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May 13th lesson

Dear students, Today you will present about a prefecture in groups of three. Each person should talk for a minimum of three minutes. You should have an introduction, a body (A,B,C) and a final comment for your group presentation. There should be about two or three slides per minute, which means everyone should prepare between five and ten slides. Try to make your speech interesting by including information that the audience will not know. Give feedback to one person in the group using the form below. Peer Presentation Feedback Kind regards, Chris Elvin

April 22nd lesson

Dear students, Today you will work in groups of three. Your topic is your home prefecture so ideally everyone in your group should be from the same area. You will write a brief introduction, and then a paragraph each for the three hometowns within your prefecture. Finally, you will say a brief final comment such as "please visit our prefecture if you can". One method of planning is to draw a concept map, so you should do that first, perhaps. Example structure: Introduction: We will talk about Kanagawa because we were all born there. Body 1: About Odawara: (famous people, food, activities) Body 2: About Yokohama: (history, fun places, sports) Body 3: About Kawasaki: (shrine, events, my restaurant recommendations) Final comment: Please visit Kanagawa. Kind regards, Chris Elvin

April 15th lesson

Dear students, By today, you should have: 1) completed the online personal survey 2) chosen when you will present your student-led activity and 3) uploaded your self-introduction (assignment 1). Today you will interview a student and upload it to the database (assignment 2). Firstly, you should write enough questions to last for a two-minute interview. Then interview your random partner. Your pair groups are as follows: 17-7 12-18 8-21 6-3 1-9 20-19 5-14 4-10 13-15 16-2 11 Kind regards, Chris Elvin

April 8th lesson

Dear students, Today you will take a pre-course survey (see below), learn about the course (see previous post) and prepare a solo self-introduction that you will upload to the private database. pre-course survey Upload Homework Kind regards, Chris Elvin