Here we will listen to the dialogue between the three friends about what they did on their last vacation and what they intend to do on their next one. This is a relatively long dialogue, in which a lot of information is thrown around, so you will need to listen very close to who is saying what and when.

Because you are tracking past vacation activities and future vacation activities, a good strategy is to focus on the tense of the verbs over the grammatical structures we learned in this chapter. Ultimately, the information conveyed by the tense is more important to answering these questions than the information the new structures convey.

Akira tells Ken that they did things like skiing and going to an Onsen (‘spa bath’) in Nagano.

Yoshiko tells Ken that she went to Australia with a friend. Akira jumps in and talks about wanting to ski there, but Yoshiko explains that it is summer there right now. She goes on to say that she went there to meet a friend who lives there and did things like taking a walk on the beach and going shopping.

Ken tells Yoshiko that he didn’t go anywhere and just watched TV.

あきら：a, j
よしこ：f, g, e
けん：d

Here we will listen to the dialogue between the three friends about what they did on their last vacation and what they intend to do on their next one. This is a relatively long dialogue, in which a lot of information is thrown around, so you will need to listen very close to who is saying what and when.

Because you are tracking past vacation activities and future vacation activities, a good strategy is to focus on the tense of the verbs over the grammatical structures we learned in this chapter. Ultimately, the information conveyed by the tense is more important to answering these questions than the information the new structures convey.

Akira tells Ken that they intend to go climbing a mountain in Nagano for their next vacation

Yoshiko tells Ken that she will work a part time job during her next vacation because she doesn’t have money.

Ken tells Yoshiko that he intends to do things like camping on a mountain and going for a drive on his next vacation.

あきら：i
よしこ：h
けん：b, c