Last Updated on 09/29/2008
1. Read Handout (pp. 1-2) and review the first class.
2. Look at the Schedule section and check your presentation date and start thinking about its topic. Your presentation date comes a lot faster than you think!
3. Finish Homewor #1 (Handout, pp. 3-4)
(1) Get the Japan Times (JT) on the morning of Saturday, September 27, 2008 at a newsstand of a train station near your house. Note that the JT is a morning paper and that you cannot buy it in the afternoon. If you should forget to get the JT, go to the JT and buy a copy of the news paper. See here and this map for info about where the JT is. You should call their Sales department first BEFORE you go there.
(2) Use the JT and finish Homework #1. The homework will be collected.
4. Read Handouts (pp. 5-6 and 9-10) and prepare for the next class.
(1) Handout (pp. 5-6) about newspape English.
(2) Handout (pp. 9-10) about how to prepare for your presentation #1.
1. Check to see if you have all class handouts (pp. 1-2, 5-6, 6b, 7-19) and put them in a (clear) folder or a binder.
2. Read Handout (pp. 5-6) and finish the following homework:
(1) Homework in Section III on p. 6
(2) Homework #2 on pp. 7-8.
3. Read Steps 1 and 2 of the OP#1 (the first presentation) on pp. 9-11 and start preparing for your OP#1 little by little, according to the schedule in the Schedule section of our homepage.
4. Read the Presentation Technique Checklist (Handout, pp. 13-14) and review Study Skills presentation techniques for your first presentation (OP#1). We will start studying these presentation techniques from this class.
1. Read the Presentation Technique Checklist (Handout, pp. 13-14 and also supplement handouts, pp. 22-35) and review Study Skills presentation techniques for your first presentation (OP#1). We will review all these presentation techniques in this class.