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<Communication Skills For 3rd Graders>

09/03/97@Nakamura

1st Term
@Combination of two or three words

April May June July
1st week 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th

1.Requesting others to do something. (Please + Verb.)

2.Reporting. (NP=Noun phrases)

3.Warning others to refrain from doing something. (Don't + Verb.)
1.Commencement (start) / Cessation (stop) 1.Conjunction (A, B, and C ) / Ownership (my, your) 1.Motion (move, walk)
2.Stability (wait, stay) 2.Inclusion (A + with + B) 2.Expression (laugh, speak)
3.Visibility (look) / Audibility (listen) 3.Rooms (in + noun, kitchen, bathroom, etc.) 3.Smoking / Drinking
4.Motion (come) / Expression (answer) 4.Furniture (on + noun, table, bed, bookcase, etc.)
5.Correspondence (from / to + noun, send, receive)
–When meeting people. (How are you? / Fine, thank you.) –Suggesting a course of action. (LetLs + VP.)

2nd Term
@Combination of two or three words

September October November December
13th week 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th 26th

4.Asking. (How many?) ^ Reporting.

5.Asking. (What time?) ^ Reporting.

6.Clothes,fashion(clothes, dress, suit, shirt, jacket, trousers, blouse, shoes, socks, coat, etc.)
1.Number (singular or plural) 1.Point of time (o'clock) 1.Identifying. (This + noun. / That + noun.)
2.@V@(cardinal numerals up to 100) 2.@@@V@@ (8:45am, 4:15pm, etc.) 2.@@V@@(These + noun. / Those + noun.)
3.@V@(numerals + nouns) 3.Daily routines (school, begin, end, lesson, break) 3.Requesting others. (Noun + please.)
4.Tickets (ticket, child, adult) 4.@@@V@@@(get up, go to school, etc) 4.Expressing like / dislike. (Very good )
5.@@@V@@@(go home, take bath, etc.) 5.Accepting / Declining an offer or invitation. (Yes, please. / No, thank you.)
–Date(ordinal munerals up to 31)

3rd Term
@Combination of two or three words

January February March
27th week 28th 29th 30th 31st 32nd 33rd 34th 35th

7.Asking. (How much?) ^ Reporting.

8.Instructing or directing others to do something. (VP=Verb phrases)
1.Quantity (all / half / no + noun) 1.Motion (go to, come to) ^ Direction (turn)
2.@V@(a lot of / little + noun) 2.Visibility (look at) ^ Audibility (listen to)
3.Prices (yen, dollar, cent, money, pay) 3.Cleanness (wash, clean) –Amenities (bath, etc.)
4.Number (about) 4.Direction (bring, carry) –Household-articles
5.@@V@ (take, put) –Services (water, etc.)
–To attract attention.(Excuse me.)

Units composed of language functions.
Units composed of specific notions.

Fonts are used as GothicLanguage functions
 @@@@@@@@@@@ NormalGeneral notions
@ @@@@@@@ @@@@ItalicSpecific notions

–Marked materials have to be learned through the terms or the unit.

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