８月２８日 木曜日

今日、勉強したことは、
1) Conversation Teacher to students e.g.)今日、何を食べましたか。
2) Kanji Table: Cheat sheet for Kanji
3) Kanji Lesson 11: 9 kanji;手紙、好き、近い、明るい、病院、映画
4) New grammar:　Verb stem+たい e.g) この映画を見たくないです。
5) Practice: Make your own sentence.

しゅくだいは、
1) Kanji handout for 3) if you didn't finish making your own sentences.
2) Workbook p.100
3) Blog entry #2: reflection

Good example

We reviewed by writing the date in Kanji: 七月七日。We watched a video clip detailing the start of the Star Festival in Japan today about two lovers separated by the Milky Way galaxy. We wrote wishes for what we aspire to become or do in our lives.

The main part of today involved conjugating adjectives to apply them to sentences in different ways. The なadjectives were rather easy to grasp, with us simply dropping the な and adding the conjugated form of です at the end. The いadjectives were a bit more tricky. The present affirmative has ですadded to the end. Pretty simple, right? Well the other three tenses switch things up a bit. Present negative is くありません, past affirmative is かったです, and past negative is くありませんでした。 There is also conjugation for the irregular い adjectives: です、よくありません、よかったです、よくありませんでした。

These conjugations make sense in hindsight but will take some getting used to for good results, but at least it allows me to form better sentences. Especially for the vocabulary sheet due tomorrow; I wanted to mix it up a bit for learning these adjectives to write decent sentences.

 

Bad example

1. What did you learn this week?

～たい
2. Most fun things you did this week　

met new friends in the school
3. what is your great success this week

remember kanji
4. What is your great challenge this week

remember grammar
5. What do you want to do in order to overcome #4

practice