日本語１３１
きょうは なんよう日 ですか
いい しゅうまつ でしたか?
なにをしましたか？
1. Quick Review の as Noun Substitute:
The red one
The narrow/cramped one
The old one
The big one
The bright one
The dark one
The blue one
The yellow one
The tall/expensive one
The wide/spacious one
The quiet one
The new one
The pretty one
The splendid one (りっぱ)
2. Review (again!) of Location Nouns See Nakama p. 187 Map of キャンパス
See also House on p. 186: Work with partner to locate objects
3. New Grammar Point IV: Starting Points and Ending Points in both TIME and SPACE
A から B まで from Point A to Point B
へや から 学生かいかん まで いきました。I went from....
キャンパスからレストランまで バスで いきました。I went from...to....BY .....
The で indicates the means by which you went (car, buys, bike, walking, etc.) ;
If you want to ask about that you say....
なん で いきましたか。= By what means did you go? How did you get there?
NOTE: We can't use で when we are going "By foot," because we use the verb "Walk" あるきます in its
-て Form = あるいて
We we will learn the -て Form of both Verbs and Adjectives in L. 6 but we saw -て Forms way back in L. 1 when we learned polite requests with -て 下さい like
みて下さい = please look
かいて下さい= please write
よんで下さい = please read etc.
いって下さい = please say it (p. 20)
Another Question: How Long does it take?
どのくらい かかりますか = How Long does it take?
かかりますか = it takes
いちじかん はん（一時間半）for 1.5 hours long/duration
なんじかん くらい かかりますか？ = About how many hours (long) does it take?
When we say it takes so many じかん ぐらい かかります we are saying
"It takes about or around (approximately) so many hours...
When we are taking about Minutes (ふん) we don't add the かん to signify an interval of time at all