Lesson 16 — Travel Questions

In this lesson, Yasuhiro gave his mini-presentation on local restaurants.

We also learned the new questions for Travel.

• Where have you traveled?
• How did you get there?
• What did you do there?
• How was it?

Memorize these questions for Saturday and be ready to answer them smoothly (practice!).

Lesson 15

In this lesson, Minori gave her mini-presentation on music and so did I. We also practiced more with the Music questions and the strategies.

Lesson 14 — Music Presentations

We saw four presentations about favorite artists, music, or songs. On Saturday, we will see another presentation from Minori and me.

Lesson 13 — Music Questions

In this lesson, Minori gave her mini-presentation and we learned 5 questions to talk about music.


Music Questions
We practiced 5 questions about music.

• What kind of music do you like?
• Who's your favorite group?
• Who's your favorite singer?
• Who don't you like?
• What don't you like?

Lesson 12

Slideshow
I shared photographs from my trip to Okinawa. You can see them again on my Facebook account. Or, if you don't have Facebook, you can see them from this link:
Okinawa Trip 2016


Mini-presentation
In this lesson we heard from Aya about Haneda Airport.



More Conversation Strategies (Food)
We learned how to to talk about things we don't feel strongly about.

Showing indifference:
It's OK.
It's all right.
It's not bad.

Of course, intonation is important when using these phrases.

Older Conversation Strategies
Don't forget to use the strategies we have used before.

1. How about you?
2. Pardon me?
3. Repeating
4. Hmm…let me see.
5. Oh really? Oh yeah?
6. Uh huh, Mm hmm.
7. So…

Lesson 11 — Food Questions

Mini-presentation
In this lesson we heard from Ko about his volunteer work at a guest house in Kyoto.


Conversation Questions (Food)
We learned three new questions to talk about food.

1. What food do you like?
2. What kind of ice cream do you like?
3. Is there any food you don't like?

Conversation Strategies (Food)
We learned how to agree and disagree with someone's likes and dislikes.

Agreeing with likes:
Me too!
I do too!

Disagreeing with likes:
Really? I don't.


Agreeing with dislikes:
Me neither!
I don't either!

Disagreeing with dislikes:
Really? I do.

Older Conversation Strategies
Don't forget to use the strategies we have used before.

1. How about you?
2. Pardon me?
3. Repeating
4. Hmm…let me see.
5. Oh really? Oh yeah?
6. Uh huh, Mm hmm.
7. So…

Announcement
We will not have class on May 21 because I will be at a conference.

Lesson 9 — Conversation Strategies (Shoppping)

Mini-presentation
In this lesson we heard from Yu about Hawaii.

Conversation Strategies (Shoppping)
We learned three new strategies to talk about shopping.

1. Showing interest: Oh really? Oh yeah? — these phrases show that you are interested in what your partner is saying. The intonation is important.
2. Showing you are listening: Uh huh. Mm-hmm.  When your partner is speaking for a while, using this strategy will help them know you are listening.
3. Introducing a question: So… You can use this strategy to ask a new question. 

Older Conversation Strategies
Don't forget to use the strategies we have used before.

1. How about you?
2. Pardon me?
3. Repeating
4. Hmm…let me see.

Announcement
We will not have class on May 21 because I will be at a conference.