Vocabulary Sprints
Lesson 1 of 40
Vocabulary Sprint 1 — days and dates
about 8 minutes
After this lesson you can
- Name any day of the week, and say which day something is on.
- Say the day before yesterday, the day after tomorrow, last year and the year after next.
Aki keeps a paper calendar taped beside the register and copies every date onto the shop notebook a second time, in pencil, in case the first pen fades. Today's page already has three birthdays and one closing shift she has mixed up twice.
Aki
A date only counts once it is written down somewhere you will actually look. Mine goes down twice — the notebook, and my head — because my head is the one that loses.
Words this lesson teaches
- 火曜日
- Tuesday — fire day
- 水曜日
- Wednesday — water day
- 金曜日
- Friday — gold day
- あさって
- the day after tomorrow
- 一昨日
- the day before yesterday
- 一昨年
- the year before last
- さ来年
- the year after next
- 去年
- last year
- 誕生日
- a birthday
- 二十歳
- twenty years old — read はたち, not にじゅっさい
- 二十日
- the twentieth of the month — read はつか
- 夏休み
- the summer holiday
- 夕方
- early evening, around dusk
- カレンダー
- a calendar