特別ポスト: 人物の描写

Hello to all my students,

How are you? Let's learn about how to describe people (人物を描写する).

Image "Old African Man" courtesy of africa/FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Activity/Homework
Look at these pictures. Write about the people in these pictures. The picture at the top of this post is an example (例えば) :

This person has a long, curly white beard. He's older and smiling. 

Now try to write some extra details about his clothes (洋服がさらに細かい描写): 

He's wearing a cream-colored hat and shirt with a white t-shirt underneath. 

So, your description (描写) can look like this: 

This person has a long, curly white beard. He's older and smiling. He's wearing a cream-colored hat and shirt with a white t-shirt underneath. 

Try with these other pictures! 

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Have fun!
Photo credits: 1. "Beautiful Young Woman" (courtesy of posterize) 2. "Preparing For Dinner" (courtesy of imagerymajestic) 3. "Smiling little girl 

Other photo credits: 1. "Preparing For Dinner" (courtesy of imagerymajestic) 2. "Asian Woman Smiling On The Bedroom Floor" (courtesy of Feelart) 3. "Older Man With Hat" (courtesy of Rosemary Ratcliff) 4. "Young Woman In Stylish Outfit" (courtesy of posterize) 5. "Genial Older Man" (courtesy of Rosemary Ratcliff) 6. "Beautiful Young Woman" (courtesy of posterize) 7. "Seated African Child" (courtesy of africa)/All pictures from FreeDigitalPhotos.net

週1・2 - ECA (Cinema) II (All) - アバウト・ア・ボイ: 予告編・あらすじ

Hello Cinema students,

Image photographed from DVD cover for purposes of subject illustration. No copyright infringement intended. I do not own the rights to this image.

How are you? ここにアバウト・ア・ボーイの予告編：

Trailer uploaded from YouTube. I do not own the rights to this trailer or the motion picture it comes from. Trailer uploaded strictly for educational purposes.

このリンクは映画のあらすじがクリックしてください。

See you next time!

週1・2 - ECA (Survival English) - 外語の挨拶

Hello Survival English students,

 

How are you? Look at the different greetings (挨拶) from different languages below: 
How are you? Look at the different greetings (挨拶) from different languages below.

jó napot  xin chào  أهلاً (ahalan)
merhaba     guten tag   
merhaba  guten tag
 merhaba     guten tag

hyvää huomenta  dzien'dobry

hyvää huomenta            dzien' dobry

Activity/Homework
Which countries or languages do you think these greetings come from? Take some guesses on which languages or countries they come from - and how you say them! 

Extra homework
On the Internet, find 1-2 greetings in some different languages and bring them to the next class. How do you say them? Teach the class about these greetings!

See you next week!

Image copyright: All rights reserved. I do not own the rights to this image. Uploaded strictly for non-commercial educational use.

特別ポスト: ブログにようこそ！

Hello to all my students,

Image "Young Man with waving hand" courtesy of imagerymajestic/FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Image "Young Boy Holding Notebook" couresy of stockimages/ FreeDigitalPhotos.net

ブログにようこそ！私はリー・アーノルド。授業と課題のためにヴィデオ、写真、画像やアップする。もしGmailとか他のGoogleのアカウントがあり、英語とか日本語がどちでもコメントをアップができる。TypePadのアカウントもコメントができる。楽しいクラスしましょう！

How are you? I'm Lee Arnold. Welcome to my blog! On it I will post videos, pictures and other things for you for our classes and homework. You can write comments here if you have a Gmail or any Google account. If you use TypePad, you can also write comments here too. Let's have fun in our classes! 

がでいクラスしましょう！

ントができる。楽しいクラスしましょう！

あとでね！See you in class!

特別ポスト: 節のフォーマット、ルール

Hello to all my students,

Image "Line Sheet With Pen" courtesy of adamr/ FreeDigitalPhotos.net

How are you? This is a re-post of notes, with a few changes, about formatting paragraphs (節をフォーマット) plus some rules about writing names of places in English.

NOTES
These notes are things to do in your writing. 

1. Remember that you are not writing sentences. You are writing paragraphs (節). For example:

My life at Shibaura            My life at university is good.
My life at Shibaura            I have made many friends here. 
My life at Shibaura            The classes are hard.
My life at Shibaura            So far I enjoy this school. 


Please format like this: 
My life at university is good. I have made many friends here. The classes are hard. So far I enjoy this school. 

2. Connect your sentences to make longer ones. For example:

My life at university is good and I have made many friends here. The classes are hard, but so far I enjoy this school. 

Finally, remember to put capital letters for days of the week and months. For example:

   wednesday Wednesday       october 3rd   October 3rd

Also - names of places are not in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, or with "quotes" around the names. For example: 

I went to "Kurihama beach" in August. I went to Kurihama beach in August.

I really love going to HAKONE.  I really love going to Hakone. 

I will show you more on formatting and rules for titles of songs, albums, books and stories soon. 

See you next week!

特別ポスト：The Small Book of Big People continued review

Hello to all my students,

Image "Smiling Girl With The Milk Glass" courtesy of imagerymajestic/FreeDigitalPhotos.net

How are you? Here is another collection of paragraphs by you for The Small Book of Big People. Take a look at these.

My favorite singer is Kyary Pamyu Pamyu. She has been popular among the younger generation. Her career as a fashion model started when she was still a high school student in the streets of Harajyuku. Her looks are pretty because they are so individual. She usually is wearing fantastic clothes. For example, bloodshed shoes, and a dress made of candy. They are very interesting. Her personality is mysterious. When she appears on television, she does not smile. I have never seen her smile. But I love her.  

That's great - she's everywhere now in Asia. Look at this one too:

The person whom I respect is my friend Kaede. She is a person from Kansai who came over to Kanto to study. She is an always-spirited girl. She loves people very much and is generous. She tells people immediately what she thinks. I do not speak my feelings so clearly, I respect her for her way of life, even though she is still very shy. There is the one side resembling her, so she is my important friend.

Making friends in new situations and places is important, and also fun! How about this:

My exceptional person is my mother. My mother is very strict. I was not very good in club, so it bad to my mother. But she encouraged and supported me before than anyone more. But I was not even grateful to mother. I hung in there even if it was hard. Favorite phrase of my mother is “please live healthily.” So I think I would like to return the favor even a little to my mother. Therefore I work so hard to the college life now. Someday, I want to help someone like my mother.

Let's not forget our family members too! Read this one too:

Kim Jeajung is the most famous Korean singer. I think he is cool, mysterious, cute, a gentleman, elegant, smart and he sings very well! When I was 13 years old, I saw him for the first time on a TV music program when he appeared with the group he is famous for, Touhoushinki. When they sung, I was very surprised by their songs, and his beautiful voice especially shocked me. This group became famous in Japan, and he rose in popularity. I often listened to their songs then. Their beautiful harmonies relaxed me and cheered me up, especially his voice. He is now the face of Korean cosmetics store called Tony Mory. It profited thanks to him. I think his popularity shows no sign of abating. Recently, he has become an actor playing the leading roles in two films. I think he will have become a huge star! I want to continue to cheer for him, and I will love him forever.

Now take a look at this one. It's quite moving, I think. What do you think of it?

I don’t have a person now that I respect, but in the future I want to be be a person that many people respect.

I have a dream that nobody has. My dream is to be someone that can change something in this world, this world with many problems and many dirty things, and many selfish people, but with many more things that are very beautiful.

I don’t know how to be a great person that is capable of changing the world, but I came to this university to search that, to search how to evolve.

So now, I am not a person that can be in this book, but in ten or twenty years I hope to be one of the “big people.”

Now that's a great one. I hope this person can in fact be that one who makes a difference in the world someday. 

Let's remember! If you want to refresh yourself more on the exceptional people paragraphs in July, click on this link for Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, and Part 4 here.

I have a little more to do on this book, but hope this helps you to remember the great work I know you can do. Let's have a great semester together. 

See you next time!