電気通信大学 ASE I: Routines & problems・日課と問題

Hello!

How are you? Let's talk about routines (日課) and possible problems (問題) you can have in them! 

What order (順番) do you think this routine of different people should go in? 

Look at these pictures. What's the right order (正しい順番)? When you're finished, write the order in your notebooks. 

Now - what kinds of problems do you think can happen in everyday routines? What things can go wrong? Let's imagine some things!

例えば: You could wake up late for your first class or job because you forgot to set your alarm clock.

Homework/activity 1
Now let's try these. What's the right order? What are some possible problems you can see in this routine? 

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Activity 2

Now talk about this routine, and of the problems you can see people might have in it! 

How about your daily routine? What time do you get up? Come to campus? Finish your last class? Go to a part-time job if you gave one? What problems do you sometimes have in your daily routine? 

Have fun! See you next class!

Images: Top - "Writing In Daily Planner Organizer" (courtesy of Stuart Miles)/1. "Business Meeting" (courtesy of Ambro)/2. "Adorable Couple Watching TV" (courtesy of imagerymajestic)/3. "Woman Asleep" (courtesy of Danilo Rizzuti)/4. "A Cheeseburger Isolated" (courtesy of Grant Cochrane)/5. "Businessman Running With Briefcase" (courtesy of imagerymajestic)/6. "Drive" (courtesy of graur razvan donut)/7. "Drinking Coffee" (courtesy of Ambro)/8. "Woman Cooking Pasta" (courtesy of imagerymajestic)/9. "Bedroom" (courtesy of winnond)/All images from FreeDigitalPhotos.net

電気通信大学 AWE I: Describing places & showing preferences・場所・位置の描写、お好み

Hello! 

How are you? Today, let's look at how to describe places and show preferences (お好み) between them. 

Activity/homework
1. Look at these pictures. Choose 2-3 of the pictures and describe the places in them. You can also use the picture of the pink house at the top of the post. 

Describe these points - the locations (位置) you believe they are in (for example, the U.S., Africa, Southern Europe, and so on), the kinds of climate and weather you believe they have, the kinds of lives the people living there have (including what kinds of jobs you believe they might have, and so on), plus any other details you can imagine.  

2. Now - which kind of place would you like to live in, and why? 

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Have fun! See you next week!

Images: Top - "Pink House, Perfume River, Hue, Vietnam, August 2015 Number 2" (personal photograph)/1. "Beautiful Sunset" (courtesy of Photokanok)/2. "New York Times" (courtesy of Antoine Henrich)/3. "Cotton Field" (courtesy of scottchan)/4. "Kinkakuji Temple, Kyoto, Japan" (courtesy of Worakit Sirijinda)/5."Old Timber Barn" (courtesy of Poulsen Photo)/6. "Traditional Village" (courtesy of Witthaya Phonsawat)/All attributed images except top image from FreeDigitalPhotos.net/All rights reserved on personal photograph 

東京理科大学 A英1: The Solar System・太陽系

Hello!

How are you? Here some pictures of some of the planets (惑星) and dwarf planets (準惑星) in the Solar System (太陽系). The picture above is one of the most famous of the planets we know - Saturn (土星), with its incredible rings.

Activity/homework
Let's look at these planets. What do you know about them? Choose two (2) of these planets, and research about them. Note down things such as: 

• Their distance from the Sun
• Orbits and how long they take to revolve around the Sun
• Surface temperatures
• Length of days and nights
• Any other interesting points you might find about them

Bring these in and we'll talk about them in the next class!

Venus (金星) 

Jupiter (木星) 

Mercury (水星)

Pluto (冥王星)

Eris (エリス)

Have fun! See you next time!

Images: Top - By NASA - http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/object_page/vg1_p22994c.html (image link), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5956746/Venus - By NASA or Ricardo Nunes - http://www.astrosurf.com/nunes/explor/explor_m10.htm, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=338424/Jupiter - By NASA, ESA, and A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center) - http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1410a/ or http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2014/24/image/b/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32799232/Mercury - By NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington - NASA/JPL.Edited version of Mercury in color - Prockter07.jpg by jjron (cropped to square)., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24301424/Pluto - By NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute - http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Multimedia/Science-Photos/image.php?gallery_id=2&image_id=243, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45707703/Eris - By ESO/L. Calçada and Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org) - http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1142a/, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17153692

電気通信大学 AWE I: Writing assignment 1 (The Small Book of Big People)・作文1

Hello!

How are you? Today, I'll tell you about our 1st writing assignment (作文1). While I gave all of you the handout about the assignment, I will post about it on here as another way to remind you, with a little extra information. 

Topic
Write about a unique, interesting, or special person. You can write a one-sided argument about a unique or interesting person of your choice. Research and write about anyone - a scientist, for example; or even someone who is not from science, such as a singer, musician, actor, athlete, writer or artist.

I will gather your writing on this topic into a book of student writing about people called The Small Book of Big People. I started this a few years ago with students I had at another university. 

So here's some extra information: Check their writing out at this link, and at this link too. These are student writings on other kinds of topics, but they are good examples of the kinds of things students can do. I hope they can give you some confidence that you too can write as well as they can. I believe you can!

How much to write
How much do you write? I would like you to write as much as you can, because your work may be published (出版した) on both this blog and in The Small Book of Big People book. 

I would like to see all of you go for at least 2-3 paragraphs' worth of writing – even more is better, if you can try for it.  

 
Deadline (締め切り)
Our deadline is May 26th (5/26), so you have two weeks. I want you to bring in a first draft (下書き) next week (5/19) in your notebooks in pencil. I will then review your work, then you can write to the finish and turn in your work. 

Good luck with this! I hope you can have fun with this, and enjoy writing about a person or a place.

Images: Top - "Blank Document Area Shows Copyspace White Background For Note" (courtesy of Stuart Miles)/Albert Einstein: Screenshot courtesy of Famous World blog. 

I do not own the rights to the Einstein image. All rights reserved to copyright holder(s). Uploaded for classroom use only. 

東京理科大学 B英1: Most populous places・人口が多く場所

Hello!

How are you? Today let's look at the most populous places on Earth - places with the most people in the world. 

The picture above is of Delhi, India. It has a population (人口) of 26,454,000 as of 2016. That's incredible! 

What might be more incredible is that Tokyo has even more people than Delhi. But there are many cities in the world with big populations. 

Here's another one - Sao Paulo, Brazil:

Here's another - Lagos, Nigeria:

Activity/homework
Now here's a question for all of you: What kinds of problems do you imagine happen in such crowded cities? Think about a lot of things - transportation, housing, food, education, and so on. 

Talk about these things with your classmates.

See you next time!

Images: Top & Sao Paulo, Brazil - screenshots courtesy of ABC News Point/Lagos, Nigeria - CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=128636. I do not own the rights to the ABC News Points photographs. All rights reserved to the copyright holder(s). 

電気通信大学 AWE I: Identities・正体

Hello! 

How are you? Today, let's look at some pictures of famous people, and think of some ideas about their identities (正体). Do you know who they are? 

The picture at the top is Nikola Tesla. I'm sure all of you know who he is - he was an inventor and engineer, originally from Serbia, who became famous in the U.S. What other things do you know about him? 

Activity/homework

Now how about these people? Do you know who they are? If you do - what do you know about them? 

Talk with your classmates about these people. Who are they? What do they do? What do you - or your classmates - know about them? Then write some notes about what you know of them - or what you guess about their characters, or your impression of them.

See you next time!

Images: Top - courtesy of PBS/Malala Yousafzai - courtesy of Pinterest/Justin Bieber - courtesy of Pop Sugar/Bob Dylan - courtesy of AllMusic/Haruko Obokata - courtesy of Alchetron/Alan Turing - courtesy of Imperial War Museum/Theresa May - courtesy of the Spectator UK's blog
Yoshiro Nakamatsu - by Ushuaia.pl - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10358481

All rights reserved to the copyright holders. Images uploaded for educational purposes only.