英語表現演習2 (金 2・3限): 11/29 board notes・11月29日のボードノート

Hello! 

How are you? Today as a review for all of you, here are the board notes for our class on 11/29. Above are the main board notes for the English Expression 2 2nd period class. 

Now here are the board notes for the English Expression 2 3rd period class: 

Here is the link for the final presentation assignment for both the 2nd and 3rd period classes. Click here to access it. 

For the 3rd period class, here is the link to the Tenerife disaster blogpost. 

For both the 2nd and 3rd period classes, bring your computers or tablets with you to class next week and we will make some time in class for you to begin working on your presentations. 

See you next week!

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英語表現演習4 (金 1限): 11/29 board notes・11月29日のボードノート

Hello! 

How are you? Today as a review for all of you, here are the board notes for our class on 11/29. Above are the main board notes. 

Here is the link for the final presentation assignment for this class. Click here to access it. 

Now here are the other board notes about outlining: 

As I said in class today, I will have outlining handouts for all of you next week. 

So see you next week!

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英語表現演習4 (土 2限): About pets・ペットについて

Hello!

 

How are you? Today, here's a post about common pets - cats and dogs. 

 

Look at the picture above. It's a picture of my dog, Freddie, and two of my cats - Pepper (the black one) and Sesame (the gray one under Freddie's tail). I have one dog - and four cats! (My two other cats weren't in this picture. They don't like getting their pictures taken!)
 

Activity

Now look at the picture at the bottom. It's another picture of my dog, Freddie. He's a mixed-breed dog. Here are some possible mixtures of breeds you could guess he is:

Chow-Chow     Terrier     Setter

Pointer     Corgi     Akita     Golden Retriever

Beagle     Shiba     Collie

Now - Freddie is a mix of four (4) of the breeds above. Can you guess which four breeds he's a mix of? Try it!

 

I hope you have fun with this. See you next time!

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英語表現演習4 (土 2限): Fall semester final presentations・期末発表

Hello!

Here is our fall semester final presentation assignment.  

Topics & task

Here are your choice of topics. They're based on what we've done so far in class from the textbook since the mid-term (中間). You can choose one (1) of these: 

• Genetic modification in food and plants or traits in humans 
• Ethical and legal issues of DNA application 
• Genetic facts, traits, and behaviors of certain animals  
• Medical possibilities and/or ethical issues in cloning

Guidelines

1. Prepare rough drafts of a summary (要約) and a basic outline (あらすじ) for the presentation, following the guidelines from the handouts I will give you about outlining, about the topic you want to present on. 

The rough summaries and outlines will be due for checking on December 14th (12/14). 

2. On the presentation day, you will hand in final drafts of both the summary and the outline about your presentation topic.

Some starting resources

Instead of a separate supporting blogpost, I have decided to include some links to TED Talks here as some starting sources of information and research. 

You should do your own research, so please search around for more resources of your own - TED Talks you have searched out on your own, YouTube videos, Japanese or English websites on biological science or biotechnology, and such. But these links could help you get started on your research.

Each one of these talks come with Japanese subtitles (字幕) and both English and Japanese transcripts of the talks if you need them. 

Important note: 
Do not copy anything word-for-word from the transcripts! You can point to things a speaker says in a talk, but please do not plagiarize (盗作して) any of the content. 

Genetic modification in food and plants or traits in humans:
Nina Tandon – Could tissue engineering mean personalized medicine? 
Click on this link here for this TED Talk.

Dean Ornish – Your genes are not your fate 
Click on this link here.

Ethical and legal issues of DNA research:
Ellen Jorgensen – What you need to know about CRISPR 
Click on this link here.    

Keolu Fox – Why genetic research must be more diverse 

Click on this link here.

Genetic facts, traits, and behaviors of certain animals:
Tony Buffington – Why do cats act so weird?
Click on this link here. 

Prosanta Chakrabarty – Clues to prehistoric times, found in blind cavefish 
Click on this link here.

Medical possibilities and/or ethical issues in cloning:
Richard Resnick – Welcome to the genomic revolution 
Click on this link here. 

A note about this last link: It is not directly about cloning, but the possibilities Resnick discusses in his talk may have an impact on cloning research.

Presentation tips and hints

Here is a short and funny, but important video on good and bad presentation tips and hints. Watch this one! If you need support, or have trouble watching it here, go to this link here. 

Deadline (締め切り) 

We will do the presentations  on December 21st (12/21), so you have around three (3) weeks to prepare these. 

Special note: 

In your speaking and writing, use some of the vocabulary that you have seen and learned from the textbook, though you are not limited to only vocabulary from those units. 

Once again – you cannot use a written composition as a script for your presentation! 

Now here are the board notes for our class on 11/30:

Good luck! I look forward to seeing your choices of presentation topics. 

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英語表現演習e (金 5限): Final presentations・期末発表

Hello! 

How are you? Here are the topics, deadline, & guidelines for our final presentations. 

Before we start, here are the board notes from our class on 11/22:

Now let's look at the final presentation assignment!

Themes & topics　

Here are your choice of themes & topics. They're based on what we've done so far in class since our mid-term presentations. You can choose one (1) of these: 

• A mystery from another country (such as a monument, building, or physical carving or structure in nature) 
• An educational system from another country
• Life in the future (in Japan or somewhere in the world)

Please remember that you cannot do the same thing that you did before in the mid-term presentation - you have to do a different topic.

Deadlines (締め切り)

Your presentations will be on December 20th (12/20), so you have three (3) weeks to prepare them. 

Guidelines

1. As we did before with the mid-term presentations, prepare a rough draft (下書き) of a summary (要約) about the topic you want to present on. The summary rough draft will be due next week (来週).

2. Be ready for me to review your topic choices next week. As we also did before, I will ask that we make a practice time for our presentations. You can practice with me and/or other group of students.

3. Finalize your presentation outside of class and be ready to present on the day!

Good luck with these! I’ll look forward to seeing your great presentations!

Bring a computer or tablet to class if you have one on 12/6!

See you next week!

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英語表現演習2 (金 2・3限): Tenerife airliner disaster・テネリフェ空港ジャンボ機衝突事故

Hello!

How are you? Today, let's look at the Tenerife airport disaster (テネリフェ空港ジャンボ機衝突事故) in 1977. Have you ever heard about it? If you haven't - then today you'll find out!

The map above shows where it happened - on the island of Tenerife, in the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. The Canary Islands are controlled by Spain. 

Below are two (2) maps of where the Canary Islands are in the Atlantic Ocean: 

Activity/homework

Watch the video below. It is a re-creation of the accident. 

If you go to YouTube at this link, you can turn on Japanese subtitles (字幕) if you need them. 

As you watch, make notes about each step of events that led to the accident. 

Watch the video as many times as you want or need. What do you see that happened? How do you think it could have been prevented? 

When you are finished, explain what happened to your classmates, based on what you watched plus your notes. 

Discussion circles

Here are the questions for the leaders for our discussion circles.

Leader questions

For the summarizer:

Are you ready to summarize the reading/CD talk? (Can you give us your summary of the reading/CD talk?) 

For the details master:

1. Where is Tenerife Island located?

2. Which two airlines’ planes were involved in the accident? 

3. Why were the planes at this smaller airport instead of the larger one?

4. Describe as best you can what happened in the accident. 

(Leaders: Think of 1-2 more details to ask the details master!) 

For the vocabulary master:

What is aviation? 

What does it mean to accelerate? 

What is fog? 

What are fatalities? 

(Leaders: Think of 1-2 more words to ask the vocabulary master!) 

See you next time!

Images: Top – screenshot taken from http://www.world-guides.com/europe/spain/canary-islands/lanzarote/lanzarote_maps.html/Maps of Canary Islands in Atlantic & near Morocco - screenshots taken from http://www.thinkgeoenergy.com/canary-islands-continue-quest-for-geothermal-energy-utilisation & http://www.thinkgeoenergy.com/canary-islands-continue-quest-for-geothermal-energy-utilisation

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英語表現演習2 (金 2・3限): Fall semester final presentations・後学期末発表

Hello!

How are you? Today I will show you our final presentation assignment for this class.  

Themes

Here are your choice of themes. You can choose one (1) of these: 

• A useful invention
• Applications of marine biology 
• A major human error with engineering 
• Biological & biochemical phenomena

Topic notes about the themes:
A useful invention could mean any engineered device large or small from the past or present.
An application of marine biology could mean something like for example, fish farming, ocean pollution, or the effects of climate change on the oceans. 
A human error of engineering could cover a topic such as, for example, the Titanic, where human error led to a disaster with a major work of engineering (like a ship).
Biological and biochemical phenomena could include topics such as the kind of climate needed to grow a certain kind of plant. 

Deadline (締め切り)

Your presentations will be on December 20th (12/20), so you have three (3) weeks to prepare them. 

Like before, we will mark each others' presentations with the same kind of mark sheet we used for the mid-term presentations. I will give you the evaluation sheets after this week.

Special note: 
We have one (1) class only in January 2020 - on January 10 (1/10). It is our last class. We can use this as an extra presentation day for anyone who needs it - but we should try to go for presenting on 12/20 so we can get all the presentations finished and out of our way!

Guidelines 

1. Prepare a rough draft about a summary (要約) in your notebooks about the topic you want to present on. The summary will be due next week. 

To refresh yourselves about what should go in a summary, go to this link here from our mid-term presentations blogpost. 

2. Be ready for me to review your progress next week and for you to begin developing your displays. If anyone is ready to practice, I can make time for you to practice, and you can practice with me and/or other students who are also ready.

3. Finalize your presentation outside of class and be ready to present!

Good luck! I look forward to our presentation day!

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英語表現演習4 (土 2限): Vocabulary for crimes・犯罪の言葉

Hello!

How are you? Look at the picture above. It shows a barrier tape for a crime scene (犯罪場所) - a place where a crime (犯罪) has happened.

Today, one of our readings will involve issues of crime, and people who have been accused (問われた) of crimes.

What is some vocabulary for some crimes in English? What words do you know?

Activity
Look at these words:

arson     robbery     murder     burglary

　    embezzlement     theft     assault         

Can you match the words to the right pictures? Try it! 

Have fun guessing these! 

Now here are the board notes for our class from 11/23:

See you next time!

Images: Top – by Tex Texin from Blogosphere, Cyberspace - "Crime Scene Do Not Cross" tape, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43956589/Burglary – screenshot taken from https://www.mountainalarm.com/blog/where-not-to-hide-your-valuables/Arson – screenshot taken from https://www.propertycasualty360.com/2013/08/05/accident-or-arson-top-red-flags-in-fire-claims/?slreturn=20180515082826/Assault – screenshot taken from http://steidlelaw.com/assault-101/Theft – screenshot taken from https://www.psni.police.uk/crime/theft/what-is-theft/Embezzlement – screenshot taken from http://www.simonaval.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bigstock-Locker-in-a-bank-vault-13619207embezzlement.jpg/Robbery – screenshot taken from http://houstoncriminalfirm.com/four-elements-of-determining-aggravated-or-armed-robbery/Murder - screenshot taken from https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/o-BODY-CHALK-OUTLINE-facebook.jpg/Board notes - personal photograph. 
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英語表現演習2 (金 2・3限): Strange & interesting inventions・素晴らしい、変な発明

Hello!

How are you? Today we'll look at some strange and interesting inventions. 

Look at the picture at the top. What do you think this is? It looks like a hat with a radio receiver in it! In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many inventors played around with different things to try and develop new and useful things for people. 

But before we begin, here are the board notes for our class from 11/15. The top one is for the EE2 2nd period class (2限): 

This next one is for the EE2 3rd period class (3限):

Now let's look at an activity about strange and interesting inventions!

Activity/homework
Here is an activity for you for this topic - it's mostly for fun, but take a look at this. It's a video from YouTube made up of very old film clips of crazy inventions from the past:

Answer this question: Why do you think these inventions did not last? What were some reasons why they didn't work well? 

Now finally, here are the board notes for our classes on 11/22. The top notes are for the EE2 2nd period class (2限): 

Now here are the notes for the EE2 3rd period class (3限):

Have fun. See you next time!

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