東京理科大学 B英1 (金・1)・A英1 (金・2): Final presentation project・期末プレゼンテーションプロジェクト

Hello!

How are you? Here are the guidelines for our final presentation projects for the Friday B英1 and A英1 classes this year. 

While all of you have just finished with your regular presentations, I am introducing our final presentations now because they will be a little more involved than usual, and have some different things I would like you to do for it. 

Topics

For B英1, we have the following textbook units left. They are: 

•         Unit 9 – The Cognitive Revolution

•         Unit 10 – Inflation

•         Unit 11 – The Challenger Disaster

•         Unit 12 – Ecosystems

Topics

For A英1, we have the following textbook units left. They are: 

•         Unit 9 – Sports Psychology

•         Unit 10 – Money and Trade

•         Unit 11 – The Tenerife Disaster

•         Unit 12 – Photosynthesis

Goals

We will approach what we have left in our syllabus, and what we will do for our final presentations, differently than what we have done before. 

This time you will choose a whole textbook unit – one you and a group of your classmates are most interested in – do the unit with the group, with supporting materials from me. You will then find a topic within the unit theme to research about, then present it with the group. The presentation should be in two parts: 

1. A short introduction in the presentation about the textbook unit –like a short teaching section about the unit (for example, an overview about what sports psychology means, or what the Tenerife disaster was).

      2. Then – a focused main part of the presentation about a topic within the textbook unit theme (for example, with sports psychology – about some mental techniques athletes use to help prepare for a competition or game, or for Tenerife – about similar disasters in Japan or elsewhere).

Deadline (締め切り)

Your presentation day will be on January 26th (1/26). 

Guidelines 

1. Begin looking through which textbook unit theme is most interesting for you. Prepare a proposal about which unit you will do – and if you can, a summary (要約) with your partners about the topic you want to present on. The proposal will be due next week – with the summary at the same time. 

2. Fill in the topic preparation sheet that comes with this handout. This is a working record of your preparation about the topic. 

3. Begin working with your group members outside of class from today.

   

Special note – here are some differences between this final presentation and the regular presentations:

• Unlike before, this time I would like each member of a group to turn in a separate topic preparation sheet with work of their role in it (for example, if you are responsible for designing Power Point slides, show schema for what your ideas on the slide designs. If you are responsible for vocabulary and spell-checking, show the vocabulary you found that you need for your group’s presentation, and so on).

• There will be a mandatory (必須な) presentation practice session, with all members of the group required to come.

• For both the presentation practice and actual presentation day, you and your groups members cannot use notes – only index cards or pieces of paper with keywords and key phrases about the presentation topic on them.  

Schedule

Here is our remaining schedule:

•       12/15 – introduction of project; groups made, with member responsibilities; selection of textbook units by groups; brainstorming on topics connected to the group-selected unit themes; beginning outside class group work 
•       12/22 – proposals of textbook unit selections; topic idea proposals with topic summaries; teacher review of work group members have done outside of class; in-class presentation preparation  
•       1/19 – final deadline of topic summaries; in-class presentation preparation; mandatory presentation practice 
•       1/26 - final presentations

Good luck! I look forward to our presentation day in January! See you next week!

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