Last Updated on 12/2/2009
1. Get the Japan Times (JT) on the morning of Saturday, September 26, 2009 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 BEFORE you go there.
2. Use the JT and finish Handout, pp. 3-4 (Homework #1). Note that this handout was made BEFORE the newspaper was published. Therefore, you may NOT be able to find ALL the information. If so, write "The information is not available" in the handout.
3. Read Handouts (pp. 5-6 and 9-10) and prepare for the next class.
4. Look at the Schedule section of our homepage and check your Presentation #1 date. Start thinking about the topic of your first presentation. Your presentation date comes a lot faster than you think!
1. Check to see if you have all class handouts (pp. 1-2, 5-6, 6b, 7-18) 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 October 2.
1. Check to see if you have all class handouts (pp. 1-6, 9-19, 22-35).
2. Read the presentation skill checklist (pp. 13-14) and prepare for this class. When you read the handout, find (1) presentaiton skills you did NOT study in Study Skills and (2) SS presentation skills you studied but forgot. The checklist (pp. 13-14) tells you which extra handouts (pp. 22-35) to study and review (1) and (2). We will review ALL presentation skills in one hour in this class. Prepare well for this last lecture.
The theme of our English Seminar is "Current Topics about Japan." Please select a news story/article about Japan.
There will be a guidance session for those who are interested in the PCP from 10:30 on October 10. If you are interested in this session, look at this handout and attend it.
I had a dizziness stroke this morning, and I would like to cancel today's class. I am terribly sorry, but this means we need to postpone the rest of all presentations by one class. For example, if your presentation is scheduled for today, it will be put off to the next class on Friday (I will update the schedule section of our homepage as soon as I get better). Note that all these changes in the schedule mean that our already tight schedule will get tighter. I will try to recover from illness, so that I can go back to class on Friday. In the meantime, if you have not given your second presentations yet, take a good care of yourself, so that you can finish them according to the new schedule. Thank you very much for your understanding and cooperation.