What's New at Kyoto NHK ESS?

Presenter: Mr. Fukumoto

Genre: Game

Title: Word Association

Description:
I will prepare a sheet with some blanks.
I want you to fill each blank with an word which you come up with
and associate the relation between the two words.
Then, I ask you to explain your way of thinking of your association in your group.

Presenter: Mr. Yamamoto

Genre: Discussion

詳細は後ほどお知らせします。

Presenter: Mr. Kimura

Genre: Discussion and a little bit Writing

Tittle: Traveling Abroad

Description:
＜Answering Time (～6:50)＞
　配られた回答シートにできるだけ具体的、かつ簡潔にご自身の答えをお書きください。
なお、質問は全部で6個あります。以下に質問を掲載します。
プラクティスまでに時間がございましたら、頭の中で考えて頂ければ幸いです。
　Please write your own answers as concrete and critical as possible on your sheet.
There are 6 questions, which are the following.
I hope you will think of these questions in your mind when you have time.

Q1, What are the benefits of traveling abroad?
Q2, Why do you travel abroad? Or why don’t you travel abroad?
Q3, If you have been abroad twice or more times, which country(city) is the best? And why?
If one time, why did you choose the country(city)?
If never, which country(city) do you want to go the best? And why?
Q4, Why don’t younger generation(21~30 year-old) travel abroad? Please guess the reason.
Q5, What do you think of the airplanes as a transportation system? What do you want to request from the airline companies to have good flights?
Q6, Please write any comment about traveling abroad.


グループ内でお一人ずつ回答に基づいて意見発表を行ってください。お一人の持ち時間はおよそ5分です。
　 Please announce your own ideas and answers one by one in the group. At this time, please only to listen to the presenter. Please get the main ideas your speaker gives you.

＜Discussion with Reading Time (7:20~end)＞
　グループ内で回答用紙を回しながら、それぞれの質問についてディスカッションしてください。
なお、配られた回答用紙によりグループ内の人の意見がどのようなものかを確かめてください。
　Please discuss ideas and any comment in your group with passing your answer sheet to the group members. I expect you to read the sheets carefully to get more details and promote the discussion. Any comment will be OK to have a wonderful time.

Presenter: Ms. Hori

Genre: Read and talk

Title: Food for Luck:New Year's Rituals

Description: A few days later, the calendar is becoming December!!
In each country, There is a different rituals about New Year's food for luck.
As we eat noodles on New Year's Eve, other country's people eat
something for luck. I would like you to read the article about Food for luck: New Year's Rituals (selected from Herald Tribune) and exchange your opinion
each other in your group.