Australian girl in Japan to learn sumo
Australian girl gets sumo training in Japan
Research in English #14: July 24th, 2009
Exam. (50%) Write about one of the topics below (25-350 words): sheep farming deportation and convict settlers gold rush the rabbit problem the Australian constitution Australia in World War I and World War II Australian heroes (50%) Write about any Australian topic of your choice (250-350 words) You need to show the instructor the following: [...]
Australia in the news – July 15th, 2009
Two items of news about Australia that I saw today: Australia warns China on spy case Missing backpacker is found alive
Research in English #12: July 10th, 2009
Image by State Library of New South Wales collection via Flickr Checked answers to homework unit 3 part 2 Some comments on multiculturalism: is multiculturalism “good”? why? “discrimination” means to tell good from bad Checked answers to page 26 T/F reading and writing: page 28 #3 – check “A” or “D”, then write your opinion [...]
Research in English #11: July 3, 2009
Image via Wikipedia Poster presentation Check the meaning of the following: idol idolize romantic romanticize discover invade conquer Watch this short scene from Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. What does this tell you about cultures? Discuss your homework with a partner: why did various people emigrate to Australia? What do you think [...]
Research in English #10: June 26th, 2009
Poster presentations Comments on presentations from the instructor: what are the main themes or concepts of Australia? Some examples are – very long history of aborigines (“dreamtime“) colonialism – discovered by Capt Cook in 1778 “melting pot” policy until World War II(~1939) multicultural policy after World War II (1945 ~ gold rush huge land area; [...]
Aborigines in the news
Image by Rusty Stewart via Flickr The BBC writes that a report has come out in Australia about Aboriginal social and economic trends. The report is not good: The report measured 50 key indicators of disadvantage, and found that there has been no improvement in 80% of them. There have been no gains, for instance, [...]
Australia beats Japan at soccer
Autralia beats Japan 2-1 in the World Cup soccer tournament. Read the story here on the Mainichi Daily News, or on the Yomiuri Online.
Research in English #9: June 19th, 2009
Image by nim via Flickr Poster presentations 12 people gave presentations today. Everyone who did NOT give a presentation today must do it next week. Some general comments about the presentations: These are YOUR presentations, so I think it is better if I say nothing about the presentation styles. Students should reflect （反省）on their own [...]
Research in English session #8: June 12th, 2009
Movie reports and Show & Tell reports from those who did not do them yet. Collected last week’s homework: Unit II, Part II (listening) worksheet Confirmed poster project topics. Homework: Unit III, Part I worksheet Poster projects research Email me your Show & Tell comments (comments only, not the Show & Tell itself)
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