Ming's House
From HyogoAJET
Grammar: This is, That is, etc.
The one grammar every Japanese person knows. This is a pen. Fairly easy to demonstrate.
- Hold a couple objects in your hands and ask the kids what they are.
- Use their answers and say the target grammar (This is an eraser, This is a notebook, etc.)
- Remove any physical objects from your hand and point to an object far away from you and ask what it is.
- Use their answers, again, to make an example sentence (That is a tree, That is a clock).
- Hold one of the objects you previously asked about and repeat the sentence from step 2.
- Ex: This is an eraser.
- Tell them that you can't say "That is an eraser"
- Next, put the eraser on a table or something far from you and then walk back to the front of the class.
- Tell them you can say "That is an eraser" but you can't say "This is an eraser". Ask them why.
- They can't really explain (in English) but they should understand the difference between the two and the Japanese equivalent, now.
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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 |
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| 3rd Year | |
| Misc | |
