Research in English II Session #5: October 23rd, 2009
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Australian movie reports Feedback: Presentation skills More eye contact is needed. Talk to the audience, not to your paper. Think of your audience: will they understand your English? Perhaps explain some key words in Japanese. Research skills You MUST reference your information sources: where did you get your information [...]
Research in English II Session #4: October 16th, 2009
Image via Wikipedia Review of basic rules of English writing: simple sentence 5 conditions: capital letter, subject, verb, period, space. complex sentences + common errors (fragments, run-ons, and comma splices) the nature of the paragraph – unity, grouping of sentences, topic sentence, major supports, transitions. the nature of the essay (according to Andy Gillett) –made [...]
Research in English II Session #3: October 9th, 2009
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Editing symbols worksheet Complex sentences worksheet (run-ons, fragments, comma splices) List of editing symbols (for your reference) Textbook page 30 (reading and listening) Writing (on looseleaf): have you homeschooled? What are the advantages and disadvantages of homeschooling? Do you think compulsory education is a good idea? Why/why not? Handout: [...]
Research in English Session #2: October 2nd, 2009
Hello, Researchers in English! Today’s lesson plan: Check the homework （ええ！宿題あったの？！） Writing: paragraph format and email format. Interview a classmate Complete a form letter about your classmate Write out the letter, using correct paragraph format Re-write 1 paragraph from your “Summer Vacation” (which you wrote last week) using correct paragraph format. Assignment/HWK: Chp 5 p. [...]
Research in English II
Image via Wikipedia Hi, Researchers! Welcome to Sheffner’s Research in English IID. Homework: Answer the questions in the textbook on page 29 Read some of the Australian news posts on this blog, choose one that interests you, and leave a comment about it. The Australian news posts are Unexpected visitor Aborigines not getting the houses [...]
An Unexpected Visitor!
On Yahoo! UK news today is a story about a kangaroo that jumped through a window into a woman’s office. Kangaroos are shy creatures and avoid humans usually, so it is a puzzle why this kangaroo came into the building. YAHOONEWSGLOBALS.thisStoryUrl = ‘/afp/20090917/r_t_afp_od_australia/tod-frantic-kangaroo-smashes-into-aussie-37b0eca_1′; ‘Frantic’ kangaroo smashes into Aussie office
Aborigines not getting the houses they were promised
Image by digitalreflections via Flickr According to the BBC, A report into an ambitious housing scheme for Australia‘s Aboriginals has found that not one dwelling has been built in the year since it began. The project aims to construct 750 homes in the Northern Territory and refurbish hundreds of others.Officials blamed “administration problems” for the [...]
The Cove… on Japanese tv
As I blogged previously (here and here), “The Cove” is a documentary movie made in English by an American filmmaker. One of the advisors to the movie was Ric O’Barry, a former dolphin trainer. Australia created a very popular TV drama series about a dolphin. The series was called “Flipper” and was popular not only [...]
The power of film
Following my blog about the Australian town of Broome and its decision to end its twin-relationship with Taiji in Wakayama as a result of a documentary movie made about the slaughter of dolphins that takes place in Taiji every year, JapanProbe tells us that anti-Japanese feeling has been growing because of this documentary. The Australian [...]
Broome tells Japanese city to stop dolphin slaughter
Image via Wikipedia Last semester, we read in our textbook about the Australian town of Broome. Well, Broome was in the headlines today, in an article in the Japan Times. Broome is apparently twinned with the city of Taiji in Wakayama. The two cities have a long history: people from Taiji emigrated to Broome in [...]
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