Last Updated on 04/28/2010
After this class, a couple of students asked me about the handout for Pages 7-8. You did NOT receive this handout in this class. It will be given in the next class as a homework. So don't worry!
1. Get the Japan Times (JT) on the morning of Saturday, April 17, 2010 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 this class.
4. Look at the Schedule section of our homepage and check your MOP date. Also, 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 #2 on pp. 7-8.
3. Read Steps 1 and 2 of the MOP (the first presentation) on pp. 9-11 and start preparing for your MOP 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 (MOP). We will start studying these presentation techniques from April 30.
1. Check to see if you have all class handouts (pp. 1-6, 6b, 9-29, 32-35). Note that I did not give out the handout on pp. 30-31. I am terribly sorry about the confusion. I will give it to you in this class.
2. Read the presentation skill checklist (pp. 13-14). 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.