Choice of Happiness Week #3

 

Week #3 ~ Choice of Happiness 2025

Step #2~ Vocabulary Review #1

 

Alright now...

Another quick vocabulary check…

1.     #1, #2, #3, & #4, please

#1 ~ “mizubukure” ~ a blister

#2 ~ “shifuku” ~ bliss

#3 ~ “1 shun” ~ a moment

#4 ~ “shifuku no toki” ~ a moment of bliss

(If needed: Please make a note)

 

Sounds good now…

2.     #5, #6, #7, #8, & #9, please

#5 ~ “kashikoi” ~ intelligent

#6 ~ “chinou” ~ intelligence

#7 ~ “mushi suru” ~ ignore

#8 ~ “muchi” ~ ignorance (New)

#9 ~ “muchi wa shifuku desu” ~ ignorance is bliss (New)

“Shiranu ga hotokei”

(If needed: Please make a note)

Step #4 ~ Grammar & Worksheet

 

OK now…

1.     Another quick check…

#1 ~ “sukunai” ~

#1 ~ fewer and fewer

#2 ~ less and less

#2 ~ “ooi” ~ more and more

(If needed: Please make a note)

 

Alright now….

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2.     Please read the first one…

#1 ~ We are playing UNO.

I am winning because I have fewer cards that everyone else.

 

Sounds good now…

3.     #2, please…

#2 ~ The class next to ours made less noise than usual today.

 

Ok now…

How about the 3^rd one…

4.     #3, please…

#3 ~ During testing, there were more problems than we expected.

 

Ok now…

5.     #4, please…

#4 ~ I had less trouble this year filling out my taxes.

Sounds good now….

6.     #5, please…

6.#5 ~ You've got less chance of passing if you don't study harder.

 

Alright …now…

Just a few more….

7.     #6, please….

#6 ~ I made fewer mistakes on the last test.

 

Ok now…

8.     How about #7, please….

#7 ~ The students have recently been much more motivated.

 

Sounds good and…

9.     #8, please….

#8 ~ We need less talk and more work!

 

Sounds good and…

10.The last one…. #9, please….

#9 ~ In my second year at the company, fortunately, I will have more  days off.

Step #5 ~ Question #1

 

Sounds good now…

Question…

If you had the day off tomorrow….

11.What WOULD you do?

#1 ~ I would …

 

Step #6 ~ Vocabulary Review #2

 

Alright now….

#10, #11, & #12, please

12.Another quick check

#10 ~ “Majin ni wa negai o kanaeru chikara ga aru” ~

*A genie has the power to grant wishes

*A genie can grant wishes

#11 ~ “majin no mahō no chikara de” ~ with a genie’s magic powers

with a genie’s magic

#12 ~ “Kare wa douyatte anata no jinsei o kaeru koto ga dekimasu ka?” ~

*How COULD he change your life?

*How COULD he make your life better?

*How COULD he change the course of your life?

(If needed: Please make a note)

 

Alright now….

#13, & #14, please

13.Another quick check…

#13 ~ “Anata no jinsei wo mou sukoshi yoku shite kureru kamoshirenai” ~

#1 ~ He could make your life a little better

#2 ~ He could make your life slightly better

#3 ~ He could make your life a bit better

#14 ~ “Anata no jinsei wo zuibun yoku shite kureru kamoshirenai” ~

#1 ~ He could make your life a lot better

#2 ~ He could make your life much better

#3 ~ He could make your life far better

(If needed: Please make a note)

#15 ~ “jyama suru” ~ #1 ~ bother ~ bothered ~ bothered

#2 ~ disturb ~ disturbed ~ disturbed

#3 ~ interrupt ~ interrupted ~ interrupted

#4 ~ in the way

#5 ~ interfere ~ interfered

(If needed: Please make a note)