Week 9

This week we completed the assessed reading and grammar exercises (preliminary people only need to do the reading and not grammar)
These form a requirement for your portfolio so if you were absent you must contact me to arrange a time to do them. They should take about 30 mins or so.
Lesson 19:
This lesson covers inviting people out (using shimasen ka) and talking about how long it takes to go from A to B and different modes of transport:
Note - the particle "de" is used to by "by" with a mode of transport as in densha de, kuruma de and so on, except aruite - on foot.
The counters for periods of time:
jikan - hour
shuukan - week

E.g. Tokyo kara sapporo made wa aruite nishuukan kakarimasu.

For days use:
ichi nichi
futsuka-kan
mikka-kan
yokka-ka etc the words used for dates but with "kan" (period) added.

This chapter also covers the following verbs: deru (leave) tsuku (arrive) kaeru (go home/back) noru (get on (transport)/ ride) oriru (get off (transport)

Note the particles for these verbs:
ie o demasu
kaisha ni tsukimasu
ie ni kaerimasu
basu ni norimasu
basu o orimasu

Lesson 20
This chapter covers asking permission to do something using the construction:

- shite mo ii desu ka = Is it all right if I... / May I

shashin o totte mo ii desu ka = May I take a photo
panfuretto o moratte mo ii desu ka

Note that the verbs toru and morau are in the -te form.

Tutorials:
If you would like a tutorial to talk about the portfolio or about any other aspect of the course, email me and arrange a time. If I haven't had your written homework for feedback (a passage about your free time) then let me have it asap. This will form the basis of your speech for the oral test.