特別ポスト - ECA (英語基礎表現) II (Super A): Word document formatting

Hello!

How are you? Here is the format I would like you to use for your Word files. Please take a look at this example:

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Hiroshi Seigakuin

Basic Communicative English II (Super A)

November 27, 2014

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I want your first paragraph to look like this. It should be written in single-space Times New Roman, 12-point size, all in black. This is so that it is easy to read, because if it is easy to read, your ideas are easier to understand. Remember that when you write, your own ideas have to be easy for yourself to understand, because you have to make your own writing clear to yourself so other people can then understand them too. But do not forget to also have a double space after the end of the first paragraph before you begin your second paragraph.

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I want your second paragraph to look like this. It should also have clear formatting and be written in Times New Roman, 12-point size. It should keep the ideas from the first paragraph going and build them up, or show your topic in a new way but keep the same theme so your ideas are still clear and understandable. Please also remember that if you have another paragraph after this, you should have a double space.

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If you have a third paragraph, it should also look the same as your first and second paragraphs, and be written in Times New Roman, 12-point size, with a concluding sentence. What is a concluding sentence? The concluding sentence is like a summary (要約) of your topic or theme. 

So when you send your Word file, please have it look like this on the page. 

Thank you! I'll look forward to reading yet more wonderful writing from all of you. 

See you next week! 

Image: "Teenager Guy Working on Laptop" courtesy of imagerymajestic/FreeDigitalPhotos.net

週9・10・11 - ECA (Speaking) I & II (All, J, D & A): 道を教える

Hello,

How are you? Let's talk about directions (方向)!    

Activity

Look at these pictures. They are the directions to Seigakuin from a train station, but the pictures are not in the right order (違う順番). With a group or a partner, can you put these pictures in the right order? 

When you are finished, can you talk about these directions? Here is some language you can use for the order (順番) of the directions: 

First...    go straight...    down this street...    turn right...    turn left...   

next to the...    between (the)...    across from (the)...    at (the corner)...    

on the left...    on the right...     

Try it! This is the first picture: 

A. #1

B. 

C. 

D. 

E. 

F. 

G. 

H. 

I. 

J. 

K. 

Homework/Activity

Take 4-5 pictures of the way from your train station to your home - or draw a picture of the way from your train station to your home. Bring them to the next class and show your classmates. Talk about your directions from your station to your home.

Have fun!

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週7~10 - ECA (英語基礎表現) II (Super A): writing about music (Part 2)

Hello,

How are you? Here is Part 2 about the pieces of music I had played in class for you. 

Keep going through the paragraphs you wrote in class on the music you heard. You have listened to the first two pieces of music - now here are the other two pieces of music. 

Here - click on this link to see a video about the third piece of music I played for you - Miles Davis' "Portia." 

If you want to know more about Miles Davis, click here to read a Wikipedia article (in Japanese) about him. 

Now - click on this link to see a video clip of the fourth piece of music I played for you - Frank Zappa's "Little Umbrellas."  

If you want to know more about Frank Zappa, click here to read a Wikipedia article (in Japanese) about him. 

Does seeing images to the music, or reading more about the artists, change your feelings or images about them? Write some comments to this blog post about them!

See you next time!

Image photographed from DVD cover for purposes of subject illustration. I do not own the rights to this image. All rights reserved to the owner(s).

週7~10 - ECA (英語基礎表現) II (Super A): writing about music (Part 1)

Hello,

How are you? Do you remember the four pieces of music I played for you in class? We'll do something more with them now! This is a Part 1 post - Part 2 will follow.

I would like you to go through your paragraphs about those pieces of music, and listen to the first two pieces of music again - and this time to click on some videos of the first two artists whose pieces of music I played. I also have information links you can click on about these artists. 

Would these video images, and reading about these musicians, change your ideas about what you wrote? 

First - below is a link about the first piece of music you heard - Jacques Loussier and his version of J.S. Bach's "Siciliano in G Minor."  

Click here for a video clip of Jacques Loussier and this Bach piece I played for you in class. 

If you want to know more about Jacques Loussier, click here for a Wikipedia article (in Japanese) about him. 

Next - here is the second piece of music you heard - Ronny Jordan and his song "After Hours." 

Click here for a video clip of Ronny Jordan playing the music I played for you in class. 

If you want to know more about Ronny Jordan, click here also for a Wikipedia article (in Japanese) about him. 

What do you think of these musicians? Does seeing the artists' pictures or some image connected to the music, or reading about them on Wikipedia, change your own images of the music? Write comments on this blog post about what you think!

Hope you enjoyed listening to them again.

See you next time!

Image: "On The Stage" courtesy of George Stojkovic/FreeDigitalPhotos.net