Japanese Workbook Vol.20

About this book

YOUR JAPANESE WORKS IN DAILY LIFE. NOW MAKE IT WORK IN THE HARDEST HOUR: 300 EXPRESSIONS FOR EMERGENCIES, SAFETY AND DISASTER PREPARATION, 12 OFFICIAL-STYLE DOCUMENTS, 12 WRITING TASKS.

Finished Vol.1 through Vol.19? Your Japanese handles daily life, work, travel, health and free time. But an emergency is where it is tested without warning: the alert you must understand the first time, the evacuation instruction you must follow at once, the short message that tells your family you are safe, the shelter notice that decides your week. This is the volume that teaches the Japanese emergencies in Japan run on — calmly, as procedures and facts, in line with official guidance — and makes you write with it.

Inside: 300 practical expressions in 20 groups organised by scene — emergency numbers and first calls, earthquakes, tsunami warnings, typhoons, heavy rain and floods, evacuation information, life at the shelter, fire, accidents, first aid at the scene, safety confirmation, supplies and the go-bag, home safety checks, gas, water and power after a disaster, getting information, helping neighbours, children, older people and pets, school and work, getting home when transport stops, recovery, and drills and everyday preparedness. Every expression comes with its reading, romaji, meaning, a short usage note — the scene, the person it suits, the level of politeness, the trap to avoid — three natural example sentences in Japanese and English, and a practice space for three sentences of your own: your address, your shelter, your family meeting place.

Plus 12 graded writing tasks in three stages — short messages (telling your family you are safe, asking a neighbour about their safety, asking where the shelter is, a short report of damage), situation pieces (telling your workplace, asking for help with supplies, telling the school about collection, reporting damage to your landlord), then full compositions (my experience of evacuating, our family disaster plan, a letter of thanks to the people who helped at the shelter, a proposal about preparedness in our community) — each with a model answer that really uses this volume's expressions, a self-check list and a full writing grid.

Plus 12 readings of real document genres — how the earthquake early warning works, evacuation when a tsunami warning is issued, evacuation information levels, reading a hazard map, a shelter opening notice, a fire drill invitation, a stock-check notice, safety confirmation services, disaster messages, a utilities restoration notice, clean-up and support systems, and Disaster Prevention Day events — each with a full translation, five key words and three questions.

All 300 expressions and all 12 readings are entirely new, with zero overlap against Vol.1–Vol.19 (checked programmatically against all 7,800 earlier headwords and 228 earlier reading titles, no exceptions; every Japanese field passed a character-set scan). The series now trains 4,200 words, 300 sentence patterns, 3,600 practical expressions and 240 readings.

Written, edited and published in Japan by a Japanese author. This book was made in Japan by Takikawa TOKOTOKO Kids LLC, with the care of a Japanese publisher who teaches preparedness as it is actually practised.