Ima 1 Chapter 1

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meet people
introduce yourself
• introduce a friend
• say where you live
• ask someone where
they live
• give your name and
telephone number
• ask someone their
name and telephone
number
• apologise for being late
• say that the same
applies to you
• confirm information
correct misheard
information
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sorry I'm late
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what's your telephone
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Greetings and farewells
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14. 1 &i* $o Saying hi! and bye!
Use fc it i 0 to say morning! to your
friends and family.
Use £ (i J: *) C 3» £ -t to greet
adults, such as -<iA/-<f. or people
you don't know very well. You can say
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until about 11 a.m. After that you use
Z-Lizt>it.
If you are a boy and want to greet
your friends in the morning, you say
£"#" ! (Can you work out where this
abbreviated word comes from?)
Use 3 X 0 &" h when you don't
expect to see your friends for a while.
If you'll be meeting your friends again
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tomorrow, use l' *>, £. tz or >"* -4'< 4.
To farewell -t£A/-t±- v. you should
say $<£*)#&.
When you use these expressions,
you can give a brief nod of your head
as you greet a friend, or bow more
formally to adults.
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Nice to meet you
Say (i C& £ LTand <!:'*) ^"J; £ L <
when you meet someone for the
first time. You should bow when you
use these expressions.
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I live in Kanazawa.
This is how to ask and say where
people live:
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Where do you live?
^•kr-i-A,r-^i.i-0
I live in Tokyo.
Don't forget to put (- after the name
of the place in which you live.
4 l.fHH^ Introductions
This is how you can introduce your
friend Kumiko:
Kumiko will then take over and say:
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What's your phone number,
Sawako?
You'll recall that to find out someone's
name, you ask fc & t Z. it ?
To ask someone their telephone
number, you say ~V LhiXA^z:'! (i?
This is how Sawako would give her
phone number:
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When you give telephone numbers
you use 2) for spaces, and you
generally say fcv and c"") for the
numbers 2 and 5. 3 <p 1, tsttz and
i A/ are also easier to hear and less
confusing than <, I £ and L .
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I'm 13 too.
Use the particle 4) instead of li to
say that the same applies to you or
someone else. Particle %means too
or also.
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I'm a junior high student.
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My friend Yukiko is too.
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My friend Yukiko is also a junior
high student.
1 Introduce yourself, say how old you are and where you live, give your
telephone number, then introduce a classmate.
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16. 2 Interview three classmates and find out their names, how old
they are, where they live and what their telephone numbers are.
Pass this information on to someone else.
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17. When Shirley and Jack brought back photos oftheir trip to Japan they also
brought back different impressions of the country.
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Shirley:
Japan is such a traditional
country. Ijust loved the
beautiful temples and the
peaceful countryside, and
Japanese houses were really
special. It was lovely to see
people doing traditional
things in traditional dress,
and the food ... from now on
I'm going to eat Japanese as
often as I can!
Look at their photos
here and on the
following pages.
What do you think?
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Jack:
Japan must be the most
modern country in the world.
It's pretty Americanised too.
Theircities are just huge -
they seem to go on forever!
It's such a crowded, busy
country; people seem to be
rushing everywhere. It's very
exciting; I'd go back there
tomorrow.

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20. Jc/uTr*J;p
1 Miyako is reading out the names of the candidates on these election
campaign notices. Their names have ^ h #*#". See if you can read them too.
2 Masaru has gone into the shop
advertised on this sign. What
kinds of things can he buy there?
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3 Here are the titles of two dictionaries.
One is a dictionary of Japanese
culture and the other is a dictionary
for students of Japanese language.
Can you tell which is which?
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