Freshman English Reading A: Greetings gestures・挨拶のジェスチャー

Hello!

How are you? Today, let's look at greetings (挨拶) in a different way - gestures for greetings. 

Look at the picture above. It shows some different greetings that people say in different languages. But how do people show what they feel when they meet people for the first time? 

Activity

Look at these pictures below. They show different gestures for greetings in different cultures. Look at these and talk about what people in which cultures would do when greeting people. 

例：This first one is easy! This is what people in Japan would do.

Now try these! What countries or cultures would people make these greetings gestures in? Quiz each other on these!

Have fun guessing with these! See you next time!

Images: Top - By Epson291 at English Wikipedia - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6047519/Bow – screenshot taken from https://thetruejapan.com/useful-phrases-for-meeting-people-in-japan/Cheek kiss - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2913072/US-Secretary-State-John-Kerry-visits-Paris-terror-attacks.html/Thai wai - by my wife, permission granted for publication under a free license (PD) - Photo taken by Bualong Sebulke, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1523095/Namaste - by Saptarshi Biswas - Oberoi Employees_Rishi (23), CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7308021/Handshake - By Angélica Martínez - Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico City, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26395042/Hug - By Tyler McCulloch - I'm so happy man. Uploaded by Skeezix1000, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9650816/Maori hongi - screenshot taken from original photograph on http://www.whitewolfpack.com/2013/08/maori-elders-explain-meaning-of-hongi.html
All rights reserved on original hongi image to the copyright holder(s). I do not own the rights to the image. Uploaded for classroom purposes only/Board notes - personal photograph. All rights reserved on personal photograph.

Writing English B: Scenarios about relations between people・人間関係のシナリオ

Hello!

How are you? Here is a post on scenarios about human relations (人間関係).  

Activity

Look at these four (4) pictures below. Choose one (1) of them and write a 1-3 paragraph scenario about what is happening between the people in it. 

What do you think are their relations? What feeling do you get from these pictures? What could be the cause (原因) of their good (or bad) relations - and what is the effect (結果)?  

If there was a problem between the people, what was the solution (解答) to their problem(s)? 

You can give names to the people in the pictures you choose for your scenarios! 

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NEW - here are the board notes for our class on 10/2:

Have fun with these! 

See you then!

Images: Top - by Touzrimounir - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36884016/Man and woman in park - "Woman Do Not Look Happy Standing" (courtesy of nuttakit) - FreeDigitalPhotos.net/People on grounds - "Evstafiev Travnik refugees" http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Evstafiev-travnik-refugees.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Evstafiev-travnik-refugees.jpg/Woodstock couple - by Burk Uzzle/image reproduced from file courtesy of Laurence Miller Gallery/laurencemillergallery.com/Painting - Nighthawks by Edward Hopper - email, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25899486
All rights reserved to the copyright holders of original Woodstock and Nighthawks images. I do not own the rights to these images. Uploaded for educational purposes only. 

Writing English B: Scenarios about relations between people・人間関係のシナリオ

Hello!

How are you? Here is a post on scenarios about human relations (人間関係).  

Activity

Look at these four (4) pictures below. Choose one (1) of them and write a 1-3 paragraph scenario about what is happening between the people in it. 

What do you think are their relations? What feeling do you get from these pictures? What could be the cause (原因) of their good (or bad) relations - and what is the effect (結果)?  

If there was a problem between the people, what was the solution (解答) to their problem(s)? 

You can give names to the people in the pictures you choose for your scenarios! 

1. 

2. 

3. 

4. 

NEW - here are the board notes for our class on 10/2:

Have fun with these! 

See you then!

Images: Top - by Touzrimounir - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36884016/Man and woman in park - "Woman Do Not Look Happy Standing" (courtesy of nuttakit) - FreeDigitalPhotos.net/People on grounds - "Evstafiev Travnik refugees" http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Evstafiev-travnik-refugees.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Evstafiev-travnik-refugees.jpg/Woodstock couple - by Burk Uzzle/image reproduced from file courtesy of Laurence Miller Gallery/laurencemillergallery.com/Painting - Nighthawks by Edward Hopper - email, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25899486
All rights reserved to the copyright holders of original Woodstock and Nighthawks images. I do not own the rights to these images. Uploaded for educational purposes only. 

Freshman English Reading A: Greetings gestures・挨拶のジェスチャー

Hello!

How are you? Today, let's look at greetings (挨拶) in a different way - gestures for greetings. 

Look at the picture above. It shows some different greetings that people say in different languages. But how do people show what they feel when they meet people for the first time? 

Activity

Look at these pictures below. They show different gestures for greetings in different cultures. Look at these and talk about what people in which cultures would do when greeting people. 

例：This first one is easy! This is what people in Japan would do.

Now try these! What countries or cultures would people make these greetings gestures in? Quiz each other on these!

Here are the board notes for our class on 6/12:

Have fun guessing with these! See you next time!

Images: Top - By Epson291 at English Wikipedia - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6047519/Bow – screenshot taken from https://thetruejapan.com/useful-phrases-for-meeting-people-in-japan/Cheek kiss - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2913072/US-Secretary-State-John-Kerry-visits-Paris-terror-attacks.html/Thai wai - by my wife, permission granted for publication under a free license (PD) - Photo taken by Bualong Sebulke, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1523095/Namaste - by Saptarshi Biswas - Oberoi Employees_Rishi (23), CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7308021/Handshake - By Angélica Martínez - Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico City, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26395042/Hug - By Tyler McCulloch - I'm so happy man. Uploaded by Skeezix1000, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9650816/Maori hongi - screenshot taken from original photograph on http://www.whitewolfpack.com/2013/08/maori-elders-explain-meaning-of-hongi.html
All rights reserved on original hongi image to the copyright holder(s). I do not own the rights to the image. Uploaded for classroom purposes only/Board notes - personal photograph. All rights reserved on personal photograph.

Writing English 2B: Scenarios about relations between people・人間関係のシナリオ

Hello!

How are you? Here is a post on scenarios about human relations (人間関係).  

Activity

Look at these four (4) pictures below. Choose one (1) of them and write a 1-3 paragraph scenario about what is happening between the people in it. 

What do you think are their relations? Are they happy with each other - or perhaps not so happy? Most importantly - what could be the cause of their good (or bad) relations - and what is the effect? 

You can give names to the people in the pictures you choose for your scenarios! 

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3. 

4. 

I have added one more picture to this list for you to write about, if you like!

Have fun with these! Keep your scenarios with you to use in class next week! 

See you then!

Images: Top - by Touzrimounir - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36884016/Man and woman in park - "Woman Do Not Look Happy Standing" (courtesy of nuttakit) - FreeDigitalPhotos.net/People on grounds - "Evstafiev Travnik refugees" http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Evstafiev-travnik-refugees.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Evstafiev-travnik-refugees.jpg/Woodstock couple - by Burk Uzzle/image reproduced from file courtesy of Laurence Miller Gallery/laurencemillergallery.com/Painting - Nighthawks by Edward Hopper - email, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25899486
All rights reserved to the copyright holders of original Woodstock and Nighthawks images. I do not own the rights to these images. Uploaded for educational purposes only.