What's New at Kyoto NHK ESS?

Dear Kyoto NHK-ESS member
This is the information about the practice on December 16.

(1) Genre: Talk
(2) Title: Fashion
(3) Description
[Step. 0]
I’m going to make several groups of 3 or 4 people.
[Step. 1]
Please talk freely about the following questions.
1. What is your favorite fashion?.
2. Why do you think fashion change?
3. Are you a dedicated follower of fashion?
4. What clothes flatter you?
5. What are the most fashionable clothes you now own?
6. How important is color to fashion?
7. What clothes would you feel uncomfortable wearing?
8. Have you ever bought any clothes that you regret buying?
9. What is the most ridiculous fashion you have ever seen?
10. What clothes that you used to wear would you never wear again?

Hiromi Yamada

Title: December: Let’s describe and discuss each monthly topic!

Please make some groups having 4-5 members in each group.
At first, please choose your own topic from the following list or create your own idea that has something to do with December. No overlap over the topics in your group, please.

List of Topics

christmas, year-end gift, year-end cleaning, bonus, yuzu,pumpkin, year-end party, nabe, toshi-koshi-soba, winter solstice, red and white singing festival, poinsettia,Cyclamen, or Your Own Idea.

Part 1: Design and construction of your prompt speech for 5 min.
Part 2: Present your speech for 1 min.
Part 3: Share idea and opinion on the presented topic in the group for 10 min.
Repeat Part 2 and Part 3 after the first speaker in your group finishes the practice.

ESS Staffs
　　

Hello.

This is an announcement for the second half of practice on 13 January 2024. This is the first practice of the year.

Title: What did you want to be and what do you want to become?
Genre: Group discussion

Form groups and discuss the following points:

- What did you want to be when you were 15 years old?
- What do you want to become?
- Based on the above, what do you want to do this year?

Have a Happy New Year!

Masa Yoshida