東京理科大学 A英3: Mid-term (spring final) writing assignment Word formatting・中間作文のワードフォーマット

Hello!

As promised, here is the Word formatting for the mid-term (spring final) writing assignment. 

I have set it in an extra-large image size so you can see how the formatting looks - so my apologies if you have trouble seeing this on your Smartphones. It may be better to view this on a computer. 

Feel free to print this out. It comes from an actual student composition from last year. The topic is different from what you are writing about, but the formatting is the same. 

Please remember that any font is okay - so long as you set your typing to 12-point size. This is important as it is still small enough to fit on a page while still being at a readable size.

I recommend serifed fonts like Times New Roman, or the font I use on this blog - Georgia. Fonts like these, especially Times New Roman, are easily readable and save space. 

Good luck, and I'll see you next week in our last meeting. 

See you then!

Image: Screenshot of anonymously-rendered student sample composition. All rights reserved on content to the original student. 

東京理科大学 A英1: Final spring review board game questions・前学期期期末テスト「ボードゲーム」のレビュー

Hello!

How are you? As I mentioned in class today, here are some review questions for all of you for next week's (7/30) board game review test. 

Before anything - I owe all of you an apology. I overlooked doing Unit 5 about the Industrial Revolution - and I do not know why! It was an oversight on my part, and that's all. So you do not have to review anything from Unit 5. We'll do this one from the second part of our year in September! 

In addition - I mentioned that the review would be a 100-point test. This is also my mistake -  it will be worth a maximum of 50 points. I'm very sorry about that!

So here are some review questions for Units 4, 6, & 7. 

Review questions 

Unit 4

What are totem poles?

Who made them, and where?

What do totem poles show?

What kind of characteristics are associated with bears?

What kind of characteristics are associated with eagles?

Who are First Nations people?

What is a cedar? 

What does sneaky mean?

What does determination mean?

Where did the Nuu-chah-nulth people originally live? 

Which First Nations people's totem poles did Alessandro Malaspina discover? 

Which famous explorer noticed the totem poles on Haida Gwai island in 1787? 

Unit 6

When did ukiyoe first become popular?

What does “ukiyoe” mean in English?

What kinds of subjects were most depicted in ukiyoe?

When did ukiyoe begin to decline in popularity?

What is woodblock printing?

What is a transfer?

What does carve mean?

What does inspiration mean?

Why did ukiyoe artists start using woodblocks? 

What event in Hokusai's life made him begin to work harder? 

What is the most famous print in his Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji series? 

What was unique about one of the colors used in this famous print? 

Unit 7

When did fish farming first develop?

Which continent produces the majority of fish farming?

Around what precentage of fish comes from farms?

Name four examples of fish that are commonly produced in fish farms.

What are hormones?

What are antibiotics?

What is feed?

What is cage farming?

What happens to some kinds of fish when they are overcrowded in fish farms? 

Why would fish farming not reduce overfishing? 

Why are tilapia ideal for fish farming?  

What kind of feed do tilapia eat? 

So good luck on your review! As I also mentioned in class, I recommend that you get together with the partner you selected and review with him or her this week outside of class. That way, you can help prep each other for the test. 

See you at your time with your partner next week!

Image: Scan of personal illustration. All rights reserved. 

東京理科大学 A英1: Final review game board exam instructions・期末テスト「ボードゲーム」の説明

Hello!

How are you? Today I will post here the instructions (説明) about our final review exam. As I've said in class, it will be in the form of a board game. 

I hope this will be an interesting way to take a test for all of you! 

Instructions

I wasn't sure what the best way was to show you how to play this game - so I wrote out the instructions by hand and scanned them, then uploaded them here. This is (I hope!) a way to save time and paper, and something you could look at anytime on your Smartphone.

First - this is what the board will look like. It will be on A3-sized paper:

You will notice 14 playing squares - seven (7) black squares, and seven (7) white squares, with the start square and the goal in gray. This board will be for the two (2) game pieces that two (2) players will play on. 

The 14 squares will be for the questions that both players will ask each other. The arrows show the directions the players will move their game pieces around on when they answer the questions correctly.

Now let's take a look at the steps in the board game!

Here is what the score sheet looks like: 

(It's small on the scan shot, but you'll see it more clearly on paper next week!)

I hope this is okay for all of you! Take a look at these steps - look at them as many times as you want or need. We'll play this next week (7/30) in our last class for the review exam!

See you then!

Images: Top - unattributed copyright-free image from Apple stock image library. Other images - personal scans. All rights reserved. 

東京理科大学 A英1: Names for sushi fish in English・寿司魚の英名

Hello!

How are you? Today we'll begin our view of aquaculture with one of the most basic things we find in our oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers - the fish for sushi!

Activity

Look at the picture above - then look at the same picture below. Can you go through and match the name in English of the fish to the number?

These are the names of the fish in English: 

sea eel    

tuna 

salmon roe    

squid    

fatty tuna    

sea urchin 

tuna roll    

shrimp 

Now - don't go to your dictionary! Try this: Matching the names in English to the right number in the picture with these hints:  

1. This has lots of fish eggs, from a fish with the same name in both English and Japanese. 

2. Has a very short name in Japanese; in English it has two parts to the name, and the second part means "naughty child." 
3. As the name suggests in English, it curls up in a spiral in itself. 
4. As the name also suggests in English, it's an "overweight" fish.  
5. This is a common fish in other countries as well; Americans make sandwiches with it! 
6. This also can be found in rivers; it's long, and makes for a good one to eat in summer. 
7. The name for this in English is also a slang word for something small. 
8. This one is slippery and comes in many varieties - including one that shoots out black ink!

Have fun! See you next time!

Images: By Nandaro - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32047910/Ikura - CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2073689    

東京理科大学 A英3 Spring mid-term writing assignment supporting post on art・前学期 「中間」作文美術比較対照の付記

Hello!

How are you? Here is a supporting post for those of you who are interested in writing a comparison-contrast with works of art.  

Task

Here are four (4) examples of works of art. Choose two (2) of them and write a comparison and contrast about them. Include these points: 

Dynamics of artistic composition (美学、美術の構成) - (for example, color, space, relationships of people and/or objects to each other)

Possible story or scenario that the work of art shows or gives ideas about (for example, mood, feelings of people, conditions of objects, or the place where the people and/or objects are)

Finally, choose the work of art you prefer (好む) and show what you believe to be a short story or scenario that comes to your mind when you see or think about this artwork.

Okay! Let's begin! 

Edgar Degas, Dancers

Kitagawa Utamaro, Three Beauties of the Present Day

Masanobu Okamura, Shibai Ukie

Edvard Munch, The Dance of Life

See you next time!

Images: Top - By C2RMF: Galerie de tableaux en très haute définition: image page - Cropped and re-levelled from File:Mona Lisa, by Leonardo da Vinci, from C2RMF.jpg. Originally C2RMF: Galerie de tableaux en très haute définition: image page, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15442524/Dancers - by Edgar Degas - the-athenaeum.org [1], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5744729/Shibai Ukie - by http://homepage2.nifty.com/tisiruinoe/%89%9C%91%BA%90%AD%90M%8Es%91%BA%8D%C0%83J%83%89%81%5B.gif, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4668661/The Dance of Life - by Edvard Munch - http://samling.nasjonalmuseet.no/no/object/NG.M.00941 Nasjonalmuseet/Høstland, Børre, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37709496
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