週14 - ECA (Speaking) I & II (D, J, & A): 将来の予定

Hello all my speaking students,

Image "Angkor Wat Sunrise" courtesy of J Frasse/FreeDigitalPhotos.net

How are you? University is almost finished for the year! So what are your plans for the spring - or your near future (将来)? For example - look at the picture on top. Are you going to a warm place like Okinawa or Thailand? 

Activity
What are your plans for this spring holiday - or near future? 

Look at these other pictures. Are you going to do any of these things? If not, what would you like to do? 

Are you going (or would you like) to go back to your hometown?  

Are you going to (or would you like to) go back to your hometown? 
...go sightseeing in another part of Japan? 
Go sightseeing in another part of Japan? 

...go to the U.S - maybe California? 

Go to the U.S - maybe California? 

Maybe New York? 
Or maybe New York? 

Or maybe Australia - for example, Sydney? 
Or maybe Australia - for example, Sydney? 

Are you going (or would you like) to study abroad (in another country)? Are you going (or would 

...or work a part-time job? 

...work a part-time job? 

Talk about these with a partner or group! What are you going to do - or - what would you like to do?

Have fun!
Have fun!

Photo credits: Cherry blossoms - "Sakura" (courtesy of coward_lion)/ Temple - "Kinkakuji Temple, Kyoto, Japan" (courtesy of Worakit Sirijinda)/Sign - "Hollywood Sign" (courtesy of porbital)/Statue - "Statue of Liberty Face" (courtesy of porbital)/Sydney - "Sydney Opera House At Night" (courtesy of Susie B)/People - "Group of Young Students" (courtesy of photostock)/Pizza - "Pizza" (courtesy of federico stevanin)/All photos from FreeDigitalPhotos.net

特別ポスト- ECA (英語基礎表現) II (Super A): 期末作文のプロジェクト

Hello to my Eigokisohyougen students,



Image "Line Sheet With Pen" courtesy of adamr/ FreeDigitalPhotos.net



How are you? Today I will show you some points about our final writing project.

Deadline

This will be due on January 23rd (1/23), so from today you have three weeks to finish it.

Topics

As I had talked about before in class, these are the topics:

1. Write about something you know - for example, a place you have been to, or a hobby, activity, or sport you enjoy doing, or a book you have read or movie or TV drama you have seen.

2. Write about something you don't know, but would like to try, do or see - for example, a place you have never been to but would like to go to, or a hobby, activity or sport you would like to try but haven't done yet, or a book you haven't read but want to read, or a movie or TV drama you haven't seen but want to.

I will collect these into a short, small book of your writing!

Points to write about 

What is the place, hobby, activity, sport, book, movie, or TV drama? (If it's a book, movie or TV show, who wrote it? Who is the director 「監督」 of the movie or TV show, and who are the actors and their characters?)

What is the best thing for you about the place, hobby, sport, etc.? When did you start going there, or do it, or when did you first see the movie or TV show?

How does it make you feel? Why do you enjoy it?

If it's a place, hobby, sport, etc. that you haven't been to or done, what do you know about it? What have you heard about it from your friends, family, on the Internet, etc.?

Why do you want to go there, or why do you want to try the hobby or activity?

(If it's a book you've never read or a movie or TV drama you haven't seen, what's your interest in it?) When and where did you first hear about it?

Format & style

Here's how I would like you to do this:

First, I want you to handwrite this on notebook paper.

Then, I want you to type it up, like this:

This is an example from one of my writing classes at the Shibaura Institute of Technology (芝浦工業大学) when I was there. I would like you to use the same kind of format here too. 

This is very important! I want your name and student number at the top, with a double space after, then for your paragraph, each line with a single space.

After that, you send this to me as a file attachment「添付ファイル」.

This is also very important! I would like you to try for a two-paragraph paper.

Good luck on this! I think you can do well on this.

See you in the next class!

特別ポスト- ECA (英語基礎表現) II (Super A): writing about music (Part 2)

Hello to my Eigokisohyougen students,

How are you? As promised, here's Part 2 to your writing about the music pieces I played for you. 

Here's the third piece of music I played for you - Miles Davis' "Portia": 

Here's what you wrote about it:

I think I can hear bass, piano and drum. Also it is similar with Beijing Opera of China. Both of them are awesome. But this song is not my love style. I think it is pretty noisy. Maybe it fit in a fancy restaurant.

It is a barroom, but there are a few people in here, it is quiet and the music around the barroom. Then, a beautiful and rich woman come into, she sit and order a wine, she listening the music and thinking something.

Some ghosts seems to come out. I feel scary. The place is haunted home. Young people exploration at haunted home.

A woman spy is carrying out a mission. One day, the woman steals into a castle and takes jewelry.

It is just look like some of the mysterious theme from the mist. In that case, something must be uncomfortable coming from the mist. 

Some very different reactions to this! All interesting - ghosts, barrooms, mist, women 

on spy missions, and the Beijing Opera. Great! 

Now here's the fourth piece of music - Frank Zappa's "Little Umbrellas": 

Here are your reactions to it:

I think some people in forest. There have a lot of animals. The people are dancing. They are amazing. Maybe they are celebrate all saints' day.

This song is just like the theme of the dunce guy. For of it, I knew it by the illustration of the CD case!

I don’t like the style which is scared. It is like a ghost!

I think it is in the big department. There must be big game center. In finally, this music made me wonder sense like out of this world kind of music. That was wonder music I think.

Overall, maybe this wasn't your favorite, but some interesting feelings on it anyway!

You tried hard on your writing on these. Good work!

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