Foundation Japanese Language 1

Group Tutorial – Week 7

このほんは Contents
いくらですか。
1. Communications
2. Warm-up quiz
3. Supplemental information
4. Group work
5. Speaking practice
6. Revision quiz
7. Mid-course Feedback
1. Communications

• Marks of Writing Test 1 will be announced

once the marking is completed.

• Unit 2 Test is open for submission.

• Please read Week 7 announcement on

Learn.
2. Warm-up (5 mins)

• This is an individual work. Go to

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3. Supplemental information ①
Pronunciation tips: Pitch Accent

• Japanese has pitch accent ― all syllables are pronounced

basically either in high or low pitch.

• Unlike English accent in which stressed syllables tend to

pronounced longer and louder, in Japanese each syllable
is pronounced approximately in equal length and stress.

• There are 4 pitch accent types that a word can fall into to.
Pitch accent pattern 1: Flat

It starts low on the first mora and then rises up on the

second mora. It then stays high for the remainder of the
word.

くるま LHH
りんご LHH
デジカメ LHHH
Pitch accent pattern 2: Head-high

It starts high on the first mora (hence the name) and

then falls low on the second mora. It then stays low for
the remainder of the word.

じしょ HL
テレビ HLL
カメラ HLL
Pitch accent pattern 3: Middle-high

It starts low on the first mora and then raises high on the
second mora. Then, somewhere later in the word it will
drop back to low.

ちいさい LHHL
コーヒー LHHL
せんせい LHHL
Pitch accent pattern 4: Tail-high

This pattern is similar to the flat type as it starts low on

the first mora, raises high on the second mora, and then
stays high for the remainder of the word.

かぎ LH
やすみ LHH (holiday, break)
いもうと LHHH (younger sister）
Pronunciation tips: Pitch Accent

What is the difference between the "Flat" and "Tail-high" types,

both of which start low on the first mora, raises high on the
second mora, and then stays high for the remainder of the word?

• Where it is different is when it comes to the particle attached

to the end of the word. With the flat type, the pitch stays
high without a pitch fall on the particle, whereas the tail-high
type, it falls low onto the particle.

❑Flat type: くるまは LHHH

❑Tail-high type: やすみは LHHL

3. Supplemental information ②
Useful resource for Japanese pitch accent

Prosody Tutor Suzuki-kun

http://www.gavo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ojad/phrasing/index

Using this website, you can see and hear the pitch
pattern of a Japanese word. All you have to do is enter
the Japanese word that you are investigating, and
then hit the [Analyse] button.

Once you’ve done that, you can scroll down a little to

see the graph it generated that shows the pitch.
3. Supplemental information ③

Large numbers (L4; p.30 in the textbook)

• Be careful with the ones in highlight as their

pronunciations are not straightforward.

• Note the difference below.

100 ひゃく 1,000 せん 10,000 いちまん
200 にひゃく 2,000 にせん 20,000 にまん
3. Supplemental information ④
Numbers and counters (L5; p. 39 in the textbook)

• Be careful with the combination

of a number and the counter
ほん/ぽん/ぼん.

• The generic counter つ only

applies up to exactly ten items.
Past that, you can just use
regular plain numbers.
3. Supplemental information ⑤
The particle を

それを みせてください。

• The particle を marks “direct objects”, the kind of

things that are directly involved in, or affected by, the
event. Because of this, it is called the object marker.
• The particle ‘o’ is written を, not お.
• The syllable を is never used to write any word in
modern Japanese other than the particle を.
3. Supplemental information ⑥

Vocabulary to note

• (country name) + ご
• えいご – long vowel with い, not え
• じしょ – pronunciation; two beats
• ちいさい – long vowel
• おおきい – long vowel with お, not う
• DVD (not written in kana)
• Tシャツ (combination of an alphabet and
katakana)
4. Group work (10 mins)
Make pairs or groups of three and discuss the following.

1. Explain Japanese demonstrative pronouns これ, それ, あれ and ど

れ and adjectivesこの, その, あの and どの.

2. How is the particle も used? Give a few examples.

3. Do the Reading Challenge 2 on pp. 76-77 in the Kana Workbook.

Keep in mind the rules of Japanese rhythm (it was covered in W5
tutotrial).
REVIEW
Indicate an object --これ / それ / あれ

これは それは あれは

りんごです りんごです りんごです

Kore refers to Sore refers to Are refers to an object that is neither

something close to something close to close to the speaker or the listener.
the speaker. the person you are
talking to.
Exercise: JBP p33, III
REVIEW
Noun modifier この、その、あの
この, その, あの are modifiers, so they require a noun
after/この/その/あの.

• この + noun this pen (near me)

• その + noun that pen (near you)
• あの + noun that pen over there (away from both of us)

このペンは 300えんです。
そのペンは 1,000えんです。
あのペンは 3,000えんです。

Exercise: JBP p40, I

5. Speaking Practice
Work in pairs. Student A is a shop attendant (salesperson) and Student B is
a customer. Using the following cues, B asks a question to find out the
price of the item.
e.g. this book, 1,200 yen
A: いらっしゃいませ。
B: すみません。 このほんは いくらですか。
A: 1,200（せんにひゃく）えんです。
B: そうですか。じゃ、これを ください。

1. this camera, 30,000 yen

2. this beer, 800 yen
3. that umbrella (near the shop attendant), 2,500 yen
4. that watch (near the shop attendant), 8,900 yen
5. that TV (over there), 70,000 yen
6. that Italian wine (over there), 43,000 yen
6. Revision quiz

Please take the revision quiz to consolidate what

you have studied.
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