Who speaks when: Link
Some questions
- What was your favorite subject in high school?
- What is the most important subject?
- What is the least important subject?
- What do you do to stay in shape?
- How often do you exercise?
Sunday, July 31, 2022
Wk 16: Let's speak
Monday, July 25, 2022
Monday, July 18, 2022
Wk 14: Final Preparation
- Sign up for the speaking exam: Link
- What would you do? Link
- Final Sections
- Listening about Jack LaLanne:
- Reading: one of our readings
- Find the question
- How many hours do you work?
- How many do you work?
- Where do you work?
- What hours do you work?
- I work 20 hours a week.
- Fill in the blanks (vocabulary)
- Practice
- Topics: education, nutrition, chocoholic, famous people, occupations
- Vocabulary
- Factors for a happy life: link discussFinal3
- Conversation practice
Monday, July 11, 2022
Sunday, July 3, 2022
Wk 12: Famous People
- Sign up for speaking trials: education, health, famous people: Link
- Jack LaLanne obituary: link [If you want to try your hand at a newspaper]
- Who is on your country's paper currency:
- U.S.: Washington, Lincoln, Grant, Hamilton, Franklin, Jackson
- Link
- Bill Gates and Warren Buffett
- What do they do?
- How old are they?
- Where were they born?
- What are the names of their companies?
- When did they found their companies?
- How much are they worth?
Sunday, June 26, 2022
Friday, June 17, 2022
Wk 10 A Healthy Lifestyle
Week 10 A Healthy Lifestyle
Do you remember these questions?
1. What gives you a headache?
2. What gives you a backache?
3. What do you do when you get a headache?
4. What do you do for stress?
5. How often do catch a cold?
Can you answer these new questions about fitness?
1. Are you in shape?
2. What do you do to get into shape?
3. What do you do to stay in shape?
4. How often do you exercise?
5. How often do you use the stairs and not the elevator?
Handout
- Questions
- Conversation
- Word study
- Nutrition Contest
- Word Check
Godfather of Fitness
Link Reading
Chocoholic
Link 1 Introduction
Link 2 Reading
Google Form
Sunday, June 12, 2022
Wk 09: Education
Wk 09: Education
Dictation
Questions about education
- How many years do students attend school?
- How many years is compulsory education?
- How many levels of schools are there?
- Who makes educational policies, local government or the central government?
- Is there a dress code?
- What are the subjects?
- In your opinion, what subjects should or should not be taught?
- Is bullying a problem?
Reading about American
Handout link
Answer questions for your country
Google Form
Extra
Link What would you do?
Link A foreign teacher in the US? Where is she from? What does she teach? What problems did she have?
Monday, June 6, 2022
Sunday, May 29, 2022
Wk 07 Mid-term Prep
Wk 07 Mid-term Prep
Dictation in groups
- Everyone should stand up.
- Go around greeting your classmates. "Hi, there. How's it going?"
- I will say a number, and you make a group of that number.
- If I say, "Five," make a group of five people.
- Then I may say, "Continue," and repeat.
Read some island reports. Which do you like the best?
Handout
Sunday, May 22, 2022
Wk 06: The Island
The Island
Making an island
Sunday, May 15, 2022
Wk 05: Where to live?
https://adv-seijoh.blogspot.com
Class 5
Let's review
- How to agree?
- How to disagree?
- Take a piece of paper.
- Link
- Look at the opinions and choose three.
- Go around, say your opinion to a classmate. Note the classmate's name and answer.
- Does the person agree or disagree? Make a note.
- In your group, say your opinion and tell what happened.
- I talked to _____. He/She agreed with me (disagreed with me.
New topic: Where to live?
Google Form
Sunday, May 8, 2022
Wk 04: Working with opinions
Monday, April 25, 2022
Week 3: Cooperating
https://adv-seijoh.blogspot.com
Review
- Questions from last week's handout
- Students in groups and choose one as a secretary
- They make five questions about the reading
- They pair with another group and they ask each other
- The group gets a point for any question they ask that the other side can't answer
- Vocabulary (dictation)
- Today's handout: Link
Planning a trip
Some vocabulary
- Suggesting
- I suggest that we ...
- Why don't we
- How about ...?
- Agreeing
- That's a good idea
- Wonderful.
- OK
- I agree
- Disagreeing
- That is a good idea, but
- I don't know. How about ---?
- Practice
- In pair: one looks at the screen and the others don't: I think we should go to ---
- Read the suggestion of the screen and the others respond
Task: Plan a trip (about five cities)
- What kind of trip? Adventure? Research a topic? Mysteries/sports/fashion/politics/ famous landmarks (Taj Mahal/Mt. Everest/Pyramids etc.)
- Where do you stay?
Google Form
Saturday, April 16, 2022
Wk 02 Smartphones
Week 2 Some learning technics
Roll Call link
Discussion topic: Smartphones
- What do you need a smartphone for? Why do you need a smartphone?
- How many different smartphones have you had?
- How long have you had a smartphone?
- since: Since junior high school
- for: For six years.
- What functions do you use?
- phone
- messages / Line
- Internet
- pictures
- Which service do you use? Docomo? Softbank?
- How much a month do you spend?
Experiment
- Introduce some words and ask questions in groups
- experiment: 実験
- research 研究
- scientist 科学者
- harm 害
- memory 記憶
- concentration 集中力
- resist 抵抗する
- give in 誘惑に負ける
- evidence 証拠
- participants 参加者
- result 結果
- I tell them the story
- They read
- Vocabulary practice
Handout: Link
Google Form: Link
Sunday, April 3, 2022
Sunday, January 9, 2022
Wk 14: Resolutions and Prep
Resolutions and Prep
Resolutions
- What do you want to accomplish in the New Year?
■accomplish {他動-1} : （仕事・計画・願望などを）成し遂げる、完成する、果たす、完遂する、成就する、達成する、遂げる、走破する
I want to get more exercise.
I want to lose weight.
I want to get a better part-time job.
I want to get credit for this class. - What is your New Year’s Resolution?
I intend to study harder. I intend to relax more.
I intend to get better grades. I intend help my parents more.
I intend to read more books. I intend to find a boy/girl friend.
I intend to save more money. I intend to quit smoking. - What do you plan to do in the break (from February to March)?
I plan to go skiing.
I plan to study accounting.
I plan to sleep late everyday.
I plan to learn how to snowboard. - Do you prefer an easy or a difficult final examination? Why?
- How much time do you plan to study for the final exam?
I intend to study three hours.
I don’t intend to study. I’ll leave it to fate [運を天に任せる].
Test Prep
- Part I: Reading about a famous person (20)
- Part II: Readings about four movies (20)
- Part III: What is your favorite movie? (30)
- title
- story
- recommend?
Reading for the exam
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