Senior 2-Oct.31st

Eiken Lis-2^nd 2018-1 

STT-Speaking Blog Review=>Speak   - Blog Speak how long do you want to live in 4-5 sentences.

Inside Reading Unit 9  Reading 1  Hydroponics  #1

Read the text aloud

Lesson Report Senior-1 October 30th

Hello Class! This is Towako from MEL School.

It's October 31, 2019.
It's cloudy today.
Hope you enjoyed a small Halloween party yesterday!

<Lesson Review>

Greeting  Date, weather

Warm up: two min. questions: => Have you ever joined Halloween parties? (2 min. each)

ð  Report to a new partner in indirect speech (30 sec. each)

  

Speech:   Video  => Hiromitsu (Oct. 19)  => Kosei (Oct. 23) => Shuji (Oct. 26) => Ayaka (Oct. 30)   Live Kaoru (Nov. 2) =>  Kengo (Nov 6) => Natsumi (Nov. 9) => Masahiro (Nov. 13) => Keisuke (Nov. 16) => Akari (Nov. 20)  => Ami (Nov. 23) => Ayaka (Nov. 27)

Eiken Pre 2^nd Listening practice  2018-3

☆☆No. 11

★How’s it going, Beth?

☆Not great. My softball team needs at least ten players to enter the city tournament, and we only have nine. We can’t find another player.

★You could ask my cousin. She plays softball, and I think she’s looking for a team to join. She just moved here from Washington.

☆Really? It would be great if she could join.

☆☆Question: What is one thing the girl says?

Beth’s softball team needs one more player to enter the city tournament since they have only nine players at the moment. The boy tells her his cousin, who has just moved here, is looking for a softball team to join.

Answer the question. => Listen again. => Tell the partner what they heard in two sentences. => Repeating => Shadowing

☆☆No. 21

☆When Takehiro was in England as an exchange student, he joined a cooking class. Takehiro found that listening to the cooking instructions in English and reading English cookbooks helped him improve his English skills. He also enjoyed eating the food that he and his classmates made.

☆☆Question: How did Takehiro improve his English skills?

While Takehiro was studying at a school in England, he was in the cooking class. He not only enjoyed eating food they cooked but also improved his English skills by listening to the cooking instructions and reading cookbooks.

Answer the question. => Listen again. => Tell the partner what they heard in two sentences. => Repeating ＝＞Dictation => STT

Bridge Work

Chapter 37 Unit 2

(p. 198) Grammar in Use  What Ron should study

Read through the text.

Explain what ‘their limited opportunities’ means in Japanese and post.

(p. 197) Vocabulary in Use #4 労働などに関することば

Review: Memorize the words. => Quiz in pairs

Practice reading the text aloud.

(p. 200) Key Communication

Write and check

Cover to Cover  Unit 6  Age

Part 2: A Cure for Aging?

Overlapping

Grammar: Underline conditional sentences (if) to recognize the tense difference.

-> Read aloud/Par.-2~4, 5=> Why different tenses?

-> Discuss why different Conditional Types are used?

Halloween Fun  

Halloween Crossword

Chinese Whispers

Advancing-Oct.30th

Eiken Lis-2^nd 2018-1

STT-Speaking Blog Review=>Speak   - Blog Speak how to get to and enjoy Kyoto fr. Mitaka to a foreigner who is visiting Japan for the first time in 4-6 sen.

Inside Reading-2 Unit 4  Reading 2  Fame in a Foreign Language: Joseph Conrad #4

- Study Words/Expressions/Sentences #2 [Speaking & Writing, Phycological Explanations]

L76 be inclined to

L78 depress -> Corpus/p.63  bother/discourage; devalue/diminish/reduce; push down

              - depress: The test results depressed me

                 - depressed: I was depressed by the test results.

                 - depressing: The test results were depressing.

                 - depression: The Great Depression, depression(low pressure<-> high pressure

-> E. => Pair

[P6-L80] reluctant-reluctance  (adj) unwilling, hesitant, wary; ~ support/agreement, ~ smile    [L82] Dic persist  to continue to do sth despite difficulties; pursue, carry through, prevail; ~ in questioning/research  [P6-L82] Even his wife ~ it made him hard to understand. [P7-L89] immense extremely large/huge, extensive, boundless  

L89~93 He had accumulated an immense ~ ahead of their time

[L90] intriguing  interesting, fascinating, appealing  

L102~104 He never wrote ~ Polish and French

[P8-L103] precede Dic happen/come before sth; go ahead of, anticipate; sb ~d me in the job, the years –ing the war, -ing chapter/page  <-> follow, go after -> C./p.61

- precedent   an example/instance used to justify later similar occurrences; set a ~ for, there is no ~ for

- precedence   superiority, highest in priority; take ~ over sb/sth, The officers are seated according to precedence.

- preceding        previous, prior, earlier; ~ page, event

L113~116 A large volume ~ aspects with another

[P10-L118] secure place  ; obtain, capture, guarantee  [L120] H.G. Wells, Ford Madox Ford   [L123] Anglo-Saxon  were the Germanic peoples who inhabited today’s England and Wales from the 5th century.

L124-126 letting some Polish influences show through his English

-> Read aloud Par.6=> STT

Vocabulary Activity- A./p.60 -> B./p.61 Dic for sample sentence/phrase: adequate, indicate

Read & Write-2 Unit 9  Writing 2  #2

- Review Writing Skill

=> Blog Write a paragraph to explain a place (your community/society, school, country, a thing (sports, organization, event), or a creature (people, animal, bird, fish). Write three or four points that are important or unique and use numbers to support them.

Interest Blog  自動翻訳への対応と活用

Senior 2-Oct.28th

Eiken Lis-2^nd 2018-1 

STT-Speaking Blog Review=>Speak   - Blog Speak how to get to and enjoy Kyoto fr. Mitaka to a foreigner who is visiting Japan for the first time in 4-6 sen.

Read & Write Unit 6  Reading 1 What is Laughter? #2+

- Read aloud with Q Classroom=> Shadowing

Advancing-Oct.26th

Eiken Lis-2^nd 2018-1

STT-Speaking Blog Review=>Speak  - Blog Speak how you would teach English if you were an English teacher in 4-6 sen. Use make/have/let sb do, encourage, give students assignments,

Inside Reading-2 Unit 4  Reading 2  Fame in a Foreign Language: Joseph Conrad  #3

- Review Blog the summary of the text in three sentences

- Study Words/Expressions/Sentences #1 [Intro, Early Language Experience]

L1 literary  ->literacy  [P2-L21] a good deal of; to a very great degree or extent of   [L24] struggle for sth/to do; try hard, attempt; ~ for independence, ~ to payback  tackle, compete  [L26] revolutionary activity  [L26] was exiled [ɛg zaɪl/ɛk saɪl]  (vt) to expel or banish sb from the country; expatriate. (n) the fact/state of being exiled; live in ~, years of ~, political ~  [L30] tuberculosis  [P3-L40] well-born  born of a good/noble/highly esteemed family.  

[L42] Given ~ , Conrad must have learned …  [L43] exile [ˈɛg zaɪl/ˈɛk saɪl a prolonged, usually enforced absence from one's home or country; banishment, deportation, migration

[P-4-L48] Dic restless  unable to stay still/quiet; a ~ boy, become ~,  ceaselessly active or moving: the restless wind/waves,  worried; anxious; uneasy,  without rest; a ~ sleep/night [L52] being drafted into  to take or select by draft, especially for military service; recruit, call up  [L54] more than adequate; enough, sufficient; ~ supply, ~ car, ~ to the needs   [L55-58] His career was ~ , perhaps brought on by worry over debts …

[P5-L64] get by  manage/survive/get along/thrive;  L65 vessel  [L67] protocol [ˈproʊ təˌkɔl] rules of conduct, behavior in certain situation; agreement, procedure

L73 second-class seaman, first-class (seaman), master: a naval officer trained in and responsible for the navigation of a sailing vessel, a professional seaman and specialist in navigation, rather than as a military commander.

-> Read aloud Par.5=> STT

Open Forum-1 Unit 4  Listening 2  A Radio Program to ask psychologist about memory  #2

- Listen w/Script-> Voc: [Part-1] negative [Part-2] mention, meaning-meaningful, associate ~ with, vivid, enormous, silly-sillier, [Part-3] strong-strength, benefit-beneficial, parallel to ~

- Pronunciation: Stressed and Unstressed Prepositions-> Try examples and understand the “Situation”

- Speaking Skills: Taking Time to Think “It’s on the tip on my tongue”

=> Speaking Practice: Talk about your earliest memory, such as event, incident or experience.

Interest Blog UN Budget Crisis

Lesson Report Senior-1 October 26th

Hello Class! This is Towako from MEL School.

It's October 26, 2019.
It's sunny and beautiful today.
Have a wonderful Sunday!

<Lesson Review>

Greeting  Date, weather

Warm up: two min. questions: => Do you have Halloween events with your friends? (2 min. each)

ð  Report to a new partner in indirect speech (30 sec. each)

Speech:   Video  => Hiromitsu (Oct. 19)  => Kosei (Oct. 23) => Shuji (Oct. 26) => Ayaka (Oct. 30)   Live Kaoru (Nov. 2) =>  Kengo (Nov 6) => Natsumi (Nov. 9) => Masahiro (Nov. 13) => Keisuke (Nov. 16) => Akari (Nov. 20)  => Ami (Nov. 23) 

Eiken Pre 2^nd Listening practice  2017-2

☆☆No. 20

☆Here’s your present, Leonard. Happy birthday!

★Wow, a camera! This looks like it cost a lot of money. I can’t believe you bought me this.

☆It’s not only from me. Everyone in the family helped. We all paid a little bit. We know how much you like taking photos.

★It’s perfect. Thanks so much.

☆☆Question: Why is the boy surprised to receive the camera?

The boy is surprised to be given an expensive camera for his birthday. All the family members paid a little bit for it because they know how much he likes taking photos.

Answer the question. => Listen again. => Tell the partner what they heard in two sentences. => Repeating => Shadowing

☆☆No. 30

☆Mark is a high school student. Last month, he did poorly on his math test. Even though he had studied hard, he could not understand the questions. His brother told him about a study program at the library. There, college students help high school students with studying. Mark joined the program and got a good score on his test this month.

☆☆Question: How did Mark get a good score on his test this month?

Mark’s math test result was poor last month even though he had studied very hard. His brother recommended a study program to him and he was able to get a good score this month.

Answer the question. => Listen again. => Tell the partner what they heard in two sentences. => Repeating ＝＞Dictation => STT

Bridge Work

Chapter 37 Unit 2 

Grammar in Use  What Ron should study

Read through from 1^st to 4^th paragraph. Check and read 5^th paragraph.

Do (2) and (3) => Check the answer

(5) Think and post the opinion to Edmodo.

Cover to Cover  Unit 6  Age

Part 2: A Cure for Aging?

Before Reading: Would you like to live for 1,000 years? Why? Why not?

Strategy: Recognizing Signal Words-main, key, major, in addition, also, another, however

Checking Fluency and Comprehension. => Check the answers.