KIFL English in Practice Mon & Fri 09:00-10:40 - final presentation support part 2

Hello all,

While I have been promising more uploads and information for final presentation support for all of you, time and other classes have gotten in my way and it has become harder for me to give that support. The one thing I've really wanted to find - and this has been hard for me to find - are some more videos about how to present without PowerPoint, but with pictures or other visual aids. There are lots of videos on YouTube about presenting with PP and many without, but with no pictures. But my apologies to all of you - I've said I'd get more support and that's been difficult.

But here is a kind of long, but good video, from South Korea in a hagwon - a Korean eikaiwa school - and a student presenting about English teaching in South Korea, with her using books as visual material to help create interest. I finally found this just now. It's actually only part 1 of an even longer video, but I think this shows a lot and I'm sharing it with all of you here who are presenting later this week. Hope this helps all of you, and my apologies once again for this being as late as it is.

KIFL English in Practice Mon & Fri 09:00-10:40 - final presentation support

Hello,

I have some links here that I hope may help some of you. I will try to talk with all of you Friday and suggest more resources as well.

Shihori - a website of a New York graffiti artist group

plus - an article about vandalism and street art in New York City
Masayuki -  song about an abused child
Kuni - a link about being a father in Japan
Nanae - here's a link for you

Natsu - an article about the U.N. sanctions before the Iraq War
the English version of the al-Jazeera website

Yuko - an article for you

Kiwa - a short film about land mines in Cambodia

Aruno - an article about tattooing and body piercing, with links
Kenji - a list of techniques shoplifters use to try and get away with what they do
Pan - a brief history of Somalia's troubles

Sorry if the formatting seems strange - I'm still learning how to do embedded links in text, and it causes the formatting to be off.

I will try to get more for the rest of you, or at least talk with you in class or in VISTA Friday about your topics.

For fun - here's a funny video about how NOT to do a presentation. Hope you enjoy it!

KIFL Global Studies Weds 09:00-10:40 follow-up topic support

Hello all,

For Daisuke, Yuto, Yuichiro and Izumi, I have the following email links that may help you along with your final presentation topics.

Daisuke & Izumi - check out this link at:
http://www.englishforums.com/English/Religion/3/vpcnp/Post.htm

Yuto - http://breakingnewsenglish/com/0603/060318-water-e.html

Yuichiro - http://breakingnewsenglish.com/0511/051107-cigarette-e.html
http://mrstoutsblog.blogspot.com/2009_12_01_archive.html

I hope these can help. I also have posted two videos on the English in Practice post that you can see below - their class is also doing presentations and I posted two examples of strong short presentations. You will be doing longer ones but these may help as well with your presentation manner, style, and such. Good luck!

KIFL English in Practice Mon & Fri 09:00-10:40 - final presentation video examples

Hello all,

I have posted here, for now, two good examples of final presentations - one short, the other a little longer. Hope you find these useful for you as models for your final presentation preparation. Play them as many times as you like or need - I hope they will help you. Here's the first one:



Here's the second one:



In the next day or two, I hope to upload more ideas, suggestions, and videos for all of you.

VTV Japan Yuka Kanai/Tomomi Someya 17:30-18:30 Wed "Centerfield"

Hello Yuka and Tomomi,

Here's something for the both of you that Yuka will especially enjoy (though maybe you will too, Tomomi). It's a song about baseball with a video of old clips of major league baseball, with some old major league baseball stars.



Let's watch this in class, and you can watch on your own as well. I can also post the lyrics to the song as well, when I find them!

Hope you enjoy this,

Lee

VTV Japan Mikiko Kitagaki/Aki Honda 17:30-18:30 Mon Friends 2nd clip

Hello Mikiko and Aki,

Here's another Friends clip from season 1 - actually, a series of funny clips edited together from an episode called "The One With the Thumb." Let's do one or two parts in the class, then you can do some other parts outside, on your own.

Let's take the approach we were doing with the video last week - listening to parts without sound, with some note-taking, then with sound, and some note-taking.

Access the video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbaCXOX2kPs

Have fun!

Lee

KGCC Akemi Suzuki Thurs 19:00-21:00 how to use a gas pump in the U.S.

Hello Akemi-san,

Here's a YouTube video I found for you that shows you how to pump gas at a self-service gas station in the U.S. It connects to Unit 4 in the Passport textbook about instructions, and is useful for you when you go to the U.S.

1. Watch the video. Watch it as many times as you like or need. Then, answer the questions below the video:



2.  What is the first thing the man in the video says you have to do for safety reasons?
3.  What comes next?
4.  Then, what do you need to do?
5.  How about after that?
6.  What does he say you can use to protect your hand?
7.  What kind of card does he put into the pump?
8.  What is he choosing after he takes the card out?
9.  What does he do to let the gas flow out without having to hold the lever?
10. What finally happens?

VTV Japan Masaaki Okano Mon 19:30-20:30 difficult kanji

Hello Okano-san,

Here's something for you that connects with our article and discussion topic from last Monday (11/1) about kanji and difficulties in correct readings of kanji. Hope you enjoy this!

Can you correctly read, without a dictionary, the following words?

蟻
胡瓜
海豚
氷柱
大角豆

Give me your guesses next Monday (11/8)!

VTV Japan Mikiko Kitagaki/Aki Honda Mon 17:30-18:30 Friends clip

Hello Mikiko and Aki,

Here's a Friends clip for you from season 1 - the one where Chandler gets trapped in an ATM. It's just over 5 minutes and 30 seconds long.  You can access it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYbBjSda550

Here is what you can do with this:

1. Watch the first 1:07 of the clip without sound. What's happening in it? Can you guess what Chandler might be saying?

2. Now, watch the same part again, with sound. Is anything he says different than what you guessed? Why does he act the way he does?

3. Now watch from 1:08 to 2:39 without sound. What's happening in it? Can you guess what he might be saying?

4. Now watch it again, with sound. Does anything differ from what you guessed?

5. Now do the same with the following three clips - 2:40 to 3:19, 3:20 to 4:25, and 4:26 to the end (5:32). Watch each in order, first with sound, take notes, then with sound. Does your sense of what he said differ from watching it without sound to when you watch it with sound?

Let me know what you think.