特別ポスト： 家族の出身、子供頃の思い出のポスタープレゼンテーション

Hello!

How are you? I would like to show a few of your great posters for you to look back at and think about. You did a great job! Thank you for your hard work. 

I do not have enough space or time to upload all of them. So I have selected some to show. Be proud of  your great work! I know I am proud of your effort.

Let's look at some of these great posters!

Finally - this one is from a different class on a different topic - but is a very good one. Take a look!

Good job on these posters! 

Images: Personal photographs. All rights reserved. 

ECA (Speaking) I (All): ポスタープレゼンテーションの例え「健康・幸せ」

Hello!

How are you? Today let's look at some examples (例え) of great small poster presentations about health and happiness (健康・幸せ). Look at this great one at the top! 

We will make some posters on this topic. Look at these posters from students last year to give you some  ideas about what you can do! 

See you next time with great posters of your own! 

Images: Personal photographs. All rights reserved.

ECA (英語基礎表現) I (P): 現在進行形

Hello!

How are you? Today let's look at the present progressive tense (現在進行形).

Look at the picture above. We see what the man is doing - he's walking.

Activity (活動):
Look at these pictures - with a partner or a group, can you write a sentence about what the people in the pictures are doing?

He is _____________________________________________.

She is _____________________________________________.

The man at the top is 

________________________________________. 

The woman at the bottom is 
______________________________________. 

See you next time!

Images: Top - personal photograph. All rights reserved.

Other images photographed from handouts from copyrighted material. All rights reserved to the copyright holders. No copyright infringement intended. Images taken and uploaded strictly for classroom use only. 

ECA (英語基礎表現) I (Super A): 作文1

Hello!

How are you? Today let's begin our first writing assignment (作文1) - writing about a gift. 

You have four (4) choices for writing about this assignment. You could write about:

• the best gift you ever got
• the worst gift you ever got
• a gift you got for someone that became very special to that person
• a gift that you still have or use to this day

Things to think about when you write:

• what was it? 
• who was it for? 
• was it expensive? 
• where was the gift bought? 
• why was it so special - or so terrible? 

Think about all these things. Write 1-2 paragraphs, with 4-5 sentences in each paragraph, about it in your notebooks.  

Good luck! See you next week!

Image: "Magic Box" (personal photograph). All rights reserved.

ECA (Speaking) I (All): 幸せのこと

Hello!

How are you? Today, let's look at happiness (幸せ), and things that make you happy! 

What makes you happy? Do pets make you happy - like in the picture at the top? These are my pets - my dog and two of my cats. They make me happy! 

So how about you? Look at these pictures and talk about what makes you happy!

Great food

Family

Friends

Memories (思い出) 

Sleeping and relaxing

(no picture) 

(Your own idea!)

See you next time!

Images: Personal photographs. All rights reserved.  

ECA (Speaking) I (C & A) & (Global Understanding): 家族の出身

Hello!

Let's look at where we come from! This is the Chikuzen-no-kuni family register (戸籍謄本).

This is from Fukuoka-ken, and it's the oldest known family register in Japan, at over 1,300 years old!

How about your family? How far back do you know about where your family came from - in Japan, or maybe another country?

The picture above is a shot of a student's notes. She researched about the origins of her family (家族の出身). Her family came from Kanagawa.

How about your families? Which parts of Japan - or which parts of other countries - did they come from? Let's find out about our families and where they came from!

Click here to see the screenshots of my Power Point show about my family history!

See you next time!

Images: family register - screenshot from internet of Chikuzen-no-kuni household register courtesy of Asuka Historical Museum. All rights reserved.
Student notebook page - personal photograph. All rights reserved.

ECA (Speaking) I (All): 過去のファション、スタイル

Hello!

How are you? Today, let's look at fashion from the past (過去のファション、スタイル). 

Activity
Look at these fashions from the past. Which ones do you like? First, here are some hippies from the 1960s:

Now, here are a group of German women wearing popular fashions in the 1970s:

Next, here is a picture of three girls. It's from my generation in the 1980s, and they are wearing styles that were popular then.

Here is a young person from the 1990s, wearing fashions popular then:

Finally, here is some popular fashion from the past decade - the 2000s:

What do you think of these clothing and hair styles? 

Good luck - and see you next time!

Images: Top - "Tokyo, Japan - Nov 24: Crowd At Takeshita Street On No" (courtesy of Sira Anamwong) FreeDigital Photos.net/Hippies - "Woodstock redmond　hair" by Derek Redmond and Paul Campbell - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodstock_redmond_hair.JPG#/media/File:Woodstock_redmond_hair.JPG/Four women - "Bundesarchiv Bild 183-L0902-114, Leipzig, Messe, neue Mode" by Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-L0902-114 / Ulrich Häßler / CC-BY-SA 3.0. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 de via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-L0902-114,_Leipzig,_Messe,_neue_Mode.jpg#/media/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-L0902-114,_Leipzig,_Messe,_neue_Mode.jpg/Three girls - by jeanne [Public domain]/Young man - "Jonathan Brandis Wiki" by Airwolfberlin - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jonathan_Brandis_Wiki.jpg#/media/File:Jonathan_Brandis_Wiki.jpg/Man on red carpet - "Jared Leto - 66ème Festival de Venise" by Nicolas Genin - originally posted to Flickr as 66ème Festival de Venise (Mostra). Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jared_Leto_-_66%C3%A8me_Festival_de_Venise.jpg#/media/File:Jared_Leto_-_66%C3%A8me_Festival_de_Venise.jpg/All rights reserved to the authors of the original images. 

ECA (Speaking) I (C, W, & A): 思い出こと

Hello!

How are you? Let's look at the picture above. What do you think about or feel when you see this picture? (If you are not Japanese, what is your impression?) 

What are your memories from the past (過去)? What kind of food or drink, TV shows or games did you used to like, watch or do when you were a child? 

Let's talk about these! 

See you next time!

Image: Unattributed photograph from the Internet. All rights reserved to the copyright holder(s). Uploaded for classroom purposes only.

ECA (Global Understanding): 先祖

Hello! 

How are you? Today let's look at the idea of your origins (先祖). What does this word - in English or Japanese - mean to you?

Let me share with you my origins.

How about your origins? Where do you come from, far back? 

See you!

Images: Mix of personal and copyrighted images. All rights reserved to the copyright holder(s). Uploaded for educational purposes only. 

このブログにようこそ！私について

Hello!

How are you? Welcome to my blog, The Daily Sekaijin! On it I will post videos, pictures and other things for you for our classes. You can write comments here too. We can have fun in these classes!
classes! 
ブログにようこそ！ブログが授業のためにヴィデオ、写真、画像やアップする。どちでも英語とか日本語コメントの書くができる。楽しいクラスしましょう！

Now - I will show you a little bit about myself. The picture above is my "hello" to all of you. The picture looks a little strange - but I like the image and the colors!

少し私に教えて。この写真は皆の挨拶。ちょっと変だけど、イメージといろは大好き！

Now here are some more pictures, with questions for all of you. Can you guess some answers? 

後でね！See you in class!

Images: Top and bottom photos - screenshots of Frank Zappa Hot Rats album cover. All rights reserved to The Zappa Family Trust. No copyright infringement intended. Original image altered and uploaded for entertainment and educational purposes only. 

2nd, 5th, 7th, and 8th photographs - screenshots of personal images. All rights reserved.
3rd photograph - "Autumn in Boise" by Lordchadwick79 - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Autumn_in_Boise.jpg#/media/File:Autumn_in_Boise.jpg
4th photograph – downtown Perth/6^th photograph -  Passport visa stamps/Dreamstime Stock Images
Blue background designs - Blue Bokek (courtesy of panuruangjan)/Pink background designs – Abstract Flowers (courtesy of rakratchada torsap)/ FreeDigitalPhotos.net