英語総合1A Global Issues Unit 4：Culture in Language

Hello everyone!
Today we are going to talk about culture in language.

First, let's study some vocabulary. Please click this link: 英語総合1A Vocabulary.






Some of the most common expressions we use reflect our culture. For example, "Keep your stick on the ice!" is a Canadian expression that means, "Always be ready!" This expression reflects the importance of hockey in Canadian culture.
What are some common expressions in your language that reflect your country's culture? Please write a comment below, but please don't use language inappropriate to a classroom or business setting.

基礎英吾1A Basic English Writing Lesson 7

Hello everyone! I hope you had a nice weekend.


To begin today's lesson let's practice typing. Let's practice typing with some new games. Please click the links and play Alpha Attack and Air Typer
 
Now, let's review some vocabulary. Please click this link: NDSU English Japanese Word list 1.

Next, check MYAM's Class Blog. Read the reply to the comments that you posted last week, and write another comment.

Finally, let's review the past continuous. Click this link American Headway Unit 3 Past Continuous.

Toyo Gakuen University Introduction to Business English 1A Lesson 7: Unit 3 Case Study

Hello everyone!

Today we are going to do the case study at the end of Unit 3. Unit 3 is about problems.

Watch the video.



What problems did Mr. Bean have on holiday?

Next, let's review some vocabulary. Click this link: TYG Introduction to Business English A Vocabulary.

Stating the problem, making a complaint, and finding solutions are all important skills in business. Today you will practice these skills by doing the case study on pages 28,29 of your textbook.

After you finish post a comment. Have you ever had trouble on a holiday? Have you ever had a problem with a product you bought? Tell us about it.

応用英吾I-2A 2011Chapter 3 Review

Hi everyone! Today we are going to review Chapter 3.

Illustration by Yuji Tachikawa. CC V1.0 Some rights reserved

First, let's review some vocabulary. Click this link: Inverted Eagle Chapter 3 Vocabulary.

Now let's read a great summary of Chapter 3 by Martina R., a student in Stuttgart, Germany:

Chapter 3 – The Hospital

The first lie: Judith told Ellie that she lied concerning the combination of the wall safe, she gave the numbers to Kevin. Because of her age, Judith forgot, that she also gave the combination to Miguel. After this, Ellie wanted to hear the whole story. Judith started to tell the story which had begun a month ago with the purchase of a beautiful stamp.

At the end of the conversation between Ellie and Judith Reed, Yokota, a colleague of Ellie, and Kevin entered the room. Ellie saw Kevin and she accused him of lying to her.

The next steps: Elle checked the stories of the involved people and wanted to search the house from the top to bottom.

After that, Ellie drove to the hospital where Evan and Nancy Reed were staying. Nancy was sleeping  and Even was telephoning someone with his cell phone. Ellie stopped in front of the door and tried to understand the call between Evan and the other person. The words (which) she heard were “Brian … investors …. excited about the project – to get money together”. Some / a few seconds after the  call, Ellie went into the room and introduced herself to the Reeds. Then she told the Reeds a part of her investigation. It was surprising, that Evan accused his son of committing the robbery, because the Reeds wanted that Kevin tried to find a job and they had informed him that they were stopping his monthly allowance. Later, Ellie asked the Reeds to describe the occurrences which happened last night separately?

At the end of the Chapter, Yokota called Ellie and told her that there might be a new motive ….

You can read Martina's entire review of  The Inverted Eagle on Karenne Sylvester's great blog Kalinago English.

Finally, please post a comment. Who do you think  dunit?

英語総合1A Global Issues Unit ３：Culture Shock

Hello everyone,
Today we are going to start Unit 3: Culture Shock.
First, let's study some vocabulary. Please click this link: 英語総合1A Vocabulary.
Now, let's talk about culture shock. Have you ever experienced culture shock? What happened? If not, what you do think would cause culture shock? Please leave a comment below.

基礎英吾1A Basic English Writing Lesson 6

Hello everyone! I hope you had a nice weekend.

Today we are going to study vocabulary; comment on blog posts by students at another university in Chiba; learn how to use the words "for", "during" and "while"; and start our next task - a story about a bad experience.

First, let's review some vocabulary. Please click this link: NDSU English Japanese Word list 1.

Now, let's read some blog posts written by students at Chiba University of Commerce. Click this link: MYAM's Class Blog.

Next let's begin our next task. Click the link to read some stories by students at Shibaura Institute of Technology. Your next task is to write a story of about 150 words. The story should be about a bad experience you had.
See you Friday!

Introduction to Business English 1A Lesson 6

Hi, today we are going to start Unit 3: Problems. In this unit we will learn how to report a business problem, how to complain, and how to solve a business problem.

Image by lumaxart www.lumaxart.com/

Let' s start with a video. Please click this link: http://mrstoutsblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/learn-english-22-complaining.html.

Now let's study some vocabulary. Please click this link: Introduction to Business English 1A

OK, now please post a comment below. Tell me a problem that you have in this class..

応用英語I-2A Reading 2011 Chapter 2 Review and Chapter 3 Preview

Hello everyone,
Today we are going to review Chapter 2 and preview Chapter 3. Let's start by studying some vocabulary.

Choose a Study ModeScatterLearnFlashcards

Study these flash cards

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Study these flash cards | Study stories flash cards

Now let's review the scene of the crime. Look at the mind map below.

Don't forget to make notes in your Detective's Notebook.
Now let's do the quiz. Good luck!

Toyo Gakuen University Extension Centre Class: Live from Oxford & Django Reinhart

Hi!
I've posted some listening materials for you from today's lesson.

Click the link  below to listen to the Live from Oxford interview. People in Oxford talk about their ideal summer.
Live from Oxford: Ideal summer | Onestopenglish

Now here's a video of Django Reinhart playing "Nagasaki". Enjoy!

英語総合1A Global Issues Unit ２：Values

Hello everyone,
Today we wil finish studying unit 1. After that, we will start studying unit 2.

First let's learn some vocabulary. Look at the flashcards below.

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Study these flash cards

Finally, what are your values? Please leave a comment below.
See you next week!

基礎英語1A Basic English Writing Lesson 5

Hello everyone! I hope you had a great weekend.

Today we are going to review vocabulary, learn how to organise a paragraph using order of importance, and learn about descriptive adjectives and synonyms (同義語). Then we are going to our class blog and we are going to answer our classmates questions about the places we'd like to visit.

First, let's review some vocabulary. Please click this link: NDSU English Japanese Word list 1.

You can find synonyms in a thesaurus. Click this link: Visual Thesaurus. How many words have almost the same meaning as "great"? Type the descriptive adjectives on p. 101 of your textbook. Make a note of all the synonyms you find.

Now let's go to our class blog. Please Click the link:

Togaku Basic English 1 Writing.

Read the questions that your classmates asked. Answer the questions.

Don't forget to keep on tweeting. see you Friday!

Introduction to Business English 1A Lesson 5: Unit 2 Case Study

Hi, today we are going to do the case study on p.21 of our textbook. In the case study you will learn how to do problem solving.


First, let's review some vocabulary. Click this link:
Introduction to Business English 1A Vocabulary.

Now let's review some grammar. Please click this link: Present Simple Verbs.

Finally, post your writing assignment as a comment below.
Enjoy!

英語総合1A Global Issues Unit 1: Identity

Hello everyone! I hope you had a great Golden Week. Today we start Unit 1 in our textbook. The topic is Identity.  After we do the tasks in the textbook we'll watch a video.

This is a video conversation between Sarah of the Daily English Show and a man called Achille. Achille was born in Quebec. Therefore, his mother tongue was French. He moved to the United States. Achille's experience was very interesting.
Watch the video. What do you think of Achille's experience? How do you think you would feel if your second language became your main language and you were unable to express yourself easily in your mother tongue? Post your answer as a comment below.

基礎英語1A Basic English Writing Lesson 4

Hello everyone, I hope you enjoyed the weekend. I enjoyed the weekend very much. I especially enjoyed tweeting with you. You can see an example of a twitter conversation I had this weekend. Look at the picture below.

Let's go to Twitter now. I made a list for our class. You can see the feed on the right side of this blog. Please click "Join the conversation". Now click the user name of one of your classmates. Then click "Follow". Finally, reply to one of your classmates' tweets.

I know some of you were studying vocabulary on Quizlet too. Let's study some more vocabulary. Please click this link: Togaku 英単 Set 3.

Now let's continue learning about paragraphs.
Don't forget to keep tweeting, and to write replies to your classmates' posts on our Posterous blog.
Your homework is to write about a place that you would like to visit. you should post your paragraph on our Posterous blog. Post to our groovy blog by e-mailing togakuwriting@posterous.com You should include a picture. You can use one of my pictures if you like. You can see them here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mc_sensei/sets/?&page=1

See you Friday!

Introduction to Business English 1A Lesson 4

Photo by Eric Miller originally uploaded to flickr by World Economic Forum

Hello! Welcome back! I hope you enjoyed your weekend.
Today we are going to start Unit 2. First, look at the photo. Do you know this man? With a partner answer these questions:

1. What is this man's name?
2. What is his job?
3. Where is he from?
4. Where is his office?

Now let's learn some vocabulary. Click this link: Introduction to Business English 1A
Now let's do the tasks in Unit 2 of our textbook.
Finally, click comment below. Write a paragraph about yourself. Describe your daily routine. You can see some examples here:
http://mrstoutsblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/toyo-gakuen-university-introduction-to.html

Homework

* Read p.21. Prepare for the case study
* Do Unit 2 on your self-study CD ROM.

Class Rules 2011

Well, another academic year has begun. Every year I negotiate the class rules with some of my classes. This year some of the rules are very interesting.

Some of my favourite rules for the students are:

• We should make eye contact with each other
• We shouldn't be shy
• We should love Michael
• We must always maintain a passionate attitude
• We should laugh at the teacher's jokes
• We should take pride in the things we do

I was especially impressed that the students seemed to understand my explanation about eye contact and why it was important. I was also very happy to know that they wanted to take pride in the things they do. I think that is very important. Finally, I hope it is easy for them to laugh at my jokes.

Some of my favourite rules for me are:

• Our teacher must love us.
• Our teacher must get in shape
• Our teacher shouldn't lose weight
• Our teacher should tell a joke every lesson
• Our teacher should change his alarm sound
• Our teacher must finish this class 3 minutes early
• Our teacher should try to make explanations interesting

Many of the rules for me made me laugh. There was much laughter in all these first classes. I hope that there is always a lot of laughter in our classes. I think laughter is important.

I hope you'll leave a comment or a question.

Cheers!!

応用英語I-2A Reading 2011 Lesson 2:Chapter 1

Hi!
Last lesson we learned how to bookmark a website. Let's bookmark another useful website. Click this link: space alc . Next let's review the new words we learned last lesson. Click this link: Inverted Eagle Crime Talk Vocabulary.
Ok, now, let's do the tasks in Chapter 1 and learn how to use the Detectives Notebook. There will be a quiz next week. Be sure to make good notes in your Dectective's notebook. Also you can review Chapter 1 here: http://mrstoutsblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/1-2a-reading-lesson-3the-inverted-eagle.html
Have a nice week-end!

基礎英語4 Basic English Writing Lesson 3

Hello everyone,
Today we are going to learn about writing topic sentences, and supporting sentences. We'll learn about signal words too. First, let's study some vocabulary. Please click the link: Togaku 英単 Set 3. Login in to Quizlet. Click "Learn". Study the words. After that you can play "Skatter" or "Space Race".

Now please read the paragraph below. How many sentences are there in the paragraph? Which sentence is the topic sentence? How many supporting sentences are there in the paragraph? Which sentence is the concluding sentence?

My Life at Shibaura by Hiroaki K.

           (A) I belong to the handball club and the fishing circle. (B) I like fishing. (C) I go fishing sometimes skipping lectures. (D) When I am not in class I go fishing. (E) I am a student of Applied Chemistry. (F) However, I am not so interested in chemistry. (G) I entered this school because there is a fishing circle. (H) I came to this school to fish.

Now do the tasks on your handouts. After we will look at the Hiroaki's paragraph and check the answers to the questions.

Now let's read our posts on our Posterous Blog. Please click the link: Togaku Basic English Writing 

Next look at the picture below. Let's write replies to our classmates' posts.

That's all for today. Have a great Golden Week!

Introduction to Business English 1A Lesson 3

Hi, todays lesson is about describing people. Today we will learn how to describe ourselves and we will learn how to describe others.

First let's study some vocabulary. Please click the link: Introduction to Business English 1A Vocabulary

Now let's think about the topic. Look at the picture.
This is Nobuyuki Idei (出井伸之) He is the former CEO of Sony. What kind of company is Sony? Talk about it with your partner. Use your imagination (想像力). Answer the questions below:
1. Is this man rich?
2. How many days a week does this man work?
3. How many hours a day does this man work?
4. What are his interests and hobbies?

Now read the article about Jeffrey Immelt in your textbook. After, do the activities on page 9.

Do you know these famous Japanese CEOs: Masayoshi Son,  Tadashi Yanai,  Akira Mori. Write a description of ONE of these famous Japanese CEOs. Post your description as a comment below.
Have a nice Golden Week!