🇯🇵 🛒 Daily life · Almost a beginner (A0)

🏪 At the konbini

🎯 Buy things and answer the clerk's questions

Use the usual 50-minute plan: warm-up → key phrases → challenges → role-play → discussion → wrap-up. Share this page on Zoom so the student can see the phrases, but keep "Your card" to yourself.

💬 Warm-up questions

コンビニでなにをかいますか？ (What do you buy at a konbini?)
すきなおにぎりは？ (Favorite onigiri?)

🔑 Key phrases

これをください (kore o kudasai)This one, please
ふくろはだいじょうぶです (fukuro wa daijōbu desu)I don't need a bag
あたためてください (atatamete kudasai)Please heat it up
カードで (kādo de)By card
レシートはいりません (reshīto wa irimasen)I don't need the receipt
おはしをください (ohashi o kudasai)Chopsticks, please

📚 Useful words

おにぎり (onigiri) — rice ball
おべんとう (obentō) — boxed lunch
ふくろ (fukuro) — bag
レジ (reji) — register
ポイントカード (pointo kādo) — points card
〜えん (…en) — … yen

⚡ Speaking challenges

Say prices: ¥128, ¥540, ¥1,250.
Decline a bag and a receipt politely.
Order 2 onigiri and hot coffee.
Ask where something is: 〜はどこですか？

🎭 Role-play

A konbini in Tokyo.

🧑‍🎓 Student's card

Buy a bento and a drink. Answer: heat it up? bag? points card? how to pay?

🧑‍🏫 Your card (tutor)

Be the clerk. Speak at natural speed: 'あたためますか？' 'ふくろごりようですか？' 'ポイントカードはおもちですか？'

🌀 Twist (halfway through): The clerk asks 'おはしはなんぜんですか？' (How many pairs of chopsticks?) The student must answer.

🗣️ Discussion questions

コンビニはすきですか？ (Do you like konbini?)
あなたのくににもコンビニがありますか？ (Are there konbini in your country?)
いくらですか？ (How much is it?) — practice prices

📌 Homework

Learn the 6 clerk questions and your answers; practice them aloud店員の6つの質問と答えを覚えて音読する