You are learning past polite form: you will read the scene it happens in, learn 10 words and phrases, take apart the pattern behind them (past polite form of verbs), hear them in a conversation, rehearse them, and finish by saying one thing out loud to be graded.
A kissaten in Jinbocho, Tokyo — old-style coffee house with thick toast, hand-dripped coffee, and wood-paneled walls where regulars read newspapers in silence every morning.
Jinbocho is Tokyo's book district — blocks of secondhand bookshops, old publishing houses, and kissaten that haven't changed since the 1960s. The coffee is brewed one cup at a time. The toast is two inches thick, grilled until the outside shatters and the inside stays cloud-soft.
The stranger walked in at 7:30am. 「厚切りトーストとコーヒーを注文しました。」 The master — always "master" in a kissaten — nodded without speaking. The coffee arrived in a heavy ceramic cup.
「今朝、ゆっくり朝ごはんを食べました。」 He ate slowly. The toast came with butter and a small dish of red bean paste. 「コーヒーを三杯飲みました。」 Three cups. He read two chapters of a used book bought next door.
「昨日はここに来ませんでした。」 He hadn't come yesterday. Today, he corrected that mistake.