Day N4 - 1 - A Visit to the Festival
Visual exercise: Daily N4 - Day 1
What this practice will help you express
This practice will help you talk about plans and experiences at a festival, describe how things appear, explain reasons, express uncertainty, and discuss actions you want to try. You will also work on describing situations involving rain, delays, meeting places, food, and choosing what to do next.
You will practice expressing impressions and predictions, such as saying that food looks soft or that rain seems likely, and explaining circumstances with ～んです. You will also express when something is excessive with ～すぎます, uncertainty with ～かどうか, and actions such as going somewhere to check, find, or get something with Vてきます. Forms such as Vてみます and Vてみたいです let you discuss trying unfamiliar food or activities.
The vocabulary focuses on festivals, meeting near a station, participating in events, being late, getting wet, looking for places or people, finding things, and describing desserts by qualities such as softness or excessive sweetness. These ideas are combined in the rainy-festival situation used throughout the practice.
After completing this practice, you should be better able to discuss festival plans, explain delays or problems, predict weather or appearances, express uncertainty about plans and locations, and talk about food or activities you want to try.
Shadowing Exercise
Summary: Two people plan to go to a festival near the station. They are worried that rain might cause delays, so one person goes first. At the festival, they find some food and desserts and talk about what they would like to eat.
This exercise complements the shadowing training in the YomiNihongo app.
Then, observe the images below and try to reconstruct what was said.
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1. Look at the images.
2. Try to reconstruct the dialogue in the app
Now open the app and go to the Dynamic Text feature.
Look carefully at each scene and try to remember what the characters said.
Try to reconstruct the conversation in your own words while keeping the general meaning of the dialogue.
You do not need to use the exact same vocabulary, grammar, or sentence order as the original text.
Write
Write the Japanese sentences you remember.
Analyze
Check each word and its translation.
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Use the AI Assistant to review your sentences.
Compare
Compare your version with the original text.
3. Grammar & Vocabulary Output Practice
Answer the questions below out loud or write your answers in Dynamic Text in the app before checking the example answer. You can answer about your real life or make up a simple answer for practice.
Try to use the grammar: V[て-form]みます/V[て-form]みたいです
Q1: 祭りの屋台で、何を食べますか。
Show example answer
1. 屋台のデザートを食べてみます。
2. 甘い食べ物を食べてみます。
Q2: 駅前の祭りで、何をしたいですか。
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1. 祭りに参加してみたいです。
2. 屋台を見てみたいです。
Try to use the grammar: 〜そうです
Q3: このデザートはどうですか。
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1. 甘そうです。食べてみたいです。
2. 柔らかそうです。
Q4: 今日の天気はどうですか。
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1. 雨が降りそうです。
2. 雨が降りそうで、ちょっと心配です。
Try to use the grammar: 〜んです
Q5: どうして遅れましたか。
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1. 駅前で雨が降ったんです。
2. 電車が遅れたんです。
Q6: どうして服が濡れましたか。
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1. 雨が降ったんです。
2. 先に来る時、雨が降ったんです。
Try to use the grammar: 〜すぎます
Q7: このデザートはどうですか。
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1. ちょっと甘すぎます。
2. おいしいですが、甘すぎます。
Q8: 今日はたくさん食べましたか。
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1. はい、食べすぎました。
2. デザートを食べすぎて、ちょっと心配です。
Try to use the grammar: 〜かどうか
Q9: 今日、祭りに参加しますか。
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1. 参加するかどうか、まだ分かりません。
2. 雨が降るかどうか見てから、参加します。
Q10: 駅前の場所に行きますか。
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1. 行くかどうか、後で決めます。
2. 場所が分かるかどうか、先に探します。
Try to use the grammar: V[て-form]きます
Q11: 祭りの前に、何をしますか。
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1. 駅前で場所を探してきます。
2. 友達がいる場所を見てきます。
Q12: 休み時間に何をしますか。
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1. デザートを買ってきます。
2. 屋台で食べ物を取ってきます。
4. Visual Writing Exercise
If you finished the Text Recreation Exercise, try this additional Visual Writing Exercise. The picture shows the actions and situation only. There is no dialogue in the image. Use the scenes to imagine what the characters are saying.
Then, write your own short Japanese text or dialogue describing the situation.
Try to use the vocabulary and grammar from this lesson, but you may also use other words and grammar you know.
Theme: Festival in the Rain
Situation: You and a friend planned to meet in front of the train station to go to a festival today. It starts to rain, and one of you arrives a little late. After meeting up, you look for the festival area and see many food stalls. One dessert looks soft, while another seems too sweet. You talk about trying some of the food and being careful not to get too wet.
Try to use some of these words in your text or dialogue.
Show example answer
A： まだ一時半ですね。澪ちゃんが来るかどうか心配です。
B： 桜ちゃん、すみません。遅くなりました。
B： 図書館の前だったか、駅の前だったか忘れてしまいました。
A： 大丈夫です。無事に来られてよかったです。
A： ところで、今、雨がたくさん降っていますね。お祭りに早く行きましょう。
B： はい、行きましょう。
B： どの屋台に行こうかな。
A： 見て、このお菓子は柔らかそうです。
B： でも、あのお菓子は甘すぎそうです。
Practice the lesson first, then challenge yourself with:
👉 Grammar Practice: Daily N4 - Day 1
5. Grammars used
| Grammar | Link |
|---|---|
| V[て-form]みます/V[て-form]みたいです → try doing / want to try doing | Explanation |
| 〜そうです → looks like | Explanation |
| Plain form そうです | Explanation |
| 〜ように | Explanation |
| 〜らしい | Explanation |
| 〜んです → the thing is | Explanation |
| 〜すぎます → too much | Explanation |
| 〜かどうか → whether or not | Explanation |
| V[て-form]きます → go and do / come from doing | Explanation |
Go back to the app, listen again, and keep improving your Japanese.
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