Dear ESS members.
This is the announcement for the practice on March 22nd.
Genre : Game: Role playing game
Title : Press conference
I offer you to hold press coference on different topics.
For example, New product release, Scandal and Explanation for a faulty product .
How to do?
1. Make 4 groups and select your roles Jornalist or interviewer
2. Makes questions to interviewer and witty answers to Jornalist.
3. Hold the press conference.
4. Summary
1. You are about to interview a top politician/company and are keen to expose he/she as being inadequate for the job they do.
2. This is your big chance to enhance your reputation and further your career. Please write down whole of conversation between a Journalist and interviewer.
1. One day after you gave a speech on the importance of parents to teach their children morals your son was convicted for selling drugs.
2. When you were younger you were a supporter of pro-choice.
3. In a debate on the future of race relations in the US you said, 'We need to forget about the past and move forward.'
1. You talk about the importance and good standard of state schools
but both your children attend private schools.
2. On a visit to a school in a depressed area in Alabama you were
quoted as saying 'I've never met so many ill-mannered children; they should be placed in a juvenille detention center.'
1. You talk about the need for people to stop smoking due to healthcare costs but smoke yourself.
2. When asked about the ever increasing waiting list for medicare patients needing operations, you were quoted as saying, 'Well, it's not my fault that people keep getting sick!'
メディケア（英: Medicare）は、高齢者および障害者向け公的医療保険制度です。
1. Your company sold a blonde hair dye that turns your hair blue
2. Over 100 customers complained and want to refund.
3. If you refund all of them, it will cost 1000,000 yen at least.
4. Explain the product and its defect.
*I use “Lesson Plan - Press Conference By Lindsey Newhall” on All about for reference.http://esl.about.com/od/conversationlessonplans/a/press_conf.htm
I hope this geme will be fun and usefull to practice speaking, listening and dictation skills.
Thank you,
Yoko Iida