Hi! everyone.
This is the announcement of Second Practice on September 29, 2018, next
week.
Sorry for the lateness of this preannouncement but I hope you prepare well
for the next week. Akira Oku.
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Election season is coming or has been passing, e.g., the midterm election in
the US, gubernatorial election in Okinawa, and the election for the
presidency of the LDP in Japan.
Like the citizen judge system in Japan, we the members of Kyoto NHK ESS will
or shall be asked inevitably sooner or later to take part in the staff board
as obligation. Therefore, why don’t we play a candidacy speech in
preparation for that chance?
Composition and Speech
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Example: < Letter from an ESS Leadership Candidate >
Dear ESS Member,
I promise to be very brief, so please do not ignore this message.
My name is Zengyo-Inn Yeses and I am seeking your support and vote for
Leader of the Kyoto NHK ESS Society. I am honored to be a nominee and if
elected, I am determined to be a strong advocate for English learning,
communication and innovation. I believe that I am uniquely qualified to
represent our membership and to be effective in this position because of my
broad and diverse background that includes social, business, academic, and
human relation experience. For more information about my qualifications and
accomplishments, please check my
http://www.zengyoinn-yeses.org.
If elected, my main goal would be to educate ourselves in our discipline
about the significance of nationwide communication through English.
In conjunction with my many years of experience, my recent experience
uniquely prepared me to persuasively articulate the importance of English
communication for the prosperity of our personal life and the society. As a
voluntary group comprised of a variety of people with expertise and ability,
our ESS group has potentiality not only to solve member’s personal problems
but also to participate in social issues such as health-consciousness and
control of climate change.
Please allow me to work with you to accomplish these goals and to fulfill
our volunteer mind to make this world better.
I promised to be brief in the beginning, so let me end this message by
asking again for your support and for your advice. Together we can really
make a difference anywhere.
Sincerely yours,
Zengyo-Inn Yeses
Member of the Kyoto NHK ESS
(Mimicked from ACS newsletter)
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Procedure:
1. First of all, read the letter above as an example of candidacy letter
for the position of ESS leadership. (10 min)
2. Suppose you were to be nominated as a candidate for the leader (or
subleader) of the Kyoto ESS group.
3. Write to prepare your candidacy letter by help of group discussion. If
it takes time, you may just modify or change the phrases underlined in the
above example. (30 min)
4. Hope you play brave to give speech in front of all. (20 min)
Needless to say, I would highly recommend you to prepare the speech in
advance of the day. See you!
Appendix: For Recitation and Singing
Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
Stephen Foster
I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair,
Borne, like a vapor, on the summer air;
I see her tripping where the bright streams play,
Happy as the daisies that dance on her way.
Many were the wild notes her merry voice would pour,
Many were the blithe birds that warbled them o'er:
Oh! I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair,
Floating, like a vapor, on the soft summer air.
I long for Jeanie with the daydawn smile,
Radiant in gladness, warm with winning guile;
I hear her melodies, like joys gone by,
Sighing round my heart o'er the fond hopes that die
Sighing like the night wind and sobbing like the rain
Wailing for the lost one that comes not again:
Oh! I long for Jeanie, and my heart bows low,
Never more to find her where the bright waters flow.
I sigh for Jeanie, but her light form strayed
Far from the fond hearts round her native glade;
Her smiles have vanished and her sweet songs flown,
Flitting like the dreams that have cheered us and gone.
Now the nodding wild flowers may wither on the shore
While her gentle fingers will cull them no more:
Oh! I sigh for Jeanie with the light brown hair,
Floating, like a vapor, on the soft summer air.