Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Lesson 3 - Demonstrative Pronouns

Good morning Online English Students!

We hope you're enjoying the Online English lessons.  And hope you're enjoying making friends with your MKD tutors.  They are great, aren't they?

Today we will study demonstrative pronouns (指示代名詞 shoji daimeishi).
It's a fun and practical lesson.


                     Here is a useful chart 👇







And here is today's virtual lesson print 👇

Click here for the Virtual Print (Lesson 3)




Monday, May 18, 2020

Lesson 2 - Weather

Hi Online English students,




Did you enjoy the lesson last week? Homan Sensei and I hope that you did. For our next lesson, you will be talking with your tutor about the weather. We have a hint for you...



Please check the local weather forecast (天気予報 tenkeyohō) for Wednesday and the rest of this week. You can tell your tutor about today's weather forecast, and the forecast for Thursday, Friday...


Also, please review some more difficult vocabulary to describe the weather. Here are 10 words you can review before your lesson:


  • muggy: humid, sultry (蒸し暑い mushiatsui)  
  • breezy: slightly windy (さわやか sawayaka
  • damp: wet (湿った shimetta)  
  • scorching (weather): very hot (weather) 灼熱(の天気) shakunetsu (no tenki)  
  • drizzly: rainy (a light rain) (ぬるぬるした) nurunuru shita 
  • hazy: misty, foggy, overcast (もやもや) 
  • a downpour: heavy rain, raining heavily (土砂降り)doshaburi  
  • rainy season: wet season (梅雨) tsuyu  
  • chilly: cold (肌寒い) hadasamui 
  • freezing: very cold (とても寒い) totemo samui
 

Enjoy talking about the weather in Japan and in the Philippines! Here is Lesson 2...












Lesson 2 - Weather