ECA (Travel English): パスポート・入国のヴォキャブラーリ

Hello!

How are you? Today we'll look at some things you will see at immigration control (出入管理) when you are at an airport in another country. 

Look at the first picture below. See the word "transit" - what does it mean? Who can guess the meaning the fastest? Make a guess – then check the word in your dictionary! 

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Now look at these passport stamps in the next picture below. What names of countries do you see? Hint - they're mostly in Africa! 

2. 

Activity/Homework 
1. Look at these passport pages below. In 5 minutes or less, look for these words on the pages. You can get a partner to help you if you want:

arrival

admitted

departed
employment
entry

immigration
permitted

arrival

2. When you're finished, find the names of countries, cities or places on the pages. 

3. After you finish - check any words in the dictionary you don't know! 
4. Write sentences using four (4) of these words in your notebooks. I will check them in our next class. 

Have fun!

Images: Top - "Hand Showing Passport, Close-up Shot" (courtesy of photostock)/1. "Passport Stamps" (courtesy of Arvind Balaraman)/2. "Travel Notes" (courtesy of africa)/Bottom images - "Passport Visa Stamps" (both courtesy of Christineg)/Top image and images 1 and 2 from FreeDigitalPhotos.net/Bottom images from Dreamstime.com

ECA (英語基礎表現) I (Super A): アンケートの答え

Hello!

How are you? Today, I will answer some of your questions about me on your surveys.

Why did I become a teacher? 

Some of you asked me about why I became a teacher. Well, my best friend in the U.S. is a high school art teacher, but before he became a high school teacher, he taught English in Poland for two years. I traveled with him in the summer of 1995 to eastern Europe, right before he started his job, and we went to Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary. I had to return to the U.S. while he had more time to travel, so we said goodbye in this place - Debrecen, Hungary:

He was a great inspiration to me as a friend and teacher, and I decided that if he could do this, I could do. So I did! In 1997, I had a chance to come to Japan to teach. I have now lived here for 18 years! 

Do I have any brothers or sisters? 

Some of you asked if I had any brothers or sisters. Yes I do! I have one older brother and one older sister. In those old pictures I showed on my blogpost before, here they are:

The boy on the left is my older brother Darryl, and the girl is my older sister, Sandra, who I have call "Sis." The man was my father. This is a very old picture, taken in 1954. I wasn't born yet! The seal on it, with the signature, was because it was a passport photo. 

My father had U.S. citizenship (アメリカの国籍), but my brother and sister were born in Australia, so they had two citizenships - Australian and U.S. So to show their right to U.S. citizenship, and because they were to young to have their own passports yet, their pictures were on my father's passport. 

What's my dog's name? 
One or two of you also asked me about my dog's name. It's Freddie, and here he is:

I love this picture! But since I also have three cats, I will show them to you too. Here they are:

下に読み続いて：

ECA (Travel English): 外語の挨拶

Hello!

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!

Images: Top - "Smiling African man waving hands" (courtesy of stockimages)/FreeDigitalPhotos.net/Thai wai (greeting) - unattributed image from the Internet. All rights reserved to the copyright owner(s). Uploaded for educational purposes only.

特別ポスト: "every picture tells a story" - more storytelling with pictures

Hello!

How are you? Today let's talk more about storytelling! Below is the picture of the story you wrote about:

Now here is your story. It was great! Short and to the point, but with local color to it.

This is a hotel at the small town in Germany. There is a restaurant on the first floor, and this is one of the famous restaurants that it is serving good food. Here is normally calm and relaxed place. Many local people often gather in here, and they are talking about their family, pets or something. Sometimes sightseer come here on their vacation, and they are enjoy lazy time, delicious cuisine, and some nice wheat beer. I would like to visit here!

Now here is another story, written by another student. Let's read it. What do you think of it? 

I think this place was the USA, but a bad thing happened in there. This building was the most famous hotel in the USA. A lot of people stayed here and enjoyed many activities around there but this hotel became a target of terrorists!! One day bombing happened at there!!

It was the fine daytime of one day. Five men checked in this hotel. They looked kind, strong and around 30. They opened their trunks in their room. You think there were some goods to stay, but some bombs in there!! They took a walk inside of the hotel till the time of dinner. However, in fact, they went to set bombs. These were time bombs so they set time after they leave there.

Next day, they prepared to leave there. The interphone of the room rang before 30 minutes they left. One of them opened the door, there was a police man. He said that I arrest you. They arrested after all.

Why was the crime found? Since, a girl saw one of them set bomb. She told it to her mother and she told it to hotelman. He called police man during terrorists had a dinner. Police man checked it was bomb. They checked the surveillance camera but did not be careful around them so they were caught.

What do you think of this one? 

See you next time!

Images: Top - "Line Sheet With Pen" (courtesy of adamr)/FreeDigitalPhotos.net/Building - Picasso’s birthplace - By Dominik (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Pablo-Picasso-Birthplace.jpg

このブログにようこそ！

Hello!

How are you? I'm Lee Arnold. Welcome to my blog, The Daily Sekaijin! On it I will post videos, pictures and other things for you for our classes. You can write comments here too. We can have fun in these classes!
classes! 
ブログにようこそ！ブログが授業のためにヴィデオ、写真、画像やアップする。どちでも英語とか日本語コメントの書くができる。楽しいクラスしましょう！

Now - I will show you a little bit about myself. 

This picture is of me and my wife's family. We're enjoying hanami. Did you have a hanami party this year?  

I'll be happy be your teacher this year! Let me show you some pictures of me and my family. You can ask me about these pictures. I'll tell you about them. Here's the first picture:

Here's some more. Ask me about these!

Please ask me about these! I have things to tell you - and I hope you can tell me about yourselves.

ができる。楽しいクラスしましょう！

ントがで。楽しいクラスしましょう！

Let's have a great semester together!  

あとでね！See you in class!

Images: Personal photos. All rights reserved. 

特別ポスト - "every picture tells a story": storytelling with pictures

Hello!

How are you? This is an extra post about storytelling. 

Look at the picture above. You made some notes on it - now, can you add more to it? 

Here is some more to do now with this picture. Look at your notes again. Now - can you add more to those notes to make sentences, and even a paragraph (節) about it? 

Imagine a scenario, with people in it, based on your notes, and now write a paragraph about it. 

Here's something extra!

Now if you have time, I encourage you to try the same thing with this picture: 

Now try the same thing - make some notes, then add more to the notes to make sentences, and write a paragraph about it. Now there are two people in this picture - what is happening? Where are they? What kind of situation are they in? Imagine a scenario - and write it!

I'll look forward to seeing the kinds of stories you write. 

Take care! See you next time!

Building - Picasso’s birthplace - By Dominik (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Pablo-Picasso-Birthplace.jpg/Couple - Woodstock couple by Burk Uzzle/image reproduced from file courtesy of Laurence Miller Gallery/laurencemillergallery.com

All images from except Woodstock couple from Wikimedia Commons. All rights reserved. I do not own the rights to these images. All images uploaded for educational purposes only.