Topic: Time to wake up – Lesson 5
Lesson Focus
You can say how long it takes from home to school in Japanese.
Key Sentence
うちから学校まで一時間かかるわ。
It takes one hour from home to school.
One by one
うち → home
から → from
学校(がっこう) → school
まで → to
一時間(いちじかん) → one hour
かかる → take
わ → no meaning
Note: ぐらい
add ぐらい after time if you want to say ‘approximately or about’.
Example
うちから学校まで一時間ぐらいかかるわ。
It takes about one hour from home to school.
Vocabulary
hour minutes hour-half basic places 1
Grammar
Review: Time to wake up – Lesson 5
Complete the tasks below in your workbook.
Task 1: Change into Japanese.
- It takes 15 minutes from home to school.
- It takes two hours from home to the airport.
Task 2: Change into English.
- うちから学校まで四十分ぐらいかかるわ。
- うちから駅まで十分かかるわ。
Task 3: Listen to answer what you hear in English.