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| :*****Opening******** |
| Jessi: Hello and welcome back to the JLPT Level 4 Last Minute Prep Course. I'm Jessi and I'm here joined by Naomi. |
| Naomi:こんにちは。5回目のレッスンですね。 |
| Jessi:We're at the fifth lesson of this series. In this lesson and in the next lesson, we'll be covering the listening section of JLPT level 4 |
| Naomi:Listening is known as 聴解 in Japanese. 聴解は25分間です. |
| Jessi:The listening section lasts 25 minutes. |
| Naomi:もんだいは17あります。 |
| Jessi:There are 17 questions in the Listening section. |
| Naomi:聴解にももんだい１ともんだい２があります。 |
| Jessi:In the Listening section there are two types of questions.もんだい１ and もんだい２. |
| Naomi:今日はもんだい１をします。 |
| Jessi:In this lesson, we'll be focusing on もんだい１Question1. Let's get started. |
| :太鼓の音を入れる*****もんだい１******** |
| Jessi:In もんだい１, you have to listen to a short conversation or paragraph and answer the questions. The questions are not printed in the booklet, only the answer choices. OK, first of all, can you please read the instructions? |
| Naomi:問題用紙を見て、正しい答えを一つ選んでください。問題用紙 is question booklet. 正しい答え is correct answer or appropriate answer 一つ is one |
| Jessi: So this means "Look at your question booklet and choose the correct answer." |
| Naomi:In もんだい１ there are certain types of question that appear every year. |
| Jessi:What are they? |
| Naomi: Questions asking about location, asking about the appearance of something or someone and asking the date. |
| Jessi:To be able to answer the location questions correctly, you need to know vocabulary that indicates location such as |
| Naomi:うえ"on" した "under" and なか"in" |
| Jessi:And so on. We made a list in the lesson notes of lesson 1 of this JLPT series. You also need to know the names of basic items at home and at school. |
| Naomi:Right. Such as ... つくえ desk いす chair 本棚 bookshelf and so on. |
| Jessi:There's a vocab list in the lesson notes, so make sure to go over it. |
| Naomi:OK, now let's move on to the Practice question. |
| Jessi:(Tell where the picture and the choices are) |
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| Audio:男の人と女の人が話しをしています。めがねは どこに ありますか。 |
| 女:めがね。。。めがね.。。。あれ？ない。 |
| 男:また？つくえは？つくえの上にない？ |
| 女:ない。 |
| 男:つくえのしたはみた？ |
| 女:みた。あ！さっき本をさがしていて・・・。あ！あった。ほんだなにおいたんだ！ |
| Audio:めがねは どこに ありますか。 |
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| Jessi:Did you get the answer? Naomi-sensei, what's the answer? |
| Naomi:4. She put the glasses on the bookshelf. Because she said あ、あった。 |
| Jessi:Here it is or I found them. |
| Naomi:本棚に置いたんだ |
| Jessi:I put them on the bookshelf. |
| Naomi:めがね means glasses. |
| Jessi:As in glasses that you wear. OK. On to the question asking about the appearance of something or someone. |
| In Japanese, there are several ways to say "to wear" or "to put on." |
| Naomi:Right. To wear a shirt is シャツを着る but to wear jeans is ジーンズをはく |
| Jessi:Right. There are two different words here! きる means To wear on one's upper body, so you'd use it with something like a shirt or jacket. はく on the other hand means To wear on one's lower body, so you'd use it for pants or a skirt, etc. |
| Naomi-sensei what about the めがね glasses we've just introduced? |
| Naomi:めがねをかける |
| Jessi:And for cap or hat? |
| Naomi:We use the verb かぶる The word for cap or hat is ぼうし so...帽子をかぶる |
| Jessi:Make sure to memorize those verbs. This list is also in the lesson notes. OK. Let's listen to the next practice question. |
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| Audio:男の人と女の人が話をしています。どのしゃしんをつかいますか。 |
| 女: すみません、たなかさん、ちょっといいですか。 |
| 男: ええ。何ですか？ |
| 女: 次のざっしに、どのしゃしんが良いと思います？ |
| 男: うーん。僕は、このかみがながい、ズボンをはいている女の子の写真がいいと思いますよ。 |
| 女: ああ、このぼうしをかぶっているのですか。 |
| 男: いや、めがねをかけている子。 |
| 女: そうですか。じゃ、このしゃしんを使いますね。 |
| Audio:どのしゃしんをつかいますか。 |
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| Jessi:Did you get the answer? Naomi-sensei, what's the answer? |
| Naomi:2. The key phrases are ...髪が長い |
| Jessi:Has long hair |
| Naomi:ズボンをはいている女の子 |
| Jessi:a girl wearing pants |
| Jessi:And there are two girls who have long hair and are wearing pants. ズボン means trousers or pants in Japanese. |
| Naomi:He also said めがねをかけている子 |
| Jessi:A girl wearing glasses.So the answer should be choice2. ズボン was a bit tricky however most clothing names are from English, so once you get used to the Japanese way of pronouncing English words, it's not too bad. Can we hear the names of some clothes? |
| Naomi:コート |
| Jessi:coat...Hum not bad |
| Naomi:スカート |
| Jessi:skirt (comment) |
| Naomi:シャツ |
| Jessi:shirt...(comment) |
| Naomi:And it's not the name of an article of clothing, but... ポケット. |
| Jessi:Pocket. |
| Naomi:This word often shows up on the JLPT Level 4. |
| Jessi:OK. On to the question asking the date. As we mentioned in Lesson 1, we strongly recommend that you review how to say the month, date, and seven days of the week in Japanese. Especially the irregular ones. There are 3 (tricky) dates that frequently appear on JLPT Level 4. |
| Naomi:四日 |
| Jessi:the fourth |
| Naomi:八日 |
| Jessi:the eighth |
| Naomi:二十日 |
| Jessi:the twentieth. OK. Let's listen to the next practice question. |
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| アナウンス:男の人と女の人が話しています。男の人と女の人はいつ、えいがに行きますか。 |
| 女:ねぇ、映画に行かない？ |
| 男:お、いいねぇ。四日はどう？ |
| 女:四日？来週の火曜日か・・・。私は、土曜日か日曜日にいきたいな。二日の日曜日に行かない？ |
| 男:ごめん、今週の土曜日と日曜日は忙しいんだ。じゃあ、来週は？八日か九日。 |
| 女:うーん。九日は、だめ。 |
| 男:じゃ、来週の土曜日に行こう。 |
| アナウンス:男の人と女の人はいつ、えいがに行きますか。 |
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| Jessi:Did you get the answer? Naomi-sensei, what's the answer? |
| Naomi:３. 八日です。 |
| Jessi:Because the man said |
| Naomi:じゃあ、来週は？八日か、九日。 |
| Jessi:Well then...how about next week? The eighth or ninth? Then the woman said |
| Naomi:うーん。九日は、だめ。 |
| Jessi:Well...the ninth is no good. So...the only choice left is the eighth. |
| Naomi:Right. |
| Naomi:I think you also need to review relative time expressions such as this week and next week |
| Jessi:How do you say this week? |
| Naomi:今週 |
| Jessi:What about the next week? |
| Naomi:来週 |
| Jessi:All right, and that concludes this lesson. Make sure to join us next time for our last JLPT Level 4 lesson! |
| :*****information******** |
| Jessi:Lesson notes, practice question |
| :*****Bye******** |
| Naomi:じゃまた |
| Jessi:See you in the next lesson. |
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