Homework

Read my comments to your movie report draft 2. They may help you when you make your presentation.

Today’s class

Questions (if you were absent today, you can email me your answers if you wish):

1. What did you feel was interesting about doing the movie report (finding the movie, watching it, researching, writing, uploading, everything)?
2. What did you not like about doing your movie report?
3. What do you want to improve in this class?
4. How can you improve #3 and enjoy this class more? Tell me what you can do, and something I (Mr. Sheffner) can do to help you improve and enjoy more.

Instructor (model) presentation on the movie “Bend it Like Beckham”, demonstrating how to use a popular movie for learning about British history: making a presentation starts with identifying questions you have. Some of my questions were:

1. Who is Beckham in the title? What does the title mean?
2. Why is an Indian family living in Britain? Where did they come from? How many other “British Indians” are there living in Britain? When did they start coming? Why?
3. Why does the story take place in Hounslow? Where is Hounslow? Is it a new town or does it have a long history?
4. What questions do you have about this movie?
5. What questions do you have about the British history movie you watched?

CLASS CANCELLED. Next class Friday December 14th.

Makeup class = Saturday Dec. 15th 11:00 – 12:30

Homework

1. (Finish the timeline for chapter 2 if you did not finish in class).
2. Read chapter 3.
   1. Pick a topic that interests you for your next presentation.

Today’s class

1. Student presentation
2. General comments on presentations
   1. The language for presentations should be
      1.  simple (simple vocabulary, simple grammar, short sentences).
         1. Important difficult vocabulary which your audience may not know should be put on the screen so that your audience can hear and read.
         2. Important difficult vocabulary can be “glossed” (given a Japanese explanation or translation).
   2. Why do you think so many Japanese TV programs have Japanese subtitles?  –>
   3. Here is a collection of images found by searching on Google for “presentations” (images): 
      1. What do you notice about many of the pictures?
      2. That is a hint: copy them.

Homework

Keep working on your independent study. Be ready to report on your progress next class – Dec. 15th.

Today’s class

Class canceled – moved to Saturday Dec. 9th.

Homework

• Write a written version of your presentation
  • use only 1 or 2 graphics from your original presentation
  • email it to me as an attached document (.doc or .docx or .rtf or .odt) by noon Thursday June 29th.
  • Email subject: AS1 Report Your Name
    • File name: AS1_Report1_Your Name
  • Your report should have 3 paragraphs:
    1. details of the book or movie (date of publicaton or release, title, author or director, etc)
    2. a short summary of the story and what kind of movie or story it is (thriller, romance, drama, etc).
    3. what you learned about Britain from this movie or book. You may have to do a little research for background information.

Today’s class

1. Review of chapter 3.
2. Chapter 4 – in groups of 3 students, each group study and report on a section of the chapter.
3. Which of these people (in chapter 4) has influenced you living in modern Japan? How (in what way have they influenced your life)?