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🇯🇵 🛒 Daily life · Almost a beginner (A0)
🕐 Time and daily schedule
🎯 Tell the time and describe your daily routine with ます verbs
🎮 Play this in classUse 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
- けさ なんじ に おきましたか？ (When did you get up this morning?)
- いま そちら は なんじ？ (What time is it there?)
🔑 Key phrases
- いま なんじ です か (ima nanji desu ka)What time is it now?
- しちじ に おきます (shichiji ni okimasu)I get up at 7
- はちじ に がっこう に いきます (hachiji ni gakkō ni ikimasu)I go to school at 8
- じゅうにじ に ひるごはん を たべます (jūniji ni hirugohan o tabemasu)I eat lunch at 12
- よる テレビ を みます (yoru terebi o mimasu)I watch TV at night
- じゅういちじ に ねます (jūichiji ni nemasu)I go to bed at 11
📚 Useful words
- あさ・ひる・よる (asa, hiru, yoru) — morning, noon, night
- 〜じ・〜ふん (…ji, …fun/pun) — … o'clock, … minutes
- はん (han) — half past
- まいにち (mainichi) — every day
- ごぜん・ごご (gozen, gogo) — a.m., p.m.
- ときどき (tokidoki) — sometimes
⚡ Speaking challenges
- Say 5 times quickly: 4:00, 7:00, 9:30, 10:15, 12:45.
- Describe your morning in 4 sentences.
- Use まいにち and ときどき.
- Ask me about my schedule.
🎭 Role-play
A roommate interview: deciding bathroom and kitchen times.
🧑🎓 Student's card
Describe your routine with times so you and your roommate don't clash.
🧑🏫 Your card (tutor)
Be the roommate. Your routine clashes at 7:30 a.m. Negotiate with 'じゃあ、〜は どう？'
🌀 Twist (halfway through): The roommate works nights. Find a new schedule.
🗣️ Discussion questions
- なんじ に ねますか？ (When do you sleep?)
- あさごはん を たべますか？ (Do you eat breakfast?)
- しゅうまつ は なんじ に おきますか？ (When do you get up on weekends?)
📌 Homework
Write your daily schedule (6 sentences with times)一日のスケジュールを時間つきで6文書く