Week 4

The topics for this class were:

review of last week - introducing people
ordering in a restaurant, offering/ accepting and refusing food/ drink and also set phrases for eating and drinking.
Please make sure you have done all the exercises in ch 4 of the book.

The main grammar points covered were:
This and that
This - kore
That - sore
That over there - are

Counters
1. hitotsu
2. futatsu
3. mittsu
4. yottsu
5. itsutsu

Particles:
wa - topic marker
ga - subject marker
o - object marker
mo - replaces wa to add the sense of "aswell" e.g watashi mo - Me too.

After ch 4, there is a section called Checkpoint 1 - have a go at that and then identify which areas you need to work on.

Katakana - I am pleased to see that many people are working hard to get to grips with katakana. If you are still not confident, there are lots of resources in the library (orange box in the langauge resource room) as well as online resources to help you. Also try copying them out again and again. At this point, recognition is more important than being able to write them all from memory so concentrate on that. Also check youtube for the katakana alphabet song.

ASSIGNMENT FOR SUBMISSION
This must be handed in next week, and I will return it the following week with feedback.

Write a dialogue either people meeting for the first time and introducing others/ people making small talk at the bus stop/ at a restaurant or pub

Try not to just stick to phrases and vocab learnt in class but expand on what we have covered. This is your chance to show off to me how much you know. Try to make it as long as possible without being repetitive.
If you already know hiragana please write in hiragana. Otherwise, write in Romaji, try writing any katakana words in katakana.