Phonetics May 31

1. Song: Monument of Me (Worksheet)(YouTube)(Quizlet)

2. How familiar are you with IPA symbols now? (Worksheet)
See these links for reviews.

3. Rhythm: Stress & Intonation
You're going to start practicing speaking and listening to English passages so that you can use your knowledge about connected speech and get more used to the rhythm of spoken English.

I've found a nice series of video materials for this purpose: "English Speaking Practice" created by Nice Talking With You.

• Shopping ←For Today (Worksheet)
• Free Time
• Summer Vacation
• Staying Healthy
• Learning English 
• Important Issues
• Travel (Global Voices)

* Spoken English Lesson "Global English" offered by Let's Talk

• Canceling an appointment
• Calling in sick
• Asking for time off

2B May 31

* Meet at 212 today!
* Hand in your Learning Log to your SA.
* PDF of this post

1. Song: Monument of Me (Worksheet)(YouTube)(Quizlet)

2. Storytelling Video

• See how to save the photos you've prepared. (Pair)
• Go to your blog post to check your photos and your speech script. (Pair)
• Practice your speech. (Pair)
• Take a video of the partner pair talking. (Group = 2 Pairs) 

* Use dictionaries, including Eijiro (ALC) and POPJisyo.
* Here's a list of useful websites (find useful info & expressions, but don't copy & paste them) :

• Qwiki
• Tokyo Experience
• Web Japan
• Kids Web Japan
• JapanGuide.com
• Lonely Planet > Japan
• Japan National Tourism Organization

Pairs (If you're not listed, please let me know)

• Abe & Daiguji are going to talk about Japanese summer.
• OomasaY & NakanoK will speak about subculture.
  
• Urasawa & Tomiyama are going to talk about Fireworks, Summer kimono and Round fan.
  
• NoguchiT FujiharaD are going to talk about four season.
• Ryo and Mifuyu are going to talk about temples and cherry blossom.
• Miyazawa and Ebata are going to talk about Japanese food, flowers, and the four seasons.
• Takuma & Natsumi are going to talking about student sports, seasons, Hanabi. 
• Katou & Mino are going to talk about food, fire work, festival, & earth quake.
• Nakao & Arimitsu are going to talk about Japanese comic, Japanese sports and Japanese food
• Ryo m & Otohiko s: Three themes that we will talk about are these: The Japanese man is not popular./The Japanese woman is popular./Never-married increases in Japan.
• Atsushi & Yoshikawa are going to talk about Japanese water, Japanese society, and Japanese world heritage.
• Kinjou & Furukawa are going to talk about Japanese food, good security, and  society.

Homework 

• If you haven't done it yet, post your script to the student blog (What's Up?). 
• Make a comment on your classmates' video presentations. Good questions are welcome. 
• Check your presentation and make a reply to the comments you get. 

Question 

You preferred to have your mistakes marked in red in your post, but when I tried to do that, I thought it would be better NOT to make your work look messy. So I pointed out 5 things to be changed in my comments like this and this. What do you think? Is it clear enough? Do you want me to use more Japanese to explain grammar? Please leave your comment here to share your opinions. 

How to save your blog photos to your iPad

How to save your blog photos to your iPad
ブログに載せた写真をiPadに保存する方法

1. Tap the photo on the blog.

2. Tap the photo again → Select "Save Images" → Done! Your photo has been saved in the iPad.

3. Go to "Photos".

4. You'll find your photo saved in "Photos".

1B4 May 29

★ Hand in your Learning Log to the SA.

1. Song: Monument of Me (Worksheet)(YouTube)(Quizlet)

2. Story-telling video

(1) Pair) Share your what you've done (Homework). Post your script to the student blog. (Do you remember the email address for to do that?)
(2) Group) Take a video of the other pair talking about what they like/dislike about Japan.

★ We have done this much today.  今日はここまででした。

★ You have no homework assigned this week. Please write what you have done in your "Learning Log". 特に宿題は課していません。Learning Log に自分でやったことを記入してください。 

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3. Listen to what he's talking about friendship in Japan. (Quizlet)
Q1) What do you think?
Q2) Do you agree with him? Does that apply to you?

4. Watch the video first, and then go to VoiceThread 1B4.

While watching the video, listen carefully to catch the phrases below.

• What's up? 
• I'm alive. 
• Internet service
• Internet cafe 
• rice field
• lower one
• humid
• ship
• messy
• moved into
• sink area
• clothes
• pole
• scuba gear
• guest bedrooms
• AC
• empty
• what goes where
• blanket
• couch
• purchase
• refrigerator
• rice cooker
• cannot live without 

1B3 May 29

1. Song: Monument of Me (Worksheet)(YouTube)(Quizlet)

2. Watch this video and catch the phrases below.

• What's up? 
• I'm alive. 
• Internet service
• Internet cafe 
• rice field
• lower one
• humid
• ship
• messy
• moved into
• sink area
• clothes
• pole
• scuba gear
• guest bedrooms
• AC
• empty
• what goes where
• blanket
• couch
• purchase
• refrigerator
• rice cooker
• cannot live without 

3. Go to the VoiceThread 1B3 2012 and try leaving your comments.
★ VoiceThead didn't work very well. Maybe I have to set up one account for each iPad VT app. 

4. Interview each other: Ask your partner the following questions, while taking a video of him answering.

• What club were you in when you were in high school? 
• What was your position? 
• What did you do after school? 

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Homework

• Tweet something in English. I'll make a reply, then you have to respond to it (at least once)!  

2B 5/31 木 教室移動→212

2Bの皆様、来週 5/31 のみ、広めの教室を使うことにしました。
来週の教室は 212 です。
掲示も出しますが、知り合い同士でも教え合ってください。

2B May 24

■ I will have to make some changes to our Moodle site. So, though it is working now, I will post the class work here too.
■ It has taken a while to figure out what was wrong. Sorry I haven't finished grading your previous forum posts! 

1. You had a bad day (Worksheet)(YouTube)(Quizlet)

2. Solar Eclipse

2-1. Arrange sentences (a)-(e) in the correct order.  (Quizlet)

(1) I've been asking everyone if they saw the eclipse.

• (a) Some people said that they couldn't see it from their house.
• (b) She had stayed up all night to watch the final game in the Ice Hockey World Championship between Russia and Slovakia. 
• (c) Many people didn't, so I asked them why not.  
• (d) Others said that they had tried to buy glasses, but the glasses were sold out. 
• (e) The best excuse I heard was from a Russian woman. 

(7) She was happy because her team won. (5月23日号）

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2-2. Ask your partner about the solar eclipse. How do you say in English, e.g.

• 昨日日食見た？
• はっきり見えた？
• どうして見なかった? 

2-3. Some people met in the morning to watch the eclipse together. Take a look at Solar Eclipse & Tsukiji Breakfast (May 22, 2012, Experience Tokyo, Meetup).
Pick up phrases that show how they felt about it.

2-4. Solar eclipse of July 22, 2009 (Qwiki)


3. Blogging ( Homework: Leave comments by May 24 )

3-1. Grammar Check (Quizlet)

3-2. (Q) How do you want to have your mistakes corrected?

1. Want them to be marked (in red) in my post. 
2. Want to be reminded of them in the comment to my post. 
3. What to learn from them in class, through a Grammar Check activity. 

3-3. If you're not sure yet, please take a look at "How to post a comment."

4. Story Telling Video: What do you like or dislike about Japan? (It'll take 2 weeks.)

HOW TO
■ Work in a pair first and then in a group of four

Step 1. Write a speech script (Pair)

• Introduction (+ Greetings & your first names/nicknames)
• What you like/dislike (1) 
• What you like/dislike (2) 
• What you like/dislike (3) 
• Conclusion (+ Greetings) 

Step 2. Find photos/images related to (1)-(3), and add them to the iPad's Home Screen. When you choose the best ones, save them as screenshots.

★Use dictionaries, including 英辞郎 and POP辞書.
★Here's a list of useful websites (find useful info & expressions, but don't copy & paste them) :

• Qwiki
• Tokyo Experience
• Web Japan
• Kids Web Japan
• JapanGuide.com
• Lonely Planet > Japan
• Japan National Tourism Organization

Step 3. Talk about what you like/dislike about Japan using your speech script and showing the pages/photos. Your partner team will take a video of you. (In Group)
★Or you may use Voicethread.
★Examples: Movies, VoiceThread (Which would you prefer?)

■ Homework 
(1) Complete Step 1 & Step 2. 
(2) If you haven't done it yet, go to the students' blog to leave some more comments and reply to the comments you get.  

Phonetics May 24

■ I will have to make some changes to our Moodle site. So, though it is working now, I will post the class work here too.

■ I thought you sent your recording to Evernote last week... Why can't I find anything new there?

■ Each iPad is numbered and will be assigned to a particular student.

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1. Song: You had a bad day - Worksheet & YouTube
    (Quizlet : Vocabulary)

2. Links for Phonetics (Open the page -> Add it to the Home screen)

3. Vowels & Consonants cf. 日本人のための英語音声学レッスン (Go to Dropbox)

• / i-ɪ / eat-it, neat-knit, leak-lick
• / u-ʊ/ who'd-hood, Luke-look, pool-pull
• / e-æ / set-sat, beg-bag, send-sand
• CC / praɪd, kraʊd, ʃraɪn, pleɪ, klaʊd, sli:p /
• CCC / splæʃ, skrætʃ, streɪt /
• 
  CC [tr-tʃ] trace-chase, treat-cheat 
• CC flatness, cotton, midnight, sadness

→ Pronunciation practice (+ review of IPA)  

→ Practice Minimal Pairs (YouTube)

4. Dictation - Connected Speech cf. 日本人のための英語音声学レッスン Ex 5-21, p. 87 (II-32) 

5. Consonants - Manner 調音方法, Place 調音位置, Voice 有声無声  cf. Phonetics 

• p, t, k, b, d, g, m, n, ŋ - Stop 閉鎖音, Nasal 鼻音
• θ, ð, s, z, ʃ, ʒ, ʧ, dʒ  - fricative 摩擦音, affricate 破擦音

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Next: Rhythm & Intonation 

Links for 1B

Here's a collection of the links to websites and tools we are using in class: http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/eigo-cuc
*I've stopped embedding it here.

授業で使うウェブサイトやツールのリンク集です。埋め込みはやめました。

1B4 May 22

1. Learning Log: SA will check yours

2. Song: You had a bad day (Worksheet)(YouTube)(Quizlet)

3. JareMaga (Mail Magazine in plain English)

■ Homework

■ Today's topic: the solar eclipse (Quizlet)

Did you see the solar eclipse yesterday? I went outside at 7:15 a.m. It was cloudy, but I could see a crescent through the clouds. Neighbors started coming out of their houses. Then, at about 7:25, the clouds disappeared. We used special glasses to watch the sun getting smaller and smaller. Finally, we could only see a circle of light around the moon. On my way to work, I kept taking out the glasses and watched the sun come out again. (5月22日号）

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■ Ask your partner about the solar eclipse. How do you say in English, e.g.

• 昨日日食見た？
• はっきり見えた？
• どうして見なかった? 

4. Blogging: Check the comments on your posts about GW. Some have communicate with each other in class, and some of you got comments from my Linkedin/Twitter friends. You're doing a great job!  

• Kei's post
• Naoto's post
• Kentaro's post
• Hidetoshi's post

5. Use English outside the class!

Q: Do you have/know/use/like Twitter/Facebook/Mixi/Skype?

If you have a Twitter account, follow @y_cuc (授業用 Twitter). (I only tweet in English)
If you have a Facebook account, find me on Facebook. (I use both English and Japanese. It's not just for my classes.)

6. Story Telling Video: What do you like or dislike about Japan? (It'll take 2 weeks)

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HOW TO


■ Work in a pair first and then in a group of four
1. Write a speech script (In pair)

• Your first names (or nicknames) 
• What you like/dislike (1) 
• What you like/dislike (2) 
• What you like/dislike (3) 
• Conclusion

2. Find webpages/photos related to (1)-(3), and add them to the iPad's Home Screen.

3. Talk about what you like/dislike about Japan using your speech script and showing the pages/photos. Your partner team will take a video of you. (In Group)
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■ Homework
(1) Complete your script & prepare the webpages/photos. 
※今日のペアで打ち合わせすること。 
(2) Go to the students' blog to leave some more comments and reply to the comments you get.  

1B3 May 22

1. Song: You had a bad day (Worksheet)(YouTube)(Quizlet)

2. Twitter (You haven't learned how to tweet yet ... )

3. Story Telling Video 前の宿題を参考に。

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How To
1. Write a speech script（原稿作成）

• Your first name (or nickname) 
• Where you're from (a)
• Your high school (b)
• Your favorite pastime, food, places, etc. (c)
• Greetings

2. Find webpages/photos related to (a)-(c), and add them to the iPad's Home Screen. （a-cに関連するウェブページや写真を見つけて、リンクをホーム画面に加える）

3. Talk about yourself using your speech script and showing the pages/photos. (原稿を利用して、webページや写真を見せながら、自分について話す) Your partner will take a video of you.（パートナーがそれを動画にとる）
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■ Homework
(1) Post your script to the students' blog. ※emailの宛先を間違えないように！ 
(2) Tweet in English!

How to connect your Twitter and Facebook accounts

1. On your Twitter profile page, click on "Post your tweets to Facebook". 

2. Click on "Sign in to Facebook and connect your accounts". 

3. Click on "Log in with Facebook". 

4. Enter the password to log into Facebook.

5. You can skip here. (I'll have to doublecheck.)

6. Now your accounts are connected.

1B4 Survey Results

Thanks for answering the survey questions. The survey results will help me a lot to make my lessons better. 

I have one thing to ask: Why are you NOT very interested in communicating with people online? What would be a problem with it? 

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1. Topics

2. Communication with people online

3. Tools to be used

1B4 May 15

1. Song: Don't Answer Me (Quizlet)(Worksheet)(YouTube)

2. Try Pop Jisyo.com

• このサイトでwebページを開けてみましょう。例として以下のページのURLをコピーしてみます→http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e7200.html
• Pop Jisyo.com に行き、URLを入れる空欄に上のURLを貼付けます。
• 単語の上にマウスをのせると、その単語の意味が表示されます）

3. Blog posts on GW: Commenting

    ※Do you know how to check if you got comments?  

How was your ... ? What did you do? Where did you ...?

4. VOA Special English

• Steve Jobs Remebered → Vocabulary (Worksheet) 
• Ebook Lending at Libraries

5. JareMaga (Mail Magazine in plain English)

    ※Have you subscribed to this mail magazine?  

I was riding my motor scooter back home last Friday. There was a city bus in front of me turning left at a T-junction. I passed the bus as soon as it turned, but just then another scooter came between me and the bus. I almost hit it. At the next light, I pulled up next to the rider and said, "That was very dangerous." He turned and said "I know" in an unfriendly voice. I was surprised to see his face. Neither of us was Japanese. (じゃれマガ May 14, 2012)  

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Q1. Why was the author surprised?
Q2. Do you have anything to ask the author? (I have one question.)

6. Do you have/know/use/like Twitter/Facebook/Mixi/Skype? (授業用 Twitter)

1B3 May 15

1. Song: Don't Answer Me (Quizlet)(Worksheet)(YouTube)

2. Survey (Sent to your Email address)

3. Try Pop Jisyo.com

• このサイトでwebページを開けてみましょう。例として以下のページのURLをコピーしてみます→http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e7200.html
• Pop Jisyo.com に行き、URLを入れる空欄に上のURLを貼付けます。
• 単語の上にマウスをのせると、その単語の意味が表示されます）

3. Do you have/know/use/like Twitter/Facebook/Mixi/Skype? (授業用 Twitter)

4. JareMaga (Mail Magazine in plain English)
    Use Pop Jisyo and check words new to you.

I was riding my motor scooter back home last Friday. There was a city bus in front of me turning left at a T-junction. I passed the bus as soon as it turned, but just then another scooter came between me and the bus. I almost hit it. At the next light, I pulled up next to the rider and said, "That was very dangerous." He turned and said "I know" in an unfriendly voice. I was surprised to see his face. Neither of us was Japanese. (じゃれマガ May 14, 2012)  

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携帯 : http://catchawave.jp/m/jm/ 

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5. Blogging

• Talk about yourself and your favorite things.
• How was your ... ? What did you do? Where did you ...? (See Blog posts on GW)

Evernote

Evernote は、メモや、ウェブ上の記事や、画像などなどを一カ所に保存できるツールです。

使い方の説明はウェブですぐに見つかります。例えば、アカウント取得して使い始めるまでの説明はこちら。

ウェブページをクリップ（新聞の切り抜きのような感じですね）する機能がとても便利です。Internet Explorer のウェブクリッパー（切り抜きツール）はこんな感じで使うようです。

私は Mac でChrome を使っていますが、Chrome のウェブクリッパー（切り抜きツール）はこんな感じです。

1. Chrome に入れているウェブクリッパーを、ウェブページ上でクリック。

2. クリッパーの窓が開きます。クリップする（切り抜く）範囲を選択して、「記事を保存」をクリック。（※ここでは黄色の枠内をクリップしています）

3. Evernote には下の図のように、記事が保存されます。

Activities | The Classroom | Learning English

Activities | The Classroom | Learning English：VOA Special English の Activities コーナーです。基本的な日常の表現、ビジネス英語、学校での英語表現を学ぶことができます。

iPad や iPhone では見られないのが残念。ぜひパソコンでアクセスしてみてください。

Activities | The Classroom | Learning English 

'via Blog this'

What's Up? (ケイタイ版) のリンク修正しました

Hi everyone.
I just noticed I'd made a wrong link to "What's Up? (ケイタイ版)". It's been fixed now on both the blogs: Eigo@CUC (here) and What's Up?

1B3 May 8

■歌: Can't Take My Eyes Off You

■ブログ紹介: Eigo@CUC（このブログ：授業内容と英語学習素材）What's Up?（学生投稿用）

■Find the right person 1人1人質問していきましょう。（前回の宿題）

1. Hi! My name is ____________. My birthday is June 28. I like playing basketball and listen to music.
 （質問例）When is your birthday? → What’s your name?

2. Hi, my name is _________. I'm from china. I like to watch movies. I'm an only child. （質問）

3. Hi! I am __________. I am eighteen years old. I am from Tokyo city. I like skiing. My hobby is table tennis.
（質問）

4. Hi! My name is _________. I like to listen to music very much. My favorite musician is "LMFAO". "LMFAO" is Rock musician. I like to play soccer, and to watch soccer game. I don't like to study. Thank you!\(^o^)/
（質問）

5. Hi. My name is __________. I have a brother. I'm from Tokyo. I like sports. I was born on November 17, 1993. My friends call me " Kawa".
（質問）

6. Hi my name is ___________. I graduated from kanto daiichi High School. I live in Tokyo. I have a brother. I like reading and watching TV.
（質問） 

7. Hi! My name is ___________. I from mabashi (Funabashi?). I like baseball.
（質問）

■ Take a photo of something you find at CUC. → Post to the students' blog.（投稿練習）

■次回までの宿題：自己紹介文＋写真（好きなもの、よくやることなど）※細かい個人情報は載せないこと！

1B4 May 8

1. 歌：Can't Take My Eyes Off You (Worksheet) (YouTube)

• Flashcards (自習用)
• Test (自習用)

2.  ICT利用と英語学習のアンケート（5〜10分）

3. じゃれマガ：JareMaga1 (Review)

※Scatter is not very good for iPad :-(

Choose a Study ModeScatterLearnFlashcards

Study these flash cards | Study english flash cards

4. Reading, Grammar & Conversation: Golden Week

• 7 students haven't posted their writing yet :-( (May 8, 7:45AM)
• Let me re-check your names. 

1. Read your classmates' Golden Week posts, and answer the following questions: (1) How many went out to other prefectures? Where? (2) How many worked during the holidays?
2. Find your partner's post, and talk about it with him/her. Take notes.
3. Leave a comment on the partner's post. (HW?) 
4. Grammar Check: Worksheet  ★How do you want to have your writing checked?

5. HW

• 歌（Can't Take My Eyes Off You (Worksheet) (YouTube) ）を聞く。
• 歌の語彙を学習する：Flashcards (自習用) Test (自習用) 
• Golden Week のポストにコメント（今日のパートナーを含めて最低2人 By Thursday）→コメント返しをする（Hi ○○. Thanks for your comment. ... By Sunday）
• じゃれマガに購読申し込みをする→毎日読む

★Review: 4/17 & 4/24
★Next week: We're going to visit VOA Special English

☆If you have time, do this too：Reading OL進化論 (Test)　

Review

Hello! In the last class (April 24) we read the following articles from じゃれマガ, and checked words/phrases listed below. We'll review them in class today.

Here's the flashcards to study the vocabulary terms.

Vocabulary

1. 突然 
2. 人気が出る 
3. うちの近所 
4. スマホ 
5. コンビニ 
6. 文化遺産 
7. ぶつかる 
8. 法事 
9. ガソリンスタンド 
10. 車の代わりに 
11. 乗客 
12. 感心していた 
13. 保護する 
14. 出席した 
15. 退屈そうに見えた

じゃれマガ 2012年04月17日号

Japan has changed a lot in the last 10 years. There used to be as many (9)gas stations as (5)convenience stores in (3)my neighborhood. Now there is only 1 gas station nearby, but there are 5 convenience stores in 5-minute walk of our house. Another change is the number of new bicycle stores around Nagoya. (1)All of a sudden big bicycles stores are (2)becoming popular. I'm glad to hear that. I hope that more people are riding bicycles (10)instead of cars. 

じゃれマガ 2012年04月16日号

The Titanic sank 100 years ago on April 14. About 1500 (11)passengers lost their lives when the ship (7)hit an iceberg on its first voyage from England to New York. UNESCO has decided that the ship, which is 4000 meters under the water, will be (13)protected as a (6)cultural treasure ("bunka isan"). No one will be allowed to take or destroy any part of the ship. There are thousands of other ships under the water that UNESCO wants to protect, too. 

じゃれマガ 2012年04月13日号

A reader wrote: Someone I know (14)attended a (8)Buddhist service ("hoji") last Sunday. He didn't understand what the Buddhist monk was saying so he googled "Buddhist sutra" ("okyo") on his smartphone. After the service, someone came up to him and said, "You (15)looked bored. I saw you playing with your (4)smartphone." The man answered, "No, I was just reading the modern version of the Buddhist sutra on my smartphone." The other man (12)was impressed. 

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