Your first day in a new town in Japan. Meet your neighbour, run an errand, and decide who to help. Small choices ripple through the day, and where you end up is up to you.

What you'll practise

The whole day turns on doing something for someone: lending an umbrella, returning a wallet, helping with the bags. So the grammar is the giving and trying forms, and the words are the neighbourhood they happen in.

Grammar

• 〜たばかり have just done
• 〜てあげる to do something for someone else
• 〜たら if, when, after
• 〜ので because, since (objective reason)
• 〜のに although, even though, despite
• 〜てみる to try doing and see
• 〜ておく to do in advance, to leave as is

Words

近所 きんじょ 親切 しんせつ 財布 さいふ 店員 てんいん 届ける とどける 探す さがす お祭り おまつり 神社 じんじゃ 通り とおり 祖父 そふ 生活 せいかつ 今夜 こんや

Kanji

町 近 親 切 店 員 貸 駅 通 重

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