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Wednesday, January 13, 2016

ECA (Travel English): 秋期・期末プレゼンテーションについて

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How are you? Here is a special post for all of you - some points about your final presentations (期末プレゼンテーション). Here are some rules and points:

Presenting with a partner or presenting alone
You can present with one (1) partner - or present alone. But I have to know next week (1/21) which way you are presenting

You can select any partner you want if you want a partner - but remember, only two (2) partners at most!

Topics
You can present on any topic we have learned about this semester. Here is what we did:

1. Customs & immigration, requests, rules & permission (入国出国手続き依頼と許可)
2. Shopping, food, restaurants & tipping, information (ショッピング・食べ物レストランとチップ情報)
3. Global & glocal issues in travel (旅行のグロバル・グロカルのこと)
4. Entertainment, events, festivals  (娯楽、イベント、祭り)

SPECIAL NOTE
Please remember that we did our mid-term presentations (中間プレゼンテーション) about food from other cultures and countries - so please do not do a presentation about food! (But presenting about restaurants or eating styles in other countries and cultures are okay!) 

Displays 
You can make posters or a Power Point. My advice is to have 5-6 pictures for a poster - or 7-8 pictures for a Power Point show

Remember to put your Power Point show on a USB hard drive!

Information to put on your poster or Power Point 
Here's what you should have in your presentation:

1. Pictures of things that connect to your topic

2. Written information about facts or points about your topic

Here's an example of a poster layout for one of these topics:



Schedule for our last classes 
1/14 - final presentation introduction

1/21 - open class time for presentation work, checking by me with advice, comments, or any help you need - plus presentation practice if you can (I strongly recommend that you practice your presentations!)

1/28 -  final presentations

I hope this helps you. Let's get to work - but let's also have fun with these displays!


See you next week!

Images: Top - "River people on Perfume River, Hue"/Bottom - "Perfume River Boat, Hue"/Both images personal photographs. All rights reserved. 

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

ECA (Travel English): 娯楽、場所、イベント

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Image "Fun At Party" courtesy of ponsuwan/ FreeDigitalPhotos.net
How are you? Let's talk about entertainment (娯楽), places (場所) and events (イベント)! 

When you want to do something on the weekend (Saturday/Sunday), what kinds of places or events would you like to go and see? Look at these places and events. Which ones do you like? Which ones are interesting? Which ones do you like better? Which one do you like the best? Which one is the most interesting? Talk about these places and events


例えば:

A: What do you want to do - go to a live concert or an open air market
B: Hmm...a live concert
A: A live concert? How come? 
B: Because I love live music. How about you? 
A: Well, it's okay, but I think an open air market is more interesting to go to.
B: 

Now try this - look at these pictures. Mix and match them and talk about places and events you would like to go to! 

   a fireworks display


a live concert

 an open-air market


a Japanese street festival 

(no picture)
your own idea(s)!


Have fun!


Images: Top - "Sakura Matsuri Japanese Festival DC 2012 (7091131693)" by S Pakhrin from DC, USA - Sakura Matsuri Japanese Festival DC 2012. 
Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sakura_Matsuri_Japanese_Festival_DC_2012_(7091131693).jpg#/media/File:Sakura_Matsuri_Japanese_Festival_DC_2012_(7091131693).jpg/Fireworks - "Fireworks" (courtesy of noppasinw)/Musician - "On The Stage" (courtesy of George Stojkovic)/Market - "Shop" (courtesy of Dino De Luca)/Street festival - personal photograph/All other attributed pictures from FreeDigitalPhotos.net/Personal image - all rights reserved.  

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

ECA (Travel English): 海外の有名な祭り

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How are you? Today, for our last class of the year, let's do something a little different - let's look at some famous festivals (祭り) around the world! 

The picture above is of a unique festival held every year in the U.S. called Burning Man. It's held in the western desert, in Nevada, every summer. 

I won't tell you any more about it because today we'll do an activity about it, and some other festivals around the world, where you have to find out about it! Here's what we'll do:

Activity
1. Get together with others in a group. Look at the top picture again, and then look at the pictures of some other festivals in different countries. 

Tomatina festival, Spain

Rio Carnaval, Brazil

Tet festival, Vietnam

Oktoberfest, Germany

Canadian National Exhibition, Canada


Holi, India

2. Now your group choose one (1) event. Go on the Internet and find out the following things:
  • Where exactly the events are located in the country
  • What kinds of things people can do there
  • When these events are held
  • How to get to the location all the way from Japan
3. Now your group pair up with another group. Teach the other group about what you found out, and let the other group teach you about their festival. 

Have fun!

Images: Top - "Lightmatter burningman" by Aaron Logan. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lightmatter_burningman.jpg#/media/File:Lightmatter_burningman.jpg/Tomatina festival - "La Tomatina (25.08.2010) - Spain, Buñol 30" by flydime - La Tomatina (25.08.2010) / Spain, Buñol. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Tomatina_(25.08.2010)_-_Spain,_Bu%C3%B1ol_30.jpg#/media/File:La_Tomatina_(25.08.2010)_-_Spain,_Bu%C3%B1ol_30.jpg/Carnaval - "Grazieli Massafera como Rainha da Bateria da Grande Rio 1" by Team at Carnaval.com Studios - Grand-Rio-37.JPG. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grazieli_Massafera_como_Rainha_da_Bateria_da_Grande_Rio_1.jpg#/media/File:Grazieli_Massafera_como_Rainha_da_Bateria_da_Grande_Rio_1.jpg/Tet festival - "Thương xá TAX, Tết 2012" by Pinus - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Th%C6%B0%C6%A1ng_x%C3%A1_TAX,_T%E1%BA%BFt_2012.JPG#/media/File:Th%C6%B0%C6%A1ng_x%C3%A1_TAX,_T%E1%BA%BFt_2012.JPG/Oktoberfest - "Oktoberfest inside Hippodrom" by Aschuff - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oktoberfest_inside_Hippodrom.jpg#/media/File:Oktoberfest_inside_Hippodrom.jpg/Canadian National Exhibition festival - "Canadian National Exhibition 2012" by Kotsy - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canadian_National_Exhibition_2012.jpg#/media/File:Canadian_National_Exhibition_2012.jpg /Holi festival - "Samaj gathering during Lathmar hoil" by Narender9 - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samaj_gathering_during_Lathmar_hoil.jpg#/media/File:Samaj_gathering_during_Lathmar_hoil.jpg