Outdoors with the Yamadas

- hope and wish with "-BA II"
- regret with "BA + YOKATTA"
- preparatory action with "-TE + OKU"
- Culture: Hiking in Japan

Volunteering

- planned action with YOTEI
- "every time" and habitual action with TABI NI
- conditional in -TO
- Culture: Volunteering in Japan

Taking care of a pet

- simultaneous actions with NAGARA
- uncertainty or possibility with KA MO SHIRENAI
- reciprocal actions with AU
- counters HIKI and TOU for animals
- Culture: Hachiko, the faithful dog