Chapter 3  Ordering at a restaurant and a fast food shop

Objectives (what you should be able to do in this chapter) and Evaluations:

100levesl (Beginners):

Speaking and Listening Objectives:
To be able to order at a Japanese restaurant, a fast food restaurant, and coffee shops within your budget.

 Writing and Reading Objectives:
To read menu and understand the differences and similarities in the menu and food culture.
To be able to write an order and e-mail or fax it to a restaurant.

To be able to do an internet search in Japanese and find a good site (e.g. blog) to obtain information.
To find out popular restaurant (Japanese and western styles) by internet.

How you will be evaluated?
Required items: a web camera with a microphone and a whiteboard with a black pen (or a thick black pen and paper).

First, you will be asked to scan your room, on and under the desk and chair, and compute area with your web camera.  If I have not met you in person, I will ask you to show me your student ID (or any photo ID).  All the instructions will be done in Japanese using the Classroom Instructions in the chapter 0.  No English is allowed to be spoken by a test taker unless the instructor ask you to do so.  All the test has to be completed in 10 minutes so if you cannot respond to a question in several seconds, please say "すみません、わかりません or  わすれました。 つぎ おねがいします" 

Speaking and Listening Skills: Written situations in English will be shown for you to act out the situations with the instructor. Please be able to understand what a waiter or a cashier (the instructor plays these roles) would be saying to you and be able to play "customer" or "you" part/role in the sample conversations below so that you can act out the situations with the instructor to order food. Please practice with the video practices as well.  Situation will be similar to the dialogues in the text and sample situations that you were asked to create as assignments. You will be asked to talk about your (or someone else's) order and daily activities in the past, which information will be provided during the test.

Reading and Writing:  You will be asked to write kanji or some phrases (please follow stroke orders of each letter/Kanji characters).  Also you will be asked to read signs and/or reading passages written in Japanese aloud to the instructor.  After reading them, you will be asked to answer in Japanese or English to show your reading comprehension. 


200 levels (Intermediate):
In addition to the above, you will be asked to write a memo to order food and daily activities in the past including all the grammar structures introduced in this chapter.
Pick 20 new kanji on your own and submit the list (Kanji, its meanings, & kana writings) to the instructor.  You can chose them from the sample conversation, writings, internet search, etc. 

Click here for the Chapter 3 Kanji

(please refer to the kanji glossary as well.)

Click here for the conversations recorded by previous students.

Large Numbers     

 

Click here to learn and practice large numbers.

Culture:  Japanese Food

 

  Click here to learn most popular Japanese dishes  and pick what you want to try in Japan!


Sample Conversation 1: Ordering at a restaurant

 

Direct link:   https://appserv02.uncw.edu/tealvision/player.aspx?VID=kPN1%2fYp18Kk%3d 

Vocabulary Glossary Key Word “ordering-

Vocabulary Glossary Key Word “food-Japanese

Vocabulary Glossary Key Word “counting people

Vocabulary Glossary Key Word “ko-so-a-do

Vocabulary Glossary Key  “food-Japanese

For sample dialogue of expressing special dietary needs, please refer to Sample Chapter 5 Conversation 3  special Dietary Needs.

If you do not want them to take out some ingredients such as cheese and  some vegetables, you can use the following phrases but some Japanese may not understand why you want those items excluded since they are included in the price and most Japanese eat anything so it is not common for people to ask them to take off some ingredients.  Food allergy is recent phenomena in Japan.

チーズはいれないで ください。すきじゃないです。 Please do not include cheese. I do not like it.
チーズはとって ください。 Please take out cheese.

When you enter a restaurant or a shop, you will hear いらっしゃいませ(may I help you). Traditionally, you just go in and sit at any table by yourself but nowadays many places they ask how many in your party.

 

Waiter: 何名なんめいさまで いらっしゃいますか

 

 

 

How many people?

You: )です one person. 2名(or 二人 (ふたり) )です。

 

 

Two people

After sitting down and receive a menu, they will bring a glass of water at a western style restaurant or a green tea (free) at a Japanese style restaurant).  When you decide what you want, call for the waiter by saying “Sumimasen” to get their attention.   Chipping is not practiced in Japan or you can say that it is included in the price.  Their job is not divided by a certain area of tables so you can ask any waiter or waitresses to ask for something.  They are in charge of all the tables. Here are some expression that will help you to identify and order some food when you cannot read menu.

 

ordering at restaurant                 food sample outside

You want to try  おやこどん but you cannot read menu. If you are not sure they have it, you can ask them saying:

You:  すみません。  おやこどんは ありますか。(If you have to have it, you many want to ask this before you sit at a table.

Excuse me.  Do you have Oyakodon?

Sitting at a table, if you know they have it. :
You:  すみません。  おやこどん(を) おねがい します

 

 

 

 

 I would like to have Oyakodon.

If you want to try a food that a waiter is carrying to other table, (ppointing the food) and say:   
それ(item near you) は 何ですか。

 

 

What is that (near you)?
Pointing the food that people over there are eating. 
あれ(item away from both of us) は 何ですか。

What is that (over there)?
Japanese menu contains photos of the food (see the video links in the Break Time ひとやすみ ) .  Also sample plastic food are usually displayed right outside of the restaurants.  (Do an image search with "Japanese restaurant display" on line to see various displays right outside the restaurants)  If you can bring a waiter outside, point the plastic display food, say...        これ(item near me) は 何ですか
What is this?
holding up kanji
If you just want to find out how the food is called (name of the meal), say これ(or それ or あれ) は にほんごで 何と いいますか.

What do you say  this (How do say) in Japanese?
Once you have a waiter understand what you want to have, order it with the phrase
じゃ、これ(それ/あれ) (を)
おねがい します。or
じゃ、これ(それ/あれ)(を) 
ください。

Well then, I would like this.

 

ください” can be also used instead of “おねがいします” if you are requesting an tangible object.  If you are asking for service, use “おねがいします.”  For example, if you are requesting a cab driver to go to Tokyo station, say “東京えき, おねがいします.”  If you say "東京えき ください” you are asking to acquire the station building.

 

Keigo: Respective (Super Polite) (sometimes grammatically wrong) Expressions you will hear.

  Vocabulary Glossary key word “keigo”

Click here for Keigo (敬語・けいご).

 

"Customer is a god" is an expression that Japanese traditionally use to show to their appreciation to people who are frequent to their business establishments.  Clients and customers and visitors were paid and treated with extreme care and attention at good establishments.  The workers there sometimes try to be so polite, they end up making up some phrases that are grammatically wrong and sometimes does not make sense.  However these wrong phrases are so frequently used among Japanese waiters and waitresses who are just following a restaurant manual, the over-polite wrong phrases have become natural at some establishments.  In the above fast food conversation the usage of なりますis wrong in 「ラージは420えんに なります」 and 「1300えんに なります。」 なりますmeans "to become (change of a state, situation, etc.)."  The price is set at a certain amount so saying "it becomes 420 yen" or "It has changed to 1300 yen" is strange but this is a common expression you hear at a shop.  If you hear it used so many times by so many people, you think that it is a OK phrase.

Here some common polite phrases that are grammatically correct.

In ordering as a customer, you will hear very polite replies from waiters and store clerks.  The following expressions are common phrases.

Waiter: お飲みもの は (いかがですか)

Would you like a drink?

Customer: いいえ、けっこうです。

No, thank you.

Waiter: ミックスサンド と ホットコーヒー でございますね

はい、かしこまりました

しょう しょう おまちください。

(The orders are) Mixed sandwich and hot coffee, right?

Certainly (I got your order).

Just a moment, please.

"でございます" is a respective form of です.

 

でございます is a keiko (respective) form of です.

かしこまりました is a keiko (respective) form of わかりました  I got it.  I understood.

しょう しょう is a keiko (respective) form of ちょっと、すこし a bit, a little

 

Other phrases you will hear at a restaurant:

ごようをうかがっていますか。  Are you being taken care of?

ごちゅうもんをどうぞ or ごちゅうもんはおきまりでしょうか  Can I take your order?

(たいへん)おまたせしました。Thank you for waiting.

Numerals and Numbers

Click here to learn more about them. 

When you want to order multiple items, here is how to say numbers in Japanese.  The number always come after "noun + particle" phrase, which is opposite order of English (two sandwich = サンドイッチ ふたつ...、or サンドイッチ ふたつ...  The particle varies depending on the noun in the sentence (the noun is "the topic" or "a direct object" in the sentence). 

 

 サンドイッチを ふたつ ください.  Please give me two sandwiches.

ハンバーガーを 3こ と オレンジジュースを みっつ おねがいします。 

Sample Conversation 2: Coffee Shops

 

 Vocabulary Glossary key word “keigo”

Coffee shops offer variety of dessert, some light snack type of meals such as sandwiches as well as beverages.  You may find some unique places such as Manga Kissa (Comic book coffee shop).  They are similar to Starbucks (we do have them also in Japan) where you pay for a pretty good price of a cup of coffee without refills but you can stay there as long as you want over a cup of tea or coffee with friends if it is not too crowded.  Many places do not separate smoking and non-smoking sections well. I used to order a desert (any type of パフェ)and did my homework when I was at college. 

 

Some menu items at Coffee Shop (きっさてん):

(ホット)コーヒー

Coffee

アイス コーヒー

Iced coffee

レモン ティー

Tea with lemon

ミルク ティー

Tea with milk

モーニングセット/サービス 

Breakfast combo (toast, coffee or tea, maybe some salad)

ランチセット

Lunch special

サンドイッチ

Sandwich

ハムサンド

Ham sandwich

ミックス サンド

Mixed Sandwich (chef’s special)

 

They do not usually lead you to the table at a coffee shop (unless it is a huge place).  Just find a table you want to sit down. 

 

 parfait        cake combo        coffee shop inside
Waiter 1: いらっしゃいませ。

Welcome.
Customer 1: (Sitting at a table)  チョコレートパフェを ふたつ ください。

Two Chocolate parfait, please.
Waiter A: チョコレートパフェ を おふたつですね。 かしこまりました。 お飲みものは いかがですか。

Two Chocolate parfait, right?  Certainly. Would you like a drink?
Customer 1: わたしは けっこうです。

I am fine (no, thank you.)
Customer 2: わたしは こうちゃを おねがいします。 すみません、わたしは チョコレートパフェはやめて ケーキセットにします。


Please (give me) an English tea.  I am sorry.  I stop (do not want) Chocolate parfait.  I decided on cake combo.
Waiter A: はい、かしこまりました。 チョコレートパフェを おひとつ、ケーキセットを おひとつで、 おのみものは、こうちゃを おひとつ ですね。 こうちゃは ミルクティーですか。 レモンティーですか。

Yes, certainly.  One Chocolate parfait and one cake combo.  The drink (of the combo) is an English tea, right? The tea with milk/cream or tea with lemon?
Customer 2: えーと、ミルクティーに します。

Well...  I would like the tea with milk/cream.
Waiter A: はい、かしこまりました。 しょうしょう おまちください。

Yes, certainly.  Please wait a moment.
A while later...
Waiter B: (たいへん)おまたせいたしました。 ケーキセットの おきゃくさまは? 

Thank you for waiting (quite a while).  The customer of cake combo is...?
Customer 2: わたしです。(raising a hand)

(It is) me.
Waiter B: こちら、ミルクティーで ございます。(serving the tea.)  You may hear  こちら、ミルクティーに なります。

This is a tea with milk. 
Customer 2: どうも。

Thanks.
Waiter B: こちらは チョコレートパフェに なります。

This is Chocolate parfait.
Customer 1: はい、わたしです。 どうも。

Yes.  it is me.  Thanks.
Waiter B: いじょうで よろしかったでしょうか。

Is that all (your order)?
Customer 1: はい。どうも。

Yes.  Thanks.

          

Sample Conversation 3: Ordering at a fast food restaurant

 Vocabulary Glossary key word “keigo” 

  fast food resraurant        fast food restaurant        


or ご are honorifics added to a noun to make the statement polite in talking about clients/customer as you hear きゃくさま a customer/client and  ちゅうもん an order.   You will be called/addressed as   きゃくさま  or   がいこくの きゃくさま (customer from foreign country) when they need to call you for an attention.
いらっしゃいませ。 こちらで おめしあがりですか、それとも、もちかえりですか。

May I help you?  For here? or to go?  
おめしあがりis the respective form of 食べます to eat.  It is a noun, though..
You:  ここで たべます。 
(A lot of fast food places are small so they have the second or the third floors so you may want to add 2かいで たべます to let them know that they can find you on the second floor if they are bringing food to you later.  The cashier would say にかいで めしあがりですね "You are eating on the 2nd floor"。You even hear the honorific added to the word "にかい 2nd floor ".)

I am eating here.
Cashier: はい、こちらで おめしあがりですね。 ちゅうもんを うかがいいたします

I got it, you are eating here.  I will take your order.

(うかがい is a respective form (a noun) of  きく/ ききます "to ask."  The verb form is うかがう) .   いたします is the respective form of する/します.  So the direct translation of おうかがいいたします is "(I) do the asking"
You:  チーズバーガー2つと...  飲みものは 何が ありますか。

Two cheese burger and...  As for drinks, what do you have?
Cashier:  飲みものは、こちら(pointing the menu) コーラと スプライトと オレンジジュースが ございます

Talking about drinks, this (pointing the menu) there are (we have) coke, sprite, and orange juice.ございますis the respective form of あります).
You:  じゃ、スプライトを おねがいします。

Well then, I will take sprite.
Cashier:  スモール,ミディアム,ラージが ございますが...。

There are (we have) small, medium, and large...

ございます is the respective form of あります.
You:  ミディアムを ください。デザートは なにが ありますか。

Medium, please.  As for desert, what do you have?
Cashier:  こちら(pointing the menu)プリンと コーヒーゼリーと アップルパイが ございます

This (pointing the menu) flan, coffee Jell-O, and apple pie.
You:  ええと、いや、デザートは けっこうです. チーズバーガー 2つと スプライトのミディアム ください。

Well...  No, thank you.  Two cheeseburger and medium sprint, please.
Cashier:  フライドポテトはいかがですか。

Would you like french fries?
いかがis a respective form of どう"how."
You:  いくらですか。

How much (Is it)?
Cashier:  スモールサイズは 280円(えん)、ミディアムは 340円、ラージは420円に なります

The small size is 280yen.  The medium is 340 yen. The large us 420 yen.
You: じゃ、ラージをください ぜんぶ (total) いくら ですか。
Well then, I will take the large. How much in total?
Cashier:  はい、ありがとうございます かいけい、ぜんぶで  1300に なります

Thank you very much.  The bill is 1300 yen in total.
You:  はい、じゃ、これ (Handing over the cash 2000yen)

Here with this.
Cashier: はい、ありがとうございます。 つり、700の かえしに なります

Thank you very much, The change is 700 yen to return.


 

Break Time ひとやすみ

 Take a break and watch some videos on Japanese food and restaurants.

50 Japanese Foods to Try While You are in Japan https://www.tsunagujapan.com/50-japanese-foods-to-try-while-you-are-in-japan/

Can you work like them at a MacDonald Japan?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=lVihY7hrZCQ&NR=1

DinerTicket Machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB2aPjwW4PY

Gasuto (a Japanese style family restaurant): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeUsJy7X3Xg

Denny's in Japan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKOAR5aiF90

Okonomiyaki:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhFnrXnPJ7c

Okonomiyaki (Hiroshima style):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owobcvMlqWQ (fast forward to see what it is like.)

Takoyaki (egg ball with octopus inside):  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRiHfS8Z65Y

Akashiyaki (egg ball with octopus inside.  This is the style that my hometown is famous for. My mother makes one of the best Kakoyaki!  I cannot make it well...  This one shows how to make it but I do not eat it with beer.):  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1VmBWwKJxE 

 

Video on Kushi Katsu, Okonomiyaki, and Takoyaki made by UNCW students, Nicole Corso and Chang Liu at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=ttkizAg7UL8&app=desktop

 

 

 Daily Activities (past)

 

Verbs (past, positive and negative) 

Vocabulary Glossary key word “daily activities”

Grammar Glossary Key Word “Masu Verb Conjugations”

Click here for past tense of verbs.

 

Use a calendar to practice the following vocabulary.  Look at the date and say the words below.

Words indicating past:
きょう today
, きのう yesterday, おととい the day before yesterday/two days ago, せんしゅう last week, せんせんしゅう the week before last week/two weeks ago, きょねん last year,  さくねん  last year (formal)

 

Conjunctions:
but, however (at the end of a sentence followed by comma instead of period)、そして and 、しかしbut (at the beginning of a sentence. formal) 、だから therefore

 

 

Assignment 1:Reading menus on-line 

シカゴ ピザ http://www.chicago-pizza.com/menu/index.html

Go to this pizza web site in Japan.  Read menu and write some ingredients in Japanese that you do not commonly seen in the US.  Then write your observation (look at the sides and drink choices as well) of the differences and similarities of food culture between Japan and the US.  Beginner write the observation mostly in English while the intermediate write your observation in Japanese.

 

Assignment 2: Writing a fax order

You are holding a party and invited several Japanese friends who have been so helpful and to whom you want to repay for their kindness with good hot pizza! You know that Japanese people eat A LOT.  You just received a check from your work so your budget is 10,000 yen to feed them. Using the pizza shop above (シカゴ ピザ, write a fax order of three different kinds of pizza (from each series/category) for the entire party.  You know that one of the Japanese friends like seafood, others like meat and vegetables. Please include side dishes and drinks as well.  If required, remember to specify the types of crust.  Make the total price as close as 10, 000 yen.  Enjoy the pizza shopping!

 

Note: Fax machine is commonly used in Japan.  Especially older generations prefer faxing a letter or a note instead of using e-mail as we often does in the US.  A lot of TV programs use either fax or Keitai (cellphone) for audience to participate in a TV program or submit feedback and comments about the program.  Japanese emphasize hand-writing practices such as calligraphy.  Many Japanese believe that a person's hand writing shows the person's intellectual ability or characters and how much they care about the other since it requires a neat hand-writing for others to read easily.  So write as neat as possible with phrases to order (not just noun words). 

 

Assignment 3: Writing Conversations at various restaurants

You are hungry enough to eat a horse (we actually do have it in a menu at some Japanese restaurants). Pick a place (you can pick from the list below) to read the menu and order your meals.  Suppose, you have received a meal Boucher (money) from the study abroad program as follows, 1000 yen for a breakfast, 2000 yen for lunch, and 3000 yen for dinner. Even if you spend less, you do not get any cash back or credit so order as much as you can afford within the budget.  Write a name of a restaurant (or the place you are placing an order) and write out a possible conversation that you might be having at the place, using as many phrases as you have learned in the Sample Conversations above as well as a number of menu items at the place you are placing your orders.  Please include a set menu, drinks, and some deserts.  You need to eat variety of food to keep you healthy. You have to create conversations at three different restaurants, which can be a coffee shop, Japanese diner, a Japanese version of American-style restaurant, and/or a fast food place.  Each situation has to have a different type of food and a restaurant.

You are most likely eating breakfast at a fast food restaurant, a coffee shop, bakery shop with tables or a counter.  It is not a common practice for the Japanese to eat out for breakfast so other types of restaurants are usually open around 11 a.m. for lunch.  

If you get a chance, please ask your Japanese partners about the polite phrases that they hear at a fast food or family restaurant to get some super polite Keigo Japanese phrases.  Some Japanese students may actually work there and have studied a restaurant manual.

Below is some choices I picked up but you can search and find others on your own.

 

 

モスバーガー   http://www.mos.co.jp/menu/

(printable menu)  http://mos.jp/menu/pdf/mos_menu.pdf  (this menu will be used for the test.  If the location of the pdf is changed,  click here.  )

Youtube about Moss Burger:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeUsJy7X3Xg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKOAR5aiF90

 

マクドナルド  http://www.mcdonalds.co.jp/menu/burger/index.html

 

ケンタッキー フライド チキン    http://www.kfc.co.jp/menu/set_smile.html

 

ピザハット   http://www.pizzahut.jp/menu/

ミスター ドーナッツ  http://www.misterdonut.jp/m_menu/index.html

Youtube about Mr. Donuts:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F7EgD4JVxw

 

Western Style Family restaurants:

デニーズ  http://www.dennys.jp/

 レッドロブスター  http://www.redlobster.jp/

ジョイフル  http://www.joyfull.co.jp/   (Look around and find your favorite. This menu will be used for the test)

ハンバーグ(hamburger-like streak)  http://www.joyfull.co.jp/menu/grand/hamburg_combo/ 

サラダ http://www.joyfull.co.jp/menu/grand/side/

            デザート  http://www.joyfull.co.jp/menu/grand/dessert/

Note:  You may see a word "バー  " such as " スープバー " and " ドリンクバー , "  which means "soup buffet" or "drink buffet."  You can eat or drink as much as you like in the category with an extra payment for the deal.

 

 

Assignment 4: Recording "What you did during a summer break."

 Vocabulary Glossary key word “daily activities-writingLetter”

 Vocabulary Glossary key word “holidays-vacations"

Summer is almost over.  You have realized that you have not written to a Japanese friend for a while.  Practice reading the following passage aloud, record (your recording should be less than 90 seconds)  stop watch here at http://www.online-stopwatch.com/full-screen-stopwatch/  and submit it to my e-mail or Voice Mail in the Blackboard. Also submit the translation typed in a document file such as Microsoft Word or equivalent.  Your reading shows how much you understand the passage.  Please translate it first.

 

Beginner:

おひさしぶりです。 おげんきですか。 なつ休みは もう あしたで おわりです。 ことしは いろんなことを しました。 まずは、6月に 日本に 行きました。 日本で 京都のホテルに 7はく とまりました。 京都で 金閣寺や 清水寺を かんこうしました。日本りょうりも たくさん 食べました。日本の おすしは ほんとうに おいしいです。 こんかいは 東京へは 行きませんでしたが、しょうらい、また、行きます。 そのあと、アメリカに かえりました。 アメリカでは まいにち しょくりょうひんてんで あさの 10じから ゆうがたの 5じまで アルバイトを しました。 日本で おみやげを たくさん 買いました。 いま、クレジットカードの しはらいが たいへんです。 あしたから がっこうが はじまります。 ひろこさんの なつ休みは どうでしたか。 じゃ、また、おたよりします。おげんきで。

 

 

 

Intermediate:

お久しぶりです。 お元気ですか。 夏休みはもう明日で終わりますが、今年は色々なことをして楽しくて忙しかったです。 まずは、6月に日本に行きました。 日本で京都のホテルに7泊、金閣寺や清水寺を観光して、大阪や奈良にも行って来ました。 奈良の大仏様は本当に大きくてすばらしかったです。 鹿はかわいかったですが、鹿せんべいを持っていると、襲われるのでちょっと怖かったです。 今年は東京へはいきませんでしが、今度日本に行く時は、必ず行くつもりです。 アメリカに帰って来てからは、毎日食料品店で朝の10時から夕方の4時までアルバイトをしていましたが、7月は両親の家に帰って、独立記念日を祝いました。 バーベキューや花火をしたりして、のんびりしました。 そして、日本で両親やいとこに買ったお土産をあげました。 日本では、買い物をたくさんしました。 だから、今クレジットカードの支払いで大変です。 でも、もっと日本にいたかったです。 また、日本かアメリカでお会いしましょう。それまでお元気で。また、お便りします。

 

Conjunctive forms of verbs

Te-forms of verbs ーてor-で,   Te-forms of -desu-で,   Te-forms adjectives ーくて

 

Progressive action -te imasu  ーて います・いる more usage

 

When...  ー時(とき)

 

Intention ーつもり

In-exhaustive listing of action or states  ーたり、-たり します

 

Request ーて ください

 

Conditional "to"  ーと

Desire ーたい、ほしい etc.

 

 

Assignment 5 : Writing about what you did in Kyoto

Look at our itinerary in Japan (Click here) and write what you will do in Kyoto before you meet your homestay family, Japanese friends, or Japanese people whom you will meet (we usually find some women talk to us on buses).  This will help you to practice some conversation with them.  They will be curious to know what you have done or will do in Japan.  Take lots of photos for show-and-tell!.

 

 

Assignment 6: Writing your past activities

Write about your past activities (think about some big events such as Christmas, Birthday, summer break, etc.), using various verbs in the past.  You can make up a story if you do not remember what you did.  The point is to practice "past tense of verbs" and "words indicating past."  Remember to include negative forms as well.  You can write about what you did during winter break, Christmas(クリスマス), Thanksgiving(感謝祭 かんしゃさい), etc.  Pick some highlighted events.  Make sure you will use "non-past" forms of verbs if you are taking about habitual actions such as "you eat (habitual action) turkey every year during Thanksgiving but this year you did not eat it but instead you ate a big tray of sushi! Beginners should write at least 200 characters (no space). "At least" means "passing D grade"  Write as much as you can (refer to the grading criteria for writing).  Intermediate students should write at least 300 characters (no space).  All the writing assignment should be hand-written and submit via e-mail. 

 

 

Assignment 7: Recording about what your Japanese partner did...

Ask your partner in Japanese (beginners:  talk in Japanese as much as you can.  Intermediate: try to conduct this conversation entirely in Japanese.  The classroom instructions that you learned in the Chapter 0 will be helpful to ask them "how do you say ... in English or "Please repeat it", etc.) what they did in the past (last week, last month, last summer vacation なつ休み, winter break ふゆ休み, spring break はる休み, etc.) summarize your interview in one paragraph and turn it in.  Click here for the note to request "Japanese only"