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Ask the supervisor about the project.
1. Do we have to translate the document?
2. Do we have to use these pictures?
3. Do we have to visit the company?
4. Do we have to do this by next week?
5. Do we have to recycle everything?

Ask a co-worker about the dress code for an event.
6. Do we have to wear a suit?
7. Men don’t have to wear a tie, do they?

8. We must not wear jeans, right?
9. Is any color okay?
10. Do women have to wear a dress? Can we wear pants?

EXERCISE 8
Role Play
1. Describe the following:
1) how your classmates are dressed today;
2) how to dress for different occasions such as weddings and funerals in

your country.
2. Discuss the dos and don’ts in the workplace in your country such as dress
code, rules on eating and drinking, punctuality, etc.
3. Compliment a friend on his suit, mentioning how becoming it is on him.
4. Send your colleagues off to a party. Warn them not to drink too much.

5. With freedom, comes responsibility. Explain what the responsibilities are for:
1) driving;
2) being a foreigner in Japan;
3) working from home (tere-wāku “telework”)

REVIEW QUESTIONS

1. Explain how to make potential forms for each of the four verb groups.
2. Is a potential verb form a U-verb or RU-verb?
3. Explain how to make a negative request.

4. Explain how to express the following:
• Permission “it’s okay to do X” or “you can do X”.
• Prohibition “it’s not good if you do X” or “you must not