What's New at Kyoto NHK ESS?

Dear Kyoto NHK ESS members,

Hello, everyone.

This is the announcement for the practice on September 17 "Staff Presents Monthly Practice".
I am so sorry for my late announcement.

Title: September : Let’s describe and discuss each monthly topic!
Please make some groups having 4-5 members in each group.
At first, please choose your own topic from the following list or create your own idea that has something to do with September. No overlap over the topics in your group, please.

List of Topics
jugoya or tsukimi, cosmos, ohagi, autumnal equinox day, a visit to a grave, silver week, autumn festival, cricket, sumo, respect for the aged day, typhoon, japanese pear, persimmon, Labor Day, or Your Own Idea.

Part 1: Design and construction of your prompt speech for 5 min.
Part 2: Present your speech for 1 min.
Part 3: Share idea and opinion on the presented topic in the group for 10 min.
Repeat Part 2 and Part 3 after the first speaker in your group finishes the practice.

I hope you will enjoy it!

Best wishes,
Yuko Tanihara

This is an announcement for the practice 24

(genre）　 presentation
(procedure) make some groups、consisted of 4-5 members in each group.
(theme)
(1) （about 15 minutes)
Summarize what your last hot summer season was like.　Was it different from the ordinary summer ?
① good points　 ②bad points

(2) (about 50 minutes)
Beforehand, I will prepare about 30 pieces of current news broadcasted from NHK and other popular subjects relevant to our daily life during the last few months.
Please choose one topic you like among them and make a short presentation on it within 2 minutes. And if other members have any comments to add to the presenter’s one, express your own briefly. Finishing the first round, repeat the same procedure in the 2nd round , in the 3rd round, and so on .

Oishi

This is an announcement for the practice October 1st
By Masahiro Yamamoto
　　(genre） presentation
(procedure) To make some groups which consist of 4-5 members in each group.
(theme) Protecting our environment
(1) Mom and her daughter are discussing.
Two volunteers, Mom and her daughter, will make a dialogue in front. (Twice about 7 minutes)
(2) To make some groups which consist of 4-5 members in each group. A chairman should be selected in each.
(3) Each group will proceed following the procedure in the handout.
(4) Listening about the presentation by a boy.

山本です。いつものように女性2人に（母と娘）英語による会話を始めてもらいます。 （原稿が見られます）その役をしてくださる方を募集をします。女性の方が望ましいのですが、男性でも一向にかまいません。希望者はお知らせください。

Hi, everyone.
I'm happy to present the announcement for the latter half of practice on Oct. 8th, 2022.

(Genre）Discussion

(Procedure) Make some groups which consist of 3-4 members in each group.

(Theme) What would you do if you were Prime Minister of Japan today?

Take a look on A) to F) and discuss on 1) to 8)
A） Russia waged war against Ukraine on Feb. 24th, 2022.
・ Putin’s miscalculation
・Unfruitful military operation
・Obsolete Russian weapons
・Severe economic sanctions from the West
・Zelensky‘s strategy: Ask for help via mass media and the West. Not to give up.
・１/6 of China's economy, with a 142 million population
・Real GDP (purchasing power parity)$3,875,690,000,000 (2020 est.)　Real GDP per capita　$26,500 (2020 est.)
B) China
・OBOR(One Belt One Road, 一帯一路)
・Xi Jinping‘s 3rd term likely
・Confrontation with the US
・Support, wait and see with Russia
・SCO（Shanghai Cooperation Organization,上海協力機構）
・Hongkong
・Taiwan
・Senkaku
・No.2 economy with a 1.4 billion population
・Real GDP (purchasing power parity)$23,009,780,000,000 (2020 est.)　Real GDP per capita　$16,400 (2020 est.)
C)Taiwan
・Biden “the US would defend Taiwan.”
・One China policy
・Semiconductor supplier
・Geopolitical position: near China and Senkaku
・Big as Kyushu with a 23 million population
・Real GDP (purchasing power parity)$1,143,277,000,000 (2019 est.)　Real GDP per capita　$24,502 (2018 est.)
D）North Korea（DPRK）
・Nuclear weapons and missile test
・Negate agreement with Japan
・Need for economic aid and money
・Refuse to return the abductees to Japan
・Sell weapons to Russia
・25 million population with Real GDP (purchasing power parity)of $40 billion (2015 est.)
E) the US
・Sanction against Russia
・Support Ukraine
・FRB‘s FOMC to raise FF(federal fund) for 0.75%
→tight interest policy to moderate inflation
・8％ inflation： CPI 8.3% on Aug 2022
・Insufficient supply despite demand increase in post corona pandemic
・No.1 economy with a 333 million population
・Real GDP (purchasing power parity)$19,846,720,000,000 (2020 est.)　Real GDP per capita　$60,200 (2020 est.)
F) Japan
・Inflation: 3% on Aug 2022
・Yen depreciation
・Price hike for energy and food
・Birth rate: 1.3 babies for one woman
・Real GDP (purchasing power parity)$5,224,850,000,000 (2019 est.)　Real GDP per capita　$41,400 (2019 est.)

Discussion
１） What is your impression of Russia？

２） What is your image of the Ukraine war?

３） What is your image of China？

４） What is your image of Taiwan？

５） What is your image of North Korea？

６） What is your image of the US？

７） What is your image of Japan？

8) What would you do if you were Prime Minister of Japan today?


Thank you for your kind cooperation
Osamu Minamihashi