The lesson focuses on teaching students how to use general counters in Japanese to ask for specific quantities of items within a shopping context. Students engage in various activities, starting with recalling the previous lesson and practicing hiragana.
Exercise 1 Answers
Rewrite the following sentences in your book, and translate them to Japanese (hiragana).
1. Two apples please.
りんご を ふたつ ください。
2. I want one orange. (orange = orenji)
おれんじ が ひとつ ほしい です。
3. May I please have three soft-serve ice-creams? (ice-cream = sofuto kuri-mu)
そふとくりーむ を みつ くれませんか。
4. Can I please have five bananas? (banana = banana)
ばなな を いつつ くれませんか。
5. I want four pencils. (pencil = enpitsu)
えんぴつ が よっつ ほしい です。
Exercise 1
Rewrite the following sentences in your book, and translate them to Japanese (hiragana).
1. Two apples please.
2. I want one orange. (orange = orenji)
3. May I please have three soft-serve ice-creams? (ice-cream = sofuto kuri-mu)
4. Can I please have five bananas? (banana = banana)
5. I want four pencils. (pencil = enpitsu)
Lesson Goal: By the end of this lesson I will be able to use general counters to ask for a certain number of items in Japanese within a shopping context.
Where to Place Counters
りんご を ひとつ ください。
りんご が ふたつ ほしい です。
りんご を みっつ くれませんか。
Counters are placed between the particles 'wo' or 'ga' and the rest of the sentence.
Hiragana Practice
Hiragana Song
General Counters
Normal Japanese Counting
Lesson Activities:
1. recall last lesson
2. hiragana practice
3. general counters
4. join counters to 3 sentences we know
5. do exercises
6. present pair role play
7. check goal achievement
Goal Check
Lesson Goal: By the end of this lesson I will be able to use general counters to ask for a certain number of items in Japanese within a shopping context.
Today I reached the goal by .../Today I didn't reach the goal because ...
Something I learned today was ...
Something I enjoyed today was ...
