UCL Language Centre

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UCL CENTRE FOR LANGUAGES &

INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION

Evening Courses

Japanese Level 3+ Prerequisite for entry Successful completion of level 3 Term duration 10 x 2-hour classes.

Aims and Objectives The aim of the course is to enable students to communicate in a wide range of daily situations and understand Japanese in many practical issues. Students will be given more sophisticated written texts after their abilities of reading and writing are further developed. Cultural awareness and knowledge of Japanese life style will be further developed during the course. Some of famous proverbs will be explained on the course.

Functions

- Asking for directions / suggestions

- Describing a cause and consequence

Course Content: Main topics/themes to be covered - Tea Ceremony

- Planning a ski holiday

- Proverbs

- Health

- Incident

- Annual events

- Measurement, shapes and patterns

- Making an excuse

- Kimono

Linguistic Structures/ Phonetics - Irregular rules of the pronunciation of Spoken Japanese

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UCL Language Centre

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Grammar

- - The conditional form

- - - Passive verbs

- Nominalising the phrase

- (Expressing a cause and a consequence) - - Expressions for giving & receiving, reflecting a relationship

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Learning Resources Books - Course book: Minna no Nihongo (shokyu 2) (Lesson 34 Lesson 41) published by 3A

Corporation - Other material: Minna no Nihongo 2 Translation & Grammatical Notes (Lesson 34 Lesson 41) published by 3A Corporation - Kihon kanji 500 Vol. 2 published by Bonjinsha Co.,Ltd

Bilingual Dictionaries - Online dictionary

- Electric dictionary SHARP e-dictionary