ははのしゅみは_____です。My mom's hobby is __________
父のしゅみは______です。My dad's hobby is ___________

Homework: Start working on your oral test flashcards
PGHS and Lehi students should turn in their hobby writing to your teachers next class.

3/23 Japanese 1 A1

  • Watched everyone's movies and voted for the best one to compete at the high school tomorrow.
  • Reviewed some questions for oral test
  • Train interview activity (asking and answering in Japanese)
  • Gave flashcards for the oral test

Homework: Start working on your flashcards

Thursday, March 22, 2012

3/22 Japanese 3/AP B3

Scavenger Hunt

  • Reviewed Base ta + ra (If)
  • While the Ap students were taking the quiz, Japanese 3 students wrote on their journals
  • ”$1000.000をもらったら何をしますか”
  • Peer review
  • Talked about their mistakes
  • Kanji exercises