Hello!
How are you? Here are the board notes for our class on 4/24.
Have a great Golden Week! See you in two weeks!
Image: Personal photograph. All rights reserved.
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Writing English A: 4/24 board notes・4月24日のボードノート
Hello!
How are you? Look at the board notes above. They're an example of a word map. In this case, this was my example of a word map about my memories of my grandmother, or "nanna"'s house, when I was growing up in Australia.
Here are the rest of the board lesson notes for our class on 4/24:
Have a great Golden Week! See you in two weeks!
Here are the rest of the board lesson notes for our class on 4/24:
Images: Personal photographs. All rights reserved.
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Freshman English Reading A: Interesting sports・面白いスポーツ
Hello!
Activity
Look at the three (3) videos below. Choose one (1) of them.
Here's the first video of a popular sport in Ireland called hurling. What do you think of it? It's a very fast sport - so watch the video more than once! What other sports is hurling like?
Finally - this is a sport I watched as a child in Australia - Australian rules football. What do you think of it? It's another fast sport - so watch it more than once! What other sports is Australian football like?
How are you? Today let's look at some different sports in different countries.
Activity
Look at the three (3) videos below. Choose one (1) of them.
Here's the first video of a popular sport in Ireland called hurling. What do you think of it? It's a very fast sport - so watch the video more than once! What other sports is hurling like?
Next - here's a sport some of you may have heard of from Thailand - muay thai. What do you think of it? It's also fast - so watch the video more than once! What other sports is muay thai like?
After you watch the video of the sport you chose, and answer this question:
What equipment and skills do you think you need for it?
Have fun! Have a great Golden Week!What equipment and skills do you think you need for it?
Image: By SimonEast, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2038386/from Wikimedia Commons.
Videos uploaded from YouTube. I do not own the rights to the videos. All rights reserved to the copyright holder(s). Uploaded for educational purposes only.
Videos uploaded from YouTube. I do not own the rights to the videos. All rights reserved to the copyright holder(s). Uploaded for educational purposes only.
Writing English A: Describing places・場所を描写して
Hello!
Activity/homework
How are you? Let's look at some pictures of places.
Look at this picture above of a hill. What comes to your mind when you see this picture? What do you think of? How do you feel? What images do you get about these hills?
Look at this picture above of a hill. What comes to your mind when you see this picture? What do you think of? How do you feel? What images do you get about these hills?
Activity/homework
Look at these pictures of places.
Choose three (3) of these places, and write one (1) short paragraph about each place you chose. (You can choose the picture at the top as one of your places to write about.)
What comes to your mind when you see these places? What do you think of? How do you feel? What images do you get?
Write these short paragraphs in your notebooks.
Choose three (3) of these places, and write one (1) short paragraph about each place you chose. (You can choose the picture at the top as one of your places to write about.)
What comes to your mind when you see these places? What do you think of? How do you feel? What images do you get?
Write these short paragraphs in your notebooks.
Mountain
River
Volcano
Rainforest
Desert
Have fun playing with your ideas!
Take care! Have a great Golden Week!
Images: Top - Personal photograph/Mountain -personal photograph/River - By Des Colhoun, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=13208330/Volcano - By Nc tech3 at the English language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9013884/Rainforest - By Makemake at the German language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63465/Desert - By Rife Charie, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - http://www.public-domain-image.com/public-domain-images-pictures-free-stock-photos/nature-landscapes-public-domain-images-pictures/deserts-public-domain-images-pictures/desert-beauty-landscape.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24896551/All images except top from Wikimedia Commons/All rights reserved on personal photograph
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Writing English A: Describing & characterizing people・人物を描写、性格の描写
Hello!
How are you? Let's look at how to describe people (人物を描写する).
1. Look at the picture at the top:
This woman has long black hair and closed eyes. Her hand is on her head.
2. Now here are some extra details about her:
She looks stressed out.
3. So, a sample description (例え描写) about her looks like this:
This woman has long black hair and closed eyes. Her hand is on her head. She looks stressed out.
4. Now connect some of your sentences, and go on to write more about what you think of the person, and what she is doing:
This woman has long black hair and closed eyes. Her hand is on her head, and she looks stressed out.. I think she's...
Activity/homework
Now let's try to do the same thing - choose two (2) of the people in the pictures below. Write a short paragraph (描写) about each person:
1. What he or she looks like, the clothes he or she is wearing, and what he or she is doing.
2. What you think his or her feelings are, and why he or she feels the way you think.
Note: In some of the pictures, you might not see the person's clothes, so you can just write about what they look like and how you think they feel.
1. Look at the picture at the top:
This woman has long black hair and closed eyes. Her hand is on her head.
2. Now here are some extra details about her:
She looks stressed out.
3. So, a sample description (例え描写) about her looks like this:
This woman has long black hair and closed eyes. Her hand is on her head. She looks stressed out.
4. Now connect some of your sentences, and go on to write more about what you think of the person, and what she is doing:
This woman has long black hair and closed eyes. Her hand is on her head, and she looks stressed out.. I think she's...
Activity/homework
Now let's try to do the same thing - choose two (2) of the people in the pictures below. Write a short paragraph (描写) about each person:
1. What he or she looks like, the clothes he or she is wearing, and what he or she is doing.
2. What you think his or her feelings are, and why he or she feels the way you think.
Note: In some of the pictures, you might not see the person's clothes, so you can just write about what they look like and how you think they feel.
1.
2
2. 2.
This person has black shoulder-length hair and dark eyes. She's slender and good-looking. She's wearing a black sweater and gray scarf with blue jeans. I think she's...
2. 2.
3
3.
3.
7.
Have fun!
Here are the board notes for the class on 4/17:
Photo credits: 1. "Beautiful Young Woman" (courtesy of posterize) 2. "Preparing For Dinner" (courtesy of imagerymajestic) 3. "Smiling little girl Here are the board notes for the class on 4/17:
See you next time!
Images: Top - "Asian Woman Have A Headache" (courtesy of tiverylucky)/1. "Beautiful Young Woman" (courtesy of posterize)/2. "Preparing For Dinner" (courtesy of imagerymajestic)/3. "Seated African Child" (courtesy of africa)/4. "Older Man With Hat" (courtesy of Rosemary Ratcliff)/5. "Young Man Thinking Seriously" (courtesy of pod pad)/6. "Old African Man" (courtesy of africa)/7. "Asian Woman Smiling On The Bedroom Floor" (courtesy of Feelart)/All images from FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Culture through English A: Hobbies & interests ・趣味、興味
Hello!
How are you? Today, let's look at hobbies (趣味) and interests (興味).
What are your hobbies and interests? What do you like to do in your free time? What do you do that helps to relax you?
Look at the picture at the top. It's a PC gaming set-up. This is a popular hobby in so many countries, including Japan. Do you like gaming?
Activity
Look at the pictures below. These are some popular hobbies and interests in Japan and other countries. Do you do any of these things? If not, what do you know about them? If you haven't done any of these things, which ones would you be most interested in trying?
There's a space at the bottom with no picture for it. This is where you talk about your own idea of a hobby or interest if you have another one you can think of.
Talk about these with your classmates!
knitting
cooking
making model trains & railroads
coin collecting
practicing martial arts (such as judo)
fishing
practicing yoga
(no picture)
your own idea!
Have fun with these!
Here are the board notes for the class on 4/17:
See you next time!
Here are the board notes for the class on 4/17:
Images: Top - by MarcusBurns1977 - https://www.deviantart.com/marcusburns1977/art/My-PC-Built-758744133, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=71497253/Knitting - CC BY-SA 1.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63470/Cooking - by Rootology - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4119898/Model railroad - by Janke at English Wikipedia - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Jacopo Werther., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12608653/Coin collecting - Public Domain, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11685839/Judo - by Lance Cpl. Scott M. Biscuiti - www.usmc.mil Kampfsport, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=611494/Fishing - by Adrian Pingstone (Arpingstone) - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4111574/Yoga - by Eli Christman - https://www.flickr.com/photos/gammaman/7170043719/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33160412
Board notes - personal photograph. All rights reserved.
Board notes - personal photograph. All rights reserved.
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Welcome to the classes! A self-introduction・クラスにようこそ！自己紹介
Hello!
How are you? Welcome to this class! Here's a little self-introduction about myself, and about how I view my classes.
First, a little about myself.
First, a little about myself.
See you then!
Images: Unattributed images taken from the internet. I do not own the rights to these images. All rights reserved to the copyright holder(s). Uploaded for educational and illustrative purposes only.
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