Read the following passages from the Bible (if the original English is too difficult, by all means read it in Japanese):
Exodus 7:1-8:19
Deuteronomy 18:9-15
Daniel 2
Acts 8:9-13
Acts 13:1-12
Galatians 5:19-21
What does the Bible say about magic?
Today’s class
Checked the answers to the short-answer questions for chapter 2
Watched the English episode of a TV drama
What did you learn from this video about writing successfully in English?
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Prepare a 3-4 minute presentation on any topic of US history. You can use any topic from the textbook or from the handouts. You can use the same topic as for your New York presentation if you want (but it must be 3-4 minutes long).
Use PowerPoint rather than the overhead camera, for clarity
repeat the key points several times during your presentation.
Speak slowly.
Remember the lessons you learned from watching the video today.
use simple English.
use words that you know (if you don’t know them, your listeners probably won’t know them either).
use short sentences.
speak key words
loudly,
slowly,
clearly,
with gestures
point to the picture, map, illustration, etc.
speak with life and passion.
Today’s class
Presentations by 3 students.
We watched an episode from a famous TV drama and made notes about how to communicate key points, how to be convincing and persuasive, and how to write (and speak) in English with few mistakes.
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Using your notes from today’s presentations on “V for Vendetta” and “Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring”, write a short paragraph (4~6 sentences) for each presentation . You may need to do a little research before you write.
Choose another book from the Easy Reading list, borrow it from the library and start reading. (Download the list here: AS1_Easy_reading_library_list
Challenge – 15 books this semester!
Today’s class
Presentation “V for Vendetta” and “Lord of the Rings part 1”.
Write some notes about the presentation content
Give some written feedback to the presenters.
Checked answers to MCQ chapter 6.
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Presentations about “Bridge on the RIver Kwai”, “Lord of the Rings” and “Sword in the Stone”.
Open-book quiz on the “The King Buried in a Ship” and “The Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings”. (p. 19-20).
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Next week’s presentations by Ms. Miyazaki, Matsumoto, Machii.
Easy reading: read an easy reading book from the “Easy Reading” section of the library.
Record the details on your “ Reading List”. Include the following items:
Title, author, level, genre, comment
Chapter 15
Short Essay Questions
Today’s class
Presentations by
Ms. Nomura – Digory’s big problem and how he overcomes it.
Ms. Nishiyama – the climax or point of maximum tension in the story
Ms. Nakayama – How Uncle Andrew changes during the story, from a sinister character to a comic one and finally to a better person.
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Textbook: Read pages 25-26 and answer the questions in the textbook.
Review the 4th amendment in the Bill of Rights. Please bring the complete text in both English and Japanese to the next class.
Ms. Okada, Ms. Izumi, Ms. Ohashi, Ms. Saga and Ms Sakurai, please prepare your presentations for next time (Dec. 4th).
Presentation topics:
This semester, you can freely choose any topic of U.S. history that you like.
I suggest you choose a person or a group of people as the main point of your presentation.
In addition, you may choose any topic in the textbook, any U.S.A. history-related book that you have read, or any movie from the movie list that you have seen.
Read an easy reading book about US history. Note the title, author, level, period of history.
Keep your list on one sheet of paper.
Find one of the movies on the movie list. Watch the movie.
Today’s class
Presentations by:
Konishi– Hawaii (related movies – Princess Ka’iulani (2009), Picture Bride (1994, Japanese men living in Hawaii are looking for Japanese wives), The Descendants (2011, starring George Clooney).
Makiyama – Star Wars and its influence on the US movie industry
Nakagawa – A short history of baseball (related movies – The Natural (a young baseball prodigy goes to Chicago to try out for a professional team, but something happens to him when he gets there), A League of their own (the first women’s baseball team), The Babe (about Babe Ruth), Mr. Baseball (an aging American baseball player comes to Japan and is not happy about it), The Rookie, (a chemistry teacher who always dreamed of being a baseball player has a chance to make his dream come true).
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Bae – Robin Hood (837.7 A9403 or L4667:8 or W429-1B)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwVvYo_bggE
Machii – TMN chapter 8
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Prepare your presentation. Updated presentation schedule is here: ACADEMIC SKILLS 1 PRESENTATION SCHEDULE Review these pages in the textbook for next week’s presentations:
Henry VII (pp. 67-8)
Henry VII ( King of England and Lord of Ireland from his seizing the crown on 22 August 1485 until his death on 21 April 1509, as the first monarch of the House of Tudor.
Henry VIII , especially the Reformation (pp. 68-70)
Henry VIII ( King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death in 1547. He was Lord, and later assumed the Kingship, of Ireland).
Mary, Queen of Scots (pp. 77-8) Mary, Queen of Scots (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587), also known as Mary Stuart[3] or Mary I of Scotland, was Queen of Scotland from 14 December 1542 to 24 July 1567 and Queen consort of France from 10 July 1559 to 5 December 1560.
Queen Elizabeth I (especially the Spanish Armada p. 73-4), Sir Francis Drake (pp. 73-4) and Language & Culture (p. 85)
Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, the childless Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty.
Today’s class:
Presentations by
Izumi – Christianity
Tanaka – Vikings
Yamaguchi – Who would be king?
Konishi – The Book of Kells.
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Next class: Decmber 5th. Presentation on “How to create languages in tribes”, and a presentation by Ms. Isoda, Kamada and Miyamoto.
NB: the makeup class for cancelled week 6 will be on January 10th, not December 13th or 20th.
Today’s class
Presentation by Ms. Nishihara, Okada and Shono on “Phonetics: English pronunciation that is hard for Japanese speakers”.
Scottish accent: listen to the song “I’m on my way” sung by the Scottish group “The Proclaimers” (and used in the soundtrack of the movie “Shrek”).
how do Scots pronounce the “ay” (ɛɪ ) sound of standard English, as in “way” and “today”?
how do Scots pronounce the “igh” (ɒɪ) sound of standard English, as in “right”?
how do Scots pronounce the “ow” (ɒʊ) sound of standard English, as in “town” and “down”?
Which English sounds are difficult for Japanese speakers to make? Why?
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