KIFL Senka Global Studies & Business Communication Skills - 5/30 lesson plan, review & BCS mid-term short presentations

Hello to all Senka students,

Thank you for your hard work today, especially with my terrible throat! My apologies to all of you on that. Here's the Global Studies lesson plan for 5/30:

Here are the board notes for the jobs you wanted when you were younger compared to the jobs you are looking for now:

I found these very interesting, and your views on your changes interesting too. Good job on these! All of you spoke very well and had well-thought-out things to say. I was happy with each one of you.

**DON'T FORGET YOUR MID-TERM SHORT PRESENTATIONS FOR GLOBAL STUDIES NEXT WEEK (6/6)! A topic of your choice either from the orange textbook, or from outside of it relating to the overall Global Studies theme! Good luck on it - and ask me anytime if you have any questions on anything.

Here's the business class mid-term presentations review and notes:

You prepared well for what were short presentations, and I was happy with what you did. Reika - for missing two classes you were well-prepared in advance. Good job there! It must be busy for you with your job hunting.

Yusuke - you made a good move to speak without notes. This is really what you have to go for when doing a presentation. This was really good!

A GENERAL COMMENT:
Overall, one thing I would like to see all of you do in future presentations is go more for showing your pictures (or Power Point slides) and speaking from them, rather than from lots of notes.

So, I recommend that you practice for future presentations by arranging your visual materials (logos, pictures, charts, etc.) and connecting a note - maybe a key word or a key phrase - to each picture. This would really help you be more natural in your speaking, and allow you to ad-lib more comfortably.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT -FOR NIKO:
Check out these two links here and here - and post a comment telling me what you think. They may not be pretty - but they are very different ideas about what a comic book can be.

See you all next week!

星薬科大学薬学英語I・SQ3Rについて

Hello all Pharm Eng I students,

Thank you for your hard work today on the mid-term review. Many of you did excellently on the test. Congratulations!

Let's review the SQ3R reading technique I showed you in class after the test today:

SQ3R - Survey, Question, Read, Recite and Write

1. Survey what you will read. Don't read it in detail! Check over it and get an idea about it.

 2. Question each section of what you will read. This means making questions out of each part. Look at the titles of each section and make a question out of the title of each section.

FOR EXAMPLE: In Unit 4, there is a section on acids and bases - so: What are acids and bases?

3. Read, recite, and write (the "3 Rs") about each section. THIS IS IMPORTANT!

 * Read each section! As you go along, make more questions about important points you find.

 ** Then - recite each section! This means saying it out loud to yourself.

                                      (picture courtesy of Shutterstock)

***After that - write what you said, and remember, from each section in a notebook.

Try this! See how it works for you. See you next week!



聖学院大学児童英語コミュニケーション5月24日・lesson plan & board notes ・link for Golden Week in English

Hello to my Jido Eigo Communication students,

Hope you are having a good weekend. Here is the lesson plan and board notes for our class on 5/24:

MORE ABOUT HOLIDAYS IN JAPAN!

See more about how to talk about holidays in Japan in English. Click on this link - it's about the special days of the Golden Week holiday - Showa Day, Constitution Day, and Green Day! 

See you next week!

KIFL English for the Hospitality Industry 2A 5/22-23 lesson plans & review of present perfect verb tense

Hello to the EH2 class,

Here's the lesson plan for yesterday (5/22):

For 5/23, we continued with this plan by adding the page 36 CD listening, and the page 35 reading about the complaint email.

PRESENT PERFECT REVIEW: 

1. The present perfect is used for actions from the past that still have an impact in the present.

I have worked at KIFL since 2007.
You have been students at KIFL since last year.
They have started their new jobs from this morning.

2. It is also used for talking about life or working experiences without saying any time period or point.

I've (= I have) worked at a number of universities, colleges, and schools.
He's (= he has) traveled around many countries in Europe and Asia.
She's gone back and forth between the Philippines and Japan.

3. We can also use it in time expressions that connect the past to the present.

So far, I've worked every weekend this month.
Over the last few days, they've had a lot to do.

See you next week! 

KIFL Senka Global Studies & Business Communications Skills 5/23 lesson plan, your favorite foreign person in Japan & review for 5/30 BCS mid-term short presentations

Hello to all my Senka students,

Here's the Global Studies lesson plan for 5/23:

SPECIAL NOTE TO EISUKE IN GS: You can find the answers to your question from page 15 Part 1a about the real numbers of foreigners living in Japan in 2006 on Part 4, pages 18 and 22, in the orange Global Studies textbook (I'm sorry! I had no time to post the numbers here!). 

*REMEMBER: Who is your favorite foreign person living in Japan (such as a TV personality, actor, actress, journalist, commentator, singer, musician, etc.)? I'd like to hear more about yours. Post a comment to this blog post and tell me!

Here's the Business Communications Skills lesson plan as well:

ALL OF YOU  DID VERY WELL TODAY IN BOTH CLASSES! YOU HAD GREAT DISCUSSION AND GROUP WORK. YOU ALL DID A GREAT JOB!! I was especially happy today - thank you for your effort. 

**REMEMBER: FOR BCS NEXT WEEK (5/30) - Mid-term short mini-presentations about the companies or organizations you selected - A FEW NOTES:

When preparing to speak to the class: 

1. Begin with the name of the company or organization and where it is located (headquarters and  where the company or organization was founded if it was started in a different location).                               

2. Then go to when it was founded (what year).                                                                                         

3. Have a brief history about the company/organization - where or how it grew bigger, what markets it      entered, and most importantly - when did it expand its operations to Japan? (when did it first enter         Japan, and where? Tokyo? Osaka? Give examples.)                                                                                   

4. Show or talk about a product or service the company/organization is involved in. (If you have an           example of a product from a company that you use and if it's small - BRING IT TO CLASS!)                                                                                                                                              

5. Thank the audience (your classmates) and ask them for any questions or comments about your         company or organization.

***REMEMBER! You don't have to select only a company. You could select an organization - such as a university, or non-profit organization (such as, for example, the Red Cross). 

When we're finished with our presentations on 5/30, we'll continue with the budgeting activity we started today (5/23) in the business class. 

Good luck! I'll look forward to hearing each of you speak next week. 

星薬科大学薬学英語I・5月22日lesson plan & review for mid-term on 5/29

Hello to all my Pharm Eng I students,

Here's the lesson plan for 5/22:

 And here are the board notes:

Here are the Unit 3 questions for you to review:



FOR OUR MID-TERM REVIEW NEXT WEEK:

Click here for the Unit 2 review questions. For Unit 1 review questions, click on here.

Good luck on any exams you have for other classes. And don't forget your Unit 2 homework next week - selecting 2 of the 3 idea questions and writing your own responses to them! See you next Tuesday!

星薬科大学・special posting for Hoshi ESS & Tuesday 1st & 2nd period Pharm Eng I students for 5/21

Hello to the Hoshi ESS and my Pharm Eng I students,

This is a special posting for the Hoshi ESS plus all my Pharm Eng I students on Tuesdays. Hope all of you are doing well in your studies.

I said at the beginning of the year that I would try to post videos, pictures and other things for all of you around the classes through the year. I think it might be easier for me, and maybe for all of you, if I post for the whole class and the Hoshi ESS. All of you are free to check these things out. Doing this as a separate post from the posts about the lesson plans might be easier for me too.

For the ESS, ERI MURAI (Tuesday 2nd period), YUTAKA AKI (Tuesday 1st period), and TOMOKO EHARA (Tuesday 1st period) - and also all of you in my Tuesday classes too!

First - Eri Murai - you said on her pre-teaching survey that you would like to learn daily conversation in English. Here's some advice for you - but this is good advice for all of you in the classes, and for all the ESS members too!      

THE KEY POINT IS - TALK ABOUT YOU AND YOUR INTERESTS!

Before any English class starts, and right after the class finishes, volunteer to come to the teacher and share what you did over the weekend, or what you are doing in classes. It does not have to be a difficult topic - easier is best! But the most important thing is to speak on something of your interest. Try it! Don't worry about grammar or vocabulary. The more you use your English - the more you will be relaxed with it. YOU CAN DO THIS WITH ME! 

Next - for Yutaka Aki - you said you wanted to read more books easily in English. Here's what you - and everyone in our classes and the ESS interested in reading more in English can do. (Yutaka - this is the same advice I gave your classmate Asuka - I'll give it to you too!)

THE KEY POINT FOR READING IN ENGLISH IS - RELAX!

If you want to read for relaxation in English, choose a Japanese book you already know with a good English translation. Read it for pleasure - don't translate any sentences or even vocabulary. Read it the same way you would read it in Japanese. If you can't find an English translation of a book you like - then find a story in English that is similar to a story you like in Japanese. The more you take English with relaxation and pleasure - the more comfortable you will be with it, and the better your reading skill will get. Try it!

Finally - for Tomoko Ehara - you said on your pre-teaching survey that you're in the music club, and that you like to play guitar. For you, all your classmates and friends in the Tuesday classes, and the ESS - here's a video of an incredible guitar player from the U.S. named Stanley Jordan.

Here's a little extra homework for you, Tomoko: Watch this - and tell me what you think of it. Post a comment to the blog or tell me in class. (Any of you who want to comment - post a comment on the blog!)

See you in class Tuesday!

聖学院大学・星薬科大学・神田外語学院・芝浦工業大学・How to post comments on this blog using a Google account

Hello to all my students,

If you have a Gmail or other Google account (like a Google Doc, for example), you can post comments to this blog very easily. Here's how:

1. On any post you want to comment to, click on the comments link at the bottom of the post.
2. Write your comment in English or Japanese.
3. Where it says Comment as, scroll down in the small window to Google (Accounts).
4. Click the Publish button - you will be redirected to your Google login page.
5. Log in to your Google account - you will be redirected back to the blog, and your comment will be posted.

Try this - tell me how it works for you!

KIFL English for the Hospitality Industry 2A 5/16 lesson plan & tour guide area drawing notes from 5/8-9

Hello to my EH2 students!

Finally I'm posting for you! I will post here our lesson plan from 5/16. Before doing so, I will post the great tour guide area drawing notes from 5/8-9 that Michelle and Tomoyo gave me permission to do:

First, Michelle Kiyono's guide drawing to Manila:

Here is Tomoyo Kimura's work for Sawara city in Chiba:

This was very good work, with good spoken guiding from all of you! Now, here's the lesson plan from 5/16:

We will work more on the present perfect next week (5/22-23). See you then!

KIFL Senka Global Studies & Business Communications Skills 5/16 lesson plans

Hello to all Senka students,

Here was the Global Studies lesson plan for 5/16:

Please don't forget to look at the details of the final presentation handout I gave all of you last week!

For the Global Studies class - we will be doing short mid-term presentations in the GS class, as well as the business class, in June (check the syllabus please)! Choose any topic you like - it could be:

1. Something we have already studied from the Global Studies textbook
2. Some theme or topic you would like to look ahead to in the GS textbook -OR-
3. Something outside of the textbook that fits with one of the themes on our syllabus

Here was our lesson plan for Business Communications Skills:

Here were our board notes:

Refresh yourselves on the business homework for next week, and the homework for May 30th! 

*For the business class - A HELPFUL HINT when discussing or writing a description about a company or organization: Think from the most general description about the organization (name, where located) step-by-step to the most specific (about target markets, any specialized products or services in certain markets, and so on). I will show you more next week!

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT:

By special request from Nao - you had said you would like to see some of my artwork. I don't know what you'll think of this - but here is one example of a photograph of one of my paintings:

I'm sorry for the picture quality! The light wasn't good. Below is a better one, with a detailed part:

Tell me what you think of these. See you next week!

星薬科大学薬学英語Ｉ・5月15日・lesson plan & helpful hints

Hello to all my Pharm Eng I students,

Here is the lesson plan for 5/15:

Here are the board notes for the comprehension (understanding questions):

Here also are the board notes for the idea questions:

As you see in the lesson plan and the idea questions notes, I am asking you all to do a lot of homework over the next two weeks. Let's review the homework:

For next week (5/21): textbook page 12 (parts of the brain picture), and scanning Unit 3 vocabulary: choose 6-8 nouns (名詞) from the unit and try your own semantic network with them (if you were not in class on 5/15 - find out what a semantic network is - click here)

For 5/28 - choose 2 out of 3 of the idea questions and write thinking responses to the questions showing your ideas to questions #1 or #2. Question #3 is a little different question: It's in the textbook - but you have to read well to find it!

I think all of you are good students and because of this, I am challenging all of you! Try your best - I will support your effort!

Today, I would like to post something extra for two students - two helpful hints for ASUKA TAKANOHASHI and HARUKA TSUCHIYA - and share with the Hoshi ESS (English Speaking Society) too!

I don't have any video for the both of you today, but I have advice for you I hope will help you.

ASUKA - on your pre-teaching survey, you said you enjoy reading novels, and that you want to read them in English. Here's what you can do:

If you like famous Japanese writers such as, for example, Haruki Murakami, find an English translation of one of their novels that you like, and that you can get easily. It's best to start out with a book you already know. Read it in English the same way you would in Japanese - don't look up any words in the dictionary (though you could make a semantic network if you like, or a word list, as you go along). Don't try to translate - read for pleasure. Since you will know the story already, the meaning will be the same - the only difference is the language. Take your time to read - don't struggle with it. You don't have to understand every word - so long as you get the main ideas, you're okay.

For a book you like that you can't get an English translation for - try to find a similar kind of story in English. Don't try a difficult book - try for something that you believe you can read at a level that is a little lower than what you can read easily in Japanese. The most important thing is also to get a book that you don't struggle with, and that you can read for pleasure. And when you read, do the same thing as I said above - don't try to translate - read only for pleasure. If you struggle with it, it will not be fun.

HARUKA - on your survey, one thing you said is that you like to learn more medical terms in English. Here's what you can do:

This is something I will show the class as another word-learning technique - but I'll share it with you first.

Many English medical terms come from Greek and Latin root words. So take a prefix (the 1st part of a word) that you can make as many words you can from. Make a word list or semantic network with them. If you know the prefix, you will know the basic meaning already.

In your textbook, go to the back of the book - pages 156-161. In them, there is a long list of these root words, with examples and Japanese meanings. Take a look at them. Some of them match in meaning with the Japanese words - especially with the kanji. If you can also connect the kanji with the root meanings, you will be able to guess the meanings of many medical terms.

Hope this helps you.

See all of you next week!

星薬科大学薬学英語・意味ネットワークの紹介

Hello to all my Pharm Eng I students,

This is a special posting about semantic networking (意味ネットワーク). This is a very useful method for you to gather up the meaning of words. In the pictures below, I will show you a very simple example.

Here are five words that are indirectly related. Some of the words have more direct connections than others.

Now I found one connection, and labeled it with a simple sentence - cats like fish.

Now I found two more connections - cats make good pets, and fish make good pets.

Now I found two more connections to that - people like fish, and people keep pets. 

So we can see the meaning pattern here with these words. Now try this one for yourself:

What connections, and what sentences, can you think of that would help you to remember the meanings of these words? Try it!

聖学院大学児童英語コミュニケーション・5月10日・lesson plan

Hello to my Jido Eigo Communication students!

Welcome to my blog. I will post things on it for you.

Today, here was our lesson plan. Because I changed it, I will write it here like this:

1. Warmer - what did you do over Golden Week?
2. Question-answer + question or comment
3. Handout - Exercise 4: follow-up questions
4. Poster design and presentation projects handouts

REVIEW OF QUESTION-ANSWER + QUESTION OR COMMENT:
This is an important and useful technique in English when meeting a non-Japanese English-speaking parent for the first time. But it is also useful in everyday English conversation too.

Look at this pattern you can use in everyday conversation with an English-speaking friend:

A: (Ask a question)  What did you do over Golden Week? 

B: (Reply with an answer)  Not much. I stayed home and relaxed. (Add question) How about you? (OR add a comment to the answer - It was good. [add optional "how about you?" question])

A: (Replies with answer) I had a great time! I went to Kyushu. 

B: (Asks a question with part of A's reply, with a comment)  Kyushu? Wow. What did you do there? 

A: (Replies with new answer and another question and/or comment) ...

Both people can keep this pattern going and make longer replies and ad-lib more questions using the content of each other's topics. 

Hope this helps your English! We'll practice this more next week when meeting someone (like a parent of one of your students) for the first time (5/17). Don't forget to look at the poster design and presentation handouts I gave you. See you next time!

KIFL Senka Global Studies & Business Communication Skills - 5/9 lesson plans, homework reminder & video

Hello Senka students,

I was happy to see all of you today! Here is the Global Studies lesson plan for today (5/9):

REMINDER: Please read page 11 in the orange Global Studies textbook, and be ready to talk about the article in class for next week (5/16).
If you do note-taking in your notebooks as I showed on the board - a double column-entry diary - this will really help you talk about the topic next week. Be ready!

Here is the Business Communications Skills lesson plan for today (5/9):

As you can see, I changed the order of the company names and countries matching quick activity to the end. My apologies! ( I did not want to erase the board again - hope this was not confusing for all of you.)

REMINDER: I did not show it here - but remember your Business Communications Skills homework for next week (5/16) - page 12 in the blue textbook - Parts 1 & 2! I will check it.

SOMETHING EXTRA: This is for fun, and it's for you, "Niko" (Ayako Seto)! I said to you in our first class that there used to be a singer named Nico. She was from Germany, but she became famous first as a model in France and the U.S., then as a singer.

This is a video of one of her songs. You might like it. You might not like it. Either way, watch it and tell me what you think of it.

See you all next week!

KIFL - Senka Global Studies & Business Communications Skills - welcome to my blog

Hello to my Senka students,

Welcome to my blog! Hope you had a great Golden Week.

Today let me show you this blog. You are welcome to browse it anytime. While I have work between different universities, you can check out what students at these other places are doing. They can also check out what all of you do as well! I will upload things (videos, images and links) to the content of our classes, and to your interests, whenever I can.

This is a quick post and I have not had time to upload a lot for you today, but here is a video of the incredible tornado that struck Tsukuba in Ibaraki over Golden Week.

Do you feel that climate change might have anything to do with this event? Watch it or think about it, and tell me what you think.

星薬科大学薬学英語Ｉ・Unit 2 intro lesson plan ・ヴィデオ・ウエブサイトのリンク

Hello Pharm Eng I students,

Here is today's lesson plan (5/8):

We had no time to do the word networking activity today. So we will do this as our warmer next week (5/15). I will show all of you what word networking means. It is another useful technique you can use when gathering and learning new words.

For today, here is a video for CHIAKI UEHARA (1st period). You said you work in an ice cream shop. Have you ever wanted to make your own ice cream? Here is a video recipe for you: Indian mango ice cream. Watch this and tell me what you think.

For RYUZO ARAI (2nd period): You said in your pre-teaching survey that you feel it is important to read English every day. So let me show you a website I have a link to on the side of my blog. It's called Breaking News English. You can access it here.

It's free and on it, you can find many short articles on many topics in English. It has vocabulary and sentence-making activities, and an interactive feature you can use on a computer. Check it out and tell me what you think!

星薬科大学薬学英語Ｉ・Unit 1 lesson plan & review ・ヴィデオ

Hello to all Pharm Eng I students,

Hope your Golden Week was good. Here is the lesson plan from last week:

We didn't have enough time to do the Unit 1 board game. So the board game is our warm-up for this Tuesday (5/8).

If you would like to review Unit 1 on your own or with a classmate and if you have a Facebook account, you can download a free Hoshi Unit 1 worksheet I made here.

I will try to post something extra for all of you, especially for your interests. This video is for YUKI KITSUKAWA in the 1st period class, but any of you are welcome to watch it if you like.

On Yuki's pre-teaching survey, she said she loved Japanese rock 'n' roll. It's a Japanese band I'm sure you know, Yuki. It's Hi-Standard, who were very popular in the U.S. It's their version of an old 1960s song, "California Dreaming." Watch it - and tell me what you think of it!

(WARNING: The singer says a dirty word in English after the song is finished. If you do not like these kinds of words - I apologize. This is for student interest and comments - and that's all!)

Also - for SAORI NISHIO (2nd period) - you said you like Bali very much. Here is a video for you about traditional dancing in Bali:

Please tell me what you think of it!

聖学院大学・星薬科大学・神田外語学院・芝浦工業大学：Scribdワークシートの説明

Hello to all my new students!

I hope you all had a good Golden Week.

There is a website called Scribd where I am uploading worksheets for all my classes at all my different jobs. You can see the website and my page here.

On Scribd, students can download and print out worksheets for free. So instead of me printing out worksheets, you can print them out, anytime. You can even start your own Scribd accounts for your own work.

You can access Scribd through Facebook. I do not think you have to friend me on Facebook to download and print out any documents (though I am happy to accept any friend requests from students! It may also be easier for you to download and print out if you friend me on Facebook).

Hope this will help all of you. I will add more worksheets and other documents as much as possible.

To all my students - about this blog

When I started this blog in 2010, I knew it would be a big job to keep it going. But when I worked my full schedule, it was harder than I thought to keep the blog going. So after posting on it last year but letting it go down again, I thought that maybe a blog was too difficult for me. But I have decided to try again.

I will work hard to post as much as I can for all of you worksheet contents, videos, pictures and other things about our classes and your hobbies and interests. I hope this will be useful for all of you, and that you can use it and even post comments of your own on it. よろしくおねがいいたします！

KIFL Intermediate Business English class Wed 15:25-17:00

Here's a list of all the presentations you are planning to give within our final presentation schedule, as of this week:

11/16
Ken - history of Pokemon/Nintendo
Nobuko - Sugahara Glassworks company profile
Yuta S. - Samsung electronic products (HDTV)

11/30
Kazuki - Dropbox
Yuta T. - Kyoto animation company
Naoshi - Sony music (possible change to another company - needs to contact me ASAP!)
Hsu-Ling - Abercrombie & Fitch in Japan
Bo-Yeon - Body Shop company profile

12/7
Marina - Panasonic beauty products
Fio - still undecided (needs to let me know ASAP!)
Naomi - Lush products/company profile
Lee - AtCosume website profile (?-let me know the correct spelling please!)
Ruby - housing property in China

"P" and Yasuno - please contact me ASAP!

Please remember that 11/23 is a national holiday.

Presentations should be a minimum of 8-10 minutes, up to a maximum of 15 minutes.
For the shorter presentations, we will have a 2-3 minute required Q&A. For the longer ones, include the 2-3 minute Q&A within the time (so, for example - a 12 minute presentation with the 2-3 minute Q&A after).

REMEMBER - do not read from a paper or your Power Point slides. Have note cards with key words or phrases important to your topic written on them.

Please also remember the order of presenters you all agreed on with each other last Wednesday, and when one person has finished, be ready to start.

Good luck! I look forward to seeing and hearing these beginning this upcoming Wednesday.

KIFL - all classes - videos on giving presentations

This is a special post to my KIFL students in Intermediate Business English, English for the Hospitality Industry, and Senka Business Communications Skills.

Here, I have posted some videos for you that I hope you find useful as you prepare for your final presentations. Watch them carefully, and watch them as often as you like or need. I have included examples of presentations both with PowerPoint, and without.

The first video, from the U.S., is a good introduction about what you should do when preparing for your final presentations.



The other two videos are examples from Korea - the first without PowerPoint, and the second with PowerPoint. They are both good examples of short student presentations, and I selected them for their good sound and video quality. The first one I posted last year for an EIC class, but I am posting it here again as I think it is a good one.





Notice in both presentations what the presenters do - introduce themselves, clearly show what their subject is, and so on.

While some of you in Intermediate Business English have given presentations before and may already be experienced with them, these videos might still be good for you to review and help remind you on what you need in your preparation. For all my KIFL students - I hope they help you!

小島恵子先生のSoul to Soulについて

小島先生のコメントとチェックことはありがとうございました。

５月にこのブログでオシビサのヴィデオをアップし、その後西アフリカのいろいろなヴィデオを見ていて、アメリカと西アフリカの音楽の由来の面白い関係が理解できるようになった。

１９７１年、ガーナでユニークなブラックムージックフェスティヴァルSoul to Soul [ソール・ トゥ ・ソール」が行われた。ビラには、アメリカとガーナのソール、Ｒ＆Ｂ、ロックやジャズのアーチストたちが集まった。当時のアメリカで人気のあったグループや歌手、アイク・アンド・ティナ・ターナー、ロバータ・フラーク、サンタナなどが中心だった。

批評家達によると、いくつかのアフリカ系アメリカ人の演奏者の音楽にはごくわずかなアフリカの影響しかが感じることができないが、皮肉なことに、ラテン系グループサンタナが最もアフリカ的な演奏したということだ。

このヴィデオはサンタナの演奏の抜粋：



そのフェスティヴァルの記録映画が作られたが、当時公開されることは無かった。たがこの画期的なイベントは２００４年になってその映画が公開された。Soul to Soul 邦題：「魂の詩」。

星薬科大学薬学英語 I 火曜日１時限・２時限・Unit 4 homework

Hello again to my Pharm Eng students,

Here is the homework for June 7th. Copy and paste it into a Word document, or print it out as your own worksheet. Write the sentences and bring your sheet to class next week.

A. Look at these sentences. Write the effect (what happens) and the cause (why it happened).

1. Hiroshi went to the convenience store because he needed some food.
Effect: (What happened?) _________________________________________________
Cause: (Why did it happen?)_______________________________________________

2. Keiko ate some soup because she was feeling sick.
Effect:________________________________________________________________
Cause:________________________________________________________________

3. Lee was very quiet because the baby was sleeping.
Effect:________________________________________________________________
Cause:________________________________________________________________

4. Erika got a vacuum cleaner because she wanted to clean the house.
Effect:________________________________________________________________
Cause:________________________________________________________________

5. Jun stopped the car because the traffic signal turned red.
Effect:________________________________________________________________
Cause:________________________________________________________________

6. Daisuke raised his hand because he had a question.
Effect:________________________________________________________________
Cause:________________________________________________________________

B. Now look at these sentences. What is the effect, and what is the cause?

1. Metal corrodes (turns brown) because of contact with air.
Effect:________________________________________________________________
Cause:________________________________________________________________

2. Alzheimer's patients often don't take pills because they don't generate much saliva.
Effect:________________________________________________________________
Cause:________________________________________________________________

3. He was vomiting this morning because he drank too much alcohol last night.
Effect:________________________________________________________________
Cause:________________________________________________________________

4. Yellow chromate ion solution becomes red because of change in the acid-base composition.
Effect:________________________________________________________________
Cause:________________________________________________________________

5. She suffered from insomnia because of an intake of too much caffeine at night.
Effect:________________________________________________________________
Cause:________________________________________________________________

星薬科大学薬学英語 I 火曜日１時限・２時限・special Q&A post about me (Part 2)

Hello to all my Pharm Eng students,

Otsukaresamadeshita to all of you after our mid-term test last week!

This is my very late Part 2 to your Q&A for me in your pre-teaching surveys. I'm sorry again! But here they are. It's long, but I'll try to answer as many of your questions as I can.

KENNOSUKE ITO, YUKA EBISAWA & MISAKI IDE (1st period) & TAKAFUMI NAKABARU, WARABI HOSOKAWA & MINA KAMIKAWA (2nd period) – you asked me when I came to Japan, and Kennosuke, Yuka and Mina – you asked me if I like it here in Japan, and Yuka, you also asked if I fear any earthquakes.

I've been living here since 1997, first in Tsuchiura, then Tsukuba in Ibaraki, and after that, in Kashiwa in Chiba, then since 2007, in Nerima-ku here in Tokyo. But the first time I ever came to Japan was in 1981, in the U.S. Navy. I was posted to the U.S. Navy dental center on the base in Yokosuka, in Kanagawa. I was there until 1983, then the Navy sent me back to the U.S.

Yuka – yes, I liked Tokyo very much when I was here in the Navy. Of course, like most young American military people in the early 80s, I went to Roppongi, Shinjuku, and places like that. But when I came back later, I came to like places like Karuizawa, Nagano, Chichibu too. And I was very impressed with Fukuoka and Sapporo – they're both very nice cities (but Sapporo would be too cold for me in winter!). In Tokyo, I don't like Roppongi now! But I do like Takadanobaba, Shin-Okubo, and smaller places like Ekoda. And my wife and I really liked Kashiwa when we lived in Chiba.

Yuka – I always think earthquakes are scary, but I think we can survive them. I also think, especially after the March 11th earthquake and tsunami, that the response in Japan is much better than before. It's much better than the Hanshin earthquake in 1995.

AYAKA ATSUMI & MEGUMI SUZUKI (1st period) & ASAMI FUJIYA (2nd period)– Ayaka and Megumi – you asked why I came to Japan and what my favorite Japanese food and place is, and Asami – you also asked what my favorite spot in the U.S. is.

Well, my father died in 1990 and my mother died in 1994. They had both been getting old and I had to help take care of them. So after my mother died, I had a chance to travel again. I wasn't married at that time, and I had no family connection with where I lived in Idaho, so I re-organized my life again. I wanted to live outside the U.S., and I could reconnect with Japan – this time not in the U.S. Navy, but as a regular person.

My favorite Japanese dish is unagi! I love it, but I shouldn't eat it too much because it's kind of expensive, and fattening. But in summer it's great. How about you both? What are your favorite dishes?

I think my favorite spot in Japan now is around Karuizawa. It reminds me of northern Idaho, which is beautiful in summer. My favorite spot in the U.S. is the highway just south of the San Francisco area, along the Monterey Peninsula (モンテレイ半島). It's also very beautiful in summer – not really really hot like Los Angeles, but comfortable (San Francisco is my favorite city in the U.S. It's like New York in California!). What's your favorite spot in Japan, Asami?

DAISUKE AIKAWA & MIZUKI IGAKI (1st period) – you asked what I like about Japan, and what I'm interested about it.

I like the food and life in Tokyo. It's crowded and sometimes irritating, but that's the way it is, and I accept it. But there's all kinds of things here. I can eat any kind of food from anywhere in the world here. Many people know good food, wine and beer too. I love finding a small restaurant or izakaya in a local place that most people don't know. I also like the transportation system with the trains in Tokyo – I really got tired of driving in the U.S., and when I lived in Ibaraki. But sometimes, I need a break from the big city. I love onsen, and for such busy people, Japanese know how to relax. So what do you like about your own country, Daisuke and Mizuki?

RISA SHOJI (1st period) & AKIKO HIROSAKI, YURI TSUKUDA & ARA CHO (2nd period) – you asked if I had a pet, and what kinds of animals I liked. Risa – you remembered that I said I had cats, and asked what kinds they are, and Ara – you asked if I had children.

My wife and I have three cats. Yes, we're cat lovers! We have two black ones and one gray one. One of the black ones, and the gray one, are a brother and sister, and the other black one is a year younger and came from a different mother. We're not sure what kind they are – we think they're all mixes, of Siamese, maybe Persian, with other things we don't know!

Ara – no, we don't have any children. Our cats are our babies! They keep us warm in winter and make us laugh in summer. How about all of you? Akiko, you say you have a dog, a mix – but how about you, Yuri and Ara? Do you have pets, and what are your favorite animals?

RISA (again!), YUSUKE TSUKADA (1st period), & MIHO MATSUMOTO (2nd period) – you asked about my hobbies.

Well, I'm so busy that I don't really have time for hobbies right now. Whenever I get a chance, I like to go on YouTube and search out old music show clips and TV shows from the U.S. and Australia, especially music from the 1960s. I was very small at that time and don't remember it very well, but I think the 1960s was an interesting time in many countries. I would like to learn more about Japanese life in the 1960s, because I think it would have been an interesting time for a foreigner to have been here. I like searching out old TV clips from my favorite sport, Australian rules football, especially from the 1960s and early 1970s, when my family lived in Australia.

I also like searching out unique and interesting eating and drinking places in and around Tokyo, especially for Indian, Thai or Vietnamese food – my wife and I really like these kinds of food, even though Vietnamese restaurants are so expensive in Tokyo!

NATSUMI MIZUMOTO (2nd period) – you asked me when I got married.

I got married in 2004. So on February 1st, we celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary.

I would love to answer more questions – but I have to save some more for a Part 3. See you in class!

星薬科大学薬学英語 I 火曜日１時限・２時限・Unit 2 lesson plan (5/17)

Hello all Pharm Eng students,

My apologies to all of you for posting this late. Here's the lesson plan from our class last Tuesday (5/17):

1. Warmer - parts of the brain description matching
2. Unit 2
a. second half of article - group reading, note-taking and listening
b. group key word search & Q&A handout (shared among group members)
3. Homework
a. add Unit 2 words from handout to your word charts as you did with Unit 1
b. think of 3-5 of your own sentences using any 3-5 words from Unit 2

*REMINDER - short mid-term test on 5/31!

See you in class on Tuesday!

KIFL Airline FA English Interview Fri 09:20-10:55 - more about resumes: action verbs

Hello all,

Here are some more notes about resumes to add to what I've shown you in class. I hope these will help you, and if you have anything to show me or have questions, please ask me in class next Friday.

I will write about some more notes on cover letters, emails and file attachment letters in a separate post.

For resumes, remember that most employers don't read resumes clearly, but still expect you to have correct formatting and spelling.

So the key to good resume writing is to write about your qualifications, skills and abilities in short lines with the kinds of words that carry the most information.

So you don't have to use pronouns about yourself, alone or as part of a group (like I, my or we) or ones that are used directly about another person (such as you).

But action verbs will be important. Look at the list of action verbs in the chart on the resume template I gave you in class. Some of them you might not know; look them up in your dictionaries. But here might be some very useful verbs for the kinds of resumes you have:

assist (手伝う) for example: Assisted ground staff personnel in their duties.

challenge (挑戦する): Challenged the TOEIC in December 2011. Improved score by 60 points.

*NOTE: If you don't have a high TOEIC score, but still improved your score greatly from the time you took it before, then it may be okay to say that you improved the score without writing it. But if you have improved your score and are over 650 or so, then write the score down! With scores or at least 650 or more - write them.

qualify (資格を取る): Qualified for Infini certification in December 2011.

undertake (企てる): Undertook internship with EasyJet from December 2011 to present.

**NOTE: even some common verbs can become important as action verbs.

participate (参加する): Participated in KIFL2010 conference in Tokyo.

teach: Taught cram school students in English, math and history at Kanda Juku.

There are many action verbs that you can use, but these might be the most useful for you.

I will post more as we go along. See you all in class Friday!

星薬科大学薬学英語 I 火曜日１時限・２時限・special Q&A post about me (Part 1)

Hello to all my Pharm Eng students,

I'm posting a special message here for you. So far, I have been very happy and glad to have you as my students. You've been trying hard in the classes and you've been making great effort. I'm proud of all of you! I hope I am doing as good a job being your teacher.

But I've done a bad job learning and remembering your names. I'm sorry! I've been going through your pre-teaching surveys trying to remember your names and faces. So, to help me try to start learning your names, I'll answer the questions many of you asked me on the surveys here. To start...

YUKARI YAKAWA (2nd period) - you asked me the meaning of my name. While I talked about this in our first class, I'll repeat it here:

Lee (is an English name) - it means a natural place in a forest where there are no trees, but a flat area with grass that's a comfortable place for animals or travelers to rest.

Arnold (English & German) - comes from the base meaning of "eagle" (in German, Adler), "flight" and "sky," so it means something like "to fly like an eagle."

SUMIRE KOBAYASHI (1st period) & SAORI MOCHIZUKI (2nd period) - you both asked about what I did over the spring holiday.

Well, over the spring holiday, nothing much. I was very nervous as the holiday was finishing because I was starting at Hoshi and was hoping to make a good impression! And over Golden Week, my wife had to work, so I stayed home and cleaned our house, and organized my desk, files, and teaching materials. It was kind of boring, but it also felt good afterwards to have a clean house and organized things! (How about the both of you? What did you do over GW?)

CHISATO SAKAIDA (1st period) & MARIE MORI, HITOMI NISHINO & HIRONORI HIRAOKA (2nd period) - you asked questions about sports I have played, or like.

Chisato, Marie & Hironori - sports I've played and liked: of course, I'm from the U.S. As a child, however, I grew up in Australia, and I loved Australian rules football (オジボール). But I also like baseball sometimes, and the Winter Olympics, especially ice hockey. (Hironori - you say you like basketball. Do you have a favorite NBA or bj-league team?)

Hitomi - you're the manager of the Hoshi kendo club, and you asked me if I have played kendo.

Well, no I haven't. But it looks very interesting. I have a friend at the Tokyo Yakkadaigaku, an American who is a 5-dan in kendo (本当に!).

NANASE SHITARA (1st period) - you asked me where I was during the March 11th earthquake.

My wife was home, but I was on my way to a dental appointment. I was on the Yurakucho line, but I didn't make it to the clinic. I had to walk home to Nerima, and it took me almost four hours. (How about you? Were you and your mum hurt or was anything damaged in your house?)

NORIKO KAMIKAWA (2nd period) - you asked me how old I was, and you guessed I was 42.

Well, thank you! But I'm 49.

RINA KYOGOKU, SHUHEI ARAI, YUKI SAKANISHI & ARISA SUZUKI (1st period) & DAISUKE TAKAYAMA (2nd period) - you all asked about my favorite foods, and if I prefer Japanese or American.

Well, I love Japanese dishes! My favorite is unagi. I also really like nikujaga, koroke, tempura and sukiyaki, plus good sushi and sashimi. (How about all of you? What are your favorite dishes?).

Daisuke - you asked a unique question about ramen shops in Kashiwa, in Chiba. You remembered that I used to live there.

Well, I haven't been to any of the places you said. Sorry! But I think you know ramen well, and know the difference between good ramen and bad!

This is Part 1. More Q&A in a Part 2 post will follow soon. Thank you!

KIFL English for Hospitality Industry 1 class Tues 13:40-15:15 & Fri 11:05-12:40 - more subject-verb agreement patterns

Hello all!

Here is my blog post for you about some more subject-verb agreement patterns. I hope these sentences will help you with your subject-verb agreements. See you in class next time!

1) BASIC REVIEW WITH EXAMPLES

I sing songs
You
We
They

He sings songs
She
It

I work hard
You
We
They

He works hard
She
It

2) REVIEW WITH TWO OF THE SAME PATTERNS

I work hard, and you work hard too.
We always work hard, and they usually work hard too.

He works hard, and she works hard too.

3) NEW: MIXING PATTERNS

Now when you know the patterns, you can mix different subject-verb agreement forms
in the same sentence:

They work hard, but he never works hard.

You do what you want, but she never does what she wants.

4) PATTERNS WITH NAMES OF PEOPLE, THINGS AND PLACES

The same patterns still follow with names of people, things and places

Ryoichi plays sports. (Ryoichi is a man, so = he)

Michelle comes to school early. (Michelle is a woman, so = she)

Now, the pattern changes back for two or more people or things, and for two or more groups or types of people or things:

Tomoyo and Rena leave KIFL at the same time. (Tomoyo and Rena = they)

Chisato's friends and Ryoichi's friends like the same kind of music. (Chisato's friends = one group of people = they; Ryoichi's friends = another group of people = they)

Cats and dogs fight sometimes. (Cats = one group of animals = they; dogs = another group of animals = they)

The patterns follow in the same way for places and areas too:

Shinjuku gets dangerous in some parts at night. (Shinjuku = it)

Kyoto looks like a nice place to visit in spring. (Kyoto = it)

The Amazon and Nile rivers run deep into many countries in their parts of the world. (Amazon and Nile rivers = they)

Many of the Yamanote line stations have interesting buildings around them. (Many of the Yamanote line stations = they)

The old parts of Nerima-ku take a long time to walk around in, but one part in
Arakawa-ku takes even longer to walk around in. (The old parts of Nerima-ku = they; one part in Arakawa-ku = it)

星薬科大学薬学英語 I 火曜日１時限・２時限・Unit 1 vocab Q&A review board game questions and answers

Hello again,

As promised - QUESTIONS & ANSWERS TO UNIT 1 VOCAB Q&A REVIEW BOARD GAME:

Q: What do you call a reaction to something you are allergic to, like a drug or pollen?
A: Anaphylaxy (-or- anaphylactic shock)

Q: What's a research protocol?
A: An ethical statement and description of a research project, including information about the funding, sponsorship, institutional affiliations, and levels of risk involved in the project.

Q: What is the duty of a physician in a medical research project?
A: To safeguard the health of human and/or animal subjects.

Q: What does it mean to be under "coercion?"
A: It means to do something when you are forced to, under great pressure.

Q: What does 優先 mean in English?
A: Precedence.

Q: What do you call a living thing that lives in or on another living thing, causing damage to it?
A: A parasite.

Q: What's a research population?
A: A group of people chosen as subjects for a research project.

Q: How do you spell テトラサイクリン in English?
A: T-E-T-R-A-C-Y-C-L-I-N-E (tetracycline).

Q: What do you call the persons who are having drugs tested on them in a research experiment?
A: Subjects.

Q: What is "intervention" in Japanese, and can you explain it in English?
A: Intervention is 冶療, and it means a test agent (like a new medication) that is used in a certain research population group to test the effects of the agent on the subjects, to see if it works.

Hope you can use these to help with your review for the tests in this class. See you next Tuesday!

星薬科大学薬学英語 I 火曜日１時限・２時限・Unit 1とUnit 2のスタート

Hello Tuesday morning PharmEng students,

Here's our lesson plan from today (5/10):

1.Warmup - Unit 1 vocab Q&A review board game
2.Unit 2 - Growing Alzheimer's Drugs in Rice
a. What patients do with medicine or medications:
*Patients can take medicine
drink (a) medication
inject
inhale
b. Reading first half of Unit 2
*Group reading,listening & note-taking
3.Homework - blog check
read whole of Unit 2 at home

In my next post right after this one, I will show you the questions and answers to the Unit 1 vocab Q&A review.

小島恵子先生の200CDブラク・ミュージックのビデオ：オシビサ「ウエルカム・ホーム」

小島先生、

こんばんは！先々週のレッスンに、1970年代のアフリカ系バンドはオシビサについて、YouTubeのビデオが見えなかった。

週末に見つかり、いろいろなオシビサのビデオを見た。ピータ・バラカンのオシビサの話は正しい！いくつか曲を聴き、「幸福感」のことが響く。アップし、下の印象的な曲がウエルカム・ホームを選んだ。

どうですか？水曜日のレッスンに反応がよろしくおねがいいたします。

KIFL Airline FA English Interview Fri 09:20-10:55

Hello to all my new Friday FA Interview students,

While I still don't know all your names yet, I hope to learn them very soon. (Chihiro - very happy to meet you for the first time!)

Here's our lesson plan and assignment for Friday, May 6th:

1) Collecting more pre-teaching surveys and ID pictures
2) Today's lesson - applying for a job
a) job posting handouts
b) group work - job application example scrambled emails - arrange email sentences in a
sample job application email the correct to get a feel for best formatting and content of
a job application
* in groups, write what each group believes is the correct order of the sentences
* teacher check of correct order of sentences and content
3) Homework (for 5/13)- take the content of job postings and adapt it to the formatting of the job application example, then write and send mail to me at
washizoraATgmaildotcom
* Any unfinished preteaching surveys - please finish, and bring a
picture yourself for next week (5/13)

Please share this lesson plan with the others who were not in class today.

Take care!

Lee

星薬科大学薬学英語 I 火曜日１時限・２時限

Hello to all my new Hoshi students in 1st and 2nd periods on Tuesdays!

Here is the lesson plan for both classes for Tuesday, April 26th:

1. Warmup - identifying katakana-English words, word combinations and pronunciations: テトラサイクリン(tetracycline); ペニシリン(penicillin);　アレルギー(allergy); アナフィラキシー(anaphylaxy); ショック(shock)

2. Homework check - 5 sentences using words from reading vocabulary list

3. Declaration of Helsinki
a. reading-listening-note-taking
b. Q&A with questions on board
c. Q&A with open class

I said I would post the questions I wrote on the board in class, but so many of you wrote the questions, so I will not repeat them here.

You all did a good job with the reading, and while it wasn't easy for some of you, you tried hard. Your reading ability and speed will get better over the year, so don't worry.

Let's go over the questions more when we come back after Golden Week, and then go on to Unit 2.

Good job to all of you!

Take care,

Lee

小島恵子先生の２００CDブラク・ミュージックのビデオ

小島先生、

私のブログにようこそ！ピーター・バラカンの本の前書きに、70年代のアメリカのいろいろなアフリカの音楽について言及されている。ジョウニ・ミチュルとトーキング・ヘッズの人気や大衆性のことだが、下の曲はまさにその特徴的な一曲。トーキング・ヘッズの1980年アルバム「リメイン・イン・ライト」から。

どうですか？その時代、すごっく人気があり、印象的なアルバム。