Foundation Japanese Language 1

Week 8

Contents
1. Communications
2. Activities
3. Supplemental information
4. Speaking practice
5. Revision quiz
1. Communications

• Do the Quiz 1 (textbook page 45)

whenever you have time to revise L1-5.
2. Activities: warm-up (5 mins)

• This is an individual work.

• Go to
https://forms.office.com/r/PPxxbxx04X
2. Activities: group work (10 mins)

• Make a pair or group of three.

• Go to LEARN > Course materials > Week
8 timetabled class materials.
• Complete Part 1 of W8 group work
tasks.
3. Supplemental information ①

The particle に

• It has many meanings.

• In Lesson 6, you learnt it functions as a destination
marker.
e.g. わたしは とうきょうに いきます。
e.g. わたしは うちに かえります。
• You will learn other functions in latter lessons.
3. Supplemental information ②
The particle が (see page 57)
e.g. (a) だれが にほんに いきますか。
(b) どのバスが きょうとに いきますか。

• An interrogative that is the subject of a sentence like the

example (a) is never followed by the particle は, but
always by the particle が.
• This rule applies to a phrase consisting of an interrogative
and a noun like the example (b).
• A noun that will provide an answer to such a question (see
below) is also followed by the particleが.
(c) 88ばんの バスが いきます。
3. Supplemental information ③
Word order

• Japanese sentence structure is fairly flexible in the

arrangement of elements that appear in them.
• For example, generally, sentences are made up of
several noun-particles sequences followed by a verb
or an adjective, and among the noun-particle
sequences, their relative orders are to a large extent
free.
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3. Supplemental information ③
Word order

• Therefore, a sentence that contains ‘to go’ ‘to come’

or ‘to return’ typically looks like the following, but
several other arrangements of noun-particle
sequences are also possible.

わたしは きょう ともだちと こうえんに いきます。

[topic] [time] [with who] [destination] [verb]
4. Speaking practice (20 mins)

• Make a pair or group of three.

• Go to LEARN > Course materials > Week
8 timetabled class materials.
• Complete Part 2&3 of W8 group work
tasks.
5. Revision quiz

• This is an individual work.

• Go to
https://forms.office.com/r/p4rjh6vhfv