How are you?Here are the final board notes for all of you about our final presentations. The notes at the top are for my Friday EE4 1st period class (英語表現演習2 金 1限). Now here are the other notes for my Friday EE4 class:
Friday EE2 & e-classes Now below are the board notes for my Friday EE2 and e-classes. They are the same notes for every class:
Saturday EE4 class Now below are all the board notes for my SaturdayEE4 class:
Good luck to all of you on next week's presentations! See you then!
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How are you? Today as a review for all of you, here are the board notes for our class on 12/6. Here is the link for the final presentation assignment for this class. Click hereto access it.
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 hereto 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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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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Here is our fall semesterfinal 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 basicoutline (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 summariesand 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 presentationtopic.
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 linkhere.
Deadline (締め切り)
We will do the presentationson 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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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. All rights reserved. I do not own the rights to the original images of screenshots. All rights reserved to the copyright holders. Screenshots of images taken and uploaded for educational purposes only.
How are you? Today I will show you the fall semester final assignment - a presentation with a written summary (要約) and an outline (あらすじ) about a product, component,or piece of equipment. Topic & task
Prepare a short presentation about any product, component,or piece of equipment used in, or is from, not only mechanical engineering but any field of technology now or in our own time. This could even include IT-related digital applications or components as well.
Along with this presentation, you will also write a short separate summary showing what you will present about, along with an outlinewith keywords and key phrases that will be a guideto your topic.
Guidelines
You have a choice of making an A3-sized posterorshort Power Point/Key Note/Google Slides (or some other digital) display. In your presentation about your product, component, or equipment, you should show:
A short background about it (where it comes from and when it was first made)
What it is made of
What the key components are - with measurements (if many, show only the most important components)
Some drawing or other schema of it (any kind of engineering drawing – or if IT-related, an algorithm and/or program that is the basis of it)
A short explanation of how it works
Its use, popularity, and/or impact in workplaces, schools, universities, research institutes, and so forth
Special notes: In your speaking and writing, use some of the vocabulary that you have seen and learned from the textbook, especially from the units on components and assemblies and engineering design - though you are not limited to only vocabulary from those units. The summary you will write is not to be used as notes, however. It is a written preview of the presentation topic and what the contents of it are - it is not the presentation itself! You will only use the outline to speak from. Some starting resources Here are two (2) links to TED Talks relating to engineering that could help you on topic ideas and style of presentation. Watch these for ideas.
David Lang - My underwater robot (2013.02) - click on this link for this talk. Keller Rinaud – A mini robot – powered by your phone (2013.02) - click on this link for this talk. Both of these talks have Japanese subtitles (字幕), plus transcripts in English or Japanese that you can download. Now here are two (2) videos on presentation tips and hints, with one about engineering presentation. You can also get Japanese subtitles with these:
Deadlines (締め切り)
We will do the presentations and hand in the summariesand outlines on December 20th (12/20). So you have around three (3) weeks to prepare these. Special note: We have one (1) classonly in January 2020 - on January 10 (1/10). It is our last class. We can use this as an extra presentation dayfor anyonewho needs it - but we should try to go for presenting on 12/20so we can get all the presentations finished and out of our way! I will let you know about the method of evaluation after this week. Now here are the board notes for our class on 11/22:
Good luck!I look forward to seeing your choices of topics!
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How are you? Here's something new. Let's talk about equipment (装備、機器) and their components (構成子)!
Look at the picture above. You canprobably guess what kind of equipment this is a main component of- acomputer. But before we begin, here are the board
notes for our class from 11/15:
Now let's look at an activity about equipment and components! Activity
Take a look at these pictures below. These are components of different kinds of equipment and machinery - what are the things? Guesses are okay! It's also okay to disagree. 例えば： A: I think this is a… What do you think? B: Hmmm…no…It's definitely a...
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Have fun with this! See you next time!
Images: Top - copyright-free image courtesy of Apple/Components of car engine - inset screenshot of image by CZmarlin — Christopher Ziemnowicz - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4733999/Cooling system of ice rink - cropped inset shot of image by Wwip - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5999935/Inside components of electric organ - https://www.zapmeta.ws/ws?q=pictures%20of%20hammond%20organs&asid=ws_gc14_03&mt=b&nw=g&de=c&ap=1o1/Details of water line - cropped inset shot of image by Brandonrush - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37298415
