ECA (Speaking) I (C, W, & A): 話すを言うこと

Hello!

How are you? Let's look at telling stories with action (話と行うことを言う) with pictures! 

Activity/homework
Look at these pictures. Make a story with these pictures (イメージに話を作り). (You can use the picture above, at the top of this blogpost!) You can put them in any order you like (イメージの順番がなんでもいい). 

Rules (ルール) 
1. You can use seven (7) of these pictures.
2. You have to tell your story (話すを言う) using words like first, next, then, after that, and finally.

Try it!

Have fun!

Photo credits: Top photo - "Sunset Holiday" (courtesy of imagerymajestic)/Roofs - "Hiyama Tatsuno Hyogo Prefecture" (courtesy of 663highland)/ 

Images: Top - "The Exit" (courtesy of Elwood W. McKay III)/Sunset - "Beautiful Sunset" (courtesy of Photokanok)/Man in suit - "Handsome Young Businessman" (courtesy of imagerymajestic)/Airliner - "Take Off At Sunset" (courtesy of Time Beach)/Young man - "Young Handsome Man" (courtesy of marin)/Poker chips - "Pocket Aces In The Hand" (courtesy of Grant Cochrane)/Sports car - "Classic Porsche 959" (courtesy of M-Pics)/Woman - "Asian Model Woman" (courtesy of posterize)/Drink - "Singapore Sling" (courtesy of Antoine Henrich)/SUV - "Mercedes ML" (courtesy of M-Pics)/All images from FreeDigitalPhotos.net 

ECA (Travel English): 観光

Hello!

How are you? Let's look at sightseeing (観光). Where would you like to go and what would you like to see? 

Activity
Look at these pictures. What are these places and what countries are they in? Take some guesses!

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Homework

Find 1-3 pictures of a place you would like to go to and bring it to the next class. Talk about the place you would like to go to and why you want to go there. 

Have fun!

Photo credits: A. "Business Meeting" (courtesy of Ambro) B. "Adorable Couple Watching TV" (courtesy of imagerymajestic) C. "Woman Asleep" 

Images: Top - Personal photograph/1. "Vintage Eiffel Tower" (courtesy of chrisroll)/2. "Machu Picchu" (courtesy of Arvind Balaraman)/3. "New York Times" (courtesy of Antoine Henrich)/4. "Angkor Wat Sunrise" (courtesy of J Frasse)/5. "Sydney Opera House At Night" (courtesy of Susie B)/6. "Great Wall Of China" (courtesy of cescassawin)/7. "Ancient Ruins In Delphi" (courtesy of thephotoholic)/All images FreeDigitalPhotos.net. All rights reserved on personal photograph.

ECA (Travel English): 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 Miyahara 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! The picture above is the first picture. Here it is again: 

A. #1

B. 

C. 

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Homework

Take 4-5 pictures 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!

Images: Personal photographs. All rights reserved.

ECA (英語基礎表現) I (Super A): 作文 2

Hello!

How are you? Today I will show you our 2nd writing assignment (作文2) - writing about people or places!

You will choose one (1) picture of a person or a place, and write 1-3 paragraphs about it. 

For example - look at the picture of the man at the top. What's your impression (感想) of him? How do you think he feels? What kind of life does he have? 

Think about questions like these, and you can choose his picture, or one of the next two pictures: 

Now here are some pictures of places. If you don't want to write about people, choose one (1) of these pictures. The last picture is a place with people in it: 

Good luck - but have fun with this! 

Take care!

Images: Top - Personal photograph/Native American - "Chief Grey Owl" (courtesy of Elwood W. McKay III)/FreeDigitalPhotos.net/Refugees - By Mikhail Esteves from Bangalore, India (Mae La Refugee Camp) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons/Street - personal photograph/Beach - "Arromanches" by Bulo78 - Own work. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0, via Wikimedia Commons/Couple - Woodstock couple by Burk Uzzle/image reproduced from file courtesy of Laurence Miller Gallery/laurencemillergallery.com/All rights reserved. 

  

ECA (英語基礎表現) I (Super A): 人物を描写する

Hello!

How are you? Let's learn about how to describe people and their feelings (人物、気分を描写する).

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. He looks happy.

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. 

Now add something at the end about his feelings (気分): 

He looks happy.

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. He looks happy. 

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 

Images: Top - "Old African Man" (courtesy of africa)/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. "Asian Woman Have A Headache" (courtesy of tiverylucky)/5. "Young Woman In Stylish Outfit" (courtesy of posterize)/6. "Genial Older Man" (courtesy of Rosemary Ratcliff)/7. "Beautiful Young Woman" (courtesy of posterize)/8. "Young Man Thinking Seriously" (courtesy of pod pad)/9. "Seated African Child" (courtesy of africa)/All images from FreeDigitalPhotos.net

ECA (Speaking) II (All): 音楽について

Hello,

 

 

How are you? Do you remember the four pieces of music I played for you in class? Let's listen to them again to help you with writing more about them! I also have information links about these artists you can click on. 

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

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



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."
 

About Ronny Jordan - click here also for a Wikipedia article in Japanese about him. 

 After that - for the third piece of music you heard - Frank Zappa's "Little Umbrellas."

 

 



 

About Frank Zappa - click here for a Wikipedia article in Japanese about him.

 

Finally - for the last piece of music you heard - Jeff Beck's "The Final Peace."

 





About Jeff Beck - now click here for a Wikipedia article in Japanese about him.

What do you think of this music and these musicians? Does seeing the artists' pictures or some image with the music, or reading about them on Wikipedia, change your ideas of the music? 

Now write about this music as part of your homework!

Hope you enjoyed listening to them again.

See you next time!

Image: "On The Stage" courtesy of George Stojkovic/FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Videos uploaded from YouTube. All rights reserved. I do not own the rights to these videos or the material within. Uploaded strictly for classroom use.

ECA (Travel English): 中間プレゼンテーションのサポート (repost)

Hello!

How are you? Here are some useful expressions (便利なフレーズ、表現) you can use when presenting!  

This is a repost of the same post for my Speaking I classes. I think it will help you, so I am reposting it here. 

1. Introducing your topic 「トピックの紹介」

Thank you! I'd like to begin by...

First of all, I'll talk about...

I'll begin with...

2. Ordering points or parts「部分の順番」

First...then...next...after that...finally...

To begin with...later...to finish up...

3. Finishing one point and starting a new point 「部分の終わり、新しいことを始まっている」

I've looked at...(now) let's go to...

And that's this point...now I'll show you...

From here let's look at...

4. Giving examples「例えば」

For example...

To give you an example...

5. Finishing your talk 「終わった時のフレーズ」

I'll finish by saying...thank you for listening today.

Let me finish by saying...thank you for your time today.

So that's all. Thanks for listening!

I hope this helps you!

Image: "Presentation Word" (courtesy of Stuart Miles)/FreeDigitalPhotos.net

ECA (Speaking) I (C, W, & A): interesting places student presentations

Hello!

How are you? Today I'd like to show some of the great presentations all of you made in our mid-term (中間) presentations.

I'm very proud of the work all of you did. Here I'll show a few of your presentation posters and Power Point slide shots, like the one at the top from a Power Point presentation about France. Looks great, doesn't it?

Here are some more! Most of you chose places in Japan, which was great. Check out this one about Ibaraki:

That was great! Now let's look at this one about a unique part of Tokyo - the Shitamachi:

I really like the design of this one! Now how about this, about Kawagoe:

Is Kawagoe in Saitama a city, or a town? An interesting question! It has the character of both, I think!

Check this one out too - about Osaka!

I love the design of this one too! Now how about this one on four great places in Kyoto:

Or how about this - Hokkaido:

As you can see, most of you chose places in Japan, which was great. But this person chose France, which the top picture was the title slide for. Here's a little more:

That was great! So…

..and thanks for checking this out! 

See you!