What's New at Kyoto NHK ESS?

Dear Kyoto NHK ESS members,

This is Motoko Tabata, and I'm in charge of the latter half practice on May 11.
I'd like to send you the agenda of the practice and the procedure of that day.

☆Genre: Variety (Quizzes, listening and discussion)

☆Title: "NO SOCIAL MEDIA(SNS), NO LIFE?!"

☆Procedures:
1 Make some groups.

2 Warm-up quizzes
I’ll give you some easy quizzes on social media(SNS).

3 Listen to the related news and fill in the blanks.

4 Exchange your comments in your groups.

☆Agenda
Nowadays we can't imagine living without social media(SNS).
Almost every day, we watch You Tube, check Instagram and browse websites.
We must admit the internet has become a significant part of our daily lives.
But social media is like a "double-edged sword".
It offers us greater convenience and connectivity, but it's also addicting
and the more time spend on social media can lead to cyberbullying and sometimes affect our mental health.
And hate speech, fake news and celebrity investment scams have become a serious problem especially in these years.
Let's talk about what's the best way to use social media.

Hoping you'll enjoy my practice!

Motoko Tabata

Hello ESS members,

I'm in charge of the latter practice on May 18.

I'd like to send you the agenda of the day.

Genre: talk
Title : Which city in the world is waiting for you?

Recently, the number of overseas travelers from Japan has been increasing.
However, the recovery in Japanese outbound tourism is lagging behind pre-corona virus levels.
This is because there are problems with high prices and weak yen around the world.
After the corona virus pandemic, many Japanese people also want to travel abroad, as well as many inbound tourists to Japan.

・If you could travel abroad, which country or city would you like to visit?

・What do you want to do in the city?

・What kind of city is an attractive tourist city for you?

Let's talk about your desired overseas trip!

R. Tanaka

Hello ESS members,

I will announce our practice on May 25.

I'd like to send you the agenda of the day.

Genre: talk

Title : On an airplane

Recently, the number of overseas travelers to Japan has been increasing. But not many Japanese go abroad.

However, we are finding many Japanese who try to go abroad for travelling against the week yen condition.

Maybe later, many of our ESS members will try to enjoy overseas travel.

As our country is surrounded by sea,
we may use an airplane most probably.

Let's talk about your interesting experience of airplane trip!

2024 Staff ( K. Yasuda)

ESS members,

Hello! I am Yuji Tsukuda.
This is the announcement of June 1 practice.
This practice is held on Zoom.

Title: What’s your favorite?
Genre: Talk

The procedures are as below
1) Make some groups. Each group has 3-4members.
2) Introduce yourself or sharing your current topic in your group for icebreaker.
3) A speaker shares his/her favorite thing, person, place or etc.
4) Other members make some questions to the speaker.
5) Repeat Procedure3 and 4.

Although you don’t need to prepare for the practice in advance, it is highly helpful if you prepare pictures or movies to be shared on the screen.

I am looking forward to seeing you on the day.

Kind regards,
Yuji Tsukuda.

Dear members of Kyoto NHK ESS.
Here is the announcement for the second practice on June 8th,
for which I am in charge.
So, I let you know in advance.
Firstly, we make some groups have 4-5 members each group as usual.
and assign the leader in each group.

【Genre: Mini Game and Talk】 The practice has two sections below.

Section 1【Mini Game : Quiz】 (10-15minutes)
1. There’s a paper-written quiz.
2. First, everyone please read a paper and answer the quizzes individually for about 5 minutes.
3. Next, each group leader shows the correct answer.
Please check and discuss the answer in each group.
4. Then a winner in each group, please raise your hand and show the number of correct answers. The person with the most correct answers is today's winner.
(In case of a tie, please play rock-paper-scissors to determine the winner.)

Section 2【Talk: About some short articles】 (30-40minutes )
1. Materials will be distributed.
2. Please select articles and read and talk about them in each group.

Lastly, we will summarize the group discussion for today’s talking and share it with everyone.
Could you each-group leader make a one-minute presentation about your story regarding the topics? (5 minutes)
I hope you’ll enjoy the practice.

By Yasuhiko Fujioka (the name of the person in charge)