Freshman Reading 1B: Fall semester final presentations・後期期末 プレゼンテーション

Hello!

How are you? Here are the topics, deadline, and guidelines for our fall semester mid-term presentations (後期期末 プレゼンテーション).

Look at the picture above. It's of me in front of a statue of Ho Chi Minh in Hue, Vietnam in 2016. The place was the high school he graduated from when he was young. This is an example of one of the topics you could review - about travel in another country.

Topics

You have a choice of topics to present on. Choose one (1) of these: 

• How to travel in another country cheaply
• A person you admire (such as a parent or other family member, a teacher, or a famous person such as a singer, actor, writer, or a historical figure)
• A cultural tradition or unique cultural heritage site in another country 

Guidelines

For this presentation, you can design a small poster or make a Power Point show with an outline.

If you design a poster, I would like you to follow these guidelines:

• It has to be on A3 size paper
• You have to have 4-5 pictures on it (hand-drawn or photos, or a mix)
• It has to be colorful and interesting to look at 

If you make a Power Point show, I would like you to follow these guidelines: 

• You have to have a title slide - then 5-7 slides with pictures and text on it - then a closing slide
• It has to be colorful and interesting to look at
• Bring your own computer!

Deadline (締め切り)

We will do these presentations on January 16th (1/16), so you have three (3) weeks to work on these.

Next week (12/19), please have a topic idea to show me and we will make some time to do some work in class on the presentations. I would like to see your work and give you some advice on what you can do to make the best presentations you can. Please be ready on 1/16! 

Good luck! I look forward to our presentation day!

See you next time!

Image: Personal photograph. All rights reserved.

Freshman Reading 1B: Traveling in south India ・南インドの旅行

Hello!

How are you? Today, to go with our textbook reading, I have a video made by an American who has learned how to travel without spending a lot of money. His name is Gabriel Morris and he made this video of his trip to Gokarna, a small town in south India that is famous as a Hindu temple site.

Look at the picture at the top. It's of the Mahabaleshwara Temple, which is the most famous in Gokarna. Here is where Gokarna is located in India:

Activity/homework
Watch the video below. Watch it as many times as you need. Answer the questions under the video in your notebooks.

(If you have trouble seeing this video, go to this link here, or look for “How to travel India ridiculously cheap! One day in India” at https://youtu.be/7Ok9sGor4ig)

1. What famous Indian person is on all the Indian money? 

2. Which is the most expensive meal of the day? 

3. What are the two kinds of things he bought to eat for breakfast? 

4. What is one thing he said his hotel room did not have? 

5. What kind of drink does he go to find? 

6. How much did he say it cost? 

7. How much did the man at the restaurant say that a multi-course thali meal cost? 

8. What did the sign at the Gokarna beach say that a personn cannot do? 

9. What is the other drink that he gets later in the afternoon? 

10. How much did it cost him to get his clothes washed? 

11. How much did his thali meal cost? 

12. How much did his total expenses for the day come to in U.S. dollars? 
      *About how much do you think this would be in Japanese yen? 

     

I hope this is interesting for you. See you next time!

Images: Top - by Sbblr geervaanee - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16847823/Map of India - annotated screenshot of image originally by Uwe Dedering at German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9639349

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

Freshman Reading 1B: Fall semester mid-term presentations・後学期中間プレゼンテーション

Hello!

How are you? Here is the guidelines and deadline for our fall semester mid-term presentations. 

While I have given all of you the handout about this assignment, I am posting about it here also as another way to help all of you know what you can do. 

You will present about the book you chose, and have been reading. Please have these points in your presentation:

• A summary (要約) about the story - what is it about?
• The main character(s) of the book
• The qualities (質) or characteristics (性状) of the main character(s)
• The most interesting or exciting situation or event in the story
• The character you liked the most - and what qualities he or she had

Guidelines

For this presentation, you can design a small poster or make a Power Point show. 

If you design a poster, I would like you to follow these guidelines:

• It has to be on A3 size paper
• You have to have 4-5 pictures on it (hand-drawn or photos, or a mix)
• It has to be colorful and interesting to look at 

If you make a Power Point show, I would like you to follow these guidelines: 

• You have to have a title slide - then 5-7 slides with pictures and text on it - then a closing slide
• It has to be colorful and interesting to look at

Deadline (締め切り)

Let's try to do these presentations on November 21st (11/21). Come in with your work and rough outlines (あらすじ ), as I showed you about in class, and let's see where we are then.  We'll do a practice speaking with these outlines, then do the real presentations then. 

If we are not completely ready, we will have to do these on December 5th. (Please remember that there will be no classes on November 28th.) 

Next week (11/7), please show me what you are presenting about and we will make some time to do some work in class on the presentations. I would like to see your work and give you some advice on what you can do to make the best presentations you can. Please be ready to present on 11/14! 

Good luck! I look forward to our presentation day! 

See you next week!

Image: By Strebe - File in w:en, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10554354