What's New at Kyoto NHK ESS?

４月７日のプラクティス担当の富久田です。複数の方からアンコールのお声をいただいて反意語カルタで遊びます。五組に分かれて五回行い点数を競います。よろしくお願いいたします。

Dear Kyoto NHK ESS members,

Hello, here is the announcement for the practice on April 14th.
(1) Genre: Game
(2) Title: “Who is a liar” game
(3) Description:

This is the game you try to guess who is telling a lie in the opposing team.
The process is as follows.

1. Make 3 or 4 member groups.

2. Prepare the quiz
　　Each team chooses one topic.
Each member prepares to give a quiz about the topic your team chose.
Decide one person who tells a lie. The other people will tell truth.
Maybe it is easy for the liar to change slightly from the true story.
Funny or tricky quiz is desirable.

3.Each group (Group A) make pairs with another group (B group) . (A vs B, C vs. D･･･)

4.Start the Quiz. A group goes first.
　Each member of A group speaks about each story of the topics in order.
　(Only 1 person tells a lie).
　*Speaking time for each person is around 1 minute.
　*The person who tells a lie, try to deceive the other group.

5.Question time
　Each member of B group can ask only one question in order to find out who the liar is.
Members of A will answer the questions, but don’t tell too direct answer.

6.Answering time
　B group members guess who a liar is.

7.Tell the right answer (who told a lie).

8. Change turns. This time B group gives a quiz and A group answers it.

9.Repeat with other topics.

＜TOPICS examples＞

* How did you spend last weekend?
* The best present you have ever received?
* Mischief you had ever done (including in childhood.)
* Have you ever told a big or funny lie to someone? What was it like?
* Your (or your friend’s) strange experience you have ever had.
* Embarrassing story.
* Favorite food?
* Favorite TV program.
* The most strange food you have ever had? (ex. Worm, insects)
* No experience (ex. I have never been to ・・・)
* The most impressive place you have ever been to?
* The most famous person you’ve ever met?
* Important factor to learn English
*The dangers you have passed in your life.
*The things you are thinking a lot recently
*The techniques of saving money
*The plan of your next summer vacation
*Favorite movies
*Failure story
*Heroic episode(武勇伝)
*What if you have more money than one will ever use?
・・・You can make any other topics

I hope you will enjoy that.
Thank you for reading.

Akihiro Tabata

Hello.

I hope this text message finds you well.

Here is the announcement of the latter half activity on April 21.

Genre : discussion

Title : About Face

North Korean leader Kim John Un , last year, successfully , launched ICBMs and declared his country a nuclear state.

This year , however , he did an about-face on his declaration.

US President Donald Trump warned , last year , that North Korea would be met with " fire and fury like the world has never seen ".
And talking to Kim John Un is ' a waste of time'.

This year , however , he also did an about-face : he is planning to meet Kim.

We are talking about what will actually happen .

I hope you will enjoy it.

T. Noguchi

This is an announcement about my practice on 2018-04-28.

Genre: Speaking / Reading
Title: Lies a part of human nature
Please read the following passage in advance.

Everyone lies. In fact, research shows that in the average ten-minute conversation, two acquaintances will lie several times. The reason? The mixed messages everyone receives as children might be one reason. Although we are told never to lie, we see our parents lie about Santa Claus or the death of a pet. Parents say "thank you" when receiving a gift, even when it's unwanted.
Psychologist Paul Ekman explains that we lie for many reasons. For example, we lie to stay out of trouble, to feel better about ourselves, to receive a reward, to protect someone, or to control information. Everything from an exaggeration to a small lie falls into one of these categories.
A New Year's resolution can also be considered a lie, because we generally don't plan to keep the promise. We have only deceived ourselves. Or how about when a friend or colleague asks, "How are you? That person doesn't want to hear that you're tired, overworked, or have other problems. We lie and say "I'm fine" because of social rules. Although lies are an important part of society, we can only catch a lie about fifty percent of the time. Some experts suggest that lies actually hold society together.

I want you to think about lies. What are lies? What are they like?

Masahiro Yamamoto

新緑の季節となりました。
皆様 いかがお過ごしでしょうか？
最近の活動内容 を 報告させていただきます。

<前半プラクティス>

♠︎初級班
教材:英会話ラジオ
今年度から講師も内容も一変しました！
ダイアログを繰り返し読み、丁寧に文法の語順 を 確認していきます。

♠︎中級班
教材：高校生からはじめる「現代英語」
最新のニュースを読み進め、現代英語の習得に励んでいます。
特に反訳トレーニング（日本語から英語へ訳す）は、英語の筋力アップに役立ちます！

♠︎上級班
教材：「実践ビジネス英語」
最新のトピックにふれながら、初めて目にする単語を学び
ところどころ脱線しつつも前のめりに白熱した discussion を enjoyしました。

<後半プラクティス>

♦︎４月7日 (福田さん) Title : Antonym Caruta
ESS新年度にピッタリのかるた対戦！
反対語は何だ⁉︎ 頭フル回転。

♦︎4月14日 (田畑さん) Title : " Who is honest” game
正直者は誰だ⁉︎ 周りのウソにくじけず、惑わされず・・

♦︎4月21日 (野口さん) Title : About Face
何かと頭の痛い 「北朝鮮問題」
「TIME」の記事をもとに白熱した議論が飛び交いました!

♦︎4月28日 (山本さん) Title: Lies a part of human nature
悪いイメージのある「嘘」。
テキストをもとに話していくうちに 不思議と「嘘」の概念が変わっていきます。

☘5月も皆様と楽しい時間を過ごしましょう！ご参加お待ちしております！

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