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Hi everyone! Did you have a good weekend?

In beginner class last week we practiced this conversation:

A - Why don't we go shopping this weekend?

B - Again? Let's do something else!

A - What's so bad about shopping?

B - It's a waste of time (to go shopping).

何々をしませんか？

2. What's so bad about 何々?

何々のどこが悪い？

3. It's a waste of time to go shopping.

[何々」をするのが「何々」

買い物をするのが楽しい

It's fun to go shopping.

"What's so bad about Karaoke?"

"It's embarrassing to sing in front of other people."

"What's so good about Karaoke?"

"It's fun to sing with friends."

In Intermediate class we learned some adverbs of frequency, such as

hardly ever (rarely, seldom)

occasionally (sometimes)

We also covered a very difficult point in English, and that's the word fun (楽しい).

The word fun is almost never used on people. Sentences like "He's fun" or "I'm fun", or "He looks fun" are really strange. We almost always say "It's fun!", or "It's fun to..." or "Doing something is fun".

When you want to say 私楽しいよ or 私楽しかった!, please use "I'm having fun" or "I had fun". When you want to say 彼楽しそう、 please say "It looks like he's having fun".

So the rule is:

People have fun.

But something is fun.

We talked about watching movies alone in a movie theatre. I almost never go to a movie theatre alone, but some people told me that they almost always go to a movie theatre alone. I was really surprised! They said it's fun to go alone, because they can concentrate on the movie. It sounds like they really enjoy going to the movies alone!

Here is the handout for last week's intermediate class.