Last Updated on 06/03/2009
1. Get the Japan Times (JT) on the morning of Thursday, April 18, 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 (e.g., for questions in Sections 3, 6, and 7). If so, write "The information is not available" in the handout. Also, in Sections 6 and 7, "yesterday" means Wednesday, while "today" means Thursday as we bought the Japan Times on Thursday.
3. Read Handouts (pp. 5-6 and 9-10) and prepare for the next class.
4. 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, 7-35) 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 all handouts that are related to this checklist, pp. 22-35) and review Study Skills presentation techniques for your first presentation (OP#1). We will start studying these presentation techniques from April 22.
This class has been canceled due to the instructor's health problem. This means the OP#2 schedule will be changed, and I would like to apologize to all students, especially Mr. Iwahara and Mr. Tsujihiro whose OP#2 were scheduled for this day, as we need to "postpone all OP#2 by one class." Look at the schedule section and check the new presentation dates. Thank you very much in advance for your understanding.
BTW, as I said at the end of the last two classes, if you have not actively participated in OP#1s, prepare better/more for OP#2s. With the new section of "Q&A" after the opinion section, you will have more chance to get participation points in OP#2s. Prepare well for OP#2s: (1) Answer all 5CQs and (2) think of questions about the news stories and/or their topics. I believe you were happy when your classmates particpated in your OP#1. Your classmates need your help to succeed with their OP#2s, because a good presentation is a kind of communication between the speaker and his/her audience.