Chapter 2-1
Family: Grandfather, father, & Elder brother
Key Sentences and Structure/Grammar:
·
Te-form of copula (-です)
and Na-Adjectives) (also review te-form
of
I-adjectives)
(Refer to DBJG Te pp.464
–
467 for more sample sentences.)
·
Action in Progress ...
ています。
(Refer to DBJG
Iru 2 (aux.v.)pp.155
–
157 for more sample sentences.)
·
Conjunctive forms of verbs
(polite forms without
ます)
·
Relative clauses
(Refer to DBJG Relative Clause
pp.376 –
380 for more sample sentences.)
· Describing skills and abilities
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Assignments: We will start writing a paragraph about family member of your own or your imaginative one. Please write about a family in a way understandable and informative for Japanese natives.
Please use the on-line dictionaries wisely. Please DO NOT use the on-line translation site for creating sentences since it is often confusing and not accurate. Use it to find vocabulary only.
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Assignment 2-1A:Translate
the Key sentences into English and then record your reading of the key
sentences (Use the voice E-mail on the course). Also, create/write
your own key sentences of each above grammar and send it to me with the
translation.
Assignment 2-1B: Write three people from different generations. They can be your grand father, father, and brothers or male friends. Write what they had been doing before retirement or some point of time and what they do/have been doing now. In any country each generation has different values and life styles. I hope your writing about your family member will show what a life is like for each generation and gender. Refer to the writings in the Key Sentences as samples.
Be sure to use new structures learned this semester and the last semester as much as possible. Refer to the grammar index. Please keep in mind that you are writing this to a person who does not know much about daily life in the U.S. so you need to give some explanations, as necessary, of some activities, events and/or places, which you will introduce in your essay.