2019年10月28日月曜日

2019年10月24日木曜日

STT Speaking-Oct.24

Speak how you would teach English if you were an English teacher in 4-6 sentences.
You may want to use; make/have/let sb do, encourage, give students assignments

2019年10月21日月曜日

Moons in Solar System-Oct.21

Saturn overtakes Jupiter as planet with most moons
Planets, dwarf planets and asteroids in our solar system orbit the Sun. There are eight planets and five officially recognized dwarf planets, including Pluto. They are orbited by moons, or natural satellites, a few of which have atmosphere and even water under the surface.
Do you have any idea how many such natural satellites have been discovered in our solar system? 214 in total, four of which are larger than our moon in radius.
Recently, US researchers found 20 more natural satellites orbiting Saturn, which made the total number of moons around the planet to 82, three more than what Jupiter has. Interestingly, most of those newly found moons orbit the ringed planet backward, or in a retrograde direction, while the other three do in a prograde direction, the same direction as Saturn rotates. Each takes two or more years to complete its orbit.
Scientists think there are more moons waiting to be found. In the meantime, they are running a contest to give these newly discovered moons names.
Are you interested to be a godfather of the distant moons around Saturn?
Enjoy reading the article and learn about the moons of our solar system.

Also, if you are interested in the moons in our solar system, check this out.

Write when you laugh-Oct.21


When do you laugh?
Write your answer in four to six sentences.

STT Reading-Oct.21

STT Speaking-Oct.21

Speak how you study English in school and at home in four to six sentences.

STT Dictation-Oct.21

Post your Dictation.

2019年10月17日木曜日

Data活用例-Oct.17

明日の客入り、98%当てる店 勘も経験もいらない

明日は何人が店に来るのか、何がいくつ売れるのか――。デジタル化の進展により得られるデータが爆発的に増え、人工知能(AI)などの技術と組み合わせることで高精度の需要予測が可能になり始めている。未来の注文にあらかじめ備えることで適切な意思決定ができれば、資源や時間の無駄を減らして生産性を高められる。予測技術のディスラプション(創造的破壊)は経済のあり方を変えるのか。


STT Speaking-Oct.17

Speak how you learned to swim or play/do sth (musical instrument, sports, artwork) in four to six sentences.

2019年10月14日月曜日

Writing-Oct.14

Vacations Are Important
Everyone needs to take yearly vacations. Vacations bring families together and improve our society. They help workers become more productive because they reduce their stress level. Finally, everyone has a right to an enjoyable life, and vacations are an important part of enjoying life. Everyone needs to take a vacation at least once a year.   

=>Plan to write a paragraph to answer the question, “How much vacation do you need?”
     Support the Topic Sentence with two reasons and write a concluding sentence
=> Write

STT Speaking-Oct.14

Speak where you want to work if you have a choice in 4-6 sentences.

STT Dictation-Oct.14

Post your Dictation.

2019年10月10日木曜日

Sentence with because-Oct.10

Write the sentences with because.
Make sure to use a "comma"  properly when needed.

Main Ideas-Oct.10

Write the main ideas of the article in four to six sentences.

The police use science to identify the criminal but they don’t always find evidence.
S. Breitwieser stole many works of art from small museums for his art collection.
When he was arrested, his mother destroyed and threw away all the items that he had stolen.
Later, the police found evidence of his theft and arrested him, his mother, and they were sent to prison.

STT Speaking-Oct.10

Speak where you want to go and what you want to do there in the next vacation in 4-6 sentences.

2019年10月7日月曜日

Climate Change-Oct.7

Leaders failed us on climate change
Greta Thunberg: 'Leaders failed us on climate change'
While they spend hours every day on gazing at and touching their smartphones, kids are worrying about their future. Climate change. Although humans and all the other creatures on the planet are now facing an unprecedented threat in history, no effective actions have been taken collectively to cope with the threat. World leaders in politics and businesses are so influential in acting whether to increase or decrease greenhouse gasses but their attentions are mostly on their next elections or financial performance.
So, the general secretary of the United Nations set a stage to have conscious world leaders listen to what children want to say at the UN climate summit in New York. Even though less than one-third of the world leaders took part in the summit, the voice of children was heard. Now, is the world ready to take an unprecedented response to this unprecedented threat?

Comment on a Longer School Year-Oct.7

Write your comment on “Yes to a Longer School Year” on the Blog in four to six sentences.

STT Speaking-Oct.7

Explain where you live to a foreign friend who knows little about Japan in 4-6 sen/1min
 <= different focus from where you were born 

STT Dictation-Oct.7

Post your Dictation.

2019年10月3日木曜日

英語民間試験-Oct.3

2020年度英語民間試験への対応

CBT: Computer Based Testing (パソコンを使って解答、音声吹込みをする試験)
CEFRレベル: B2英検準1級相当  B1英検2級相当  A2英検準2級相当

GTEC検定版 Advanced (上限スコア1280)測定レンジB1(960-1189)B2 (1190-)
試験日: 6/14, 7/19, 10/4, 11/1(会場や詳細は今秋発表予定)
課題 受験時期と会場が適当か、学校で準備受験可能か、志望大学がGTEC-B2を認定するか
GTEC CBT (上限スコア1400) 測定レンジB1(960-1189)B2 (1190-1349)C1(1350-)
試験日: 7/21, 11/10 (会場や詳細は今秋発表予定)
課題 練習受験の機会は3/22 (申込1/7~) 、受験枠は十分あるのか、志望大学がGTEC-CBTを認定するか

TEAPCBT、一般
2019年度: 11/17一般 (申込10/24まで)
2020年度第1回目:67-CBT (申込4/6)、712日一般
2回目:8/16 CBT9/6一般                       3回目:10/25 CBT11/22一般
課題 受験時期と会場が適当か、準備受験が1回のみ、志望大学がTEAPを認定するか

英検S-CBT 画面で出題-> マークシートに解答記入、スピーキングは吹込み録音
予約申込(*予約金3,000円)すると受験枠は確保され、本申込の際に日時と会場を指定
1回(4-7月受験)予約申込期限107=> 本申込 29日~25 
2回(8-11月受験)予約申込1/15-1/27=> 本申込 6/20~
*予約金3,000円は本申込の際に受験料(2級は7,500)に充当される

英検CBT 画面で出題-> キーボードで解答入力、スピーキングは吹込み録音
2019年度第3回目(練習受験):1/1210/28 13:00申込)  2/1612/2申込)  3/1512/23申込)
注:第3回目の東京会場は銀座センターだけなので席確保が困難
2020年度第1回:419 (<= 210 13:00申込開始 5/17(申込3/9- 6/21(4/13-)  7/23(5/18-)
2020年度第2回:8/23  9/13  10/18  11/23
 *S-CBTの予約金3,000円はCBT受験料には充当されません

英検を受験するための対応
英検CBTは都内で7会場、400席ほどの受験枠がありましたが、2019年度第3回目は1会場43席だけなので申込即日満席です。2020年度の受験会場や受験枠は未だ公表されていません。
MEL Schoolの生徒の英検CBT試験の受験準備は十分整っているので、早めに受験を済ませて他の学習に精進したいところです。2020年度第1回目の受験枠を確保しておくためには以下の選択肢があります。
[1] 107日までにS-CBTの予約申込をする ( S-CBT予約申込サイト )
=> 来年29日のS-CBT本申込で日時と会場を設定(予約金3,000円を除いた受験料を支払う)
: S-CBT本申込はアクセスの集中を避けるために地域エリア毎に順次申込を受け付ける予定
[2] S-CBTの申込はせずに、来年210419日のCBT受験を申込む
=> 2019年度第1回、2回目の各受験日は、早めに申し込めば会場や時間の選択(2級のみ)は可能でした
[3] 上記[1]S-CBT予約をした上で、上記[2]CBT申込(2/10)をして、S-CBT本申込(2/9~)と比べて都合のよい方を申込む*S-CBTに本申込をしない場合、予約金3,000円は受験料に充当されません。

各大学の英語民間試験利用状況 (文部科学省により10/4に公表予定)
英語民間試験の利用の仕方は大学や学部によって様々で、大学入学共通テストや大学入試英語成績提供システムの利用、試験の種類、要件や加点の条件、入試方式や定員枠などを個別に設定しています。MEL Schoolでは個々の生徒の進路指導を通じて最適な受験の仕方を推奨します。

STT Speaking-Oct.3

Explain where you were born to a foreign friend who knows little about Japan in 4-6 sen/1min.