やることが早い / 女の人に起こったこと / 州 /で / と

[eeky]

Hi,


1. やることが早いねえ！

What does this expression mean?


2. The question relates to a story in which 足立さん rescues a girl whose car has run out of petrol:

足立さんは女の人に起こったことの原因についてどう思 っていますか。

This looks to me like it means "What does Adachi-san think about the cause of what happened to the girl?" (i.e., why she ran out of petrol). Is that right? (I feel I may be missing the point, because I don't think there is anything in the story that would allow one to answer that question.)


3. 州のパック旅行

What does 州 mean here?


4. This instruction is part of an exercise in which students have to imagine they work for a travel company and devise a package tour promotion.

企画会議のつもりで、クラスで発表してください。

If 企画会議のつもり is something like "plan for a project meeting", then what is the purpose of で? Could it mean "about", as in "on the subject of"?


5. 『留学生と見た日本語』

This is the title of an essay. In this case, does と mean "with"?

 

[Toritoribe]

1)
You did it quickly!

2)
ついてなかっただけですよ can't be the answer?

3)
Is there anything preceding 州?

4)
pretending that you are attending a project meeting

5)
Yes.

 

[eeky]

Thanks Toritoribe.

2) Yes, well spotted, you may be correct! (I did not understand that ついてなかった thing at the time I was originally trying to answer the question.)

3) Nothing that seems directly connected. The whole sentence is その会社では今年の特別企画として、日本人の観光客をたくさん呼ぶために、州のパック旅行を計画し、日本で宣伝することになりました。

 

[Toritoribe]

Ah, that's a story regarding a US company, right? Then, 州 refers to "the state(e.g. State of California)". (Of course, it can be a company of Germany, Canada, Australia and so on, though.)

 

[eeky]

I think you must be right. This is part of an exercise for students, who are asked to imagine that they work for a travel comany. I think there must be an implicit assumption that those students are in the US, and so 州 would probably refer to their home state.