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Dear Kyoto NHK ESS members

This is an announcement of the practice planned on May-5th.

Genre : Public Speaking
Title : Let’s recommend something interesting to others.

< Description >
Wikipedia explains “Public Speaking is the process or act of performing a speech to a live audience.
It is structured with three general purposes : to inform, to persuade and to entertain.”
In this practice, you will be recommending anything interesting to others such as a book, a movie, a drama, a travel, a sport, a restaurant, an exhibit, a spot, etc.

< How to>
First, you have 5~10 minutes for preparation,
Then, make a big sitting circle with all attendants.
Coordinator will assign a speaker in turn and accept questions for the speech.
The speaker stands up and make a speech about his/her recommendation.
Time management will be done by the coordinator.

Note: You can bring in anything to show during your recommendation speech.

Hope you enjoy it !

Isamu Mashima

This is an announcement about the Practice on 12 th May.

Genre ： Speaking
Title ： Mother’s Day

We have Mother’s Day on 13th May in Japan. Let’s talk about your memory of Mother’s Day.
Before that, I may prepare some tiny quiz about Mother’s Day.

1 Make several groups
2. Simple Quiz(17:45～18:00)
3. Talk about your memory or episode of Mother’s Day(18:00～18:40)

Just relax and freely talk about your memory.
(You also can tell your friends’ funny story about it.)

Let’s have fun
Kazumasa Yasuda

Hello, there:

This is an announcement about Practice on 2018-05-19.

Genre: Speaking / Composition
Title: Let's Tweet in English

Have you ever used Twitter?

In this practice, you’ll have an opportunity to "tweet" to others.

My definition of a "tweet" here is a clear-cut short English paragraph
which consist of a few sentences (single sentence will be OK too).

I'd like to make it a rule that every tweet should have a single idea
to deliver. That's it. There is no other rules. Just relax and
tweet whatever you want!

Let’s have fun :-)

Cheers!

Masakazu Yoshida

Practice 5.26

Title: Notions of marriage (結婚観について）

１）Divide our members into 4 or 5 groups.

２）Discussion

　〇The notion of marriage means only a young couples’ matter and never be his and her families’ matter. (agree or disagree)

　 〇Americans’ notions of marriages look like couple’s long journey.　

That means “Not life-long events”.

〇If you would have a young daughter (or your sister) and she said to you “I want marry an American guy.”, will you accept her or not?

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　by Takeo Kuchinaka

いよいよ梅雨入りしましたね。
みなさん、いかがお過ごしですか。
さて、先月の後半プラクティスの報告をさせていただきます。

5月5日 間嶋さん
「あなたのrecommendationは？」
東京の銘菓、淡路島の美術館、活版印刷の年賀状、子どもの頃からの夢、乗馬・・ みんなの前で「私が伝えたい”オススメ” 」を話してもらいました！

5月12日 安田さん
「 Mother's Day 」
母の日って、世界中でいろんな形で祝われてるんですね。みなさんの母の日の思い出を聴けて、ほのぼの気分をいただきました！

5月19日 吉田さん
「 Let's tweet in English」
”私がもらった最高の贈り物とは・・”
”私の人生を振り返って、一つだけ変えることができるならば・・ ”
大きな車座を作って一人一人にtwitter してもらいました。えっ〜〜それってマジですか⁉︎

5月26日 口中さん
「 結婚についての概念」
”あなたの可愛い娘さんが、アメリカ人男性と結婚したいと言いました。うーむ、 国際結婚・・ ”
どう思いますか。みなさんの意見、いろいろでしたねぇ。

各プラクティスを通して、みなさんのいろんな面を垣間見れましたね。担当者の方々、ありがとうございました。
6月も雨ニモ負ケズ、楽しく一緒に英語を学びましょう！

2018 Kyoto NHK ESS スタッフ一同