Date: April 15th on Wednesday, 2020 from 8:00 to 9:30 (9:00 – 10:30 in JST)
Course: Japanese Listening 2
Used app: Streaming on DingTalk, Presentation by Powerpoint (52 slides)
Numbers of Students: 27
26 students stayed with me from the start to the end. One student is recorded his?her shorter attendance of 61minutes.
Students’ Responses:
– Attendance Check : All the 27 students typed his/her attendance on BBS
– Quiz 1 : 24 students answered. This question was to measure students’ understanding about listening materials. Most students sent wrong answers.
– Quiz 2: 25 answered. Questions are to check if the students know several usages of particle “-no” or not. The students were asked to choose a wrong usage of “-no” that was “-no” placed between an I-adjective and a noun.This error happens quite often for this country’s Japanese learners.
– Quiz3: 23 answered. This question was to ask what type of speech style was used in the conversation.
– Quiz at the End: 26 students typed a clause of “V1 nagara V2-masu”.
Teaching:
1: Review of conversation for suggestion and invitation.
2: Redo of two listening activities that were done in the last class. One was daily life of three persons, the other was talks travel experiences by three persons.
3: Preparation for the Section 15
– V-te Kudasai / V-nai de Kudasai
– V1 nagara V2
– Making a noun phrase from a verb phrase by placing “-no”
– To express the purpose of movement with “V(-masu) + ni + transferring verbs”
– Usages of Te-forms that appeared in section 15 of the textbook.
Homework Assignment:
– Writing “V-nai de Kudasai” and “V-te imasu” from dictionary forms.
Issues and Problems:
– This is a listening class. But the section 15 of the textbook includes a lot of important grammatical issues. It needs explanations in addition to listening activities that are needed most.
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