ECA (Speaking) I (C): 春期末テスト（スピキング）スケージュル

Hello to all my Jido students!

This is a short post for all of you about the final speaking test groups and schedule. I'm very sorry the picture is not so good, but I think you can still read it! Look at this and be sure that you know who is in your group and what time you come in on Friday (7/22)!

See you then!

Image: Personal photograph. All rights reserved.

ECA (Speaking) I (W): 春期末テスト（スピーキング）スケージュル

Hello to all my Ningenfukushi students!

This is a short post for all of you about the final speaking test groups and schedule. Look at this. Know who is your pair partner and what time you come in on Friday (7/22)!

See you then!

Image: Personal photograph. All rights reserved.

ECA (Speaking) I (A): 春期末テスト（スピーキング）スケージュル

Hello to all my Obei students,

This is a short post for all of you about the final speaking test groups and schedule. Look at this and be sure that you know who is in your group and what time you come in on Friday (7/22)!

See you then!

Image: Personal photograph. All rights reserved.

ECA (Global Understanding): 春期末プレゼンテーションスケージュル

Hello!

How are you? Here is a short post about our final presentation schedule for next week (7/25). Please look at it. Please check what time you come in and please come in at that time.

Here is the schedule:

Please be ready next week! See you then!

Images: Personal photographs. All rights reserved.

ECA (英語基礎表現) I (P): 春期末作文

Hello!

How are you? Today I will show you our final writing assignment (期末作文) - making small posters of special places - places that are unique, interesting, or special for you! 

Let me show you some other students' posters on this topic. 

One thing I would like you to do is to show the directions (道順) to the place.  

You can also show a famous area (有名な場所) - if you do, show what kinds of places and things are there - for example, the place above (上) about Ehime shows famous food, onsen, a famous person who lived there, and even an image character about it! 

Here are some more posters about places. 

This last one is interesting. This person shows a place in her future - a town in Germany she wants to go to some day.  

I hope these posters will help you. Good luck!

See you next time!

Images: personal photographs of student posters. All rights reserved of poster content to the students. All rights reserved for photographs. 

ECA (英語基礎表現) I (Super A): 春期末作文

Hello!

How are you? Today I'll introduce our final writing assignment (期末作文).

You have a choice between two (2) topics. 

Write about a special person in your life or imagination who has inspired you, or 

Write about a special, real place you have been to - or a real place you wish to go to. 

This assignment is very important not only because it is our last one for this semester, but also because we are gathering your writing up for two collections.

One collection is called The Small Book of Big People. This is a collection about people who have made a difference in our lives - people in our family, or friends we have (had), or even famous people who have had a big impact in our lives.

The other collection is called Places & Traces. This is a collection about places that have special meaning to you, or your families. 

For example, the picture above is of my father. The child with him is me, when I was less than three years old. He is my "big person"! 

So how about you? 

About the writing
For whichever your choice is, you will write a 2-3-paragraph short piece. Write your final draft on Word. Write to the best you can - your writing can be uploaded to this site for people to see and read!

So take care! Have fun!  

Image: Personal photograph. All rights reserved.

ECA (Speaking) I (C, W, & A): グロバル・グロバルプレゼンテーションディスプレイ (Part 2)

Hello!

How are you? Today I'd like to show some more of the great presentations on global-glocal themes from all the speaking classes. 

Here are some screen shots of some Power Point presentations from the Jido and Obei classes. First, some Power Point shots from Jido students on educational systems around the world - in this case, Germany. 

Very interesting! I didn't know about car day in German elementary schools! Now here are some shots from the Obei students on a different theme - refugees and their issues. Let's take a look. 

Here's more:

This is a lot here, so more to come soon! See you!

Images: Screen shots of student presentation work. All rights on presentation work reserved to the students. All rights reserved on screen shots.

ECA (Speaking) I (C, W, & A): グロバル・グロバルプレゼンテーションディスプレイ (Part 1)

Hello!

How are you! Today I'd like to show some of your great work on our global-glocal theme posters and Power Point shows. This is Part 1 - there will be more to come shortly!

I'd like to show some great work from the Jido class. All of you in Jido - you did some great displays on the theme of educational systems around the world. Here is some of your work! This first one is about the educational system of the U.S. 

This one was great! Now let's take a look at this one - the first part is the picture at the top! This was a lovely and delightful presentation with charm and feeling. Here's more of it - about the educational system of Finland! Yay!

Wonderful! Now here's another great one on early childhood education in China.

Well done! I'm very happy and proud of all of you in Jido for this work. There's more to come from the other classes - keep your eyes out on this blog! 

See you next time!

Images: personal photographs of student work. All rights reserved to the students for their work. All rights reserved on personal photographs.

ECA (英語基礎表現) I (Super A): 作文3

Hello! 

How are you? Today I will show you our third writing assignment: expressing an opinion on a timely topic or issue. You can do this on something you feel about to your classmates.  

Homework & guidelines

1. We will do this assignment in a unique way. 

For homework for next week (7/14), each student will think of some topic ideas for another student to write about. 

例えば：
Hanna thinks of some topics - Haruka has to write about one of those topics to Hanna.

Haruka thinks of some topics - Hanna has to write about one of those topics to Haruka.

We will do this with every student in the class pairing with another student, and thinking of some topic for each other to write about. 

2. In class next week (7/14) - all students will bring in their topics. Then each student will choose one of the topics another student gives him or her. Then in class, all students will write on those topics and be writers - and readers - of other students' opinions about those topics. 

Important note: All groups will also peer review their partner groups' writing!  

Themes and topics 

What themes can you choose from? What topics within them can you write about? What can you write about? Anything is okay! 

For example, the picture above is of a refugee boy in an asylum center in Germany - so one theme you could write about is on the issues of Middle Eastern refugees in Europe or elsewhere. Here are some other ideas - but you can think of other ideas of your own: 

• News or political topics (Britain's vote to leave the EU, the future of Japan, etc.)
• Things that can be improved about Seigakuin (classes, buildings, lunches, programs, etc.)
• Social issues (ethnic minorities in Japan, LGBTQ people, hikikomori, etc.) 
• The latest fashions and what you think are good - or bad
• The latest music and what you think is good - or bad

Another important note: I will collect the best of this writing into a blog collection to be published - so write to the best you can! 

So good luck! See you next time!

Image: From http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asylbewerber_-_15.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Asylbewerber_-_15.jpg
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

ECA (Global Understanding): 春期末プレゼンテーション

Hello!

How are you? Here are the guidelines and schedule for the final presentations (期末作文) in our class. 

Guidelines

1. These will be individual presentations only - no pair or group work.

2. For themes - you can use ideas from the textbook units we have read and learned about - but you can go outside the textbook for themes and topics. Talk to me about what you want to do! 

•       Unit 1 & 2 - identity (正体のこと)
•       Unit 3 & 4 - life and work (生活、働いてこと)
•       Unit 5 - lifestyles and differences (住んでいること、多様性)

There are many topics you can choose from in these themes. Here are some ideas for you:

identity - countries with more than one ethnic group (for example - Brazil, Canada, France)
identity - countries with more than one language (for example - India, the Philippines)

identity - famous Japanese born outside of Japan

identity - famous foreign people in Japan

identity - famous half-Japanese people

life/work - childcare leave (出産休暇、育児休暇) policies in different countries
life/work - educational systems in different countries
life/work - differing social customs among different countries
life/work - unusual jobs in different countries
life/work - different resume (履歴書) writing styles in different working cultures
                
lifestyles - LGBTQ people issues
lifestyles - young people and independence (age young people begin living alone)
lifestyles - retirement and pension issues in different countries
lifestyles - religious minorities (for example - Muslims in Britain, Hindus in Indonesia)
lifestyles -
Schedule
Here is our schedule for the rest of the semester:

7/4 - introducing final presentation project and thinking and choosing topic ideas
7/11 - deciding topic ideas and beginning research
7/18 - research and presentation practice
7/25 - final presentations

Important note: Please do not wait to decide topics or start your research. Please start now! 

Good luck! See you next week with your topic ideas!

Image: Personal photograph. All rights reserved.

ECA (Speaking) I (All): 話すを言うこと

Hello!

How are you? Today let's tell a story with pictures and words! 

Look at the picture at the top. Now - think of a sentence for it: 

I was walking down the street one night. 

This is the beginning of a story!

Activity
Now look at these other pictures. Can you match these pictures to the story I will write for you on the board? Let's try it!

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Have fun!

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

Images: Top and 1 - personal photographs/2. Sunset - "Beautiful Sunset" (courtesy of Photokanok)/3. Curtains - "Curtain Black With Texture" (courtesy of antpkr)/4. Wedding - "The Exit" (courtesy of Elwood W. McKay III)/5. Hand silhouettes - "Silhouette Of Man Asking For Help" (courtesy of foto76)/6. Plane - "Take Off At Sunset" (courtesy of Time Beach)/7. Woman - "Asian Model Woman" (courtesy of posterize)/8. Door - "Empty Wall With Closed Door" (courtesy of master isolated images)/9. Tiger - "White Bengal Tiger Face" (courtesy of anankkml)/Photos 2-8 from FreeDigitalPhotos.net/All rights reserved on personal photographs.