Lesson 7: へやが3つあります[heya ga mittsu arimasu]

In this lesson, we learnt:

• describe own house and living are
• describe what they have in the house
• write an email to invite friends to their place

Activity we did during class are:

• talk about our home
• talk about our room and things in the room
• write a simple email to invite friends to house

Before we describe furnitures or room that we have in our home, we have to describe what type of house do we live in. There are several types of house in japan:

apartment

mansion

In Malaysia, there are several types of house:

Semi-D

Bungalow

Other than that, we also describe our house to each other. What do we have in our room etc:

Example of a room

Simple vocabulary:

ヘヤ        [heya]- Room

エアコン[eakon]- Aircond

ベッド    [beddo]-Bed

テレビ    [terebi]-Television

And lastly, we email our friend to invite to our house. But for practice, we just email sensei. Hee~

This is my email to sensei.

ゾライダ-せんせい。

わたしの　いえは　いっこだて　です。

わたしの　いえは　ふるい　と　ちいさい　です。

ちかくに　れすとらんが　あります。

やすみに　あそびに　きて　ください。

ザキ

[Zolaida - sensei.

My home is on the river.

My house is small and sieve.

There is a lot of work to be done.

Please come and visit Yasumi.

Zaki]

And sensei replied to me:

ザキさん

こんばんは。

ありがとうございます。レストランが　ありますか。

こんど　いっしょに　いきましょう。

ゾライダ

[Zaki

Good evening.

Thank you very much. Is there a restaurant?

Let's go together next time.

Zolaida]

-End of lesson 7-

Lesson 8:いいへやですね[ii heya desune]

In this lesson, we learnt:

• how talk about where to put things in the room
• how visit and welcome friend
• how toshow someone around their home

Activity that we did: 

• ask/say where to put things in a room
• visit and welcome friends to home
• show friend around their home
• recognise name and address on signs

Simple vocabulary;

たな[tana]-shelf

ほん[hon]-book

しゃしん[shashin]-photo

テーブル[teeburu]-desk

とけい[tokee]-clock

After that, we visiting japanese house. there's a room that looks exactly like a japanese house. It's located besides our class. lol~

In Japan, the custom is very much similar with Malaysian houses. They took off the shoes at the main door and replace with an in-house slipper to walk around the house.The main door is called げんかん  [genkan]. This where you take off your shoes and put them in properly facing the door.

genkan

shoes facing the door

Many Japanese houses still use Japanese style room. Sometimes the Japanese style room also used as guest room. The Japanese style room usually will be covered with tatami matt.

tatami

-End lesson lesson 8-

Lesson 9:なんじに おきますか[nan ji ni okimasuka]

In the lesson, we learnt:

• how to tell time
• how talk about daily routine

Activity we done:

• say the time we do something
• talk about our daily routine

How tell time in japanese:

1:00 いちじ [ichi ji]

2:00 にじ [ni ji] 

3:00 さんじ [san ji] 

4:00 よじ [yo ji] 

5:00 ごじ [go ji] 

6:00 ろくじ [roku ji] 

7:00 しちじ [shichi ji] 

8:00 はちじ [hachi ji] 

9:00 くじ [ku ji] 

10:00 じゅうじ [juu ji] 

11:00 じゅういちじ [juu ichi ji] 

12:00 じゅうにじ [juu ni ji] 

○: 30 ○じ はん [○ji han]  

Other than that, we learn to use adjectives. Examples:

はやい [hayai] fasrt⇔ おそい [osoi] slow

いそがしい [isogashii] busy ⇔ ひま[hima] free

-End Lesson 9-