his is HORI Shigeo, from Kashiba City, and I'd like to inform you all the
2nd half practice of January 10th.
Title: Recollections of 2025 and Prospects of 2026
Genre: Discussion
Presentation
I’d like you to discuss the recollections of 2025 and your hopes and prospects of upcoming 2026. And in so doing, I hope you first to pick up and write down main 3 topics of 2025, public and private respectively.
Next, 1 to 3 topics in 2026, public and private respectively. So first I hope you all to write down some topics on a paper.
Public means mainly social topics on mass media and so on. Facets of this
are presented below.
Private means your personal matters like family matters, matters with your friends, anyway things on your daily life. Of course if you don’t want to speak it, you can skip it.
Procedure
1) Write down 3 public topics in 2025 and 3 private 3 topics on a distributed paper (1 or 2 topics are okay)..
2) Also write down your prospects of 2026, public and private.
3) Make several groups and each group will have a group leader.
4) Discussion under the coordination of the group leader.
5) At the end of this corner, each group leader will present the discussed topics with the paper presented.
Examples of the Social Topics in 2025
Trump Administration (Jan.), Rice Prices Up (Feb.), Fuji TV Problem (Mar.),
Opening of Osaka EXPO, Reciprocal Tariffs (Apr.), Death of Nagashima (June),
Bear Problems,
Ishiba Resignation (Sept.), Takaichi Cabinet Started, Nobel Prize for 2
Japanese Scholars (Oct.),
MVP Ohtani, Tension between China and Japan, Saganoseki Fire, “Kokuho,”
No.1 Income Live-Action Movie, (Nov.), Hot Days (June to Oct.) …
I hope all of you to have good Year End days and Happy New Year.
Thank you.