Lesson 5: Daily Activities and Transportation
Learn verbs for daily activities and transportation methods, and how to describe your daily routine using time expressions.
This Lesson focuses on daily activities, transportation methods, and movement verbs. You will learn to describe your daily schedule and how you commute using various transportation options.

Key topics:
- ・Daily activity verbs: いきます, きます, かえります (go, come, return)
- ・Transportation vocabulary: でんしゃ, バス, ちかてつ (train, bus, subway)
- ・Movement verbs: のります, おります, あるきます (get on, get off, walk)
- ・Daily routine expressions with time
- ・Time expressions: weeks, months, years
- ・Dates and calendar vocabulary
Vocabulary
Grammar Rules
Rule 1: Movement verbs いきます/きます/かえります
Use the verbs いきます (go), きます (come), and かえります (return/go back) to describe movement. The particle に marks the destination. いきます focuses on moving away from the speaker
Rule 2: Transportation methods with で
Use the particle で to indicate the means or method of transportation (by train, by bus, on foot, etc.). It answers
Rule 3: Time expressions with に
Use the particle に to mark a specific point in time when an action occurs. This includes clock times, days of the week, months, years, and specific dates. However, に is omitted with relative time words like きょう (today), あした (tomorrow), きのう (yesterday), and frequency words like まいにち (every day).
Exercises
Question 1
Choose the correct particle to complete the sentence meaning
がっこう ______ いきます。
Question 2
Complete the sentence meaning
あした うちに ______。
Question 3
What does
Question 4
Complete the sentence meaning
でんしゃ ______ かいしゃに いきます。
Question 5
Choose the correct word order for
Question 6
Complete the sentence meaning
まいあさ ろくじ ______ おきます。
Question 7
Which sentence correctly omits に for
Question 8
Complete the sentence meaning
どこ ______ いきますか。
Question 9
How do you say
Question 10
Complete the sentence meaning
バスで えきに いって、______ うちに かえります。
Question 11
If you are at home and your friend calls you, which verb do you use to say
Question 12
Complete the sentence meaning
くるま ______ しごとに いきます。
Question 13
Which sentence correctly uses ごろ (around)?
Question 14
Complete the sentence meaning
ひこうき ______ にほん ______ いきます。
Question 15
What is the difference between うちに かえります and うちに いきます?
Question 16
Complete the sentence meaning
じてんしゃ ______ がっこう ______ きます。
Question 17
Which sentence correctly uses に with a day of the week?
Question 18
Complete the sentence meaning
でんしゃで がっこうに いって、そこから あるいて ______。
Question 19
If you are at the office and call your coworker, which verb do you use to say
Question 20
Complete the sentence meaning
どようびの ごぜん じゅうじ ______ びじゅつかん ______ いきます。