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Japanese Group Message Reading: A Picnic Meeting Change
Follow the order of instructions in a picnic message. Notice a changed meeting point, shared food and the person who will bring the drinks.
An original fictional learning text by LavaJapanese. Places, prices and rules in the passage are invented for practice.
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- 1
ミナ：土曜日のピクニックについてです。
- 2
駅ではなく、公園ので。
- 3
午前十時に来てください。
- 4
を、ください。
- 5
飲み物は私が買っていきます。
- 6
、で待っていてください。
- 7
ケン：。を。
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The first proposed place, 駅, is rejected by ではなく. The meeting location and the place to wait after arrival both point to the park entrance. Keep this message separate from a timetable: no train or bus departure is given.
作って links making the rice balls to bringing them. The subject 私 in the drinks sentence belongs to Mina, who wrote that message. Ken agrees to make food; he does not say he will buy drinks.
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1. Where is the meeting point?
公園の入口
The new meeting point is 公園の入口, not the station. Evidence: 駅ではなく、公園の入口で会いましょう。
2. How many rice balls should each recipient bring? Type digits only.
2
二つ specifies two rice balls. Evidence: おにぎりを二つ作って、持ってきてください。
3. Who will bring the drinks?
ミナ
Mina writes 私が買っていきます; Ken agrees only to make rice balls. Evidence: ミナ：土曜日のピクニックについてです。 / 飲み物は私が買っていきます。 / ケン：分かりました。おにぎりを作ります。
4. Copy the te-form of 作る in the request.
作って
作る is godan and becomes 作って. Evidence: おにぎりを二つ作って、持ってきてください。
5. What should the recipient do after arriving?
入口で待つ
The arrival instruction says to wait at the entrance. Evidence: 着いたら、入口で待っていてください。
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