A1: Describe your daily routine

A1 Course

A1: Describe your daily routine

毎日の生活

Beginner
~45 min

I can describe a simple daily routine using basic polite verbs and time expressions.

Can-do goal

I can describe a simple daily routine using basic polite verbs and time expressions.

Polite verbs

ます describes habitual or future actions; ません is negative.

Particles

あさごはんをたべます。 を marks the object.
がっこうにいきます。 に marks the destination.

Word order

Context and time normally come before the final verb: まいにちしちじにおきます。

Output task

Describe four stages of your day and ask one routine question.

Reading Guide よみかた

Open the kana only when you need help reading the lesson's core Japanese.

Model dialogue Show kana

まいあさしちじにおきます。しちじはんにあさごはんをたべます。はちじにがっこうにいきます。

Target sentence Show kana

はちじにがっこうにいきます。

Grammar Focus 文法ポイント

place に／へ行きます

Meaning: Express the destination of movement.

Build it: destination + に/へ + movement verb

When to use it: へ is written he but pronounced e as a particle.

学校に行きます。

Reading help · よみかた

がっこうにいきます。

I go to school.

Watch out: Do not use を for the destination in this pattern.