Date: June 8th on Monday, 2020 from 8:00 to 9:30 (9:00 – 10:30 in JST)
Course: Japanese Conversation 4
Used app: Streaming on DingTalk, Presentation by Powerpoint with 65 slides
Numbers of Students: 24 out of 28. At least 4 students were absent from the entire minutes of the class.
Fully attendant for 90min : 20
Shorter signing-in: 78, 6, and 12 seconds.
One student was recorded as completely absent by the system, however he?she? was probably listening to the class because of sending answers of 5-question quiz. Duration of participation was not clear.
Responses onto the BBS:
– Attendance check by a student his/herself: 26. However, three of the 26 were recorded as completely absent by the system.
– 1st Quiz: 21 students responded. This was to ask changes of particles when a causative sentence was made from an intransitive verb sentence.
– 2nd Quiz: 23 students responded.This was to ask particles to be used in casative sentences of intransitive verb and transitive verb, respectively.
– 3rd Quiz: 23 students responded. This was to find out one causative sentence of intransitive verb from 5 causative sentences with other 4 being of transitive verbs.
– Attendance check at the end: 20 students responded. This was one-sentence composition for a student to type onto BBS. The students were asked to compose a causative sentence using not an intransitive verb but a transite verb.
Teaching:
– Review of passive sentences. The concept of causative sentences, making causative form of verbs, and conversions from a non-causative sentence to causative sentence that was using an intransitive verb.
– Introduction and exercises of causative sentences of transitive verbs.
– Exercise of a construction “V1-shinaiyouni, V2-shimasu.”
Homework Assignment:
– No homework was assigned. But the students were encouraged to do self-grading of a short test that was about the section 14 of the textbook.
– Three students were asked to send a MP3 or M4A by Wednesday night. Those students were asked to record their own speaking of conversation between two part time job workers.
Issues and Problems:
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