Find the meeting point, required item, and registration deadline in a fictional event invitation. Not every time in the text describes the event itself.
Read the text
日本語で散歩しましょう
土曜日の午前十時に公園の入り口で集まります。散歩は十一時半までです。
飲み物を持ってきてください。参加したい人は、木曜日までに名前をメールで送ってください。
雨のときは、図書館で話します。
How to read this text
木曜日 is a registration deadline, not the event day. The event is on 土曜日. The meeting point is more specific than “the park”: it is the entrance, 入り口. These distinctions are common reasons to reread a notice.
The last sentence introduces a conditional alternative for rain. It changes the activity location to the library. The invitation does not say the event is automatically cancelled. All details belong to this fictional exercise; there is no real registration email address.
English translation — check after your first reading
Let’s take a walk in Japanese. We will meet at the park entrance at ten on Saturday morning. The walk lasts until eleven thirty. Please bring a drink. If you want to join, email your name by Thursday. If it rains, we will talk in the library.
Examples to read before you practise
Japanese | Reading / English |
|---|---|
散歩 | さんぽ — walk |
入り口 | いりぐち — entrance |
集まる | あつまる — gather |
飲み物 | のみもの — drink |
参加 | さんか — participation |
持ってくる | もってくる — bring |
The notice or message above is fictional and was written for this exercise. Answer from this text; do not assume that a real service follows these hours or rules.
Try six questions
Try these self-check questions from memory, then compare your answers with the explanations. For automatic checking and saved progress, open the related practice after this article.
What day is the event?
What day is the registration deadline?
Where in the park do people gather? Copy the noun.
What should participants bring?
How many minutes is the scheduled walk? Type digits only.
Where do they go if it rains?
Answer key and explanations
土曜日 / どようび — The event is on Saturday.
木曜日 / もくようび — Email the name by Thursday.
入り口 / いりぐち — The meeting point is the entrance.
飲み物 / のみもの — They should bring a drink.
90 — Ten to eleven thirty is ninety minutes.
図書館 / としょかん — The rainy-day alternative is the library.
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