What's New at Kyoto NHK ESS?

Dear Kyoto NHK ESS members,

Hello, everyone.
I'm sorry to be late for my announcement.

This is an announcement of the practice planned on March 10th.

Genre :Quiz, Game

Title: Let's play sugoroku speech!

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

Part 1: (Warming up) English vocabulary quizzes (17:40-17:55)

This game is guessing the English word
from the definition of Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
One of your group member read out the definition on card.
Other members guess and answer the word.
Then, next person turn the card and read out the definition on card.
Other members guess and answer the word.
Please repeat this work by rotation.

Part 2: Sugoroku speech(17:55-18:40)
I'll prepare sugoroku sheet and question sheet for each group.
The rules are same as usual, and you should answer the question as same number on the square you stop.

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

Best wishes,
Yuko Tanihara

Dear Kyoto NHK ESS members,

Hello, everyone.

This is an announcement of the practice planned on March 17th.

Following materials of practice are kindly prepared and provided by Ms. Miyazawa.
Unfortunately, she cannot attend, so Ms.Tabata will be a moderator on that day.

Here is the announcement from Ms. Miyazawa.
I hope you will enjoy it!

Regards,
Yuko Tanihara

I'm sending this to let you know the contents of the upcoming practice on March 17th.

[Genre: ]Discussion

[Theme: ] double topics about current sports issues
《 Sports and budget 》--25min,
1. Should Japan spend more budget to increase the number of Olympics medalists?
2. What should Japan do for its athletes to achieve better results?
http://time.com/5168048/norway -olympics-medals-winter-games- skiiing/

《 Sumo scandal 》--25min.
1. Who should be blamed most ?(e.g. Harumafuji,Takanohana,the Asso ciation,or anyone else)
2. What can JSA(Sumo Kyokai)do to reduce the series of violent incidents?
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/n ews/2017/11/19/national/crime- legal/sumo-scandal-deepens-con flicting-accounts-alleged-assa ult-emerge/#.Wpqw6B3FIy4

[Outline:]
1) Make some groups.
2) Read the material; 2 paras for each.
(*If majority of your group don't need the reading,just skip it and allot more time for talk.)
3) Discuss the agenda
4) Summarize the discussion by one member of each group.---5min.

Thanks for your cooperation in advance.

Here is the announcement for the practice on March 24th.

Genre : speech

Title : One minute speech No.4

More than three and a half years have passed since we did this practice.

I hope both experienced members and whom for the first time can enjoy a little taut moment.

The process is as follows.

1. Make 3-member groups.

2. Each group has 20 pieces of paper with a topic on each.

3. The person 1 turns over the paper on top and speaks anything about the topic for one minute.

Then the person 2 speaks about the same topic.

The person 3 follows.

4. After all members finish speaking about the first topic, the person 2 turns the next paper and starts speaking.

Repeat the same routine.

5. Next, the person 3 turns the next paper and repeat the same procedure.

You don't need to consider the topic seriously but speak swiftly about what hits your mind.

Keep emitting as many words as possible for one minute without consulting a dictionary.

Regards,

Fujio Hirao

Hello evryone.

I'm going to distribute the information about practice held on March 31th.

We will discuss our experience and desire about visiting World Heritage Site(WHS) in the world.

Firstly we are devided into several groups as usual.
it's desirable that a group consists of 4
or 5 members.

In each group members tell their experience to visit WHS in turn, following below steps.

1 What is your best WHS inside Japan that you've visited?
Please tell this with your reasons.

2 What is your best WHS outside Japan that you've visited?
Please tell this with your reasons.

3 What is your WHS inside Japan that you want to visit the most in the future?
Please tell this with your reasons.

4 Want is your WHS outside Japan that you want to visit the most in the future?
Please tell this with your reasons.

If you have no experience to visit WHS, please tell something regarding to No 3, 4.

Finally if we have more time, we will have some quiz time I'm preparing.

See you on March 31th.

Best Regards,
Takehiko Sakai