What's New at Kyoto NHK ESS?

3 月26日のプラクティス

Hi,there.

Long time no see,everyone.
This is the announcement of the March 26th activity .

Fortunately or unfortunately, I don’t know.
This time is a 30-minute activity.

Read this text carefully because I don’t prepare any handouts.

As Omicron wave has started to subside , I hope “corona era”will come to an end.

This time we are going to focus on what lesson we learned from this 2 year- long corona pandemic.

Never had we dreamed of the COVID’s having an impact on our activities up until 2years ago .

Let’s look back on what happened and how we behaved .

By the way, several days ago , Matsumoto Michihiro , a legendary English teacher, passed away due to Covid 19. I was shocked to hear that.

T.Noguchi

Dear Kyoto NHK-ESS members

Please find below the practice details on April 2 at the temple.

Genre : Group Talk

Topic : A person you respect :

Introduce a person you respect and show us the reason why.

1. Team formation

2. 10 min for preparation ( use your smartphone )

3. Decide the order of speakers

4. Start Introducing a person you respect and explain why you respect him/her.

5. Q & A before moving to the next speaker

I respect Toru Matsumoto. He was an English educator and Ph.D. in English Education. He started NHK Radio English Conversation program from 1951 for 16 years. I respect him because he was a pioneer of English Conversation program in Japan and many ESS's were organized throughout Japan. My English study started with a 50 yen NHK radio text-book when I was in high school. Thereafter, I could make the best use of English conversation skills in an American company until retirement. Without meeting his English program, my life must have been very limited to domestic and local activities.

Person in charge ( I. Mashima )