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Unit4 From what time to what time is the dining hall open? 1
Can-do
Can-do1 You can ask the time.
Can-do2 You can ask the opening hours of a shop, etc.
2 Model Dialogue
Ⅰ. (On campus)
Arifu : Excuse me, where is the students' dinning hall?
Sato: The dining hall? It's over there.
Arifu: From what time to what time is it open ?
Sato: Ah, it's open from 10:00 am. to 7:30 pm.
But, it's open from 11:00 to 3:30 on Saturday and Sunday.
Arifu: I see. Thank you.
Ⅱ. (At an administrative office)
Bien:
Suzuki:
Bien:
Suzuki:
Bien:
Excuse me, but at what times does a Japanese class begin and end?
A Japanese class? What is the level?
It's N3.
N3. It's from 10:30 am. till 12:00 noon on Monday, and from 2:40 pm.
to 4:10 pm. on Wednesday.
Thank you.
Vocabulary
がくしょく
gakusyoku
がくせいしょくどう gakuse:-shokudo:
かず
kazu
クラス
kurasu
げつようび
getsuyo:bi
ごご
gogo
ごぜん
gozen
さとう
Sato
~じ
-ji
じかん
jikan
しせつ
shisetsu
the abbreviation for students' dining hall
a students' dining hall
a number
a class
Monday
the afternoon
the morning
a Japanese family name
o'clock
(the) time, an hour
a facility
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じむしつ
じむしょ
しょくどう
すずき
どようび
なんじ
にほんご
びょういん
ふん・ぷん
みせ
~ようび
ゆうびんきょく
jimushitsu
jimusho
shokudo:
Suzuki
doyo:bi
nanji
nihongo
byo:in
fun/pun
mise
-yo:bi
yu:binkyuku
an administrative office
an administrative office
a dining hall
a Japanese family name
Saturday
what time
Japanese
a hospital
a minute
a shop, a store
-day
a post office
Grammatical Notes
-ji
-fun
pun
1.~じ ~ふん/ぷん
-ji -han
~じ はん
-ji
‘じ’ is a time classifier for hours; o’clock. Note that
yo-ji
‘4じ’is pronounced ‘よじ’ and 9じ’ is pronounced
ku-ji
‘くじ’.
-fun pun
‘ふん/ぷん’ are the classifiers for minutes.
-ji -han
‘~じ はん’ means ‘half past [ ]’.
nan-ji
なんじ( What time ? )
ichiji
1じ いちじ 1 o’clock
niji
2じ にじ
2 o’clock
sanji
3じ さんじ
3 o’clock
yoji
4じ よじ
4 o’clock
goji
5じ ごじ
5 o’clock
rokuji
6じ ろくじ
6 o’clock
shichiji
7じ しちじ
7 o’clock
hachiji
8じ はちじ
8 o’clock
kuji
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9じ くじ
ju:ji
10じ じゅうじ
ju:ichiji
11じ じゅういちじ
ju:niji
12じ じゅうにじ
9 o’clock
10 o’clock
11 o’clock
12 o’clock
ippun
1ぷん いっぷん 1 minute
nifun
2ふん にふん
2 minutes
sanpun
3ぷん さんぷん
3 minutes
yonpun
4ぷん よんぷん
4 minutes
gofun
5ふん ごふん
5 minutes
roppun
6ぷん ろっぷん
6 minutes
nanafun
7ふん ななふん
7 minutes
happun
8ぷん はっぷん
8 minutes
kyuufun
9ふん きゅうふん 9 minutes
juppun
jippun
10ぷん じゅっぷん/じっぷん
10 minutes
nijuppun
nijippun
20ぷん にじゅっぷん/にじっぷん
20 minutes
sanjuppun
sanjippun
30ぷん さんじゅっぷん/さんじっぷん 30 minutes
yonjuppun
yonjippun
40ぷん よんじゅっぷん/よんじっぷん 40 minutes
gojuppun
gojippun
50ぷん ごじゅっぷん/ごじっぷん
50 minutes
shichiji ju:gofun
Example 7じ 15ふん (15 minutes past seven)
kuji nijuppun
9じ 20ぷん (20 minutes past nine)
yoji-han
4じ はん (half past four)
-kara
-made
2. (time) から (time) まで
-kara
-made
‘から’ indicates the starting point in time and ‘まで’ indicates the final or
ultimate point in time.
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kuji-kara goji-made
Example 9じから 5じまで (from 9 to 5 o’clock)
3.
nanyo:bi
なんようび(What day of the week?)
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Nichiyo:bi
にちようび
Getsuyo:bi
げつようび
Kayo:bi
かようび
Suiyo:bi
すいようび
Mokuyo:bi
もくようび
Kinyo:bi
きんようび
Doyo:bi
どようび 4