What's New at Kyoto NHK ESS?

Dear members of NHK ESS,
This is the announcement for the practice on December 7th, 2019.

【Genre: Mini Game and Talk】
The practice have two sections below.
Make some groups. (max 5 groups)
And decide the first owner in each group.

Section 1【Mini Game : Can you find a mistake?】(20minutes)
1. Materials(an envelope) will be distributed.
2. There are about 50 cards in the envelope.
A wrong text, tip(hint) and a right text are written in each card.
3. Owner gets one card from the envelope and read the wrong text part
(including mistake). Other members listen to it and answer
a right text and what’s wrong.
4. If members need hints, owner can read tips in the card.
5. Finally, Owner read an answer (right text) and changes owner to the next.

Section 2【Talk: About short articles】(30minutes)
1. Materials will be distributed.
2. You will receive materials including some short articles and questions
in English.
3. Please select an article and talk about 5 – 10 min. for one article
after reading it in each group.

Lastly, please summarize the group discussion for today’s section 1 and 2
and share it with everyone.(5 minutes)

I hope you’ll enjoy my practice.

Yasuhiko Fujioka

Dear Kyoto NHK ESS members,

Hello, here is the announcement for the practice on December 14th.

(1) Genre: Talk
(2) Title: Shopping
(3) Description:
1. Making some groups
2. Answer the following questions individually.
3. Share your answers in your group.
4. Talk about shopping freely.


0) Tell us what you bought today or yesterday.
1) How much do you usually spend a month?
2) What do you spend money on mainly?
3) What is the most expensive purchase this year?
4) Are you sensitive to the price of things?
When you do shopping, do you compare the price of another store?
When you do an expensive purchase, do you sometimes beat the price down?
Are you proud of that you lowered the price to others?（Kansai people often do.）
5) Do you like shopping?
6) Do you often use Internet shopping?
Ex.) Amazon, Rakuten,…
7) Which do you prefer, internet shopping or shopping at actual stores? Why?
8) After a consumption tax rose in 10%, did you change the way of paying?
Ex. using credit card or 〇〇pay
9) Have you ever used “Yahoo Auctions” or “mercari.”? How was that?
10)Tell us the interesting experience of the shopping in foreign countries?
11) Are there any failure story about Internet shopping?
12) Is there anything you are being careful of Internet shopping?

I hope you will enjoy that.

Tabata

Hello.

I hope this text message finds you well.

I am in charge of the latter half activity on December 21.

Genre : talk

Title: Family and Longevity

I am looking forward to seeing you.

T.Noguchi

Hello everybody.
This is Shigeo HORI, and I'm in charge of the latter half corner on December 28th.

Title: Recollection of 2019.
Genre: Discussion.
Description: In the last meeting in 2019, I'd like you all to look back what happened in 2019 for you.
The procedure is as follows;
1) Divide members into several groups．
2) You individually select top 3 (or 4) topics in 2019, and write them on a paper.
3 topic areas are prepared; Domestic, International, Personal (You need to write 9 titles altogether).
4) Exchange the ideas within each group, and make group top 3 news (domestic and international), and discuss the reasons why they are important.
5) Group leaders will present the conclusion of group consensus.
6) If you have spare time, you can discuss what will happen in 2020.

I hope you can enjoy the discussion.
Thank you.

Shigeo HORI (From Kashiba City) .