Collective Nouns-Sr.2-Feb.25th

Collective Nouns

The audience was listening carefully to the speaker in the beginning. 

Some audience were listening but the others were snoozing at the end.

The team runs for a warm-up. 

The team are now practicing offense and defense.

Conditionals-Review-Senior 2-Feb.25th

Conditionals – Review Practice

[ Part 3: Pair Practices ]

A: I have a lot of homework today. => I wish I didn’t have any homework today.

     -> B: What would you do if you didn’t have any homework?

-> A: If I didn’t have …, I would …

A: I’m not a cat. => I wish I were a cat.

-> B: What would you do if you were a cat?

-> A: If I were a cat, I would …

A: This sweater is too expensive to buy. > I wish this sweater was cheaper.

-> B: What would you do If this sweater was cheaper?

-> A: If this sweater was cheaper, I would …

[ Part 4: Review Practices ]

1. What do you usually do on weekends when it rains?

2. What will you do if it rains this weekend?

3. What do you usually say if you step on someone’s shoe?

4. What will you say if someone asks you to take a photo of him in English?

5. If there is no one at home when you come home hungry, what will you do?

6. Where would you go if you had a free plane ticket to anywhere you like?

7. If you won ten million yen in a lottery, what would you do?

8. If all your grades were the top in your school, what would you do?

Grammar Review-Jr.3L-Feb.23rd

I have a lot of homework.

I don’t have to finish it today, but I must hand it in on Monday.

You don’t have to come too early, but you mustn’t be late for the class.

You mustn’t smoke or drink.

You must be 20 or older to smoke or drink.

Lesson Review Blog=> http://senior-1p.blogspot.jp/

Grammar Review-Jr.3E-Feb.23rd

I have a lot of homework.

I don’t have to finish it today, but I must hand it in on Monday.

You don’t have to come too early, but you mustn’t be late for the class.

You mustn’t smoke or drink.

You must be 20 or older to smoke or drink.

Lesson Review Blog=> http://senior-1p.blogspot.jp/

Writing-Sr.2-Feb.22nd

Write to explain the brand you like in four or five sentences. 

I like ~. It’s a name of … 

I use/want to … I like the name because … 

It also …

Conditionals #1-Sr.2-Feb.18th

Conditionals – Review Practice

[ Part 1: Repeat ]

If you want to be rich, you need to work hard.-> You need to ~ if …

If it rains, Mom usually drives me to the station.-> Mom usually ~ if …

If it rains tomorrow, I’ll … -> I’ll ~ if …

If you leave now, you’ll be able to catch the train.-> Leave now, and you will …

If you don’t leave now, you’ll mist the train.-> Leave now, or you’ll …

      Unless you leave now, you’ll … -> You’ll ~ unless …

[ Part 2: Question & Answer ]

If animals spoke English I would study it much harder to talk with them.

=> What would you do if …?

If I could speak Chinese, I would …

=> What would you do if …?

If I were you, I would/wouldn’t …

     => If I were you, I would/wouldn’t …

What would you do if you had one more hour every day?

    => If I ~ , I would …

What would you do if you were the prime minister of Japan?

   => If I ~ , I would/wouldn’t …

Read & Write-Sr.2-Feb.15th

夫婦同姓

- 選択的夫婦別氏制度（いわゆる選択的夫婦別姓制度）について– 法務省

- 夫婦同姓は合憲-最高裁判決– NHK

教壇で旧姓使用「認めて」女性教諭 あすから控訴審   朝日-1.25.2017

　結婚前の旧姓で仕事ができないのは人格権の侵害だとして、勤務先の中高一貫校を運営する学校法人を訴えた女性教諭の裁判で、控訴審が２６日に東京高裁で始まる。一審は「戸籍名のほうが個人を識別できる」などとして、女性の請求を退けた。今も生徒から旧姓で呼ばれている女性は「生きるとはどういうことかを生徒にも考えてほしい」と語る。

女性教員の旧姓使用認めず　東京地裁

　女性は２００３年から東京都町田市の私立「日本大学第三中学・高校」に勤務。１３年に結婚して改姓した後も、旧姓の使用を学校に要望したが認められなかった。生徒や保護者からは旧姓で呼ばれる一方、時間割表や保護者への通知などは戸籍名が使われている。

　だが、昨年１０月の東京地裁判決は、職場で職員を特定するような場面では戸籍上の姓の使用を求めても違法でないと結論づけた。

　女性は教員免許は旧姓のままで、結婚前に書いた参考書などもある。旧姓で築いた業績と名前を切り離したくないという。「呼称は個人の自由だと思う。生徒たちにも社会でおかしいと思うことを主張できる人になってもらいたい。最後まであきらめない」と話す。

　ログイン前の続きこの判決は、インターネット上でも反響を呼んだ。中でも多かったのが１５年１２月の最高裁大法廷の判決との矛盾を指摘する声だ。

　民法が夫婦同姓を強制しているのは憲法違反だと訴えた裁判で最高裁は、結婚で改姓する妻のアイデンティティーの喪失感は「旧姓の通称使用により一定程度は緩和できる」と述べた。

　この裁判の原告だった大学教員吉井さんは「結局、別姓での結婚も旧姓使用もダメなら、どうしたらいいのでしょうか」と嘆く。「どちらの裁判も、裁判官の個人的な家族観が反映されているのでは」

　吉井さんも結婚直後に非常勤講師を務めた短大で旧姓使用を求めた際、「雇い主次第」という不安定さに直面したという。「女性の活躍をいうなら早く夫婦別姓を認めてほしい」。今年こそ国会での議論が進むことを期待している。

Do you think 
a married couple should be required to use one family name 
by law?

Issues need to be considered; 

Family unity and identity vs Personal Identity, 

Last name or family name, 

Family line and inheritance, 

Identification/Registration: Passport, Driver's license, Social security, Insurance ...

Career development, 

Divorce, 

Same-sex couple

Hard Rain#2-Sr.2-Feb.11th

A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall     

Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?

Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?

I’ve stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains

I’ve walked and I’ve crawled on six crooked highways

I’ve stepped in the middle of seven sad forests

I’ve been out in front of a dozen dead oceans

I’ve been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard

And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, and it’s a hard

And it’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall

Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?

Oh, what did you see, my darling young one?

I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it

I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it

I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin’

I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin’

I saw a white ladder all covered with water

I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken

I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children

And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard

And it’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall

And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?

And what did you hear, my darling young one?

I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin’

Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world

Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin’

Heard ten thousand whisperin’ and nobody listenin’

Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin’

Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter

Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley

And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard

And it’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall

Oh, who did you meet, my blue-eyed son?

Who did you meet, my darling young one?

I met a young child beside a dead pony

I met a white man who walked a black dog

I met a young woman whose body was burning

I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow

I met one man who was wounded in love

I met another man who was wounded with hatred

And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard

It’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall

Oh, what’ll you do now, my blue-eyed son?

Oh, what’ll you do now, my darling young one?

I’m a-goin’ back out ’fore the rain starts a-fallin’

I’ll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest

Where the people are many and their hands are all empty

Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters

Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison

Where the executioner’s face is always well hidden

Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten

Where black is the color, where none is the number

And I’ll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it

And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it

Then I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin’

But I’ll know my song well before I start singin’

And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard

It’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall

Read&Write-Sr.2-Feb.11th

What Do You Think-2
Look at the 10 most popular Japanese names of Your, Parents’, Grandparents’ Generation and Compare them with your, your parent’s and grandparent’s names

[1998: Your Generation
 – 1968: Your Parents’ Generation 
– 1938: Your Grandparents’ Generation]
1998: 大輝  海斗 翔 翔太  大地/大樹/拓海 一輝  涼太  匠/智也
  萌 美咲  優花 舞/彩乃 七海/葵 玲奈  明日香  未来

1968: 健一 誠 剛 哲也  浩二  修  浩  学 徹 淳
  直美 由美子 真由美 智子  裕子  由美 恵子 陽子  久美子   明美

1938: 勝   進   弘  勇 清 勲 武 博 功 実
 和子  幸子  節子 弘子  洋子  京子 悦子  美智子 久子  栄子

[2013: Today’s Generation
 – 1983: Their Parents’ Generation 
– 1953: Their Grandparents’ Generation]
2013:  悠真 陽翔  蓮 大翔/湊 /大和  颯太  陽向/翔  蒼空/大輝/悠人
  結菜 葵 結衣  陽菜 結愛  凜 ひなた/凛   愛菜/美結/陽葵

1983: 大輔 健太  直樹  誠   拓也   翔  和也  徹 大介 達也
  愛 裕子  麻美  麻衣 恵 香織  明日香 智子  美穂 美香

1953:  茂   誠  隆 博 稔 修 進 清 勉 明
 恵子  洋子 和子  幸子  京子 美智子 由美子  節子 悦子  久美子

Typing-Sr.2-Feb.11th

Type the words in Comment: 
the right judge; 
the third huge tiger tried; 
true ruth tried the third free gift;

Typing-Jr.3L-Feb.9th

Type the words in Comment: 
the right judge; 
the third huge tiger tried; 
true ruth tried the third free gift;

TTS問題解決-Jr.3-Feb.9th

文字化け問題解決-Android

1. 右上の3つの点をタッチ

2. コピーを送信→ファイルの送信方法：@Voice add to list

3. Home-> @Voiceを開く-> フォルダーからファイルを選択

文字化け問題解決-iPad

App StoreからVoicepaperをインストール

-> 右上の3つの点をタッチ

-> アプリで開く

<= C26U1-VIU1-iPad-p11

TK: G-drive中のテキストファイルをコピペして、文字コード:ANSIで再保存　“-iPad”

Typing-Jr.3E-Feb.9th

Type the words in Comment: 
the right judge; 
the third huge tiger tried; 
true ruth tried the third free gift;

Typing-Sr.2-Feb.8th

Type the words in Comment: 
fire, did, die, died, fuji, 
free ride, 
rude red deer, 
dear fred

Read&Write-Sr.2-Feb.8th

Extra Learning: Examples of Names

Chinese: 

- 毛泽东/毛沢東(Mao Zedong), 

- 邓小平/鄧小平(Deng Xiaoping), 

- 习近平/周近平(Xi Jinping)

African American: 

- Denzel Washington(actor), 

- Keesha Sharp(actress), 

- Venessa Williams(actress)

Spanish: 

- Mariano Rajoy Brey (PM), 

- Pablo Ruiz y Picasso (painter), 

- Juan Manuel Estevez

Typing-Jr.3L-Feb.6th

Type the words in Comment: 
fire, did, die, died, fuji, 
free ride, 
rude red deer, 
dear fred

Typing-Jr.3E-Feb.6th

Type the words in Comment: 
fire, did, die, died, fuji, 
free ride, 
rude red deer, 
dear fred

Lesson Report-Jr.3-Feb.6th

(Title) Lesson Report

Dear Mr.TK,

fire, did, die, fuji, free ride, rude red deer, dear fred

(Write your Comment)

Best regards,

Your Name

Lesson Report-Sr.2-Feb.4th

(Title) Lesson Report

Dear Mr.TK,

fdsa jkl; asdf ;lkj afds jlk fjdk sla;

(Write your Comment)

Best regards,

Your Name

Attendance Notice
to: mel@myenglish.co.jp
cc: your parent

Bob Dylan#1-Sr.2-Feb.4th

Hard Rain and Bob Dylan-1

Patti Smith stands in for no-show Bob Dylan at Nobel ceremony 

  (CNN-Dec.10, 2016)

Orientation-Sr.2-Feb.4

Email 

- Charge the batteries of your Tablet PC and Keyboard.

- Check the connection of your Tablet PC and Keyboard.

- Bring your Dictionary and Slippers.

- Accept the Invitation from MEL School Presentation Blog

During the Lesson 

- Senior-Blog

- Set the Wifi  and Password when you come in to Room #301:

   Wifi: aterm-c02d3e-g

    Password: See the Whiteboard

- Access to Lesson Report

=> Check this Blog when you didn’t attend the lesson or check assignments.

- MEL School Presentation Blog

    => Open the Blog-> Write your Name in Comment=> Publish

- Lesson Report  to: report-tk@myenglish.co.jp from your gmail address.

- Attendance  When you’re ascent or late, send an email 

    to: mel@myenglish.co.jp  

    cc: your parent

- Typing Lesson

Now, Speak up, Look up to Learn English! Don’t use your eraser during the lesson.

Orientation-Jr.3L-Feb.2nd

Email

- Charge the batteries of your Tablet PC and Keyboard.

- Check the connection of your Tablet PC and Keyboard.

- Accept the Invitation from MEL School Presentation Blog

During the Lesson 

- Senior-Blog

- Access to Lesson Report

=> Check this Blog when you didn’t attend the lesson or check assignments.

- MEL School Presentation Blog

     => Open the Blog-> Write your Name in Comment=> Publish

- Lesson Report  to: report-tk@myenglish.co.jp from your gmail address.

- Typing Lesson

Now, Speak up, Look up to Learn English! Don’t use your eraser during the lesson.

Orientation-Jr.3E-Feb.2nd

Email

- Charge the batteries of your Tablet PC and Keyboard.

- Check the connection of your Tablet PC and Keyboard.

- Accept the Invitation from MEL School Presentation Blog

During the Lesson 

- Senior-Blog

- Access to Lesson Report

=> Check this Blog when you didn’t attend the lesson or check assignments.

- MEL School Presentation Blog

     => Open the Blog-> Write your Name in Comment=> Publish

- Lesson Report  to: report-tk@myenglish.co.jp from your gmail address.

- Typing Lesson

Now, Speak up, Look up to Learn English! Don’t use your eraser during the lesson.