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Lesson 14 – getting ready for your last test

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

For your Podcast editing Test next week, it is a good idea to check the interviews of the people in your group. You can then think about how you will introduce your podcast and frame the interview.

Group 1

Azumi – interview

Hiroyuki – interview

Yuka – interview

Kanna – interview

Group 2

Reiko – interview

Mio – interview

Naoiki z – interview

Aya – interview

Group 3

Naoki f – interview

Tomomi – interview

Shoichiro – interview

Group 4

Mamiko – interview

Megumi – interview

Bounthiam – interview

Yuuta – interview

I believe…

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

I believe we need to work part-time before employment I have three reasons. 
Firstly, if we work part-time, of course, we can get money and we can know the value of money at the same time.
Secondly, when we work part-time, we must come in contact with customers and learn to interact.
Therefore, it’s necesarry for us to have politeness.
Thirdly, we can make various friends and talk about many things together.
In my case, I started to work at KFC 1 year and 4 months ago.
I can learn these things through a part-time job.
Although I sometimes face some trouble, -for example, when I came in contact with a customer, I was told “Please don’t speak more because your saliva is flying.”- I can continue because I enjoy working and partners always support me.
If you don’t work part-time, I recommend you do! 

I believe gossip is good sometimes.

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

gossipDo you believe the gossip about people?

Sometimes we gossip about friends and enjoy it. Thing of our neighber and thing of the friends. And usually entertainers.

However, sometimes it  hurts a person. Because the rumor is not true.
There can be some truth, but the truth changes when a story is told from person to person.

I hear the gossip about the entertainers in the newspaper and TVnews.
We must doubt newspaper and newspaper articles.

I like the gossip about the person, too. Especially I like gossip about entertainers. However, I always think that is mere gossip. 
We can talk about gossip and enjoy it, but we shouldn’t have to hurt other people.

Fortune telling*

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

 

 I believe in fortunetelling. I check the zodiac and blood type horoscope everyday.

My blood type is A. It is said that people with blood A are serious and like to organize things and care too much about what other people think. I think the last is true!!!

 I trust most in palmistry(^0^)!! I had my fortune told from the lines on my palm more than 3 times last year. I didn’t say anything about myself, but the teller hit on my charactor and what I want to be.  I was surprised and moved. Because of this, I bought the book “Introduction to Palmistry”. It is my favorite book and if I have time, I study it!!

 According to it, the left hand line shows the charactor of innateness, the right hand line shows things you acquire and it changes.

 If I study more, I can read my future(^0^) That’s interesting!!!

maccha sweets

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Do you know “Maccha”?  If you know it , do you like it? I like Maccha very much.  “Maccha”  is made from Japanese green tea , Japanese typical drink. When you go to grocery, you can find many kinds of green tea .  “Maccha” is powdered green tea. It contains various kinds of nutrition. For example, caffeine,  tannin, vitamin, catechin and polyphenol. In the kamakura era, people started to drink. In those days, people was impressed about maccha too strong taste. But recently, the mix maccha and milk or sugar, it is called “Muccha milk” and became popular among young people. Also Japanese people like maccha sweets. For example, Japanese cake, shaved ice, chocolate, cookie, pudding. Especially, the ice cream is the third popularity in Japanese young people (The first is vanilla, second is chhocolate) .  This was researched  by the Japan Icecream Society.

I recommend you eat delicious maccha sweets. Let’s go out to eat together!! Thank you for your reading.

holiday

Monday, May 26th, 2008

 Saturday and Sunday aren’t holidays for me. I have a part time job. I serve asa a clerk in a shop. I work the days to morning until evening. So, my holidays are very special days. It is not work, and not classes. I think it is one or two days in a month. I spend the days cleaning.

 My room is dirty. There are empty cans of beer and plastic cases of food on the floor, and There is dust and hairs on the floor.

 First, I sweep my room with a duster. I don’t have a cleaner. My room is small. So a duster is more convenient than cleaners.

 Second, I wipe the floor with a wet floor cloth. I wipe along the grain of floor woods. Maybe, after that, I rest a few times.

 Third, I clean the bath. I hear the drain of the bathroom say ‘help’. It is full of hair. I clean it. And I clean with abath sponge.

 Last, I clean the toilet. I clean it with brush. Then I feel my heart is cleaned.

 But my room is dirty. I want to get a room. That isn’t a dirt room. 

My Culture

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Bowing is a Japanese traditional custom. I really like it because it is useful and pleasant when someone bows to me. I think bow has many meaning in each situation. For example, when we are greeting, it means “nice to meet you”, when we bow for boss or elder people, it means “respect” and in sports, we also often bow, we bow for “acclaim” each other. I like this way the most. In soccer game we bow each other before and after the game, before the game, bow means “nice to meet you and has a good game” and after the game, it means “good game and thank you”. Some team players often bow for field too, before they go in to the field, it means “please keep an eye on our game”. Bow is really casual custom but really polite. I feel pride about it.

Festival

Monday, May 26th, 2008

 Have you ever joined japanese festival ? I have joined it many times ,festival is very fun .

 japanese festival has many kind of type. But I think japanese festival can divide two type .Japanese fesival has two type, so “mikoshi” and “dashi”. Mikoshi means carry on The Buddha’s house by many people. Dashi means pushing big a wheel in  many kind of musician by many people.

 My festival type is dashi. I weared speciai costume . For example ,tabi is old type footwear and obi means your waist to hold up your clothes and decoration .

 And I show special dance for people. Then people give moneys for showers. This money is management money or we use drinking and eating.

 

Projects – Lesson 6

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Today we decided that teams should have four weeks to complete their podcast shows. The shows should be:

  • 8~10 minutes long
  • be interesting for students
  • be connected to Oberlin
  • be varied and contain 3 elements (interview, survey etc)
  • have a worksheet to teach new words and give listening practice for classmates
  • have jingles and an Intro / Line-up and Goodbye

 

The second mini-task was to write a 100~150 word blog post on podpress.com on ‘My Culture’. This is homework and should be finished before next week’s lesson.

 

Have fun and work hard!

Student Pods – Lesson 5 – Naoki Z and Yuuta

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Yuuta is kept waiting when Naoki has a problem with the bus…