Reading English 1A: Spring semester final presentations・前期期末プレゼンテーション

Hello!

How are you! Today here is the post about our final presentations. 

While I have already given all of you the handout about the final presentations, I will post it here as well as another way to help remind you about what you can do for this project.

Look at the picture above. It's an example of one of the topics you can present about from our reading on "A City Without Oil." The picture is a model of an energy-efficient house - a house where all the power used comes from renewable energy sources. (In Japanese, energy efficiency is エネルギー効率). 

Here are all the topics, deadline, and guidelines for our spring semester mid-term presentations.

Topics

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

• Greetings customs and gestures from another country
• Designs of houses for energy efficiency
• A Nasreddin story 

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
• Bring your own computer! 

Deadline (締め切り）

We will do these presentations on July 18th (7/18), so you have three (3) weeks to work on these.

Next week (7/4), 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 7/18! 

Good luck! I look forward to our presentation day!

Image: By Destination8infinity - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21656061

Reading English 1A: 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
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Reading English 1A: Spring semester mid-term presentations・前学期中間プレゼンテーション

Hello!

How are you? Today I will introduce our spring semester mid-term presentations (前学期中間プレゼンテーション). While I have given all of you the handout about it, I am also posting it here as another way to help you know what you can do. 

At the top is an example of a poster about Brazilian food. This is an example of the kind of thing you can do. 

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

• An interesting sport or game from another country
• Food from another country
• Your dream home and place in Japan (or another country) to live

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）
We will do these presentations on May 30th (5/30), so you have two (2) weeks to work on these.

Next week (5/23), 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 5/30! 

Good luck! See you next week with your topics!  

Image: Personal photograph of student poster. All rights reserved on content to the student(s).

Reading English 1A: Healthy eating・健全な食べ物

Hello!

How are you? Let's look at some pictures of dishes from different countries. 

Activity
Let's look at these next dishes - and decide which ones are the healthiest.    

1. 

How many kilocalories (kcals) do you think this plate of pasta has? 

2.

How many kcals do you think this plate of bratwurst (German sausages) has? 

3. 

How many kcals does this Thai chicken curry have? 

4. 

 

How about all this sushi? How many kcals do you think it has? 

Talk about these and make some guesses about their kilocalorie count. Then I'll tell you what the kcal counts are! Talk about them like this: 

例えば：

A: I think Thai chicken curry is healthy. 

B: Really? I think sushi is healthier (= more healthy). ☞ (I think sushi is healthier than Thai chicken curry.)

Try this talk with different kinds of foods! 

See you next time!

Images: Top - "Food Selection" (courtesy of arztsamui) /"Pasta" (courtesy of savitkeawtavee)/"Sausages" (courtesy of savitkeawtavee)/"Thai Chicken Curry" (courtesy of John Kasawa)/"Mixed Sushi" (courtesy of rakratchada torsap)/All images from FreeDigitalPhotos.net 

Reading English 1A: Interesting sports - cricket & field hockey・クリケットとフィールドホッケー

Hello!

How are you? Today, to go with our extra readings on sports, I have two short videos for you - one on cricket and one on field hockey. 

The picture at the top is of a cricket playing field, often called an oval. 

Most of you, perhaps even all of you, have never seen a cricket match. But here is the short video about cricket. This will give you an idea about what the game looks like, and how it is played. 

You do not have to understand the game! The more important thing is that you get an idea about what it looks like. Here it is:

What do you think of it? This might give you more of an idea of what cricket is like when you do the extra reading about cricket.

Now here is a short video about field hockey. While many of you might know field hockey and have seen it on TV or the internet, here is a refresher about what the sport looks like:

Once again - you don't have to understand everything! The more important thing is that you have some idea about how it is played to help you with the extra reading about field hockey. 

I hope these videos help you with your reading. Have fun with these!

Have a great Golden Week!

Images: Top - CC 表示-継承 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=52405/Field hockey - By Michelangelo-36 - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2320991
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Reading English 1A: Interesting sports・面白いスポーツ

Hello!

How are you? Today let's look at some different sports in different countries. 

First - here's a video of a popular sport in Ireland called hurling. What do you think of it? It's a very fast sport - so watch the video more than once! What other sports is hurling like?

Next - here's a sport some of you may have heard of from Thailand - muay thai. What do you think of it? It's also fast - so watch the video more than once! What other sports is muay thai like? 

Finally - this is a sport I watched as a child in Australia - Australian rules football. What do you think of it? It's another fast sport - so watch it more than once! What other sports is Australian football like?

Activity/homework 
Watch these videos, and answer these questions in your notebooks:

1. What equipment and skills do you think you need for hurling? 
2. What equipment and skills do you think you need for muay thai?
3. What equipment and skills do you think you need for Australian rules football? 

Have fun! See you next time!

Image: By Hmlarson - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26330634/from Wikimedia Commons.

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