We design standards-based conversation lesson according to your needs / interests. For your reference we have outlined the standards for the daily conversation program at the low-intermediate level.
Eligibility This course is for those who have had at least 50 hours of Japanese-as-a second-language lessons or for those who have finished the Japanese for Busy People Vol. I or know the grammar points of Japanese for Busy People Vol.1.
Material Japanese for Busy People II textbook, the workbook, conversation tapes, CDs, movies, restaurant menu, tickets, maps, magazines, teacher's handouts, Kanji sheets and more.)
Objective
 Developing the ability to speak about everyday matters with relative fluency and confidence. Acquiring more vocabulary. Developing comprehension skills. Forms & Patterns: Relative clauses, potential, noun phrases, conjugation of verbs, conjunctions, connectives.
Skills Speaking (particularly giving explanations), reading, listening
Vocabulary Approximately 1023 words
Lessons 20(100hours)
Teaching method Communicative approach.
1. Rush Hour
Objectives
    Mastering comparatives and superlatives.
    Reviewing comparative forms.
    Learning how to use YORI.
2. Lost and Found
Objectives
    Learning how to talk about purpose.
    Learning to describe things in detail by linking adjectives.
    Learning how to deal with the Lost and Found Office.
    Turning adjectives into adverbs.
    Describing things and people by linking adjectives.
3. The Health Club
Objectives
    Talking about services and equipment.
    Talking about ability and availability.
4. A Business Trip
Objectives
    Learning to speak about experiences you have had.
    Learning to speak about vacations and holidays.
    Learning to talk about travel experiences.
5. A New Word Processor
Objectives
    Making seasonally appropriate greetings.
    Talking about quality improvements and price changes when shopping.
    Listing reasons.
    Talking about changes.
    Learning how to express a choice.
6. A Pale Face
Objectives
    Giving people advice.
    Learning to give advice to people.
7. Mr. Johnson's Arrival
Objectives
    Using relative clauses to give extra information about things.
    Using relative clauses to describe people.
8. The O-Bon Festival
Objectives
    Learning to say what you think.
    Using formal language in telephone conversations.
    Talking about possibilities and probabilities.
9. Prep School
Objectives
    Learning how to express obligation.
    Talking about it not being necessary to do something.
    Reviewing the language of obligation (NAKEREBANARIMASEN-form)
    Reviewing the SHINAKUTEMOII-form.
10. Letter from Kyushu
Objectives
    Students should be able to express that two different actions have occurred simultaneously using the NAGARApattern.
    Students should be able to read a letter and answer questions based on that letters both orally and in written form.
11. Job Interview
Objectives
    Getting one's true feelings across through subtle use of language.
    Saying things that are embarrassing.
    Learning to express your desires with the proper diffidence.
12. Hotel Reservations
Objectives
    How to talk about time using TOKI.
13. A Gift of Chocolate
Objectives
    Talking about possibilities and probabilities.
    Reviewing phrases to express probability and possibility.
14. The Referee's Role
Objectives
    Describing what you see.
    Giving reasons using the -TE form
    Making noun phrases with NOGA and NOMO.
    Describing emotional responses using the -TE form as a short afternative to verb + TOKI.
15. A Forgotten Umbrella
Objectives
    Expressing 'time when ' using -TARA.
    Expressing hypotheses using -TARA and -NARA.
    Reviewing the -TARA form.
16. The New Showroom Design
Objectives
    Expressing hypothesis using the - BA pattern.
    Expressing consequences using the -TO pattern.
    Using -TO pattern for cause and effect.
17. Brown's Diary
Objectives
    Mastering the plain style of informal conversation.
    Reviewing the plain style.
18. Birthday Flowers
Objectives
    Talking about intentions and the future.
    Reviewing the language for expressing intentions.
19. The Public Library
Objectives
    Talking about abilities (the potential form).
    Reviewing the potential form.
    Reviewing the colloquial style.
20. Cherry Blossoms
Objectives
    Reading Review

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