Teaching Plans and Materials for “Minna no Nihongo” Lesson 12: How to teach “Past form of adjectives” ★
“Using the past tense of adjectives to talk about impressions and feelings of past events."
“Using comparative expressions to evaluate things."
Past Tense of な-Adjectives and Nouns
教師 A-san, are you free tomorrow? Yes, I am free. / No, I am not free. 
学生さん
教師 B-san, were you free yesterday? Yes, I was free?
学生さん
教師 Yes, I was free. / No, I was not free.
教師 Everyone, is tomorrow Tuesday? Yes, it is Tuesday.
学生さん
教師 Was yesterday Sunday? Yes, it was Sunday.
学生さん
教師 Was the day before yesterday Friday? No, it was not Friday.
学生さん |
(な-Adjectives)
Q: あした ひま ですか。
A: はい ひま です。
いいえ ひま じゃありません。
Q: きのう ひま でしたか。
A: はい ひま でした。
いいえ ひま じゃありませんでした。
Practice converting present tense to past tense orally.
(For example: 便利です → 便利でした / 雨じゃありません → 雨じゃありませんでした。)
Past Tense of い-Adjectives
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教師 C-san, are you busy tomorrow? Yes, I am busy. / No, I am not busy.
学生さん
教師 D-san, how about yesterday? Yes, I was busy…
学生さん |
(Writing transformation rules)
(Writing transformation rules)
(い-Adjectives)
Q: あした いそがしい ですか。
A: はい いそがしい です。
いいえ いそがし い くないです。
Q: きのう いそがしかった ですか。
A: はい いそがし い かった です。
いいえ いそがしいくなかったです。
After confirming the rules, practice converting present tense to past tense orally.
Be careful with 「いいです」→「よかったです」/「よくないです」→「よくなかったです」.
Watch out for mistakes like “暑かったでした" and “おいしくなかったでした".
How Was It?
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教師 Everyone, how was today’s study? It was difficult. It was easy. It was interesting. It was tough.
学生さん
教師 It was interesting but difficult. |
(Remind about the conjunctions “そして” and “が” to connect sentences.)
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教師 How was last month’s party? There were many people. And it was lively. It was fun, but the food was not good. Etc.
学生さん |
Ask various other questions and let the students answer freely.
This unit is just about making sentences in the past tense and connecting them, so it’s an easy unit to understand without much detailed introduction.
