Kumi Visits China

From HyogoAJET

Grammar (pg. 21)

The grammar point on this page is describing the condition of having performed an action in the past, thus having the experience of performing that action. The equivalent Japanese grammar is したことがあります. Here is one way to introduce the grammar.

1. Ask a student, "Do you sometimes go to <name of popular town/city/area near the school>"?
2. Ask the student where they go when they go to that location (stores, restaurants, arcades, movie theaters, etc.)
   1. I try to get a couple places they have been and one they have not.
3. Rephrase the information to let them see the new grammar:
   1. Yoshi has been to <place 1>
   2. Yoshi has been to <place 2)
   3. Yoshi has not been to <place 3>
4. Next, come up with some easy sentences:
   1. Eat cold pizza
   2. Go to Tokyo
   3. See Mt. Fuji
5. Change those sentences, with the help of the students, to the target grammar:
   1. I have eaten cold pizza.
   2. I have been to Tokyo.
   3. I have seen Mt. Fuji.

This is a very useful grammar that students can use all the time.

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1st Year	I Am Tanaka Kumi ・ Ming's House ・ I Play Football ・ At a Nature Park ・ My Friends in Okinawa ・ Assistance Dogs ・ Students in the USA ・ Language Games ・ A Letter from the UK
2nd Year	Life in Australia ・ School Web Reports ・ At the Zoo ・ Ainu ・ Speech - 'My Dream' ・ Ratna Talks about India ・ How Can We Find Out? ・ Landmines and Children
3rd Year	Wonder Rings ・ Interview with Ms Kileo ・ Kumi Visits China ・ Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes ・ The Whale Rider ・ Places to Go, Things to Do ・ I Have a Dream ・ A Vulture and a Child ・ Sharing with Language
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