Culture through English 2B: Final presentation projects・後期プレゼンテーション

Hello!

How are you? Today, I will introduce our final presentation project (後期プレゼンテーションプロジェクト) - presenting about famous festivals (祭り) and celebrations 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 you might want to research about it! Here's what we'll do:

Topics

This time we will have one (1) topic – festivals (祭り) and celebrations around the world.

Guidelines

Like before, you have a choice between making a poster presentation or Power Point show. But this time I will make some rules I want you to follow:

• You can still present in groups – but I want each member to show what their job is in the group (for example, the planning notes from the person who designed the visual material like a poster or the slides, plus separate notes from the person who looked for vocabulary and spellchecked, and so on). The other side of the sheet I have given you in class is for your planning and preparation.

• Because of this, every member of each group has to come to class every time.

• I would like these to be the best presentations you can put together – so because of this, we have to have a practice time, with coaching from me if your group needs it.

• Every group must have a different topic – no groups can have the same topic.

Schedule & deadline (締め切り)

Our presentation day will be on January 18th (1/18), so you have more than one (1) month to prepare them. Because I am giving you this project now, here is our schedule for the rest of our time together:

• 12/14 – introduction to the project; choosing group members; naming groups and choosing jobs in groups for preparation; coordinating ideas between groups on topics; beginning outside class research

• 12/21 – teacher check of group names and members, topic choices, research and coordination of topics between groups; check of jobs among group members; in-class research and preparation

• 1/11 – in-class research and preparation; presentation practice; final outside class research

• 1/18 – final presentations 

You must be there on the day to present! Please be ready. 

Good luck! I look forward to our presentation day on January 18th! See you next week!

Image: "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