Culture through English B: Foreign educational systems・国際教育制度

Hello!

How are you? We'll keep going with our theme of education. 

I have three (3) short videos for you about educational systems in three different countries - Finland, India, and South Korea. 

Let's watch one of the videos in class - as a class, you choose which one. Let's answer these questions after you watch:

1. Do you see anything like your own educational experiences in the country's system you watched?
2. Is it anything like your experience? If so - how is it the same? If not - how is it different? 

Here are the videos. The first one is about education in Finland: 

This next one below is about India.

This last one is about South Korea.

Homework
Watch the other two videos we did not see in class and make some notes about your impressions. Now answer these two questions:

3. Which educational system is the most different from your experience?
4. If you could bring some things together from all three (3) of these countries into a single educational system, which parts would you take from each country? Which do you think are the best parts? 

Post your impressions as comments to this blogpost if you can. I'll be interested to read what you have to say and will value it greatly.

Now here are the board notes for our class on 11/6:

See you next week!

Image: By Laboratorio de Escritura - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18242352

All videos uploaded from YouTube. I do not own the rights to these videos. All rights reserved to the copyright holder(s). Uploaded for classroom purposes only.

Culture through English B: Foreign educational systems・国際教育制度

Hello!

How are you? We'll keep going with our theme of education. 

I have three (3) short videos for you about educational systems in three different countries - Finland, India, and South Korea. 

Let's watch one of the videos in class - as a class, you choose which one. Let's answer these questions after you watch:

1. Do you see anything like your own educational experiences in the country's system you watched?
2. Is it anything like your experience? If so - how is it the same? If not - how is it different? 

Here are the videos. The first one is about education in Finland: 

This next one below is about India.

This last one is about South Korea.

Homework
Watch the other two videos we did not see in class and make some notes about your impressions. Now answer these two questions:

3. Which educational system is the most different from your experience?
4. If you could bring some things together from all three (3) of these countries into a single educational system, which parts would you take from each country? Which do you think are the best parts? 

Post your impressions as comments to this blogpost if you can. I'll be interested to read what you have to say and will value it greatly.

Now here are the board notes for our class on 11/6:

See you next week!

Image: By Laboratorio de Escritura - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18242352

All videos uploaded from YouTube. I do not own the rights to these videos. All rights reserved to the copyright holder(s). Uploaded for classroom purposes only.

Culture through English 2B: Foreign educational systems・国際教育制度

Hello!

How are you? We'll keep going with our theme of education. 

I have three short videos for you about educational systems in three different countries - Finland, India, and South Korea. 

Let's watch one of the videos in class - as a class, you choose which one. Let's answer these questions after you watch:

1. Do you see anything like your own educational experiences in the country's system you watched?
2. Is it anything like your experience? If so - how is it the same? If not - how is it different? 

Here are the videos. The first one is about education in Finland: 

This next one below is about India.

This last one is about South Korea.

Homework
Watch the other two videos we did not see in class and make some notes about your impressions. Now answer these two questions:

3. Which educational system is the most different from your experience?
4. If you could bring some things together from all three (3) of these countries into a single educational system, which parts would you take from each country? Which do you think are the best parts? 

Post your impressions as comments to this blogpost. I'll be interested to read what you have to say and will value it greatly.

See you next week!

Image: By Laboratorio de Escritura - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18242352

All videos uploaded from YouTube. I do not own the rights to these videos. All rights reserved to the copyright holder(s). Uploaded for classroom purposes only.

Writing English 1B: Foreign education systems・外国教育のシステム

Hello!

How are you? The picture above is of a classroom in Russia. I decided to show this as an example of what is on this blogpost, because I have three short videos for you about educational systems in three different countries - Finland, India, and South Korea. 

This will go with the 4th writing assignment (作文4) I will give you on comparing and contrasting educational systems between Japan and other countries. 

Special note: I'm very sorry that I have the problems I have with the display of the videos on this post. It will be better for you to watch these videos on a computer, and then go directly to YouTube to watch them - if you need Japanese subtitles (字幕), you can get them there.   

Pre-task preparation (for 作文4) 
Watch these videos outside of class. Answer these questions after you watch:

1. Do you recognize anything of your educational experiences in any of these?
2. Which one of these is most like your experience?
3. Which one is the least like your experience?
4. How would you compare and contrast any one of these systems to Japanese education? 

Here are the videos. The first one is about education in Finland, and the video is called Inside Finland's education system: 

This next one below is about India. It's called Education in India: Profile of a Poor Public School: 

This last one is about South Korea. The video is titled The South Korean Education System:

Watch these videos as many times as you want or need. I'll be interested to read what you have to say and will value it greatly.

See you next week!

Image: Top – by eropdfklcvnm - My own foto, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4871126

All videos uploaded from YouTube. I do not own the rights to these videos. All rights reserved to the copyright holder(s). Uploaded for classroom purposes only.

Final writing project: The Small Book of Big People review

Hello to all my students,

Image "Asian Model Woman" courtesy of posterize/FreeDigitalPhotos.net

How are you doing? As I said in class last week, I would re-post part of our book from the spring semester, The Small Book of Big People. This may help those of you who are writing about characters and actors in movies or TV shows for your final writing project. 

Take a look at these! They might help to refresh you on how to describe people (人物をびょうしゃしてりる).

I respect my cram school teacher. He was kindly and reliable. Now, I still often go to meet him and talk about various things. When I was a junior high school student, he taught me English, history and Japanese. His teaching was plain and interesting, so I was easy to understand him. He advised me how to study English. I practiced it and took high score in English tests. Thanks to meeting him, I came to like English. That is why I respect him!

Great! How about this one? 

My most respected person is Mizuki Noguchi. She is a marathon runner. She is very small, but her early characteristic was a stride form of running. She took the gold medal at the Athens Olympics. When I read her book, she impressed me greatly, because she said, “the distance does not let me down.” I was touched by her words. She is an unusually hard worker.  I want to become a player like her.

That's great too! Check this one:

Kim Jeajung is the most famous Korean singer. I think he is cool, mysterious, cute, a gentleman, elegant, smart and he sings very well! When I was 13 years old, I saw him for the first time on a TV music program when he appeared with the group he is famous for, Touhoushinki. When they sung, I was very surprised by their songs, and his beautiful voice especially shocked me. This group became famous in Japan, and he rose in popularity. I often listened to their songs then. Their beautiful harmonies relaxed me and cheered me up, especially his voice. He is now the face of Korean cosmetics store called Tony Mory. It profited thanks to him. I think his popularity shows no sign of abating. Recently, he has become an actor playing the leading roles in two films. I think he will have become a huge star! I want to continue to cheer for him, and I will love him forever.

Now how about this one:

My exceptional people are my parents. My mother is doing housework and she is working part time job too. It is very hard, but she never says complaint in the presence of a child. I always talk her when have a matter causing. My father is a self-employed person. His work is very hard and tired. But, he is working for us every day. My parents always come in on my side in the end and to help. They think about children in the very first. So I thank them and respect. I want to become parent like them in the future.

This person has great parents!

See you next class!