作文2/2nd writing assignment

Hello!

How are you? Today I will show you our 2nd writing assignment (作文2) - writing about people and places!

You will choose one (1) picture and write one (1) paragraph about it. I will look for three (3) things in your writing:

• an interesting topic sentence
• connecting sentences with and and but
• interesting stories (面白い話し)

To use connecting sentences with and and but - click here for my blogpost about how to use these words! 

For example - look at the picture of the man at the top. What's your impression (感想) of him? How do you think he feels? What kind of life does he have? What kind of place is he in? What feeling do you get about the place he's in? 

Think about questions like these! You can choose his picture, or one of the next four pictures: 

Good luck - and have fun with this! 

面白い話しを待ってます！

Images: Top & person on boat - personal photographs/Beach - "Arromanches" by Bulo78 - Own work. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0, via Wikimedia Commons/Couple - Woodstock couple by Burk Uzzle/image reproduced from file courtesy of Laurence Miller Gallery/laurencemillergallery.com/People - (from Flickr) Holi Festival of Colors 2013 - by Steven Gerner, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29394145
All rights reserved on personal photographs. 

場所を描写している/describing places

Hello!

How are you? Let's look at some pictures of places. Look at this picture above of a mountain. What comes to your mind when you see this picture? What do you think of? How do you feel? What images do you get about mountains? 

Homework

Look at these pictures of places - the mountain at the top, and the other places below. 

Choose three (3) of these places, and write one (1) short paragraph about each place you chose. (You can choose the mountain as one of your places to write about.) 

What comes to your mind when you see these places? What do you think of? How do you feel? What images do you get? 

Write these short paragraphs in your notebooks. 

River

Volcano

Rainforest

Desert

Have fun playing with your ideas! 

Take care! See you next week!

Images: Top - personal photograph/River - By Des Colhoun, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=13208330/Volcano - By Nc tech3 at the English language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9013884/Rainforest - By Makemake at the German language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63465/Desert - By Rife Charie, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - http://www.public-domain-image.com/public-domain-images-pictures-free-stock-photos/nature-landscapes-public-domain-images-pictures/deserts-public-domain-images-pictures/desert-beauty-landscape.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24896551/All images except top from Wikimedia Commons/All rights reserved on personal photograph

and, butの使うこと/how to use "and" and "but"

Hello!

How are you? Today let's do an activity on how to use "and" and "but." Here are some sentences:

例えば：He will fly to Hokkaido tomorrow afternoon. His bags are packed and ready.

例えば：He will fly to Hokkaido tomorrow afternoon, and his bags are packed and ready.

例え     I really want to go to Hawaii this summer with my friends. I have no money.

例え     I really want to go to Hawaii this summer with my friends, but I have no money.

Now - work with a partner or a group. Use "and" and "but" in the following sentences:

1. I went on a date. I had a great time. 

2. I try to do my math homework. I fall asleep every time.

3. He enjoyed his piece of chocolate cake. He felt sick later.

4. She likes surfing in summer. She goes to the Shonan area whenever she can.

5. Sarina doesn’t like math. So does Chiho. They both enjoy listening to music.

6. Yuko is taking a writing class. Mina is one of her classmates. They used to sit together. They don’t right now.

7. He was tired and went to bed early. She stayed up. When they got up the next morning at the same time, he was refreshed. She was still sleepy.

8. Marco reads books. Yu reads books too. Marco is interested in reading about history and politics. Yu prefers science fiction.

Have fun! 

Image: Personal photograph. All rights reserved.

作文1/1st writing assignment

Hello!

How are you? Today let's begin our first writing assignment (作文1) - writing about a gift. 

You have four (4) choices for writing about this assignment. You could write about:

• the best gift you ever got
• the worst gift you ever got
• a gift you got for someone that became very special to that person
• a gift that you still have or use to this day

Things to think about when you write:

• what was it? 
• who was it for? 
• was it expensive? 
• where was the gift bought? 
• why was it so special - or so terrible? 

Think about all these things. Write 1-2 paragraphs, with 4-5 sentences in each paragraph, about it in your notebooks.  

Good luck! See you next week!

Image: "Magic Box" (personal photo)/All rights reserved