week 10

The topics for this week were booking train tickets (times, prices etc) and habits (verbs in the present tense)

We completed the exercises on pages 80 -81 of BBC talk for buying train tickets.
See also the handout in the Kanji folder on BB for names of Japanese cities in Kanji.

Masu form verbs:
I gave out a grammar sheet about conjugating verbs in the present tense - or as it is known the masu form. So called because the verbs all end in masu.
We have seen the masu form before but haven't looked more carefully as how to form it and hpw to use it.
eg. arimasu, imasu, mainichi aiteimasu, nani ni nasaimasu ka etc.

See the sheets on BB in the Grammar folder for more details.

Next week is your last chance to have a tutorial if there is anything you'd like to ask regarding the assessment or anything else.

If you are interested in continuing next term, the classes will begin again late Jan/early Feb. Same time, same day of the week. Please get your application in as soon as possible as it helps the admin people not to have a great rush at the last minute. It also helps us get a good idea of numbers. (If there are too few the class may be cancelled, so please get your name down early!)