Freshman English Reading B: About deserts・砂漠について

Hello!

How are you? Today, to go with our first reading, let's look a little more at deserts (砂漠).  

Activity/homework

What is a desert? This short video will show you about what a desert is. 

(If you have trouble seeing this video below, go to this link here.)

What do you see in the video? What surprises you the most? What did you not know?

I hope this will be interesting for you. 

NEW! Here are the board notes for our first class on 9/18:

See you next time!

Image: By Benutzer:Elian - Own work. Transferred from de.wikipedia to Commons., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25470

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Freshman English Reading B: About deserts・砂漠について

Hello!

How are you? Today, to go with our first reading, let's look a little more at deserts (砂漠).  

Activity/homework

What is a desert? This short video will show you about what a desert is. 

(If you have trouble seeing this video below, go to this link here.)

What do you see in the video? What surprises you the most? What did you not know?

I hope this will be interesting for you. 

NEW! Here are the board notes for our first class on 9/18:

See you next time!

Image: By Benutzer:Elian - Own work. Transferred from de.wikipedia to Commons., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25470

Video uploaded from YouTube. I do not own the rights to the content. All rights reserved to the copyright holder(s). Uploaded for classroom use only.

Freshman Reading 1B: About deserts・砂漠について

Hello!

How are you? Today, to go with our first reading, let's look a little more at deserts (砂漠).  

Activity/homework

What is a desert? This short video will show you about what a desert is. 

(If you have trouble seeing this video below, go to this link here.)

What do you see in the video? What surprises you the most? What did you not know?

I hope this will be interesting for you. 

See you next time!

Image: By Benutzer:Elian - Own work. Transferred from de.wikipedia to Commons., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25470

Video uploaded from YouTube. I do not own the rights to the content. All rights reserved to the copyright holder(s). Uploaded for classroom use only.

Writing English 1A: Origins of cats & dogs・猫と犬の起源

Hello!

How are you? Today I have two short videos for you that I hope you find interesting - one is about the origins (起源) of cats, and the other is about the origins of dogs. 

Both videos show where these animals came from and how they became domesticated (馴れた).  

Activity/homework

Watch these short videos. Watch each one as many times as you want or need. The first is about where cats came from and how they spread around the world. The second is about dogs, and where they came from and how they also spread around the world. 

There are no questions about the videos that you have to report to the class. They are to give you some background about where cats and dogs came from, how they both first came into contact with humans. From there, the videos show how humans found them to be useful, and also to be good as pets. 

But - make notes about the videos, because if you do any writing about cats or dogs, the information you'll see in the videos may be very useful for you!

First video - about cats:

Second video - about dogs: 

Hope these are very interesting for you!

See you next time!

Image: Personal photograph. All rights reserved. 

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Describing people/人物を描写している

Hello to all my students,

Image "Beautiful Young Woman" courtesy of posterize/FreeDigitalPhotos.net

How are you? Let's learn more about how to describe people (人物を描写).

Homework
Look at these pictures. Write about the people in these pictures. The picture at the top of this post is an example (例えば) :

This person has black shoulder-length hair and dark eyes. She's thin and good-looking. 

Now try to write some extra details about their clothes (洋服がさらに細かい描写): 

She's wearing a black sweater and gray scarf with blue jeans. 

So, your description (描写) can look like this: 

This person has black shoulder-length hair and dark eyes. She's thin and good-looking. She's wearing a black sweater and gray scarf with blue jeans. 

Try with these other pictures! 

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Have fun!
Photo credits: 1. "Beautiful Young Woman" (courtesy of posterize) 2. "Preparing For Dinner" (courtesy of imagerymajestic) 3. "Smiling little girl 

Photo credits: 1. "Preparing For Dinner" (courtesy of imagerymajestic) 2. "Seated African Child" (courtesy of africa) 3. "Older Man With Hat" (courtesy of Rosemary Ratcliff) 4. "Young Woman In Stylish Outfit" (courtesy of posterize) 5. "Genial Older Man" (courtesy of Rosemary Ratcliff) 6. "Old African Man" (courtesy of africa) 7. "Asian Woman Smiling On The Bedroom Floor" (courtesy of Feelart)/All pictures from FreeDigitalPhotos.net