Senior 2-Oct.7th

Eiken Lis-2^nd 2018-1 

STT-Speaking Blog Review=>Speak 

Blog Explain where you live to a foreign friend who knows little about Japan in 4-6 sen/1m <= different focus from where you were born

Inside Reading Unit 8  Reading 2  A Bold Thief #1

Before You Read 1. Do you collect anything as a hobby, such as stamps or coins?

- Title: Dic bold [boʊld]  - not frightened of danger or afraid; brave, fearless: ~ climber/racer, ~ move/strategy

                 - strong in color/shape, and very noticeable to the eye; bright, striking, vivid, eye-catching: ~ color/shape

                 <-> bald [bɔld] hairless  - basic, no unnecessary words, not detailed: left a ~ statement without explanation

- Preview: Skim the text: Title, Subheadings, Photos and captions

=> It’s a story about a man who stole artworks and caught.

- Reading Comprehension: Mark the key words to look for. T/F, Mark the line #, Correct false statements.

Read & Write Unit 5  Reading 2 Vacation from School: Letters to the Editor #2

- Read aloud w/ Q-Skills

- Blog Review your comment to “Yes to a Longer School Year” on the Blog in four to six sentences.

- Vocabulary Skills: Compound Nouns-> A, B

- Study Voca/Expression: average (n) (adj)  compete; ~ in a race; in business - competition  

experience (v) (n) UC: knowledge/skill gained,  C: an event/activity that affects; an exciting/unusual ~, quite an ~  discover-discovery

( Blog Write your comment to “Vacations Are a Way of Learning” on the Blog in four to six sentences)

Interest Leaders failed us on climate change

Greta Thunberg: 'Leaders failed us on climate change'

While they spend hours every day on gazing at and touching their smartphones, kids are worrying about their future. Climate change. Although humans and all the other creatures on the planet are now facing an unprecedented threat in history, no effective actions have been taken collectively to cope with the threat. World leaders in politics and businesses are so influential in acting whether to increase or decrease greenhouse gasses but their attentions are mostly on their next elections or financial performance.

So, the general secretary of the United Nations set a stage to have conscious world leaders listen to what children want to say at UN climate summit in New York. Even though less than one-third of the world leaders took part in the summit, the voice of children was heard. Now, is the world ready to take unprecedented response to this unprecedented threat?