What's New at Kyoto NHK ESS?

京都NHK　ESSのみなさま
こんばんは。
スタッフの Moritaです。
４月のニュースレターを配信させていただきます。

4月2日
practice 実施せず
参加者 36名
4月9日
Mr.Oku：English Composition【Topics】
参加者　28名
4月16日
Ms.Ohokubo：Discussion【What's your favorite】
参加者　36名
4月23日
Mr.Hori：Discussion【Reckless Oldsters】
参加者　26名
4月30日
Mr.Yasuda：Talk【Fashion】
参加者　32名

＜NEWCOMERS>
4月2日　Hotokezaka-san , Utunomiya-san , Okabe-san , Tahara-san , Ueyama-san , Aotani-san
4月9日　Uesugi-san , Fukuda-san , Hashimoto-san , Miyaba-san
4月16日　Tanaka-san , Nakara-san
4月30日　Wan-san
4月は13名の方が来られました。

＜TOPIC>
スタッフが交代し一ヶ月が経ちました。
まだまだ不慣れですが、６人力を合わせて頑張っています。

スタッフになったのですから、この一年思いっきり学び、楽しもうと思っています。
プラクティスを引き受けてくださった方は内容を色々考えてくださって
いつも感謝の気持ちでいっぱいです。
プラクティスは毎回とても楽しませていただいています。
この楽しい気分をどのように報告させていただこうかとワクワクし、
できるだけ早くラウンドテーブルに送信しようと思っています。

さて、今年の春ですが　少し気温の上がりが遅いようで
まだまだ肌寒い春気分を　長く楽しまれているのではないでしょうか？

春といえば「桜！」。
すぐに散ってしまいましたが、個人的には満開の一瞬より　散っている時が大好きです。
木にはまだ桜、青い葉っぱも綺麗で桜餅を連想させ、
風が吹くと花びらがハラハラと舞い、どこに落ちるかわからない花びら、
そして地面を覆う花びらの絨毯。
あ～～とってもステキですね。

来年の桜の時期がとっても楽しみです。
そして、この一年みなさんに喜びと楽しみが花びらのように舞いますように。


またお寺でお会いしましょう。

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. 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 : 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

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

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