What's New at Kyoto NHK ESS?

Dear ESS members,

Sorry for my belated announcement.
Let me introduce the contents and the relevant procedures for
the practice on March 13th.

【Genre: Talk】
【Topic: During the Covid-19 pandemic】
1. Make some groups.
2. 【Group Talk】
Have a discussion about the topic.
3. 【Give a speech in front of everyone.】
Could you (everyone) make one minute presentation
about your story regarding the topic?

Have enjoy!
Natsuko Morino

An announcement for the coming practice by Mr. Izumi
Toki on Saturday, March 20th, 2021 in the Hiromachi
Community Center
19:10
Story-telling entitled Momotaro, the Peach Boy, by Izumi
Toki starts.
19:15
A discussion with four-person each starts to clarify
“what Momotaroʼs story comes down to” or “what
Momotaroʼ message is”.
19:30
Each group clarifies “what Momotaroʼs message is”.
19:40
Mr. Toki gives you his interpretation of Momotaroʼs
message and how he comes down to it.
19:55
Open discussion with all participants chaired by Mr. Toki
20:10
The practice comes to an end.

Dear ESS members,

Let me introduce the contents of the practice on March 27th.

【Genre: Talk】

【Topic: English】

1.If given the chance to learn English abroad, what country would you choose? Why?

2. If you were asked for advice about the most effective way to learn English, what would you say?

3. If you had to choose three fun ways to learn English, what would you choose?

4. What would the world be like if English was not a global language?

5.If you could make another language as popular as English, what language would you choose? Why?

As We have 総会 on that day, we have only 30min. (17:40-18:10)

Please enjoy the discussion about the topic.

Have enjoy!

Kazu Yasuda

Dear ESS members,

This is an announcement for Practice on April 3.

1 Genre: Talk
2 Description: 7 questions to talk about

Followings are 7 questions from the text book of Business Communication in Action (実践ビジネス英語).

In the book is an interview article for Mr. Sugita, the instructor of the lesson. 21 questions and 21 answers are there. Reading the article, I thought of that some questions are suitable to use for “Practice.”

The program is unfortunately going to end this month after 33-year of its history including 2 other programs,やさしいビジネス英語、ビジネス英会話 in total.

Here are questions for you to talk about.

1 Which is the best in the countries you have been?

2 What is the oldest memory (memories) in your younger days?

3 What kind of food do you like best?

4 What would you do with an extra hour if there were 25 hours in a day?

5 Tell us about three movies you love.

6 Are you a beer person, sake person, wine person or...?

7 Have you lost your wallet or purse? or Have you picked it up?

You don’t have to take up all the questions as they are just topics of conversation.

Thanks,

Hirano Fujio

Hello Dear ESS members.

This is Shigeo HORI, from Kashiba City and I'd like to inform you the latter part of the corner of April 10th.

1. Date: April 10th, 2021.
2. Genre: Discussion.
3. Title: Sports Club Mentality
4. Description:
Some of you have experiences in sports club activities in your school days. They say the relationships among them, especially between seniors and juniors, are informally and strictly coded,
what we call “Taiikukai-kei Mentality.”
This kind of mentality survived into the business world or elsewhere. But if this type of mentality spread into the company’s core identity, what will happen?

On Apr. 10th, I’d like you all to discuss this kind of mentality not only in sport club or business world, but also in every sphere of our daily life.

5. Procedure
a. Presentation form Hori on this topic.
b. Make several groups.
c. Read the materials and discuss the topic.
d. The leader of each group will show us the results of the discussion.
Thank you.

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堀　薫夫（HORI　Shigeo)
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