Showing posts with label 動物. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 動物. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

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 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.

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

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.

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

作文6/6th writing assignment

Hello!


How are you? Today we'll do our 6th writing assignment all in one class - writing a story about a strange, unique, and/or interesting experience.

Now - you remember our pictures from last week. You had to choose at the beginning two (2) of the pictures, and then write a few sentences about them in your notebooks.

Then you had to select four (4) more of the pictures, and add more to your story in 2-3 paragraphs in your notebooks. Here are the pictures again:
















Task
Now - all you have to do for our 6th writing assignment is to finish up the writing you did last week. Try to go for 3-4 paragraphs if you can, now typed up on a Word document.

I will look for these things in your stories:
  • imagination (想像、考え)
  • creativity (創造力)
  • cause-and-effect (原因結果) words to connect your ideas like as a result, consequently, or therefore
  • correct formatting on your Word document
This will be a little like a writing test, so use your time well! But please also remember that you have done a lot of the work for this story already - all you have to do is make it better and a little longer, and finish it up.

These stories will go into a collection called White Rooms and Secret Stories - so write to the best you can!

So good luck again! Please have fun with these stories!


Images: Top - screenshot of Frank Zappa Hot Rats album cover/Door - "Empty Wall With Closed Door" (courtesy of master isolated images)/Train yard - "Silhouette Of Wires And Cables" (courtesy of papaija2008)/Sunset - "Beautiful Sunset" (courtesy of Photokanok)/Curtains - "Curtain Black With Texture" (courtesy of antpkr)/Wedding - "The Exit" (courtesy of Elwood W. McKay III)/Hand silhouettes - "Silhouette Of Man Asking For Help" (courtesy of foto76)/Plane - "Take Off At Sunset" (courtesy of Time Beach)/Woman - "Asian Model Woman" (courtesy of posterize)/Tiger - "White Bengal Tiger Face" (courtesy of anankkml)/all photos from FreeDigitalPhotos.net except for Frank Zappa album cover screenshot - all rights reserved to The Zappa Family Trust. No copyright infringement intended. Screenshot of album cover uploaded for illustrative and educational purposes only. 

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

面白い経験を書いて/writing about interesting experiences

Hello!



How are you? Today let's look at how to write about interesting, strange or unique experiences (面白い、不思議、ユニークな経験)! 

Activity
Look at these pictures. Can you make the beginning of an interesting, strange or unique story with these pictures? You can choose 1-2 of the pictures












Good luck! Have fun!
Photo credits: Top photo - "Sunset Holiday" (courtesy of imagerymajestic)/Roofs - "Hiyama Tatsuno Hyogo Prefecture" (courtesy of 663highland)/ 
Images: Top - "Empty Wall With Closed Door" (courtesy of master isolated images)/train yard - "Silhouette Of Wires And Cables" (courtesy of papaija2008)/sunset - "Beautiful Sunset" (courtesy of Photokanok)/curtains - "Curtain Black With Texture" (courtesy of antpkr)/wedding - "The Exit" (courtesy of Elwood W. McKay III)/hand silhouettes - "Silhouette Of Man Asking For Help" (courtesy of foto76)/plane - "Take Off At Sunset" (courtesy of Time Beach)/woman - "Asian Model Woman" (courtesy of posterize)/tiger - "White Bengal Tiger Face" (courtesy of anankkml)/all photos from FreeDigitalPhotos.net. 

Saturday, October 26, 2013

Our summers (Part 1)

Hello to all my students,


How are you? It's getting colder, but before it gets too cold, I would like to post some of your summer paragraphs you wrote in September. They are nice ways to help us remember what we did this summer. 

While many of you had to work part-time jobs and were busy with them, and some of you weren't able to go anywhere, many of you had some great and interesting times this summer. 

I have edited these as little as I could. I want to keep your voices, your thoughts and feelings as fresh as possible!

Here's one: 


I went to Disneyland with my girlfriend. We rode Big Thunder Mountain, Splash Mountain and Space Mountain. But we waited for two and half hours to get on the Space Mountain. It was very tired! But the vehicle is very interesting. We ate a turkey too. It’s a famous food and delicious. We felt we saw a dream, because there is a dream world. I want to go there again!
I worked in a restaurant over the summer. I worked for eight hours on long days. Thanks to the job, I could buy a new sweater.
I borrowed a DVD from Tsutaya and watched a movie in my house. The movie's name is Iron Man. The star is Robert Downey who earned the most money in the world of any star this year. I could understand it with the help of subtitles, and it helped me with my English study. I want to do my best in the second semester.

How about this one? 

I went to Yokohama this summer with my friend from high school. We ate Chinese noodles in the Yokohama Chinatown. They were very spicy, but I like spicy food, so I felt they were very delicious.
I saw the “Red Brick Wall” and some big ships. I entered it. Inside was so cute and fashionable. Many shops had people lined up to get in.
I worked a part – time job too. I was very tired. In my job, I had to make a lot of lunch meals. The lunchtimes were so busy.

Here's another one: 

I went to Nogeyama Zoo by train with a friend who's a year older than me. We saw a lot of animals such as tigers, lesser pandas, koalas, gorilla, and many more. 
My best impression was in touching some guinea pigs. They curled up on my knees. They were very cute.
After we went out there, we went to a place called Cosmo World. We rode on the "Kyuryu Suberi.” It was exciting and fun. That day was a fun and good one of my summer vacation.

Another one! 

I went to Harajuku by train with my four high school friends. We visited many stores and took purikura with my friends.
I think that there are very many cute clothes and shoes in Harajuku, because we saw so much clothing. We also found some anime shops and the Nico Nico head office. "Nico Nico" is a video on the Internet that's popular right now. 
I was surprised to find how crowded Harajuku is. Everywhere was crowded! We ate some pasta too - for me, I had some napolitan style pasta. 
I didn’t work a part-time job this summer vacation, but I worked hard to get a driver’s license. 

Here's one more for now!

I went to Shizuoka by train and bus to an amusement park with my friend Miki. We rode many roller coasters, such as Fujiyama, Dodonpa, Takabisha, Tondemina, and so on. Fujiyama is the most frightening coaster in Japan. When I finished riding it, I cried, but I was so excited at the same time. 
We ate udon for lunch, but it wasn't so delicious. 
We saw Mt. Fuji from our bus. It was so big and beautiful, and we had a nice summer trip. 

I want to publish more of these summer paragraphs, so to all my writing students - keep them coming in!