What's New at Kyoto NHK ESS?

Dear Kyoto ESS members,

This is Kotera who is going to be in charge of Practice on February 11.
Please refer to this announcement for joining and having fun with us!

Genre: Game

Title: Word Guessing

Descriptions: After breaking up into some groups, a sheet of a copy will be handed out to each of attendees. You will see listed words and phrases on the paper, and explain one in your team without saying the particular words/phrases. I would like to ask other team members to guess the words/phrases with getting clues form the presenter. After getting a correct answer, it is the next person’s tern to be a presenter.

A score sheet will be also prepared for each group and mark the score in your team.

The team which got the highest point within the limited time is the winner!!

There is no penalty of incorrect answers or mistakes, so try to talk a lot in your team. Aim higher points as you can!

Hope all of you enjoy with it. I am looking forward to seeing you on February 11th then.

Have a good Sunday evening!

Best Regards,

Y. Kotera

Hello, everyone, this is Octane (Oku Akira).

I am announcing here to you the practice (80 min) on February 04 at Hitomachi City Center.
Genre: Talk and Discuss.
Title: Let's think about "Happiness" and summarize the discussion.
Description: See below.

Please prepare for the practice in advance. This is the requisite to enjoy.

Let’s think about “Happiness” for now and future

Though being full of zeal and dream, many of us at Kyoto ESS, particularly those between the age 20s and 30s are worrying about the future more than old generations did once. One of the reasons is that, nowadays, the future is not so promising as it once used to be some decades ago. In those days, economy was boiling, job opportunities were like apple cropping and people were looking only onward but not back traces left behind.
In these days, on the other hand, job offering market is shrinking less unless you aggressively open the door to jobs or plow out new markets. Yes, you can do it with zeal, skills, wisdom and, of course, English muscles built up at our ESS.
Don’t complain to this too much globalized world. Instead, let’s take a look at the ways we have left behind and find solutions and encouragement. When you look back thoughtfully, you will find more chances than ever to change the society. You should know that the civilization we have developed is distorted and biased too much for monetary economy, technology and easy lifestyles. We didn’t think what the real happiness for us and the posterity is. We could solve the problem by thinking what happiness and satisfaction are.

Today, let’s discuss about happiness and satisfaction to make our life bright. You are encouraged to build up insights into the future from various wide angles of happiness, e.g., mentality, health, social welfare, peace, economy, culture, technology, environment, energy and resources.

Roadmap for the day’s practice.

Step 01. Make four groups. Each group will be provided with (1) large white paper for poster presentation, (2) felt pens, (3) post-it labels of three different colors, blue, yellow and pink.
Step 02. First, assign the discussion leader of the group. Second, discuss for a short minutes to make the group’s timetable for preparation, discussion and writing for poster presentation. (10 min)

Step 1. Start first, before group discussion, to imagine what is your concept or dream of happiness on both personal and public bases. Use the backside of instruction sheet for draft writing. Then, concisely summarize your image(s) of happiness in two short phrases and write them on two blue post-it labels. The labels shall be posted within the one-third space at the top of poster. (15 min)
Step 2. Start group discussion on the happiness posted there. Then, summarize the results of discussion into several categories and write them on yellow labels using short phrases. The labels shall be posted within the second one-third of the poster space (20 min).
Step 3. In the final step, discuss on plausible problems lying in the way of realizng the happiness. Show ideas how to solve the problems. Finally, summarize both the problems and solutions and write them on pink labels. The labels shall be posted at the bottom of poster (20 min).
Step 4. Presentation: In the last, all posters must be presented with brief explanation (4 min x 4 groups = 16 min). The presentation will be graded by hand raising.

Other examples of how to prepare the poster
Example A. Cascade model. 1) Write key title(s) on the top of cascade. 2) Post blue labels (Step 1) under the title as the start of discussion stream. 3) Post yellow labels (Step 2) on the second stream and the pink ones (Step 3) in the bottom basin of the stream. 4) Draw the streams as a connected flow of logics.
Example B. Tree model. 1) Draw a big tree growing on the ground like a bibliographic or family tree. 2) Put key title(s) in the main trunk, make the tree grow by adding branches one by one along the line of discussion. 3) On the first two branches that are stretched from the main trunk to the right and left, place blue labels (Step 1) like leaves. 4) On the second two branches do so with yellow labels (Step 2). 5) Finally, on top of the tree, show problems and solutions with pink labels (Step 3) so that they look like fruits.

Points of Discussion
1. Are you happy now? If yes, why are you?
2. What is your definition of happiness and unhappiness? Can you draw a line between happiness and unhappiness?
3. Think about selfish and other people’s happiness. Can you divide these two?
When you think of own happiness, can you do so for others and the posterity?
4. How can you measure and describe the level of happiness?
5. Can you mitigate or escape from unhappiness?
6 Can you change unhappiness to happiness?
7. Does happiness depend on the consumption of energy, resources and money?
8. Does happiness depend on science and technology? If yes, then, how much does it?
9. Pick up some dark sides of science and technology. Show how to minimize them.

That's all.
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Dear all: This is Octane the presentor of the practice on Feb 04.

To enjoy the practice "Think what is happiness" next week, following are some reference materials to think about happiness. I hope you would read this in advance.

1. Harmony with Nature: Statement by the Triglav Circle
http://www.uncsd2012.org/rio20/index.php?page=view&type=510&nr=636&menu=20
This paper constitutes the Triglav Circle’s input to the compilation document for the Zero draft of Rio +20. The Triglav Circle is a registered NGO, having special consultative status with ECOSOC. For website see http://www.triglavcircleonline.org
Sustainable Development, Non-Consumerism and Happiness

Since the disaster caused by the earthquake and tsunami in Tohoku area, including the near catastrophic accidents in four nuclear furnaces in Fukushima on March 11 2011, Japan has been facing a difficult decision about which of two paths to take for its nation’s future. One is to continue the present course of consumerism based on fossil and atomic energy, and the other is the frugal social life based mainly on renewable energy sources which in essence depend on solar energy.

These alternatives are just like the paths described in Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring." One is the continuation of the present path, which appears easier than the other; the un-trodden way of harmony with nature appears to be much more difficult. If we should decide to take the harder way, we should examine not only the perspective that it will guide us to a happier society but also what kind of measures should be taken to persuade people to follow it. Failure in the case of environmental change, because of over indulgence in consumerism can wipe humanity from this planet. We should not take a chance by betting on the easy life, since the magnitude of loss is infinitely large. Elise Boulding wrote "Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things."
The fundamental importance of a frugal lifestyle in which harmony with nature is the prerequisite for a sustainable society has been expressed by many Asian historical figures. For example:

Ando Shoeki an 18th century Japanese physician and thinker wrote about the importance of harmony with nature in a startling book "Shizen Shin-eido (自然真営道The true way of life to live in accordance with nature)(3)". The book contains a story about four meetings held by, animals chaired by a monkey, birds chaired by an eagle, insects chaired by a beetle and fishes chaired by a whale. The conclusion of all four meetings coincided with the same statement that: Among all creatures the manner in which humans live is by far the most out of sync with nature. Only people, among all creatures, use money and many of them enjoy life without individual productive labor (agriculture). People make their own "laws" for the benefit of their own profit, most of which are against the law of nature. In short they concluded that the most harmful creature in the world of living things is without doubt people who live in a manner out of harmony with nature.

A similar way of looking at our way of life was written by a Chinese thinker Wang Chong as early as in 1st century in a book "Lunheng (Balanced Consideration)(4). In which is a sentence stating: We call locust a harmful insect because it devours crops we produce. However, if a locust can talk, it will say that crops are not for people only. Heaven gives crops for every creature so that humankind is a harmful 'insect' for locusts.
Since the industrial revolution, people have consistently preferred “development” to the more natural and environmentally sound old fashioned way of life. It must be emphasized that a sustainable economy is an ethical imperative.
If we should decide to take the harder way, we should examine not only the perspective that it will guide us to a happier society but also what kind of measures should be taken to persuade people to follow it.
Hideo Shingu, Ph.D
Member of the Triglav Circle
Representative, Kyoto Energy and Environment Research Association
http://www.enekan.jp/

2. Happiness is
- - (quotes from Charles M. Schulz ”Happiness is a Sad Song”)

・waking up, looking at the clock and finding that you still have two hours left to sleep.
・a side dish of French-fries. ・a new sweatshirt on a cold Saturday morning.
・winning an argument with your sister. ・having something to look forward to.
・the best seat at the parade. ・a big muscle.
・a sad song. ・loving your enemies.
・being tickled under the chin. ・coming home from the hospital.
・hearing the pediatrician say “no, I guess she won’t have to have a shot”.
・a stack of old comic books. ・catching snow flakes on your tong.
・licking the bowl. ・walking hand in hand.
・a warm puppy. ・being too sick to go to school, but not too sick to watch TV.
・letting him win even though you know you could slaughter him.
・walking in the rain together. ・buying somebody a present with your own money.
・the love.

3. Happiness is not a heritage from our ancestors, it is a debt from our future generations.

Hi ! This is Enokki!
I announce about practice on Jan 28th.

① Ｇｅｎｒｅ
Game.

② Ｔｉｔｌｅ
Find the different point of picture.

③ Ｄｅｓｃｒｉｐｔｉｏｎ
1_Make some groups,and divide group into 2 teams.
2_Each other team get some pictures of almost same.This picture has some different points.
This picture won't be shown to another team.
3_Team member asks about picture to another team member, and another team answers.
This action takes several times by turn and find the different point of picture.

Thank you,

Dear Kyoto NHK ESS members

This is an anouncement of the practice on January 21st.

Genre : Talk and Game

Title : Party Games

Description

1.Make some groups.

2.Do you have some interesting games which are suitable for a group of people to play? Share them with us.
These games could be from TV programs, or the parties you have attended....
I will prepare some game examples as reference.
Describe the game by explaining the rule to the group.

3.Pick a game from what are discussed or the examples I prepare, let's play!

I hope everyone will enjoy it. See you then!

Best Regards,
Jia

Dear Kyoto NHK ESS members

This is an anouncement of the practice on January-7th.

Genre : Talk

Title : Wishes for this year

Description

1.Make some groups.

2.Announce your wishes for this year.

3.Discuss ways to achieve the goal.

*What do you have to do ?

*What do you recomend goods to help reach the goal?
(tool. textbook. TVprogram .etc.........)


Please enjoy the practice.


Akiko.Matsui

Kyoto　NHK-ESSの皆さん

＜２０１１年　この一年を振り帰ろう＞　・・・（年末恒例の最長寿番組）

２０１１年に関して・・

　　A　：　自分自身　直接経験したこと

　　　　　　この一年間のあなた自身（成果、達成度）を１００点満点で評価してください。
　　　　　　また、その評価を自分に与えた理由を説明してください。
　　　　　　そして、限りなく１００点に近づける方法は？　
　　　　　　(他）　有意義だった出来事、印象に残った本、人物、映画、など・・

　　B　：　直接には関係していないこと　（　世界、日本での出来事　）

　　　　　　今年の出来事を一つ挙げて、それはどういう点において自分に重要だったと思えるか。
　　　　　　または、この一年をどう解釈するか。

年末でご多忙だとは思いますが、多数の参加をお待ちしています。

＜　Let's Look Back Your 2011 >

　　A　：　Your own experience in 2011
　　　　　　How do you evaluate your 2011?　Your achievements　?
　　　　　　What impressed you most? （　Books, Movie, Person, etc.　）

B　：　Not directly related to yourself but pick out one significant event,affair in Japan or in the world..　
　　　　　Why is it important to you・・what is the reason　・・　　

Hope you enjoy it

K. Yamamoto
　　

Hi,there.
Here’s the announcement of Dec.17.

The Title is Guess What Secret.

It doesn't fall into any genre,sorry.What we’re gonna do is write your secret and guess others’.

Allow yourself to let the cat out of the bag, spill the beans.

You don't have to carry anything but a pen.

Oh,let’s not forget to bring
your own secret.

Thank you.

Tadahiko Noguchi

Dear Kyoto NHK ESS members:
this is the information about the practice on Dec. 10 2011
at the "people, town, meeting hall"

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person in charge : A. Nakanishi

genre : consultation to get the right answers

title : quizzes about famous places in Kyoto

description : make some groups

each group is composed of five (or six) people.

you'll get the questions about Kyoto which look like
conundrums or ciphers at first

please consult with your group members and reach
to the right answers

guidebooks will help you, but please refrain to connect
to the Internet during this practice

thank you
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Hello,everyone!!
This is a notice of the practice on December 3rd.

Genre: Talk&Writing
Title: Looking back your own 2011 year.

Before long, we will meet 2012 year.
How do you spend this year?
In this practice , we look back 2011year
by making mind map.

*mindmap official site : http://www.mindmap.or.jp/about/
I beg a favor of you, could you bring some color pen(at least 1～3 )

Description:

1,Make few groups.
2,I hand out a resume.
　3,Making mini mindmap(5min)
(write down 10 key words about 2011)
4,Selecting priority key words from mini mind map.
(up to 5) ,and Making your orijinal mind map (20～25min)
5,Talk about your 2011 year and 2012plan if you have already.

I hope you will enjoy this practice.Best wishes.

Mie Iwasaki

Hi, Kyoto NHK ESS members.
Here is notice of the topic for the practice on November 26

Genre : Talk
Title : Dietary Habit

As the proverb says, YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT.
If you eat well, you will be well, but if you eat badly you will feel bad.
Dietary habit is literally FOOD FOR THOUGHT!

Do you have healthy dietary habits?
If your answer is yes, please share your eating habits with members in your group.
If your answer is no, what prevents you from them?

Let’s talk about your daily eating life.
If you have any points to keep in your mind or care about any special foods in your everyday meals so as to stay healthy, please exchange your ideas.

Followings are some tips to proceed with your conversation, but you don’t need to stick them.

1 What do you usually/regularly eat for breakfast, why do you have them and where?
Are there any points or comments in your breakfast?

2 What do you usually/regularly eat for lunch, why do you have them and where?
Are there any points or comments in your lunch?

3 What do you usually/regularly eat for dinner, why do you have them and where?
Are there any points or comments in your dinner?

4 Do you have special food items or ingredients in your meal that you consider
efficient for your health?

5 How often do you eat out and what are your important aspects when you choose a restaurant?
A taste, a price, an atmosphere, a location or anything else? Please prioritize them.

If it is possible, please write down some related words about what you eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner during this week.

Hope you will enjoy talking and get some hints to improve your eating habits after this practice.

Thanks
Fujio Hirano

Dear Kyoto NHK ESS members,

This is an announcement of the practice on November 19th.

Genre: Talk
Title: What’s your Dream Home?

What is the most important for you, housing, food, or clothing? What’s it like where you live and have lived? Let’s choose our priorities of a place to live. I’ve prepared some questions. You can think about your ideal house.

I hope you can enjoy it.

Shiho Nakashima

Dear Kyoto NHK ESS members

This is an announce of the practice on November 5th.

Genre:Talk
Title:Describe How to ....
Description

1 Make few groups.
2 Please teach us how to ....
For example,please describe how to make fried eggs.
First,take out the eggsfrom the fridge.
Then,crack the eggs into a bowl....
How to make okonomiyaki,How to kill a cocKroach,everything OK.

I hope you will enjoy this practice.

From Toｋunaga

Dear ESS members,

Good day.
I would like to share the following topic on this next ESS practice, Oct 29th.

1. Genre: Discussion, Performing, Presentation
2. Title: Advertisement
3. Description: Advertising is a form of communication used to persuade an audience (viewers, readers or listeners) to take some action with respect to products, ideas, or services. Most commonly, the desired result is to drive consumer behavior with respect to a commercial offering. In this practice, we are going the share what advertisement your have seen or heard before. After discussing, we are going to make an advertisement in each group and present to others.

Hope we will have a nice talk and time :-)

rgds,
Hajime Sugiuchi

Dear Kyoto NHK ESS members

I am writing to inform you about my practice on 22nd of October.

Genre : Game
Title : Let’s speak a lot and help each other.
Description :
Make some groups.
I am going to give a sentence in each group.
Choose a writer in your group who only can not look at the sentence that I give you
so the others need to describe a word in the sentence one by one to the writer.
But you can NOT tell exactly the word.
And then the writer have to write it down on a paper making the sentence completely.
However, this is a kind of competition!!
We need to work together and make the sentence faster than the other groups!!

I look forward to doing this opportunity and hope you enjoy it.

Best regards
Ai Tahara

①Genre 【talk】

②Title 【Gourmet in Kyoto】

③Description

Do you like a delicious food?
Kyoto is a sightseeing spot, and there are many shops full of performances.
Please introduce a restaurant or shop to be absolutely recommended each other.

1) Name of restaurant
2) Place / Map
3) Recommended point

Thank you very much!
Yurika Hashimoto

Dear Kyoto NHK ESS members,

This is an announcement of the practice on October 8 .

Genre:Talk
Title:Hobbies
Description:
1 Make some groups.
2 Share your hobbies and talk about them.
What was your childhood hobby?
What is your hobby now?
Where is fun?
What do you want to try as a new hobby?
etc

Let's talk about various episodes about your hobbies.
Practice and enjoy a free talk with ESS members.

Thank you.

K. Hotokezaka

Hello!

This is to announce the practice on October 1.

Genre: Game (ROLE PLAY)

Descriptiom:

1,Make a few groups.
2,I hand out a famous picture book to each group.

(~18:00)
Think about a skit.
3,Decide your roles.
Think if you play all the story or a part of it.
And make your lines.

(~18:30)
4,Finally, play the role.
Others guess what the story is.

I hope you will enjoy this practice.
Best wishes.

Chikako Morita

Genre : Talk
Title : How to promote an artist to signalize her
Description :

Could you please project marketing strategy for me?
I've been painting for 10 years and have a dream to be successful in an art market.
I have had some solo show as well as a lot of group shows in NY and Tokyo so far.
Some people including teachers in an art school in NY told me that I am supposed to be a successful artist though, I don't know how to make it yet so I would like you all to help me.

Please divide the members into a few groups and talk about
1) How do you make a pitch of me?
2) How should I make changes to develop my potential to be successful?
3) How do you feel my art work simply?

After discussion, please give me your good idea!

Please review my website in advance:)
http://sanaeyoshikawa.jp/

Best Regards,

Sanae Yoshikawa

�genre talk
�title 　 sightseeing of Kyoto

� description
Have you ever shown around foreigners here in Kyoto?
Let`s suppose you take them to Golden Pavilion ,
Kiyomizu Temple and Ryouanji Temple.
How do you explain in English?

Please divide the members into a few groups and talk about
1) when the architecture or garden was built?
2) by who that was built?
3) its characteristic and so on.

After that ,there`s something to be added to that explanation,
let`s talk about it.
Please study beforehand briefly about Golden Pavilion,
Ryouanji Temple and Kiyomizu Temple.
Thank you.

Mr. Ohishi

Dear All,

This is an announcement of the practice on 10th of Sept.

Genre:Talk
Title:TRAVEL

Description: I will provide 10 questions to you about travel.
Please enjoy this practice.

Thank you.

N.Yauchi

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Discussion

� Ｔｉｔｌｅ
Smart Cells ( iPS cells )

� Ｄｅｓｃｒｉｐｔｉｏｎ
Let's talk about smart cells

Cut your finger and skin will heal : the brain may hold the potential to grow new cells,etc., etc..
Other interresting topics related to iPS ( induced Pluripotent Stem ) cells.

Note: a few materials related to iPS cells will be provided for the discussion.

Ms. Tokunaga

こんにちは。高井です。
8/27(土)のプラクティスの予告を行います。

Genre: disccussion and games

Title: Translated by computer

Description:

Computer technology has been evolving. Of course translator is also.
We can understand several sentences written in foreign languages even you don’t know immediately.
Maybe some members use it when they send e-mail for foreign friends.
But translation of long sentences, it sometimes comfuses us what it mea

Dear Kyoto NHK ESS members,

This is an announcement of the practice on August 20.

Genre:
The four skills ――― listening, understanding, imaging & reading aloud.
Title:
Let's play KARUTA and enjoy it together！

Description:
Playing KARUTA（card）together.
After that, ………（secret）……。

　Please relax and I hope you will enjoy this practice together！

★先ずは、蝉の声を聞きながら、静かなお寺の和室で…。

★機会があれば、蛍の飛び交う、イエイエ、蛍光灯の明るい『ひと・まち交流館』でも、またいつか…。

　Thank you.

　　From Yuuho(Ufo) MASUDA♪

Dear Kyoto NHK ESS members,

This is an announcement of the practice on August 13th.

Genre: Talk

Theme: Shopping

What's your most memorable shopping in recent times?
Have you ever negotiated discounts? What results?
Do you like internet shopping? If yes, what did you buy? If no, why don't you use internet for shopping? etc.

Let's talk about various episodes of your shopping.
Practice and enjoy a free talk with ESS members.

Tomoko Kajita

Hello, there!

This is an announcement of the ESS practice on August 6, 2011.
I hope you like it :-)

Cheers!

-- Masakazu Yoshida

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Genre: Group discussion

Title: Judgement and Choice Baiases

Description:

Life is a matter of choices. It always seems hard for me to make a good descision. Let's think about judgement and choice baiases through group discussion.

First, you will be asked to cope with problems from Gilboa's book [1]:
Read the problems carefully and write down your decisions if you were under those circumstances.

Then, let's discuss about your choices and share your insights:
Explain the reasons why you made your decisions and compare with others. Are there any differences or tendencies (biases)?

I hope this practice might be food for thought.
Thanks for reading.

References:

1. Itzhak Gilboa, "Making Better Decisions: Dennison Theory in
Practice," Wiley-Blackwell 2011.

2. Itzhak Gilboa, "Rational Choice," MIT Press 2011.
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Dear Kyoto NHK ESS members

This is an announcement of the practice on July 30th.

The theme of practice is 'THE WORLD HERITAGE".

1. Please read the "CONVENTION CONCERNING THE PROTECTION OF THE WORLD HERITAGE AND NATURAL HERITAGE"
and talk about this treaty. This is official document therefore is something stiff and formal.
But please try to go through it.( I will distribute it at the temple)

2. What is your most favorite world heritage site which you did not visit?
Please explain the name of the site and the reason to the other member of your group.

3. Please explain the world heritage site which you have visited.
Please try to explain how wonderful/beautiful/impressive the world heritage site is/are.
If possible add some background information or personal travel experiences to it.

4. Is there something which you want to add to the world/local heritage site or Intangible Cultural Heritage（無形遺産）?
Please recommend something which you recognize to be precious to the world/local area/specific group/yourself and why you think so.

Please enjoy talking on the topic.
See you at the temple.

Hiroaki Ishizaki

Dear Kyoto NHK ESS members

This is an announcement of the practice on July 16th.

Genre: Talk

Title: Let's talk about your recommendation

Description:
1. Make some groups.
2. I will prepare a dozen topics for each group.
　 Here are the examples of topics.
　　・Something to help stay cool.
　　・Good way to know the latest news
　　・Emotional movie
　　・How to increase your money
　　・Good way to make friends with a nice guy
3. Each member of the groups, in turn, chooses an interested topic.
　 And let's talks about each member’s recommendations about the topic.

I hope you will enjoy this practice.
Thank you.

Mutsumi Kimura

Dear Kyoto NHK ESS members,

This is an announcement of the practice on July 9th.

Presenter: Kumiko Takada

Genre: Talk

Title: Let's talk about Animal Rights.

1. Killing Animals

When is Okay to kill an animal? When is not okay?
Tell the other members what you think and give a reason why.
ex. I think it's okay to kill an animal when it's causing a problem because......
it's not okay to kill an animal to get its meat because......

Would you kill an animal? In what situation?
What animals have you killed before?


2. Animal Rights

What rights should animals have?
ex. People must never use animals for scientific testing.
People must make sure their pets stay healthy.

Let's talk about Animal Rights

I hope you all enjoy the practice.

Thanks,
Kumiko Takada

Dear All,

This is an announcement of the practice on July 2.

Do you have a dream which you really hope to realize?
Have you achieved your childhood dream?
In this practice, I want you to talk about your dreams.

Genre:Talk
Title:Dreams
Description:1 Share your childhood dreams with other members.
2 Talk about your dreams you have now and think what you should do to realize them
3 Tell your dream briefly in front of all the other members.

Please come and enjoy the practice.
Thank you.

Junko Nakano

Dear Kyoto NHK ESS members,
This is an announcement of the practice on June 25nd
① Genre : English Game
② Title: Bingo
③ Description: (Himitsu)
If I let you know about the details of the Bingo Game, it’ll be less interesting, so I want it to be a himitsu-no-akkochan.
Please relax and enjoy it, using as much English as possible, I hope.
From Yamamoto Masahiro

Dear KYOTO NHK ESS members,
This is an announcement of practice on June 18.
I am sorry, I will absent 6/11. So I would like you to announce the contents of 6/18's practice tomorrow.

TITLE: WALDEN
GENRE: READING, WRITING, DISCUSSION and SPEECH.

The outline of the practice is as follow:

1. INTRODUCTION
The book “Walden” was written by Henry David Thoreau and published in 1854. He had lived alone in a house he built on the shores of Walden Pond, and earned his living by himself for two years and two months. While and after he lived in Walden, he thought about civilized modern society, what is necessary for life, what we live for and so on. In today’s practice, we will read articles and then, discuss our lives.

2. READ BELOW ARTICLE
What is necessary for life [H.D.Thoreau, Walden, IBC Publishing, pp.15-24] Just for a moment, let us look at all the trouble and worry in our lives, and see how much we should really be troubled or worried. What I meant by “necessary for life” is this: all the things that people gained by the labor of their own hands, people have considered from the first, or people long used, they are absolutely necessary. For most animals, food is the only thing they need. As for human, what is necessary for life may be divided up into four things. Food, clothing, shelter and fuel. It is only after we have gotten these four that we are ready to think about problems of life with any freedom or hope of success. Fire was probably discovered by accident, and at first it was a luxury. But now we cannot live without it. Even dogs and cats copy their master and sit by the fire. In some countries, summer is nearly a perfect time of a year, seen from human point of view. Fuel is unnecessary except to cook. The sun provides fire that is needed, and some kind fruit is “cooked” by its ray. A variety of food is ready at hand, and clothing and shelter, for the most part, are not needed.

3. THINK ABOUT OUR LIVES
(1) Write the inconvenience of modern society.
(2) Write down necessary goods in modern society except for food, clothing, shelter and fuel.
(3) If you went to Japan of 19th century, what would you bring? Why?

4. DISCUSSION
Select the best thing to bring to 19th century in your group.

5. SPEECH
Give a speech to other groups about the best thing and its reason.

(*) If you find a wrong or poor expression, let me know it.

I hope that we all can enjoy the practice.

Tadahiro, UESUGI

Presenter: Ms Inoue

Dear Kyoto NHK ESS members,

　　Hello there, ladies and gentlemen♪
　　This is an anouncement of the practice on June 11th.

Genre: Talk
Title: Let's talk about fortune telling!

Do you believe in fortune telling?
Do you watch "Today's Horoscope Count down Hyper" on every weekday morning?
Do you like character judgement by blood types?
Do you know what animal you are in the Animal fortune telling?
Do you have a book of the Six-star fortune telling written by HOSOGI Kazuko?
Do you know that the Four-pillar Suimei is called "the Royal road" of fortune telling?
Do you have the "KY line" on your palm?
Have you ever visited a fortune teller? What did she or he tell you about your future? Did it realize?

Let's talk about fortune telling!

I hope you all enjoy the practice.

Dear ESS members,

This is an announcement of the practice on Jun 4.
The outline of the practice is as follows.

Genre:Talk
Title:Interview by kindergarten child

Description:
1. Make some groups
2. 1person - Answerer,Others - Interviewer of kindergarten child
3. Answerer to disclose 1 topic to others for Q & A
4. Interviewer to ask question based on child thinking/horizon
For example;
1 ) Answerer Mr.Yamada disclose 'Osama bin Laden's assassination by
United States ' as a topic for Q & A
2 ) Interviewer ask question
-Why did US kill him?
-Why many Terrorists are attacking US?
-Why many Terrorists are from Islamite?
-Ｈow can they be friends? etc
5. Remarks
Answerer must answer the essence simply so that child can understand.
This means that Answerer is required to have the deep knowledge and
understanding about the topic.
So,pls disclose the topic which you are so familier or strong.
You will find what you are understanding or not yet even if you have
100% confidence about it right now.

I am happy if you find something to improve yourself.

Kawakami

Dear 　Kyoto　NHK　ESS　members,

Hello, everyone!!
This is an announcement of next
practice.

Gerne: Talk
Title: Talk about Social Networks

Social networks, such as facebook or mixi, are now getting more and more attention.

I would like you to feel the air of social networks first.
And after that, please talk about them.

In this practice:

1. Fill in an introduction page of facebook and talk about it in group.
Example of topics:
favorite words, respective person, favorite book and so on

2. Talk about social networks.
Example of topics:
Why do you use or not use social networks?

Why are they so growing now?
Are they dangerous or not?
etc...

I'm happy if you have fun.

Best regards,
Kazuyuki Sugimura

Presenter : Ms. Nakata

Dear Kyoto ESS Members

Hi,everyone.
This is an announcement of next practice.

Genre : Imagine
Title: Let's make a story.

In this practice, we will make a story every group.
And please tell us the story.

I hope you will enjoy it!!

See you soon.
Keiko Nakata

Presenter : Mr. Tamura

Dear ESS members,

This is an announcement of the next practice on May 14.
The outline of the practice is as follows.

Genre: Talk
Title: Talk about your questions or troubles about learning English
Description:
1 Make some groups
2 Write one of the questions or troubles you have about learning English on paper.
For example:
Can “just listening to English CDs” make it possible to speak English fluently?
I want to improve my English vocabulary. What is the effective way to develop it?
3 Show the paper and explain the trouble or question more in detail to other members. After listening to the explanation, talk about it in the group. If anybody has good advice or solutions, don’t hesitate to tell them. Then go on to the next member’s trouble or question.

I hope you can get good advice or solutions through the practice.

Tamura

Presenter : Mr. Tanaka

Genre : talk

Title : Let's talk about "Golden Week " of this year !


How are you spending time in this G.W ? having good time??
Please tell us what you did, where you went in the week.

It would be helpful if you bring some pictures that you took in G.W.
Hope you will enjoy talking with your group members.


Ryuichi Tanaka

Presenter : Mr. Yasuda

Dear 　Kyoto　NHK　ESS　members,

Hello, everyone!!
This is an announcement of next practice.

Gerne: Talk
Title: Let's talk about the fashion!!

In this practice, we will talk about the fashion.

For Example,
1 What makes the fashin change?
2 Influence of the Tokyo Girls Collection
3 others

I hope you will enjoy it

*By the way, on 30th Apr. we will gather at a fashionable temple which is much different
from normal temples. Hope to see you at the fashionable place with fashionable talk.

Regards,
Kazu Yasuda

Presenter : Mr. Hori

Dear Kyoto NHK members,

This is Shigeo HORI, living in Kashiba City.
I'd like to announce you the details of practice on April 23.

Genre: Discussion.

Title: Reckless Oldsters

Description:
According to White Paper on Crime in 2010, old people's crimes are increasing rapidly. And we see some old people claiming and asserting and shouting
at a library, coffee shops, hospital and so on. A male write, Tomomi Fujiwara named this type of oldsters as "Boso Roujin." Until recently, people believed that
old people were modest, calm, and non assertive at the public places. They are believed to be protected by social welfare system. But recently we witness some
reckless old timers at the public spaces. Fujiwara commented the reason behind these is accelerating social and technological change (cell phone, Internet, etc.),
and old people are hard to catch up with this trend compared to youngsters.

On 23rd, I'd like you to discuss this social matter and find the good way to lead your later life in this electric media society.
ps. Please Do NOT discuss the matters in this ESS.

Thank you.

Dear 　Kyoto　NHK　ESS　members,

Hello, everyone!!
This is an announcement of next practice.

Gerne: Talk
Title: Let's talk about your favorite!!

In this practice, we will talk about your favorite things. For Example, favorite sports, music and so on.
If you have your favorite photo please bring it .
I hope you will enjoy it (^0^)

Best regards,
Satoko Ohkubo

Presenter: Mr. Oku
Dear ESS members:

My name is A.O., and my nickname is Aou Ping. How are you doing?
As I have pre-announced at today's class room, it's my pleasure to take charge of the next practice on April 2.
The outline of the practice is as follows.

Genre: English Composition (Japanese-to-English translation).

I'd recommend that you prepare for this in advance because it may be a bit tough to complete Japanese-to-English translation in a limited time. To prepare, the entire body of practice is presented here on the Round Table. Please enjoy.

English Composition

Process:
(1) Make a group consisting of three people.

(2) One person must choose one topic from four Japanese passages printed below. Roughly, passages 1 and 2 are for advanced, 3 and 4 for introductory people.

(3) Allotted time for writing English translation is 25 min.

(4) Exchange the answer sheets in the group at random and start proofreading: Don’t hesitate to correct other person’s writing. No correction no advance. Use a dictionary and color pens. [20 min]

(4’) After finishing correction and modification, focus your primary attention to the usage of articles “a”, “an”, and “the” (see the attached reference material “Using Articles”). (not attached to Round Table announcement). Then go to other corrections.

(5) Return the corrected sheets to writers, who read it orally and explain how and why the writing is corrected. Discuss any possible subject but only in English [25 min].

１．科学技術者の心

私たち人間は、地球が何を考えているのかわからないまま、この小さな球体の上で生かされている。なのに、この有限の世界でとめどなく欲望を拡大し続け、それが限界を越えたことに気付いていない。すでに地球は無言のシッペ返しを始めたが、将来世代はそれに対して諦めと恨み言しか言えないのである。だから我々は、地球の財産を食い逃げせずに、金銭的・物質的・エネルギー的な欲望に溺れぬように身を正し、子孫への負債を軽くしなければならない。

ところが、新しい科学技術が次々と現れて経済の歯車に組み込まれると、人々は、それなしには幸せになれないと思い込む「取り残され恐怖症候群」に罹り、地球を蝕んでゆく。これが資本主義経済社会の特徴なのだ。だから科学技術者には、人の心の弱さを知って冷静に未来を見通し、科学技術と経済のバランスを考える責任がある。そして清貧の心と地球への感謝を社会に根付かせるのだ。

２．坂の上の雲は暗い

この社会は、ブレーキの壊れた満員バスを坂の上へ押し上げているようなものです。登り坂の向こうは下り坂、でも乗客は修理を後回しにして峠の上へ運転手をせきたてている。そんなに急いでどうするの、見てごらん、峠は雨雲に覆われて暗いのです。

私たちの経済中心社会は、限りのない欲望を乗せ、資本主義経済と科学技術というスーパー燃料を積んで坂道を上がる欠陥バスなのです。権威ある指導者たちはこれを発展だと言ってますがね。

亡くなった俳優の北林谷栄さんを偲んで、東北地方の民話が新聞に引用されていました。「ばあさまが山に捨てられることになり、せがれに背負われ深い山にのぼったそうな。ばあさまをおいて帰りかけたせがれは下りる道を見失う。仕方なく捨てたばかりの母親のもとに戻りたずねた“どうすべえか”。ばあさまは言ったそうな。“おめえの背中にぶっつわりながら道々枯れ枝をおっくじき道しるべにしてきたから、それを頼りにけえれや”」と。私たちにはこの姿が望まれているのかも。

３．３月１２日の天声人語から

テレビ画面を正視することができなかった。瓦礫と海水の混じり合った津波が濁流のように家を、畑を、道路を呑み込んでいく。走っている車に波がのしかかる。ああ、だれか乗っているのだ、お父さん？お母さん？兄さん姉さん？だれかにつながる、かけがえのない命が呑まれてゆく。

マグニチュード９の猛烈な揺れ、被害はどれほど広がるのか。震源から遠い東京でも震度５強で揺れた。黒煙を上げるビルが職場の窓から間近に見え、いまも大地は不気味に揺れ続けている。

日本列島はプレートのぶつかり合う上に乗る。その危うさを物理学者の寺田寅彦は「国土全体が吊り橋の上にかかっているようなもの」とたとえた。その吊り橋の鋼索が切れた。

夜が明ければさらなる被害が確かめられよう。生命、財産、故郷の町並み、失われたものの大きさに打ちのめされる人たちとの絆を失うまい。こんなときに繋ぐための手が、私たちの心にはある。

４．ポルトガル

1543年、ポルトガル人は初めて鹿児島県の種子島を訪れました。いわゆる「鉄砲伝来」です。このポルトガル人が最初に日本を訪れたヨーロッパ人であり、徳川幕府による鎖国政策の前まで。日本人にとりポルトガル人が最も身近なヨーロッパ人でした。当時のポルトガル語は現在の英語のように最も身近な外国語で、パン、シャボン、カッパなど、当時のポルトガル伝来の外来語が、現代日本語にもたくさん残っています。

ポルトガルを旅行した日本人のほとんどが、ポルトガル語に好意的な反応を示します。歴史的に見ても日本との関連が深く、親近感を持てることも理由の一つでしょう。また、食文化が似通っていることもありそうです。ポルトガルのパンは日本の菓子パンのような、皮の薄いパンが多い。因みにお隣のスペインに行くとフランスパンのような表面が固いパンが中心になる。そのコントラストに驚かされます。料理もイワシの塩焼きなど日本人が普段食べている料理とそっくりなものに、よくお目にかかります。加えて、ここに住む人々の穏やかさが、日本人旅行者に安心感や、親しみを感じさせるのかもしれません。

以上

Presenter: Mr. Nakamura

Dear Kyoto NHK ESS members,
Hello, everyone

I am Shimon Nakamura, living in Nakagyou ward, and have an honor to present you a practice on March 26th.
This is the second time for me to do so.

Genre: Ｖｏｃａｂｕｌａｒｙ building and listening comprehension practices.
First of all, please, perking up your ears, listen to NHK radio world news for about 10 minutes.
It is my every day's task to listen the NHK radio world news, for which I am keen to overcome.

Next, vocabulary building 30 words and listening comprehension practice of news topics, tape (a).
I will ask you the meanings of the words and the contents of the news story.

and as tape (b), I will further introduce 30 words and another news story.
You are requesed to memorize the meanings while listening.

I hope this will be useful and help improve your ability further more.

Sincerely yours,
Shimon Nakamura(中村　史門）

Presenter: Ms. Tanihara

Genre: Game

Title: Let's build up your vocabulary!

At first, please make some groups to have 4-6members in each group.

Part 1: English vocabulary quizzes
This game is guessing the English word from the definition of Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

Part 2: English riddle .
Please answer English riddle using active imagination.

Part 3: Liberal culture questions in English.
Let’s try to answer questions of liberal culture, such as
social studies, science, and English in English.

I hope you will enjoy it! See you on Saturday.

Best wishes,

Presenter: Mr. Inoue

Title：　News

Genre：　Conversation　

Description :
The news contents of the conversation.
Sports , World affairs, Japan News,Culture etc


Best regards,

Presenter: Mr. Sugiuchi

Dear Kyoto ESS members,

March is a very busy period in Japan. -Exams, school graduation,
transfers, paper work has to be finalized, reports, and many more
stuff.
Now, I am also the one who is suffering :-( However, and then, in
April, comes the cherry blossom season.
In this season, people gather under the sakura and have fun, drinking,
eatting, hosting a barbeque, talking until late in the evening.
On the other hand, it is also period that you have a new start,
entering school, staring a new fiscal year, starting new job, starting
a new hobby.

In the next practice, I would like to focus on "SPRING".
I will prepare several topics related and you could share it with your
group members.

Best regards,

Presenter: Mr. Yauchi

目的は”話し方、パブリックスピーキング、コミュニケーション力全般の上達”
と銘打って、２分間スピーチを行います。

すすめ方として　まず６人程度のグループを作っていただきます。
まず役割として、進行役、タイムキーパー役を決めてください。
こちらより用意したスピーチ用のお題を進行役の方は進行役ご自身を含め
皆さんにお題を無作為に配ってください。　（ここまで５分で終えてください。）

お題を各自確認し、皆さんの前で発表する２分間スピーチの原稿を練って
ください。（約１５分で終えてください）

＜コメントの作成＞
その後グループ内で、一人ずつ２分間スピーチを行ってもらいます。
スピーチを聞く側の人は、紙をお渡ししますので、以下の２点について
コメントを記入して、スピーチされた方に渡してください。
①　スピーチでよかった点（美点凝視でお願いします。）
②　改善点（改善すればさらにスピーチが良くなる部分）

このアドバイスが、客観的に自分のスピーチを評価できます。

＜すすめ方＞

進行役は　発表順を決める。
　↓
　各自スピーチを行う。　
　（２分きっちりで終わるようにタイムキーパーの方は
　タイムマネジメントをしっかりとお願いします。）
　
　↓

　聴衆役の方は、スピーチについてのコメント用紙を記入
　スピーチを行った方に渡す。

　↓
　
　スピーチを行った方が感じた印象を皆さんに伝える。

　上記のサイクルを約６～８分で行ってください。

ポイントとして、２分間のスピーチ時間の中に、起承転結をしっかりと
入れ込むこと。また”落ち”も入れて見てください。

英語の上手い、下手ではなく、コミュニケーションの「ツール」として
英語を使い、雰囲気に臆せず自分の意見を堂々と発表してください。

それではお寺でお会いしましょう。

Presenter: Ms. Kimura
Genre: Discussion
Title : Social issues

Description:
I will prepare some materials about some social issues.
I want to you make some groups, and discuss about these topics.
Please pay attention to other member’s opinion and express your opinion.

I hope you enjoy this practice and broaden your idea.

Presenter: Ms. Inoue
Genre: Translation
Theme: 七福神

I will inform you all the practice on Feb. 12th.
Its topic is "the seven lucky dieties".

I am afraid to say that I guess most of you cannot name all of the4 seven lucky dieties.
I would like you to know, not only their names, but also who they are.
I will give you their introduction in Japanese, so please translate it into English.
We will make four or five groups to translate together. Please feel free to speak in
Japanese while talking together to translate. I think it is better to do this, especially for
beginners.
At the end of the practice, please present your translation of the sentences I choose
for each group.

Presenter: Ms. Morita

Genre: Game

Title: "Words relay game and Imitating game"

Description:

Make some teams.
Introduce yourself to your group members.

= First 30 minutes === Words relay game.
1,Form lines by team.
2,The first person of a line is supposed to read and memorize a sentence on a sheet.　
3,Tell the sentence to the next person and relay it to the end of the line.
4,The last person will write the sentence on paper and read it out.　
5,The faster you'll do correctly, the more points you'll get.　　

= Second 30 minutes === Imitating game.
1,For 5 minutes, think of what you're going to imitate in English.
2,In turn,imitate someone/something, and other members will guess it.
(PASS is allowed only 3 times)

For example your mother,your father,your teacher,your group member, BAKABON's father,Martin Luther King,Jr. and so on...

When you were a child, your friends mimicked your mother, your father and so on.
Now you mimic your close parson.
So you can do impressions of someone/something.
If someone mimic his/her mother, it's OK just to answer "YOUR MOTHER".

I hope you all enjoy this practice.

Presenter: Mr. Tabata

ESS members,
Many of you may know “Justice”which is one of the most popular courses
by Prof. Michael Sandel in Harvard University.
The course is well known as ハーバード白熱教室. in Japan.
In this practice, I would like you to discuss “Justice”

Genre: Discussion
Title : Justice　－ What’s the right thing to do? －
（ハーバード白熱教室 without Sandel）
Description:
1. Make about 6 groups.
2. Read the handout and express your opinion for some questions concerning
about “Justice”

(Q1) Suppose you are driving the car at a speed of 100km an hour and find
the brake is broken and 5 people　are on the road in front of you.
There is not enough time for you to stop. If you keep straight,
you will hit and kill them, but if you swerve left into side way, you will
collide with a worker and kill him (only one person).
What would you do? Is it always permissible to harm a smaller number in
order to prevent harm to a large number? What’s the right thing to do?

(Q2) An ordinary teacher can gain about 4 million yen a year.
Baseball player Ichiro can gain about 1.5 billion yen a year.
Obama, President of the US, can gain 36 million yen a year.
Thus, Obama earns about 10 times as much money as an ordinary teacher.
Ichiro earns about 42 times as much money as Obama, about 400 times as much
money as an ordinary teacher.
Is it the fair redistribution? Should Ichiro be given 42 times as much money
as Obama?

3. Share with your group members.
I will give you a sheet with some hints of the practice.　

The content of it is very difficult, but I’ll try to prepare hard so that
you can discuss easiily

Just feel the old philosophers’ idea and enjoy sophisticated discussion!.

If you preview the following HP, the discussion will be easier.

http://www.nhk.or.jp/harvard/archive.html
http://www.nhk.or.jp/harvard/index.html
http://www.justiceharvard.org/index.php?option=com_sectionex&view=category&id=8&Itemid=46
http://www.visualecture.com/wordpress/?page_id=3139 ←重いです。

Presenter: Ms. Takesue

Genre: Talk

Title: Share your childhood memories.

Description:

1. Make some groups of 4-6members.

2. I will give you a sheet with some hints of the practice and a blank one to write down.　

Hints：

What type of child you were, active or quiet? Tomboy or bully?

How many siblings did you have and where did you stand in them?

How did your parents treat you? Let you alone or meddle with you?

What were your favorite TV programs or books and did they have influence on you? How?

Where did you spend time for fun and what kind of play did you enjoy most?

Tell us about your friends you played with most in those days.

Tell us about your memorable events.

Were you an athletically gifted child or had rather slow reflexes?

Did you keep pets? What were they and tell us about them.

Did you have any lessons(music,art,swimming,etc)? What were they? Did you like or enjoy them?

Other than above, tell us whatever childhood stories you could remember.

I hope you enjoy this practice and this will help you understand more of you each other.

Presenter: Mr. Sugiuchi
Genre: Talk
Title: New Year's Resolution

Description:
Make groups consist of 4 to 6 people as usual.
Share your new year's resolutions with your group members.
If you remember your year 2010's resolutions, please introduce as well.

Presenter: Mr. Yamamoto

Let's look back on the year 2010.

The situation around us is pushing up tensions, which we haven't experienced in the past few decades.
Economic crisis have already swept all over the world, and now East Asian region is going to be confronted with a serious security crisis.

Now, how do you summarize the recent situation around you ?
Today's practice is a kind of an annual event fur the last time of the year, which has somehow continued since a long time ago.

Pick up a couple of memorable events that have happened to you this year and also impressive news fur this year.

Themes for today,
1.How have you spent this year ?
Unforgettable events to you, your personal experiences in 2010.
2.How do you summarize the year 2010 ?
World affairs, recent social phenomena etc.

Enjoy talking about the last practice for the year for the benefit of better coming year 2011.

Kamsa hamnida(Thank you)

Presenter: K.Nonaka
Genre:Translation & Talk
Title:Jewish quotes

Percentage of Jewish population to the world's population is small, but many　business successful persons and Novel Prize winners are made up of Jewish.
Let’s learn their wisdom from Jewish quotes!

First, I will introduce some Jewish quotes in Japanese. Please translate these quotes into English. This is not an examination, so it is OK to teach each other in your group. It would be great to exchange opinions on how to translate. When your group finishes translating, let me know. I will give you English translation.

Second, please talk about how you think these quotes. Also, if you have favorite quotes, it would be great to introduce those.

Regards

Presenter : Ryuichi Tanaka

Genre: Talk and Presentation

Title : Where do you recommend in Japan?

If you had guests or friends from overseas, where would you recommend in Japan for them? Your friends have a couple of free days in Japan and they want to go to your most recommendable place....

Discription :
Groups of four or five members.
1, Each member writes the draft
2, Present your plan in the group
3, Choose the best of group and prepare
"One-minute commercial" for that
4, The commercial time for each groups

Before the practice, please decide on a place where you will recommend and gather some information of that ( when, access, what's interesting....) It would be helpful if you could bring some pictures etc. The place is not necessarily famous.

Hope you will enjoy this practice!

Presenter: Mr.Sugiuchi

Hours of sunlight has gradually become fewer and I guess not only me
but many people are having hard time getting up in the morning.
Yes, winter has arrived and 2011 is around the corner. Am i only the
one who feels that the last New Year day was just couple weeks ago?
In the next practice, I would like to discuss New Year day since I
thought it would be interesting to share your customs with other
members. For instance, ozoni is almost different in each family and i
always found interesting to when I hear about it.
The practice would be as bellow.

Genre: Free Talk
Title: New Year
Description:
1. Make 6 groups.
2.Read the hand-out and recall how you normally spend on new year day.
If you don't have any idea, may be the following keywords might help
you.(15min)
-TV program(NHK Kohaku)
-Toshikoshi-soba
-Family gathering
-Osechi(special selection of dishes during the New Year celebration )
-Ozoni(How is your Ozoni in your home? Red-miso? White-miso?)
-Moshi
-Bell ringing(Buddhist temples all over Japan ring their bells a 108
times to symbolize the 108 human sins)
-Postcards
-Hatsumode
-Otoshidama(How did you spend it?)
-Special custom in your home town
-Games(Kite flying, Sugoroku, fukuwarai, top(koma))
-Hatsumode
3. Share with your group members.

Hope you could have a nice talk with your group members and have a new
idea to spend this coming New Year.

Best regards,

Presenter: Ms. Iwasaki
Genre: Presentation&Listen

Title: Introduce your favorite song

Description

1. I'd like to make some groups of 4-6members

2. I will give you a prepared sheet, and please write down 2points.(10min)

①Your favorite song and singer's name
②The reason or your own story&memory why you select this song.

＊Please select only the song written by Ｅnglish, except instrumental
　and other language songs.

3, Firstly, make his/her speech,and after finished speech,listen his/her
favorite song by using mobile music player.(each person have10min)


＊このプラクティスで、言葉だけでなく、その場で音楽も聞いて英語を楽しみ
　たいと考えております。ご自身で、持ち運んでも苦にならないmusic playerを
　おもちのかたは、選ばれた曲を入れてご持参の事前準備のご協力お願いします。
　おもちでない方は、You Tubeの中にあればそれを利用してと考えてますので、
　事前にその曲があるかをYou Tubeで見ておいて下さい。
　当日、参加予定でiphoneをおもちのかたは当日You Tubeを閲覧するときに
　ご協力いただければ大変助かります。（今のところ2台です）
　よろしくお願いいたします。
　
4, Talk about this topic in your group freely,and I will collect entered sheets.

I hope you'll enjyoy this practice!

Presenter: Mr. Inoue
Title：　World Statistics

Genre：　Conversation　

Description :
Population,mountain,Various Genre.
What do you think of look World Statistics ?

1. Make some groups of 6 members.

2. Give you some photos of famous movies
and paper written Japanese translation.

3. Re-translate it into English
and talk about its movies.

Best Regards, Yamaguchi.

Presenter: Ms. Nakahira

Genre:Presentation and Talk
Theme:Home

1. I'd like to make some group of 5-6 members.
2. I hand out the document of "Suo Oshima of Setouchi Island".
3. Please think and introduce your opinion for "Shimaokoshi".
4. Please introduce "Your Home".Home is Town, Spiritual, Music, and other.

I appreciated it if you have a good time.
Best regards,

Presenter: H.Ishizaki

How do you explain Japan to foreign people

1. You are to be divided into several groups, each groups will have around 5 or 6 members

2. I prepared several topics on Japan which are likely to be asked by foreign people.
Topics include question and sample answer both in Japanese and English for your assistance.
Please choose topic within your group who choose which.

3. Please read the question and sample answer which you chose.
Take time and think your answer with modifing or adding your personal knowledge and/or
experiences on it. Then make a small presentation in front of other members in your group.
Please try to expand the topic and you will enjoy the conversation afterward.

4. Members other than personator ask question on it as if you are a foreign people. And presenter answer it.

5. After the presentation and Q&A, please relax and have casual conversation within your group regarding the topic.

6. Please repeat step 1 through 5.

I hope you will enjoy the conversation

Thank you and regards

Presenter: Simon Nakamura

Genre: Listening activities

Title: News English
Description: Listening of vocabularies and some paragraphs of news English
written by Americans.
First of all (A), listen 30 piece words and some paragraphs of news English.
Participants should write down the meanings in Japanese, respectively.
Speaking of each piece word is so fast that you have no enough time to write
down exactly.
The A task is easy and you will get full marks.
Secondary (B), listen 30 words and 2 news English (at the normal speed and
slow speed),and
write down the meanings in Japanese, each.

I have many current news English, such as brain-dead donor, Pink-Panthur
criminal gang, mosque near the Ground zero
and whaling and anti-whaling countries, but I would like to present familiar
subjects in (A) and (B) at this time.
I will appoint you to get your answer.
I hope you will enjoy them.

presenter: Mr. Hori

テーマ：ウミガメのスープ
ジャンル：クイズ形式の話し合い
形式：（知っておられる方も意多いでしょうが）、「２０の扉」のように回答者は、出題者に対して「はい」「いいえ」「関係ありません」の３つの形式でできる質問をします。これを繰り返して正解に導くようにしていきます。正解のためには有効な質問を出すことが大事となります。出題者はローテーションで変わり、他の人たちが回答者となります。
例題：レストランでウミガメのスープを注文した男は、それを一口食べたあとで自殺をしてしまった。なぜ？
ということでよろしくお願いいたします。

Presenter: Ms. Fuji

Genre:workshop

Title:
What is your dream?

Description:
I introduce the art project that is called Dream Seed Project.
It will be held on 4th December 2010 at Banpaku park in Osaka.
10,000 twinkling dream seed float down on the ground from a balloon.
In this practice, I would like you to make one of dream seed.
1.I will give you dream seed materials.
2.Please assemble the kit.
3.Talking about your dream in your group.
4.Please write your dream!

On 4th December 2010, Your Dream Seed will float down and
someone catch your dream seed.

I hope you will enjoy it !

Presenter: Mr. Mashima
Extraordinary hot wearther is still covering the whole Japan area.
Hope you are managing your health without major problems.

Here is an overview of the next practice.
In net, it is an extended trial of those practices in recent two weeks.
This time, we try to make a short speech on a given topic in front of the group members.
Speech is not just a Chat or Introduction, but a little bit formal way of making presentation.
Sample topics will be provided for your reference. From simple topics to a little bit complicated ones.
In addition, we rotate the roles in the team...Speaker, Questioner, Time Keeper and Supporter.
It is easy practice for everybody. Please join us on 9/04 and enjoy it !!

Take care !!

Presenter: 山村さん

Genre:
Presentation and talk

Title:
Introduce your hometown

Description:
In this practice, you will introduce your hometown to the other group member,
and then talk about it in each group.

Presenter: Ms. Kimura
Genre: Talk a lot
Title: Talk! Talk! Talk!

Description:
We make two groups, make pairs from each group and talk a few minutes.
You can introduce yourself to know each other,
or you can talk about your favorite things or recent experiences.
I'll prepare paper about some topics.
We change pairs one by one.
So far as time permits, we can talk with more members in English.

I hope you'll speak a lot in English, and enjoy knowing each other.
Thank you.

Presenter: Mr. Yoshida
Genre: Presentation and Discussion (Group Work)
Title: "The Back of the Napkin"

The proverb says that "seeing is believing." I am convinced that using
simple pictures is an effective way to share your ideas with other
people.

In this practice I would like you to explore presentations which
utilizes simple pictures. Firstly, pick an idea and state it in a
simple sentence. The simpler is the idea, the better -- because this
is just a practice. Then, you are suppose to expand your idea in a few
-- three to five -- pictures in which the idea is explained
best. After that, you're going to give them a go.

There should be some questions or challenges from others. Please feel
free to discuss them in your group.

I hope you like the practice.

Presenter: Ms. Tanihara

Genre:Dictation and Talk

Title: Let's enjoy fairy tale!

At first, please make some groups to have 5-6members in each group.

Part 1: Dictation
Listen to the following synopsis of two story and fill in the blanks.
"A fox Called Gon"
"Miracle on New Year's Eve"

Part 2: Talk
Have you ever have a question or come upon another story when you read fairy tale? Shall we share and discuss those questions? Here, I show some examples. At first, please discuss these questions. Next, please find questions or another story about fairy tale and discuss it in your group.

I hope you will enjoy it! See you on Saturday.

Presenter: Ms. Fuji
Genre:Talk

Title:Fearful Story

This summer is too hot.
Let's talk about fearful story at your hometown.

1.Make some groups to have 5-6members in each group.
2.I will give you some papers written about Japanese classical horror story.
3. Talk about the papers or your fearful experience in your group.
4.Choose the most fearful story in your group and introduce it to other groups.

I hope you will become cool !

Presenter: Mr. Saito
Genre: Presentation & Discussion

Title: Workshop for entrepreneurship

Setting:

You are an entrepreneur escaping from a company. For the purpose of winning funds, you must present your scheme to foreign investors.

（あなたは脱サラ起業家です。資金調達のため、外国人投資家に事業計画をプレゼンしなければなりません）

① You are attached to one group.

② You present your business plan to your group members.

③ Choose the most attractive or interesting plan in your group.

④ Discuss the chosen plan and try to improve it in your group. Can’t you find any additional ideas to it?

⑤ Present the improved plan to other members.

夢、空想、一攫千金、社会貢献などなど、百人百様のプランが出てきて、楽しい一時を過ごして頂けたら幸いです。

なお、今回使用するワークシートを当メールに添付しております。プリントアウトして当日お持ち頂けるとありがたいです。

それでは、当日よろしくお願いいたします。

Presenter: Mr. Tabata
Genre: Discussion
Title: Let's go voting!
-Upper House Election 2010 Special-
Description:
Th next day of this practice(July 11th) is the Voting day of the upper house election
(参議院選).
In this practice I'd like you to discuss all about the election & political issues.

I am going to prepare the information about the manifesto of each parties and election.
Choose the interesting issues and discuss freely.

The members who are very interested in politics will be expected to help the ones
who are not familiar with politics to understand the manfesto and decide to which parties will vote.

I hope you will enjoy this practice.

Presenter: Mr. Fukumoto
Genre: Discussion & Game

Title: How Much Would You Pay?

Description:
This activity is designed to improve your listening and speaking skills. This activity has two
stages. In the first stage, you read descriptions and answer the questions about your sense of value.
Then, you show your answer to other members of your group, and share sense of value of all members.
The information would be a key in the next stage. In the second stage, you read descriptions and
answer the questions as you have answered in the previous stage. Then, you estimate the third (or
second, forth,
…, etc.) largest price in your group based on the standard of value of group members, which you may
get in the previous stage. You find the third largest price in your group by opening the price of all
members. You obtain your score as the gap of your price and the third largest price. The score is
added question by question. Finally, if you get the minimum total score in your group, you are the
winner in your group.

Presenter: Mr. Oku

Let’s learn current English from the newspapers.

How often do you read English newspapers? I imagine you would do so occasionally when you need English training or feel hungry of them. Indeed, everyday, a lot of current, idiomatic, and up-to-date words and phrases are printed in the reports of world-wide and domestic news.

Today’s practice is composed of four steps:

(1) Read colloquial English phrases and words that are excerpted from newspapers (10 min).

(2) Write creatively more than a few English sentenses of your own by using the words and phrases printed in italicized letters (20 min).

(3) Present them and talk on them in each group (20 min).

(4) In the last 10 min, select 2 or 3 interesting products and show them to us all.

Let’s start and enjoy!

Presenter: Mr. Aiki
Discussion

Title: Visit Indonesia or Philippines
We are going to have two guests.
One is from Indonesia, the other from Philippines.
They will give us quick presentations to encourage our
dialogue.

Presenter: Ms. Okubo
Ｇｅｒｎｅ：translation&play

I'll prepare speech of Takarazuka.
First, I want you to image training of Takarazuka.
Then, taranslate it and decide the role and play it in your group.
I hope you'll enjoy it.

Presenter: Ms. Nakata
Genre：Quiz

I prepare some world history & geography quiz.
I hope you'll enjoy it.

Presenter: Mr. Toda
Genre：　Talk
Title：　Humor and laughter

We will read an article on humor and laughter and
discuss this topic.

Presenter: Mr. Hori
Genre: Discussion
Title: Debate type discussion? What’s that?
Description:
In this practice I’d like you to discuss several issues. Unlike a usual discussion, this “debate type” discussion requires you to follow the opinions given to you in the paper that I will hand out before the practice time. That means no matter what opinions you actually have, your arguments should be based on the opinions writtten in that paper. Your main task is to come up with good reasons for supporting those opinions and convince other participants to agree with you.
Firstly, every member in the group tells the opinions given to them in that paper and presents the reasons that they think can support those opinions. Then the members start a free discussion.
Remember, you have to stick to the opinions given to you in that paper during the discussion.
I hope you can enjoy this practice.

Issues:
1. English: Teaching English in English
2. Pets: Dogs or Cats
3. Entertainment: Sanma or Shinsuke
4. Sports: Women on the sumo ring (dohyo)
5. Environment: 24-hour convenience stores

Presenter: Mr. Inoue

Genre: Talk
Title: World map talk

Description:

Use the world map talk.
Would you tell me how to visited to the country ?
Where would you like to go country ?
Culture , Economy , Food ,etc.
Free talk.

Presenter: Mr. Inoue

Genre: Talk

Title: News about two years ago winter

Description:

I'll give you some newspaper about two years ago, on december 2007.
Select one article which you are interested in or remember.
And explain to other members in your group about three minutes.
Other members take a comment, what article he talk about, in turn.
Change a person to explain the article.
Let's enjoy.

Presenter: Mr. Watanabe
Genre：　Talk
Title：　Technology

Recently, a lot of electrical goods such as TVs, telephones, audio
players and personal computers have made amazing progress.
I will prepare some material on them and let's talk about their
progressive technology.

Presenter: Mr.Noguchi
Genre: Talk

Title: 桜の森の満開の下/Under The Bautiful Cherry blossoms

新しい会場、鞍馬口のお寺での、第１回目の、柿落としとなる、プラクティスを担当させていただくことになりました。

桜とお花見についてのトークをさせていただきます。
なお、タイトルの「桜の森の～」は、坂口安吾の小説からとったものです。

Presenter:Mr.Yasuda

Genre: Talk

Title:
　 Let's talk about Vancouver Olympic

Description:
　Vancouver Olympic was ended. But there are something I don't
　understand well. Please discuss Vancouver Olympic based on
　some questions already prepared.

　I hope you will enjoy this practice!

Presenter:Ms.Kimura

Genre: Talk

Title: Let's explain Japanese customs

Description:
There are many customs proper to Japan, for example, bow (ojigi).
I prepare paper written about some typical Japanese unique customes.
Make some groups and talk about how to explain the reason of those customs
and talk about more customs you hit on.

I hope you will enjoy this practice!

Presenter:Mr.Kimura

1. Genre: Talk
2. Title: Let's talk sweet and bitter memories in your school days
3. Description:
Let’s talk sweet and bitter memories in your school days.
We must have sweet and bitter memories in our school days.
Let's share the experiences with us. Here are rules below

①Everyone should be a speaker in turns.
②Listeners can ask questions to the speaker.
③When your group finishes first turn, let’s go to second turn.
④Then, repeat the steps from ① to ③.

Sweet and bitter memories have now turned into good memories.
So let’s share those good experiences together.

Presenter:Mr.Kitamura

1. Genre: Drawing

2. Title: Let's draw the ゆるキャラ

3. Description:
I will give you pictures of many ゆるキャラ.
Please explain them to other members in your group. and
then other members draw them from your information.
Your skill of drawing is gonna be tested.

Presenter：Mｒ.Kuchinaka

Presenter: Ms. Kajita

Genre: Talk

Title: The Olympic Winter Games

Description:

The Olympic Winter Games are around the corner.
Let's talk about your favorite sports and remarkable
athletes. You may be able to find new pleasures of the
Olympic Games.

Presenter：Mr.Kajita

1. Genre: Game

2. Title: Puzzles

3. Description: Let’s do crossword puzzles.

I am preparing some puzzles selected from various fields.
You would be better off bringing a dictionary.

Presenter:Ms.Iwasaki

Genre: Talk and simple work

Title:My favorite

Description

In　this practice, I would like you to talk about your favorite and
rediscovery your good point(=charm point).

1. Make some groups
2, Please think about your three favorites(about10min)
3.Each member makes his/her speech about 3-5min,and other member
find three good point of speaker.For example,expression,gently voice,
fluently speech,gesture etc anything OK! Please express it concretely.)
I prepare blank sheet,please write down three good point.
4.After all members speech,exchange the sheet that filled in you charm point!
5,Talk about freely.

I hope you will enjoy this practice!

Presenter:Ms.Matsumura

Genre: Training

Title: Interpretation

Description:
In this practice, I would like you to act like an interpreter.
Your partner prepare a Japanese passage with 4 or 5 sentences and you
change the each sentence to English soon after you hear Japanese.
You are not allowed to use a dictionary for the first time. Please try it anyway!

Second, you take some time to arrange the same passage with your dictionary
after that and try the same again (You cannot take notes). 　
Your second time would be much better than the first.
I hope you will enjoy it.

Best regards,Chie Matsumura

Presenter:Hirano

Genre: Talk

Title: Trouble in Travel

Description:
There are a lot of trouble while you are travelling.
Your flight delays and you can't make the connecting flight.
You miss the train, lost baggage, over charged or served
what you don't order at the restaurant,lost your way and
finally locked out from your hotel room.It seems to be endless.
This makes me believed that "travel" can be a synonym of "trouble".
Let talk about the trouble you have experienced and how did you
deal with itin a group of 4 to 5.

Presenter: Yumi Nakahira

Genre: talk

Title: Introduce your ambition or saga

Description:
As you know, Ryoma Sakamoto is famous historical figure.
15th November is day of his birth and death.I want to talk about him
and introduce your ambition or saga.

1. Make some groups.

2. Read a prepared paper about Ryoma Sakamoto history.

3. Talk about him, your feeling and something.

4. Introduce your ambition or saga to own group members.
(If you can not talk about ambition or saga, any genre is allowed.)

5. Choose most interesting story from each group and introduce it
other groups.(19:15-19:20)

　I will be happy to you have a good time. Yumi Nakahira

Presenter: Yohei Kuranuki.

Genre: Reading＆Discussion

Title: World Heritage

Description:
1)Please make some small groups(5-6 people each group).
2)I will give different articles to each of group members.
Each articles are written about different world heritage spot. Please read your article.
3)Now it's time to share your information with other members.

Please tell what you read to other members.
Please add if you have extra information about it.
When all members of the group finish introducing the articles,
please continue talking. The topic is about world heritage. ALL THE BEST!

Presenter: Yohei Kuranuki.

Genre: Reading＆Discussion

Title: World Heritage

Description:
1)Please make some small groups(5-6 people each group).
2)I will give different articles to each of group members.
Each articles are written about different world heritage spot. Please read your article.
3)Now it's time to share your information with other members.

Please tell what you read to other members.
Please add if you have extra information about it.
When all members of the group finish introducing the articles,
please continue talking. The topic is about world heritage. ALL THE BEST!

Presenter: Masako Fuji.
Ｇｅｎｒｅ: Talk
Ｔｉｔｌｅ:My Landscape

Ｄｅｓｃｒｉｐｔｉｏｎ
Hopefully, you are prepared with one picture (see below), and ready to start.
．Travel photo
・Daily photo
・Clipping of magazine
・Choice ↓this sight
http://www.flickr.com/groups/japanese/

1. Make some groups to have 5 - 6 members in each group.
2.Speech about the picture in your group.
3. Please talk about that of all the members.

I'm looking forward to seeing everyone.

Presenter:　Ms.Morita.

I like strange , mysterious happenings.
I thought this practice.

① Ｇｅｎｒｅ: Talk

② Ｔｉｔｌｅ:Strange happenings

③ Ｄｅｓｃｒｉｐｔｉｏｎ
1. Make some groups to have 5 - 6 members in each group.
2. Share each member's experiences in your group.
3. Please tell your group's some　strange happenings in front of all the members.

I'm looking forward to seeing everyone.

Presenter:Mr.Sugiuchi

Genre:Presentation/Free Talk

Purpose:The practice's main purpose is to enrich your vocabulary.
There are words you often use in Japanese, but you don't know them in English.In this practice you are going to present your topic and your partner's topic.Presenting your topic to other members, I am sure you will encounter those words.Hopefully, you will get to know new words and phrases through this practice.

Practice:Practice consists of two section.
Section 1:
1. Make a group of 4 - 6 people.
2. Each person choose his/her own topic.
3. Prepare to present the topic to other Group members.
Try to use new words and phrases.
4. Present the topic and new words/phrases to other group members. -

Section 2:
1. Make a pair within the group.
2. Choose a topic.
3. Explain your topic to your partner.
4. Present your partner's topic to other group members in English.
In other words, you are going to listen your partner's topic and
next introduce it to other members.

Topic:You could pick any topic you want to talk.
If you have difficulties to choose a topic,
please refer the themes from bellow.

Hobby (私の趣味)- Specialty（私の得意なこと）- Boast（私の自慢）- Chuckle （最近クスと笑った出来事)- Saga (or other person's ) saga. （私(知人でも可)の武勇伝）- Skill（私の一芸）- Trivia（私の知ってる豆知識）- Scenery（私の知ってる絶景ポイント）- The best ○○○ I've ever ○○○（今まで最高の○○）
*Other topics are also highly welcomed

Please prepare at least one topic for your presentation.

Presenter:Haruka Hasaba.
Topic:
What Happens Next?

Practice:
I will read a book halfway.
And then you will imagine what happens next.
Your story are not needed to be as same as the book.
Your creation may be beyond the original story!

Process:
1. Make some groups to have 5 - 6 members in each group.
2. I will read a picture book halfway.
3. Imagine what happens next by yourself.
4. Share each member's story in your group and make up one story!
Please imagine how the story goes and ends.

*Tips for creating one story
Choose one of the exciting stories and expand it.
Pull some fantastic parts from everyone and make them into one story.
Write down the story as you can read it.
If the story has some lines like a real picture book, it will be better!

5. Please tell your group's story in front of all the members.
6. Finally the original story will be shown!

I hope you will enjoy this practice!

Presenter: Junko Nakano

Genre: Game Dedcription:

Game1. Describe things in English and make your team members guess and answer quickly.

Game2. Listen to my descriptions and guess the English words which are from the dictionary.

Describing skill, listening skill and teamwork will be required.I hope you all enjoy this practice.

Presenter:Mr.Enokizono

Genre:Talk

Title:Introduce in Kyoto .

Description:

1.discuss about the favorite place or recommend place in Kyoto.

2. Planning a day trip to Kyoto　for the foreigner.

Presenter:Ms.Nakashima

Genre:Talk

Title: Circus and Advertisements

Description:
1.First, listen to a report about a circus for about 4 minuites.
Please talk about circus movies and your image of the circus.

2.I will give you a story regarding a circus advertisement.
Read it and guess what happend after that.

3.Discuss the following question.
Do ads and commercials influence you?
Give reasons and examples to support your answer.

4.Let's talk about a TV commercial you like or dislike.

Presenter：Mr.Yamamura

1. Genre: Work and presentation

2. Title: Introduce your partner

3. Description:
In this practice, you will introduce not yourself,
but your partner in a group.
First, you will have a mutual interview with your partner,
and then introduce your partner to the other group member
according to your interview.

Presenter:Mr.Noguchi
Genre: disucussion

This time, I'd like you to have Discussions And the title of the practice is
: Is your learning on the right track?

It would be useful from time to time to look back in the past
learning and get some constructive feedback for future.
Also, It should be useful to share tips among group to make
the participation in the ESS more valuable.

Part A （～7:00）
Make presentations in turn on the following topics and then
discuss and share tips among your group.

・What was your utmost motivation to join the ESS in the first place?

・Have your English skills improved from the time you joined this circle?　
And how?(If you are a newcomer, what do you want to achieve?)

・Is there any skill (i.e., reading, listening speaking and writing skills etc.)　
that you think you should put more effort into?

・Are you spending time for study in addition to working on your NHK text?

Part B （～7:30）
Have a talk on any of the following topics.

・Role of grammar in speaking English

・Relationship between true command of English and the results of
　various proficiency tests for English

・Indispensable value of being abroad in acquiring a foreign language:
Can't we learn a language exclusively within our own country?

・How to build vocabulary

Part C

Make brief comment for all the participants on what you found
most impressive or interesting or valuable in the discussion.
I hope precious informaion or advice will be given by as many
memberas possible and everyone enjoy the talk.

Presenter:Mr.Hori
Genre: disucussion
Theme: Golden Section(Golden Division, Golden Ratio)

Presenter:Mr.Fukumoto

Genre: Game
Title: Describe and Draw the Situations Description

This activity is designed to improve logically speaking and listening skills.
A person accuratelyexplains the situation on a picture to the other group
members. The other members draw the situationonly by listening to the explanation.
Then, they compare their drawing to each other and check theoriginal picture.

Presenter :Mr.Yauchi
Ｇｅｎｒｅ : Quiz and Talk
Ｔｉｔｌｅ : The climate change + Environmental Problems.
Ｄｅｓｃｒｉｐｔｉｏｎ :
１．Ｍａｋｅ　ｓｏｍｅ　ｇｒｏｕｐｓ．
２．Quiz about the climate change. Test your knowledge!
３．Talk about the following topics in your group freely.
1) What impact does global warming have on us?
2) We can find many actions that we can do to improve a global environment.
3) There are various environmental problems. Let's discuss what we can do about it.

Presenter:Ms.Kimura.
Genre: Talk
Title:
What's your favorite?

Description:
You are going to make a short speech about your favorite things to your group members.
For example: favorite books, game, music, other hobbies, place to go, and so on.

Procedure:
1. Divide the members into several groups.
2. Write down what you are going to talk.(about 10 minutes)
3. One of your group members makes his/her speech.
4. Talk about the topic in your group freely.
5. Step 2 and
step 3 will be repeated.

I hope you will enjoy this practice!

Presenter:Ms.Ohkubo

Gerne: Talk&translation

Description:
I would like you to make English haiku and introduce it in your groups.
So, if you have time, please think topics you want to write.
Also, I want you to try haiku translation from Japanese to English.
I hope you enjoy it.Thank you.

Presenter:Mr.Saito

Genre: Talk and listening
Title: 233th anniversary of U.S. Independence

Description:
In the U.S., the 4th of July is a national holiday to celebrate Independence in 1776.

[Section1] You will listen to material including American culture, history and geography. Please answer multiple choice questions.

[Section2] Let’s talk about the subjects below.
1. What comes to mind when you think about America? Please tell the reason.
2. Which place do you want to visit in U.S.? Why there?
3. Do you have your favorite American? On which point do you like or respect him or her?
You don’t need any preparation for this workshop.

But it may be helpful for you to check the names and places of the American states.

See you!

Presenter:Mr.Tabata.

Genre: Talk

Title:The story of ○○

Description: Does anyone know TV Program “人志松本の○○な話 (The story of ○○)”？

I would like you to try to make the story of ○○ in English .
In other words, I would like to make the speech about some
themes in your group. It might be difficult a little, so I would
like you to prepare to make interesting stories before you come if possible.
I attach the URL of this program below, so refer to it.

Procedure on June 27th.

1. Divide the members into several groups.
2. Choose 2 themes you would like to tell or listen to, in your group.
3. Make your own stories (1 minute speech) about the following themes.
Unique or surprising or interesting stories are desirable as much as you can. 　
Both your experience and information from others are OK.

4. Make a speech in your group (1 min. speech, 2min free talk about the topic.).
Choose the most interesting story about the theme in your group.
Repeat same procedure with the other theme.

5. Introduce the most interesting story to other groups.
Themes Choices
(1)The stories of your very favorite things (好きなものの話)
Explain why and how much you like it.

Ex. person, celebrityin history, hobbies, games sports, songs,
shops, animals, foods, any things
(2) The stories of the things you cannot forgive or irritating things
(ゆるせない話、納得いかない話) 　
Criticize the any customs or happenings or anything in the worlds
or tell the irritating things or situation.　

Ex. 1　「承る」という漢字一文字で「うけたまわる」と5文字読ませるのは無理がある
2 視力の数字は小数で小さな数なのがわかりにくい。もっと大きい整数だとわかりやすい。
3 せみの成虫は寿命が短くかわいそうという教育があるがあれだけ大声で鳴いたら
当たり前。ペース配分が大事。
　　　　4 急いでいるときに狭い通路で歩くのが遅い人が２人並んで抜かせないと。
　　　　5 家電ショップで「ポイント還元で実質○○円」の表記が許せない

(3)The stories when you ate the best dishes in you life（ヨダレが出る話）
　　 Explain when and where you ate it and how nice it was.

(4)Useful Stories (ためになる話) Explain any good information for other members.

http://blogs.dion.ne.jp/mmbon/archives/8288996.html#comments
http://blogs.dion.ne.jp/mmbon/archives/7881246.html
http://www.fujitv.co.jp/b_hp/marumaru/index.html
人志松本の○○な話 broadcasted on Tuesday 23:00～23:30 8ch.

Presenter:staff

Ｇｅｎｒｅ：　Ｔａｌｋ

Ｔｉｔｌｅ：　Ｗｈａｔ　ｓ　ｎｅｗ？　

Ｄｅｓｃｒｉｐｔｉｏｎ： You　ａｒｅ　ｇｏｉｎｇ　ｔｏ　ｍａｋｅ　ａ　ｓｈｏｒｔ　ｓｐｅｅｃｈ　ｔｏ　ｙｏｕｒ　ｇｒｏｕｐ　ｍｅｍｂｅｒｓ． 　　　　 Ｙｏｕ　ｃａｎ　ｃｈｏｏｓｅ　ａｎｙ　ｔｏｐｉｃ　ｙｏｕ　ｗａｎｔ　ｔｏ　ｔａｌｋ　ａｂｏｕｔ． 　　　　
Ｆｏｒ　ｅｘａｍｐｌｅ－－－ｎｅｗｓ　ｉｎ　ｙｏｕｒ　ｄａｉｌｙ　ｌｉｆｅ 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
ｙｏｕｒ　ｆａｖｏｒｉｔｅ　ｂｏｏｋ，ｍｕｓｉｃ，ｄｉｓｈ，ｅｔｃ． 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 ｙｏｕｒ　ｆａｍｉｌｙ，ｆｒｉｅｎｄ，ｃｏｗｏｒｋｅｒ，ｅｔｃ． 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　ｙｏｕｒ　ｈｏｂｂｙ，ｄｒｅａｍ，ｊｏｂ，ｅｔｃ． 　

Ｐｒｏｃｅｄｕｒｅ： 　１．Ｍａｋｅ　ｓｏｍｅ　ｇｒｏｕｐｓ． 　　　
　　　　　　　　　 ２．Ｗｒｉｔｅ　ｄｏｗｎ　ｗｈａｔ　ｙｏｕ　ａｒｅ　ｇｏｉｎｇ　ｔｏ　ｔａｌｋ．（ａｂｏｕｔ　１０ｍｉｎ．） 　　　
３．Ｏｎｅ　ｏｆ　ｙｏｕｒ　ｇｒｏｕｐ　ｍｅｍｂｅｒｓ　ｍａｋｅｓ　ｈｉｓ／ｈｅｒ　ｓｐｅｅｃｈ． 　　　
４．Ｔａｌｋ　ａｂｏｕｔ　ｔｈｅ　ｔｏｐｉｃ　ｉｎ　ｙｏｕｒ　ｇｒｏｕｐ　ｆｒｅｅｌｙ． 　　　
５．Ｓｔｅｐ　２　and　ｓｔｅｐ　３　ｗｉｌｌ　ｂｅ　ｒｅｐｅａｔｅｄ．

Ⅰ　ｈｏｐｅ　ｙｏｕ　ｃａｎ　ｅｎｊｏｙ　ｔｈｉｓ　ｐｒａｃｔｉｃｅ！

Presenter:Mr.Kimura.

Genre: Debate(or more than discussion)
Title: Let's have a debate Description:

We would like to have debate with 4 people. So today,
one group will have 4(5) people.And then within the group
please do make A team and B team, each of which has two people.
I will give you topics and please discuss them and please get
the result which is better or more important.

I expect you to discuss and debate one topic for more than ten minutes.
And please make decisions within the group.
Discussion and debate is different, but I hope you will have a kind of debates.

The topics are below:

1, Dog or Cat
2, Smoking or Non-smoking
3, Meat or Vegetable
4, Communism or Capitalism
5, Fast or Slow life
6, Car or Train

Additional topics
1, Process or Result4, Hot or Cold3, Email or Letter 2, Emotional or Rational
A group should support the former position,
B group should support the latter position, even if your real is not A or B.
The purpose of this practice is below:・Training to think about the appropriate
reasons.Showing your opinions to the others.
Practice to become to be more open-minded (Japanese is regarded as a shy people by westerners.)
Through the debate or discussion, getting to know each other more.
Training abilities to persuade others.
If your real will is different, please regard it as, for example, your boss’s request

Presenter:Mr.Oku.

Genre:disucuss&talk

I would like you to participate in talking on such subjects as shown below.
For example,

1) What is the purpose of your life?
2) What is your criterion of “quality of life”?
3) What is your criterion of “happiness”?
4) What do you think is the “happiness” of our offspring?
5) What is your favorite “life-style”?
6) What part of your life-styles, you think, is environmentally unconscious?
Can you improve it or not? If not, why?
7) How can you survive serious climate change, resource depletion,
prevalence of pandemic and etc. when they become real?
8) You may choose other topics similar to the above, if you think it better.

< How to Talk>
(1) Read the above description to understand the purpose of today’s practice.
Hopefully, you are prepared with materials (see below), and ready to start.
(2) Make groups each consisting of four (4) people.
(3) If you are not prepared with a material, choose one topic out of those shown above and take about 5 min to prepare how to present your talk and idea (5 min for this step, if necessary).
(4) One person is allotted 5-10 min for the presentation talk. You are recommended to use reference material(s) or its abstract as a text of your talk.
(5) Present and talk, discuss and comment, with full of ideas and wit to inspire interactive group communication (within 15 min for steps 4 through 5).
(6) Repeat steps 4 and 5 for each person.

・In advance to the day of class, it is highly recommended that everyone reads this practice announcement and prepare reference material(s).

・Prepare four (4) copies of the material (A4, 1-2 page(s)).
The material can be a passage from books, weekly magazines,
textbooks, or your original.
・Regardless of being a skilled or unskilled member, the material
preparation is recommended though it’s not a requisite for joining the practice.

I hope you take this easy and enjoy!

☆参考資料を準備される方への参考書籍などの例を少しだけ記してみました。
買う必要はありませんが、図書館などで調べて、面白そうなページがあれば
コピーするやりかたがあります。それ以外にも雑誌などに結構あると思いますが。

＜キーワード「ライフスタイルと環境」なら＞
・「正義で地球は救えない」、池田　清彦・養老　孟司【著】、 新潮社 （2008/10/25）
・「エコロジーという洗脳―地球温暖化サギ・エコ利権を暴く１２の真論 」、 副島　隆彦　　　　
　ＳＮＳ副島国家戦略研究所【著】、成甲書房 （2008/10/30）
・「環境問題はなぜウソがまかり通るのか〈３〉」、武田　邦彦【著】　洋泉社 （2008/10/17）
・「人類が消えた世界」、　原書名：THE WORLD WITHOUT US(Weisman,Alan)、 ワイズマン，アラン【著】〈Ｗｅｉｓｍａｎ，Ａｌａｎ〉　鬼澤　忍【訳】、　早川書房 （2008/05/15 ）
・「もったいない」、　ワンガリ・マータイ【著】　マガジンハウス刊　（2005出版）
・「プランB　2.0、エコ・エコノミーをめざして」、　レスター・ブラウン【著】、ワールドウオッチ出版　（2006）
・「明日の環境と人間」、　川合真一郎・山本義和【著】、　化学同人　（1998）
・「ライフスタイルと環境」 (単行本)、 　日本家政学会【編】、　朝倉書店　（1997） ・「バイオマス―誤解と希望 (シリーズ・地球と人間の環境を考える) 」(単行本) 、　奥 彬 【著】、日本評論社　（2005） などなど。

Presenter:Mr.Kitamura.

Genre: Talk

Title: Address Power

Description:
Recently, I found a unique website "Address Power".

　http://www.ichiten.com/

This website can measure and quantify
convinience of your town.
So let's talk about your hometown.

1.How many points do you think your hometown gets?

2.Plese introduce good points of your hometown to
other members of your group, and persuade them
to feel like living in your hometown within 7 minutes.

3.Let's talk about the best town you want to live.

At the end of this practice, please announce
the most recommendable town in your group
to other ESS members.

Presenter:Ms.Ishizaki.

Genre: debate.

You are divided into several groups.
Within each groups, members who sit on same side
of the table considered to have same opinion,
like agree or disagree, as to today's topics.
First please choose today's two topics and 3 judges
for each topics, judges should be changed at each topics.
Then please start debate within each groups. Please enjoy it!

Time table

18:30-18:40
Make groups and then choose two topics and judges
of each topics (3 person for each topics) within each groups.

18:40-19:10
Discussion on topic 1 and judgment

19:10-19:40
Discussion on topic 2 and judgment

Topics

1. Do you agree with "Saibanin" system.

2. Do you agree with the policy to allow casino in Japan

3. Do you agree with "Kyufu-kin"

4. Do you agree with \1000 free use of highway on weekend.

5. Something you want to discuss, If any

Presenter:Mr.Nakanishi.

Genre: Group work on finding English words

Title: “CROSSWORD” of the fifty botanical words

Description: I've made the original crossword again.
　This one contains fifty botanical words.
　Basically, you need a lot of knowledge
　　　　　　　 about the botanical field to fill the whole
　　　　　　　 blank spaces. But don't worry, you've
been already equipped with an excellent
electronic dictionary which contains many
large books and also encyclopedias.
Please use the whole functions of your dictionary.
Those who reach to the perfect answers will
get a small giftas a token of my gratitude.
Don' t forget the electronic dictionary and the sense of humor.

Presenter:Mｓ.Oka.

Title: Appreciation of Poetry

Description:

1.Each member recites an English poem, twice.

2.Members discuss the poem within the group.
(Regarding to the title, theme, opinion, , , , )

3.The same person recites the original Japanese poem.
With same procedure, members appreciate poems
as much as possible.

Mｒ.Nakamura presents,

Genre: Read & Talk Title: Newspaper articles in this month

Description:
1) First, you will be divided into several groups.
I'llgive each group some English newspaper articles.

2) Each person read one article. Then summarize them
infront of your group member.

3) After every group member finish summaizing,
talk aboutthem freely.

4) Finally, choose the most impressive article of
yourgroup, and make a briefpresentation in front of
everyone.

That's all. Thank you.

Presenter: Mr. Uchidate

Genre:　Talk

Title: Where　to　go　after　this　conversation　clasｓ？　Let'ｓ
have　an　ｏutdoor　barbecue　party　for　this　　　　Golden　Week！

Description:
A．　Let's　go　to　other　restaurants　or　cafeterias　than“Manzou”after
　our　Ｅｎｇｌｉｓｈ　conversation　ｃｌａｓｓ．Ｔｈｅ　map　below　ｓｈｏ
ｗｓ　ｗｈｅｒｅ　ｔｈｅｓｅ　ｒｅｓｔａｕｒａｎｔｓ　or　cafeterias　are．
They　are　within　１０　ｍｉｎｕｔｅｓ’ｗａｌｋ　ｆｒｏｍ
ｈｅｒｅ，ｓｅｒｖｅ　at　reasonable　ｐｒｉｃｅ　and　open　ｕｎｔｉｌ　１
０　or　１１：３０　ｐ．ｍ．Please　talk　each　other　ｗｈｅｒｅ　ｔｏ
go．Ｉ’ｌｌ　ａｓｋ　ｔｈｅ　ｌｅａｄｅｒ　of　ｅａｃｈ　group　ｔｏ　ｔｅ
ｌｌ　me　ｔｏｎｉｇｈｔ’ｓ　ｐｌａｎ．（Ｔｈｅ　ｍａｐ　ｉｓ　ｄｉｓｔｒｉ
ｂｕｔｅｄ　ｔｏ　ｅａｃｈ　ｐｅｒｓｏｎ，ｎｏｔ　ｓｈｏｗｎ　ｈｅｒｅ．）
Ｂ．　Ｌｅｔ’ｓ　have　ａｎ　ｏｕｔｄｏｏｒ　ｂａｒｂｅｃｕｅ　party　ｆｏ
ｒ　ｔｈｉｓ　Ｇｏｌｄｅｎ　Ｗｅｅｋ．Talk　ａｂｏｕｔ　ｈｏｗ，　ｗｈｅｎ
ａｎｄ
ｗｈｅｒｅ　ｔｏ　ｄｏ　ｉｔ．The　ｔｉｍｅ　ｆｏｒ　ｔｈｉｓ　Ｇｏｌｄｅｎ
　Ｗｅｅｋ　ｉｓ　from　May　３（Ｓｕｎｄａｙ）　ｔｏ　Ｍａｙ　６（Ｗｅｄｎ
ｅｓｄａｙ）．
Ｐｌｅａｓｅ　ｗｒｉｔｅ　ｄｏｗｎ　ｏｎ　ｔｈｅ　ｂａｃｋ　ｏｆ　ｔｈｉｓ
ｐａｐｅｒ　ｗｈａｔ　ｙｏｕ　ｈａｖｅ　ｔａｌｋｅｄ　ａｂｏｕｔ　ａｎｄ　ｈ
ａｎｄ　ｉｔ　ｔｏ　ｍｅ．

Presenter: Ms. Kimura

Genre: Talk

Title: Your Birthday

Description:
I will hand some topics associated with a birthday.
Please talk of your episodes and give your opinions.

Presenter: Ms. Tanihara

Genre: Quiz and Talk

Title: Let’s introduce our Japanese culture and tradition in English!

Description:
In this practice, at first, I would like you to guess what
he/she explains about! One of your group members picks up
a card, and explains about it. Other members guess the
suitable words (culture, traditional event, tool, habitat,
etc.)
For the next, shall we try to introduce our Japanese
culture or tradition? Please choose one theme as you
like. If you have no idea, please pick up from the
following topics (described in handouts).

Presenter: Ms. Morita

Title: Like　Who's　who

Presenter: Ms. Ichihashi

Genre: Discussion
(choose one person as a chairperson)

Description:
The entrance examination war (or hell),,,(jyuken senso 受験戦争）
I will hand a paper with some questions
Let us hear your Jyuken story ,

Presenter: Mr. Makino

Genre: Game

Title: Finding out differences

Description:
一つのグループのなかで二手に分かれてもらい、それぞれに絵の描かれた紙をわたします。
その二つの絵には微妙な間違いがあり、相手方の絵を見ずに
（例えば、Dose the guy put on a cap? など相手にきくなどして）その間違いを探してもらいます。
なんか難しそうですが、あくまでゲームなんで適当に楽しんでもらえたらいいと思います。

Presenter: Ms. Matsumura

Genre: Talk

Title:"World st.Valentine's day"

Description: Read passages about st.valentine's day customs in foreign
counries & share your opinions with your group members.
Also please enjoy telling about your own memories and episodes related
to the day.

Presenter: Ms. Senda

Ｇｅｎｒｅ: Ｇａｍｅ

Ｔｉｔｌｅ: Guess at the name of country

Ｄｅｓｃｒｉｐｔｉｏn:
I will give some pieces of paper to each group.
A name of country and some hint are written on the card.
Please explain about the country to your members.
Other member guess at the name of country.
Then,change the role.

I'll hope you'll enjoy it.

Presenter: Mr. Kajita

Genre: Discussion

Title: Current Affairs

Description:
I will prepare the topics regarding the current affairs of the various fields. (Science, Technology, Politics, Economy, Society, Environment, Entertainment, etc.)

Presenter: Ms. Miyagawa

Gｅｎｒｅ: Discussion

Ｔｉｔｌｅ: Does Alien really exist?

Presenter: Ms. Miyagawa

Gｅｎｒｅ: Discussion

Ｔｉｔｌｅ: New Year's Resolution

Presenter:Mr. Yamamoto

Ｔｉｔｌｅ: the ten beggest news in 2008

Presenter: Mr. Matsuura

Gｅｎｒｅ: Examination

Ｔｉｔｌｅ: Word Examination

Ｄｅｓｃｒｉｐｔｉｏｎ:
There are a lot of words we want to know.
I have prepared word exam , I hope everybody will enjoy my
practice.

Presenter: Mr. Hirano

Genre: Speech and talk

Title: Hobbies

Description:
I'm sure everyone has(had) one or two(or more) things which you are(were) crazy about and devote(d) yourself to. Many are very common, but there may be some unique tastes for the others. Please tell us one or two hobbies and share its(their) interest(s) and charm with the other members. Then, please pick up the most incredible/rare one in each group and introduce it to the rest. Let's find out unbelievable hobbies.

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.

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: Mr. Yamamoto

Genre: Discussion

詳細は後ほどお知らせします。

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: Ms. Miyagawa

Genre: Talk

Title: What's new

Presenter: Mr. Hori

Ｇｅｎｒｅ: Talk.

Ｔｉｔｌｅ: Osaka Rule.

Description:
From the people of Kanto and also from the people of Kyoto or Kobe, Osaka is supposed to be a unique prefecture, where the residents are acting uniquely. Moreover there are some very strong rules which are admitted only in Osaka, but the residents believe they are universal. For example, in a academic conference presentaters from Osaka present their reports in Osaka-ben. Today I'd like you to know some of the rules of this sort and have a talk on this "World".

Presenter: Ms. Miyagawa

Genre: Talk

Title: Advice Column

Description:
Eight people are having problems and asking for advice.
I want you to give counsel to them.

Presenter: Mr. Noguchi

Title: Introductin of your favorite book

Presenter: Ms. Hirose

Ｇｅｎｒｅ: Ｇａｍｅ

Ｔｉｔｌｅ: Ｒｉｄｄｌｅ

Ｄｅｓｃｒｉｐｔｉｏn:
Ⅰ'ｌｌ　ｐｒｅｐａｒｅ　ｓｏｍｅ　ｅｘａｍｐｌｅｓ　ｏｆ　Ｅｎｇｌｉｓｈ　ｒｉｄｄｌｅｓ．
Ｆｉｒｓｔ，ｐｒａｃｔｉｃｅ　ｗｉｔｈ　ｔｈｅ　ｒｉｄｄｌｅｓ．
Ｔｈｅｎ，ｍａｋｅ　ｙｏｕｒ　ｏｒｉｇｉｎａｌ　ｒｉｄｄｌｅｓ，ａｎｄ　ｃｈｏｏｓｅ　ｔｈｅ　ｂｅｓｔ　ｒｉｄｄｌｅ　ｉｎ　ｙｏｕｒ　ｇｒｏｕｐ．
Ａｔ　ｔｈｅ　ｅｎｄ　ｏｆ　ｔｈｉｓ　ｐｒａｃｔｉｃｅ，ｔｅｌｌ　ｉｔ　ｔｏ　ｕｓ．

Presenter: Mr. Nagai

Genre: Game

Title: Odd One Out

Description:
This is to guess which one of four items does not belong & why it doesn't belong. Pick the item that is not like the others.
Example:
(1) red (2) green (3) hard (4) yellow
The correct answer is (3) because it’s not color.

I want all of you to be create your own quizzes. Come up with five questions, or maybe more. Don’t worry if you are not prepared on the day. (You can make them during the game.)

Describe the reason in English. The right answer is up to you being a quiz-maker. To choose the right item, players guess the reason you have in mind. Only, the reason should be understood with common knowledge, regardless of age and sex.
You can make your quizzes easy or difficult. It’s your call.

If no one can answer your question, try to give some clues before the answer so that they can think and enjoy more.

Presenter: Mr. Oku

Genre: Discussion and Debate

Title: Colors and Mind

Description:
When you are happy or unhappy, excited or depressed, in love with someone or broken hearted, thinking of your future or reminiscing the past, etc., your heart or mental condition is often referred to a color. Similarly, when you see a specific color, it would remind you of your memories which you have experienced and been keeping in the bottom of remembrance box.

Regardless of the language difference, and more or less depending on the religion, education and culture, people in the world tend to express by colors their mental and internal condition, intellectual situation and social status. The ways they use colors to express those are diversified, e.g., by wearing, piece of cloth or ribbon, flags, and literatures. Also a variety of colors are symbolically used for ornaments, wrapping ribbons and, more romantically, to show your affection and passion to the beloved one.

In today’s practice, you shall talk and discuss about the color to express and describe a specific mental condition or physical state. Several questions are shown below. Try as many as possible.

Presenter: Mr. Aiki

Ｇｅｎｒｅ : Presentation

Ｔｉｔｌｅ : News Topics

Presenter: Mr. Nonaka

Ｇｅｎｒｅ : Talk

Ｔｉｔｌｅ : Jewish Proverbs

Description:
Jewish Proverbs are full of implication and wit.
I'll pick up some Jewish Proverbs.
Let'talk about your impression and interpretation.

Presenter: Mr. Tanaka

Ｇｅｎｒｅ : Talk

Ｔｉｔｌｅ : Summer vacation

Description:

Please talk about your summer vacation.
You may talk about all topics of summer vercation,not this year.

Firstly you write topics of summer vercation by Finland Method.
After that, please talk about your summer vacation.
I will explain Finland Method in the temple.

Presenter: Mr. Watanabe

Ｇｅｎｒｅ : Talk

Ｔｉｔｌｅ : Memories of a travel in the world!

Description:

Part 1)　Recall and check your memories
First, recall your memories of a travel in the world.
If you have no experience of travel abroad, a domestic trip is no
problem.
Next, Please check its place, date , itinerary, and conveyance on a
base map.
And then, answer some questions about the travel.

Part 2) Talk about memories
Please talk about your memories of the travel with the members of your
group , and make them feel like traveling there.

Presenter: Ms. Matsumura

Ｇｅｎｒｅ : Game＆Talk

Ｔｉｔｌｅ : Proberbs and their lessons

Description:
Part 1)　Card Matching Game
There are three kinds of cards; Japanese proberbs, English proberbs, and their lessons in common.
Think with your group members and match three kinds of cards to make one set.

Part 2) Talk about your original lessons
Please talk about lessons or techniques, wisdom for life you learned from your daily life.

Presenter: Ms. Ohkubo

Title:

Genre: Quiz

Description:
In this practice,I want you to find what they are after you read
English sentences.
Then,I will give you answer cards,so, explain word without looking papers
and other people say the answers.
I hope you will enjoy it.

Presenter: Mr. Kajita

Genre: Talk

Title: The Olympic Games

Description:

The Beijing Olympic Games are around the corner.

Let's talk about your favorite sports and remarkable
athletes. You may be
able to find new pleasures of the Olympic Games.

Presenter: Ms. Nakano

Ｇｅｎｒｅ : Game

Ｔｉｔｌｅ : Enjoy Word Games

Description:As usual I'm planning to do some games on that day.
You can enjoy playing some kinds of word games and competing
with other teams.
All games are about easy English words.

I hope lots of members come and enjoy this practice.

Presenter: Mr. Saito

Genre: Discussion

Title: Discussion with newspaper articles

Description: You know, newspapers provide us many kinds of topics.

I will pick up some articles for your discussions.

Let's talk about our lifestyles, current topics and
others!

Presenter: Mr. Noguchi (M)

Genre: Game

Title: Enjoy simple games.

Description: I'd like you to enjoy some simple games.
I have prepared two games.

Game A: Who Am I?
On your back, the name of some famous person will be attached
and every other member except you can see who you are. So you
must know who you are by asking some simple questions to the
other members.

Game B: Which is False?
First, make two statements or sentences about you. One should
be TRUE statement and the other should be FALSE. You should
pretend as if both were true. The other members are to find
which statement is FALSE by asking questions.

Presenter: Mr. Fukumoto

Genre: Quiz

Title: Word Explanation & Prediction Quiz

Description:
In this practice, you are possible to be both a questioner and an answerer in your group.
A questioner hits upon an English WORD, and gives some explanation and hints about the WORD.
The other members in the group guess and answer the WORD which the questioner means.
You can find this kind of quizzes on "Eigo de Shabera Night", a TV program of NHK broadcasting.
In this program, Pakkun gives questions and the guests answer the questions.
This will be good practice for both questioners and answerers.
In particular, I expect that you can train your explanation ability.
Therefore, I reccomend you not to use dictionaries
when you give explanation or hints as possible as you can.

Presenter: Mr. Kondo

Genre: Quiz and discussion

Title: Acronym

Description:
I will prepare some quiz and articles about english acronym.
Let's discuss recent japanese and answer the quiz.
I hope you will have fun time.

Presenter: Ms.Miyagawa

Genre: Talk

Title: trouble shooting

Description:

I prepare some articles“lifestyle columns” from USA's
website.
These columns are written about troubles which American
people have.
Let's talk about their troubles and find differences or
common points.

Presenter: Ms.Miyagawa

Genre: Talk

Title: Let's talk about “The Rules”

Description:

The Rules: Time-Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of
Mr. Right is a best-selling 1995 book co-authored by Ellen
Fein and Sherrie Schneider.
The book's basic theme is that, in order to attract and
marry the man of her dreams, a woman should play hard to
get. The authors promise happy relationships and happy
marriages to the readers who follow their 35 specific
rules. A woman who follows "the rules" is called a Rules
Girl. The underlying philosophy is that women should not
aggressively pursue men, but ought to get the men to
pursue them.
We pick up some these rules and discusse about it.

1) Make some groups.
2) Please discussion about “The Rules” and exchange
views with your members as you like.

Presenter: Mr. Tabata
Genre: Talk
Title: The latest News

Description:
What topics are you interested in lately?

For this practice, I am going to prepare lots of topics regarding sports,
arts, lifestile,politics,

economics and social issues. Let's exchange opinions on those articles.
freely with each other.

Presenter：Mr. Nakanishi

Ｇｅｎｒｅ : Cross word puzzle

Ｔｉｔｌｅ : try to find fifty-five words with your partners

Description:
I've made the original cross word puzzle again.
It contains fifty-five words of the certain area.
Last time, I made the cross word puzzle contained
forty-one botanical words. But it seemed to be a little
bit easy for you.
So, this time, I increased the words to fifty-five.
The categories of the words are a"fish"and a"bird".
Please prepare for the practice, and don't forget your
dictionaries and the sense of humor.

Presenter：Ms.Miyagawa

Genre: Speaking

Title: Let's explain the recipe.

Description:

1)Make some groups.

2)I will give 20 pieces of paper(small cards) to each
group.
A name of dish is written on the card.
*Please don't see the cards and keep turn the card over.

3)First person pick the card and check the word(the dish)
on the card.
*Please don't tell the word to other member.

4)Explain the recipe(how to cook),to your members.

5)Other member imagine the dish, guess the dish right .
*Please listen the explain to the end.

6)Please change the role.

Even if, you don't know how to cook or you don't like
cooking, please imagine and do your best.

Presenter: Ms. Tanihara

Genre: Talk

Title: Let’s pick up heart-warming wedding songs and make
English version of famous J-POP music!

Description:
In this practice, at first, I would like to ask you to
recommend me heart-warming wedding songs. Because, in the
personal matter, my friend was recently married and I will
do the management of music and make slide films showing in
the wedding party. So, please tell us the song with the
situation when the song is used (e.g. the bride and
bridegroom' entrance, cake cutting, etc).
For the next, shall we try to translate famous J-POP music
into English with your group members? From nowadays,
there are many Japanese famous songs covered by foreign
artists (Sukiyaki song, Shimauta, Yuming song, Flowers
bloom - Boys II Men etc).
Please choose one song among the lyrics I showed in the
handouts.

Presenter: Mr. Yasuda

Genre: Drama

Title: Princess Diana

Practice descriptions:
Please make a drama by your own creativity.
Perform a drama filled with laughter and tears.

As we don't have enough time, I decided the
title this time. You may follow the real story or
you can also make an imaginary story. It is
entirely up to you.

I hope all of you will enjoy acting like
an actor/actress happily.

Presenter：　Mr. Sugihara

Genre: talk/debate

Title: Northern Ireland

Practice descriptions:
Official name of "Igirisu", where English language was
born, is "the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland." You may wonder why Northern Ireland has to be
attached to "Great Britain" to form the United Kingdom. Or
you may not wonder..

Northern Ireland, with land area almost same as Fukushima
prefecture and population slightly larger than Kyoto city,
is known for UNESCO world heritage of Giant's Causeway,
the world first legal whiskey distillery of Bushmills, and
the birthplace of the cruiser ship "Titanic." Or is it
Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the conflict known as "the
Troubles" that you imagine?

In practice, I give you the brief introduction of the
region, and you talk on the topics about this English
speaking region. Northern Ireland is bigger than its
actual size of land area and population in its presence in
English speaking world. So you English language lovers,
it's good for you to talk something about Northern
Ireland. No prior knowledge about Northern Ireland is
required.

slainte!(cheers in Gaelic language)

Presenter：　Mr. Higashiyama

Genre: speaking

Title: Psychological test

Practice descriptions:
First, make five to six groups. Second, work on a psychological test I will provide you with. Third, analyze your own result. Fourth, take up each group member's result and talk about it within your group. The main subject of the talk is how the result reflects your own self- image or your group member's character.　　Thank you.

Presenter：　Mr. Yamamura

Genre: Work and presentation

Title: Introduce your partner

Description:
In this practice, you will introduce not yourself,
but your partner in a group.

First, you will have a mutual interview with your partner,
and then introduce your partner to the other group member
according to your interview.

Presenter：　Mr. Takai

Genre: talk

Title: photo memories in this fiscal year

Description:
How was your this fiscal year ?
Maybe every members had funny, angry, love, or something episodes.
Then you might take photos.
The last practice in this fiscal year is talking about this fiscal year's episode.
Please talk about episodes with your photos for other members.

Attention !!
Don't forget to bring some your photos !!(3 or 4 pieces)
If you don't have photos,
it's OK to bring degital camera or post card or something which has picture.

Presenter：　Mr. Matsuura

Genre: Talk

Title: trouble shooting

Description:
Let us shoot the troubles we have.
I hope we will have a good time.

Presenter：　Mr. Zaitsu

Genre: Debate

Title: Should we go study abroad ?

Description:
(1)Stand Point in Each Side

Side A : Japanese students should enter overseas colleges or universities.
Side B : Japanese students should enter Japanese colleges or universities.

(2)Rules
・Comment round; Make out your opinion along your stand point.
・Question round; In your turn to ask, attack to the foe members by all
members in your side.
In your turn to answer, defend your stand point by all menbers in your side.
・There are some strategy time in the game.
・At last of the game, summarize your claim as the last opinion in each group.

Presenter：　Ms. Hori

Genre : Talk

Title : An introduction your hometown

Description:
In each group, please introduce your hometown
( your hometown's history, famous area, famous food, annual event,
annual festival, recent news, and so on.)

Please imagine your friend is from abroad who wants know
information about your hometown.

Let's enjoy and exchange information with your group members.


Hope to see you again soon.

Presenter： Mr. Hiwatashi

Genre: Discussion

Title: Be a good chairperson

Description:
The aim of this practice is getting used to be a chair and to know how it works.
In this practice, all of you will be a chair who control a discussion
and also be a member of discussions while others will acting as chairs.

I will give you 10 min. while you will be a chair.
You will choose a topic to be discussed and lead a certain conclusion please.

I hope you enjoy the practice.

With wishes,

Presenter： Ms. Matsumura

Genre: Talk

Title: Astrology - Describe your character

Description:

Catching a recent spiritual boom,
in this practice you will have a group talk about people's characters based on astrology.
I prepare some adjectives to describe the characteristics of each sign in astrology.
Check your and your group member's signs and talk about it.
You may be able to know the hidden characters in you or your group members!!!

I hope you will enjoy it.

Presenter： Ms. Asano

Genre: Game

Title: Superstitions

Description:
You will play superstitions game in your group.
Although the superstitions in the game are from American or Europe,
you will find some of them are similar to Japan.
After you play, talk about superstitions. Which ones do you believe in?
Do you know other superstitions?

I hope that you’ll have fun with the game.

Presenter：　Mr. Nakanishi

Ｇｅｎｒｅ : Cross word puzzle

Ｔｉｔｌｅ : try to find forty words with your partners

Description:
I've made the original cross word puzzle.
It contains forty words of certain area.
What kind of area?
It will be informed at the previous week.

Presenter：　Ms. Miyamae

Genre: Game

Title: Let's play with "Synonyms"

Description:
How many synonyms can you think of?
Synonyms are words that have the same, or almost the same meaning.
I am going to prepare few synonyms and you need to remember them.
Cards will be given to each group, so let's play shinkei-suijyaku.

Presenter：　Mr. Oku

Genre: Composition.

Title: Current English excerpted from the Asahi Shinbun

Description:
The class is divided to several groups composed of four people.
Current English expressions and words (about 20 examples) are
excerpted from the Asahi Shinbun "Tips on English" column,
and printed materials are distributed.
Taking in the example expression and key words,
compose your original writing hopefully full of humors and jokes.
Then, in the group, discuss and select one writing for each example expression,
shape them up, and finally present some of them orally in front of the class.
This is the working process of the day.

An example: "live from paycheck to paycheck" ”Many families live from paycheck to paycheck,
juggling rent or a mortgage payment.” (To live from hand to mouth).

I hope you enjoy this practice.

Presenter：　Ms. Oka

Genre :Translation

Title :An introduction to Time Reading Club

Description :
You're supposed to read one of the articles in
Time magazine and translate it into Japanese,paragraph by paragraph.
Everyone can help each other.
And you can exchange opinions about the article if you like.
Hope to see you soon at the temple.

On this day we hold New Years Party .
So our circle isn't held at temple.

Presenter：　Ms. Nakano

Genre: Discussion

Title: New Years Resolution

Description:
In this practice, you consider your new years resolution.
Please discuss including whether you achieve last years resolution.

Finally, you present it in front of members.

This day our ESS circle is not held.

Presenter：　Mr. Kazita

Genre: Discussion

Title: Recent News

Description:
In this practice, I will divide all participants into 4 or 5 groups.

I will prepare the major topics around the world.
Please exchange opinions freely with each other.
The discussion time for each topic will be 20 minutes.
Group members will be changed after finishing one topic
so that you can speak with a lot of people.

I am looking forward to hearing your interesting opinions!

Presenter：　Mr. Iwagami

Genre: discussion

Title: Trouble shooting 3

Description:
In this time, we solve the truble shooting.

Presenter：　Mr. Kuranuki

Genre: Reading＆Discussion

Title: School Lunch of other countries

Description:
・Please make some small groups(4 people).

1)Please start talking with some casual topics
about School Lunch following the discussion sheet.

2)I will give 4 different pieces of article to one group.
Each of the article is written about the School Lunch
in the different country.
Please take one of them and read it.

3)Discussion again.Following the discussion sheet,
Please share your information with other members,
so you can get the information of School Lunch
of four different countries.

Presenter：　

Genre: Discussion

Title: What's new ?

Description:
In this practice, let's talk about experimence or something
which occured resently.

Presenter：　Ms. Hirose

Genre: Talk & Quize

Title: Let's enjoy "senryu"

Description:
In this practice,Ⅰ'd like you to talk about “senryu".

① One member selects a senryu on the list Ⅰ'll prepare for you,
and asks the meaning to the other members of your group.

② Then the member chooses another senryu and explains the meaning
for the other members to guess the senryu.
He/She 'll give you some hints to get the right answer.

③ The next member follows the same procedure.

Ⅰ think senryu is a good example of Japanese humour.
Please enjoy it!

See you at the temple.

Presenter：　

Genre: Game

Title: SUGOROKU

Description:
Today we can't prepare for practice.
Because last week we were busy to prepare the ESS BOOT CAMP
So today's practice is SUGOROKU which is traditional of ESS.

ESS boot camp is hold.

so It isn't hold in the temple.

There is not our circle in this day.

Presenter：　Ms. Nakamura

Genre: Easy work &Discussion

Title: "Using your hands for talking and knowing yourself and others"

Description:
In this practice, you wil be divided into some groups.
Then,
(1)You'll draw(just copy) your hand into a paper.( Easy! )
(2)I 'll show you 5 Questions. And fill each fingers with your answers for questions on your paper.
After this work, you'll discuss about it.

I learned this practcice when I was a college student.
My teacher taught me that it was a Philppine social work training for knowing themselves.

I hope you'll enjoy the practice. I'm really looking forward to seeing you all soon.

Thank you very much.

Presenter：　Ms. Okubo

Genre: game

Title: Crossword

Description:
Hello!!
This is a notice of practice for Oct 20th.
The title is crossword.
When you finish it, you can find a word.
Then, discuss about it in the group.
I hope you will enjoy it!
See you☆

Presenter：　Mr. Hori

Genre: Quiz Type Discussion

Title: Love, Like and Cherish

Description:
On Oct. 13th, I'd like to present a small talking/discussion corner.
In that time, I'd like you to discuss the things you like very much from two angles.

1. Names of several things or something are written in a sheet.
I'd like you to select the one you like best and comment the reasons
(why you like it best).
If the comment is very reasonable, please give him/her a big clap.
2. I hope you to write down many things you like, genre by genre,
and tell the reasons.

I guess if you think about the things you like and forget the things
you don't like, you feel happy and will be optimistic.

Thank You.

Presenter：　Ms. Tanihara

Genre: Listening and translation into English with discussion

Title: Let’s translate the fairy tale “For a pair of gloves” into English!

Description:
In this practice, I have chosen a Japanese fairy tale “For a pair of gloves”
written by Mr. Nannkitchi Niimi as a material.
I think this story is familiar to us.
At first, I would like you to try listening to the synopsis and filling in the blanks.
For the next, please try to translate this story into English
and prepare for the several questions cooperating with your group members.

Presenter：　Mr. Ishizaki

Genre：game

Title： "preference game"

Description：

The rule is quite simple, that is there are some category
and some item which belong to each category.
Attendants select one item and explain the reason why you like/select it,
and have discussion about it.
I hope you will enjoy talking on it.
See you at Yosenji-temple.

Presenter：　Mr. Noguchi

Genre：Listening Comprehension

Title：Enjoy and make out what they sing

Description：

As many of you know, this is the kind of practice which
uses some western songs in CD and you are supposed to make
out what they are saying or singing.
So, please fill out some blanks in printed lyrics!

In preparing this practice, I tried to select songs that
would be suitable for this practice's purpose. I hope I
succeeded at it and also you enjoy it.

Presenter：　Mr. Aiki

Genre：Game

Title: Game Pros and Cons

Description：
With a given statement, one group supports it and the other
group declines it. A judge makes a decision on who wins.
You have to work together in your group to persuade the
judge how plausible your arguments are.