Ninth graders learn to talk about the past in polite Japanese — just change 〜ます (-masu) to 〜ました (-mashita). たべます (eat) becomes たべました (ate); the negative past is 〜ませんでした (did not).
Students will be able to…
How do you say what you DID in Japanese? The polite past tense is beautifully regular. How does it work?
Project each item and have students answer about the Japanese polite past tense.
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How do you say what you DID in Japanese? The past tense is regular — how?
Students learn.
Students practice.
Students speak.
Students close.
Aligned to the ACTFL World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages (Intermediate-Low).
Presentational: narrate the past.
Interpretive: understand past tense.
Compare tense systems.
Interpersonal: discuss the past.
Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.
Have students say one thing they did yesterday in Japanese (like “Eiga o mimashita”). A printable Japanese past-tense sheet is in the World Languages library.
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