ASP Discussion~Island

We had a discussion about the 12 tools which we use in the isolate island. It is difficult to choose, but I think bottles are the most important item to live for a long time because we need water firstly, and if we have some bottles of water, we can carry them and go everywhere. In addition, matches are very important thing for living. If we can make a fire, we can cook and use it as a light.

ARW Blogging Assignment 6

The most useful approach to use in critically analyzing The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway is Santiago as a christ Figure because there are many phrases that imply Santiago is a Christian. He always thanks the living things in the sea when he eats fish. When Paul showed some examples which are Santiago as Christ figure, I thought Hemmingway might write this story with the connection between Santiago and Christ.

ASP Presentation

ASP Asiignment P&D

We practiced P&D about Meiland today, and I presented "New Types of Intellectual Work". This part has many information and repeats the same words by changing the phrases and words. In my presentation, I couldn`t explain the content well, and said the same words in many times. Also, I didn`t use expressions that signal a new idea or topic when I change the subjects . I think it was difficult for listener to understand clearly. Next time, I should improve these bad points .

ASP Assignment Presentation Google document

I learned the way of making a presentation on google document on Tuesday, and I was very surprised to get some images or pictures and movies easily. It is very useful to make a power point, and it makes presentation interesting. I also think it is a good point that we can share our power point on the Internet. We don`t have to meet all members of a group at the same time. We can share the ideas on the Internet, so it is a good advantage to make a power point in a short time.

ARW Blogging Assignment

The main characters in Old Man and the Sea are Santiago, a fisherman and Manolin, a boy helps him.
Three adjectives that describe Santiago are patient, confidence, and old. First, I describe he is patient because he kept trying to get a fish for eighty-four days even if he didn`t take a fish. If he hadn`t been patient, he would have stopped taking a fish. Second, I describe he is confidence because the word of "confidence" is written in many times in the book when the author defined him. For example, "The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes"(page-13), and "His hope and his confidence had never gone"(page-13). He said these words to a boy kindly as if he was his grandfather. Third,I describe he is old because he had deep wrinkles in the back of his neck and the brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropical sea on his cheek. In addition, his hand had the deep-creased(page9-10). We can see that he is very old by his face and hands.
Two adjectives that describe Manolin are kind and child. First, I think he is kind because he felt sad that old man come with his skiff empty, and he always went down to help him carry many equipments.(page9) He often helped the old man kindly.
Second, I describe that he is a still child because he had to obey his family, father, and he didn`t have a power to decide and do what he wanted to.

ASP Assignment Presentation

We learned thw ways of a good presentation on Friday. A good presentation is made up of content information, structure,and delivery. I think content information is very important to tell people something because it is necessary to understand what we talk about by ourselves, and gather a lot of information about the topic. It takes time and it`s so hard to understand everything, but the preparations helps people to make sense of presentation easily. Structure and delivery are also significant. Structure helps people understand smoothly, and delivery with eye contact makes listeners consentrate on attending the speech. I learned that we need three factors to do a good presentation.

ARW Essay2 Lying information

The one of supporting pieces of evidence that I found for body paragraph 1 is a paraphrase from "http://www.unki-up.com/i/yoiko_254.html". It tells us that it is sometimes important to tell a lie in order to keep good relationship.

The supporting pieces of evidence that I found for body paragraph 2 is a paraphrase from "http://www.n-seiryo.ac.jp/~usui/koneko/uso.html".From the information, lying helps people fell relieve.I also use information which I used in paragraph 1.

The supporting pieces of evidence that I found for body paragraph 3 is a paraphrase from "http://www.kgef.ac.jp/ksjc/ronbun/071630y.htm" This information talks about Santa Clause. Most of children believe him.

ASP Assignment The desert survival problem

We discussed what is important items forsurvival. First, individual score is 86,and I thought water is the most important thing,and the least important item is "plastic rain coat". I couldn`t notice the different useful usage of the rain coat. Second, group score is 62,and in our group,we thought it is a good idea to stay here, and I think so too.We think "overcoat" is important because it can help people keep warm at night. Finally, the teacher told us the "official ranking"that cosmetic mirror is the most important item. I was surprised to hear that because I think it is impossipoble to reach the light to helicopter. I think it is too difficult to save in my opinion.

ASP Discussion The Mine

In my group, we think we have to help children at first, and women, men, and older people. We also emphasize thier backgrounds and age. We think the rich and the scientist influence many people, so we have to help them at once, and besides children and young people have a future. However, we couldn`t have a critical thinking. When I listened to a critical thinking, I disagreed with the opinion because I don`t think it is the best order to help people. In the idea, Mike is the second, but I think he have to lead and help people in the mine because he may know how to deal with the emergency matters and practiced when he was a soldier. If he have gone up in the beginning, people in the mine will be panicked. Accordingly, it isn`t a good order to help him at first.

ASP Speech about discussion

ASP movies comments

First, the movie of the punishment is so terrible, but it is a joke. However, I think it is bad to punish people who can`t speak in a discussion. People around them should advise and give a chance to speak instead of punishing.

Second, there are some problems in the bad discussion. First, people didn`t concentrate on listening to other`s opinions. Some poeple insisted on just thier opinions, some poeple looked bored, some people didn`t think. Each members did different things. Second, some people spoke emotional. It is difficult for others to understand well. When we talk about thier opinions in a discussion, they should be more calm. On the other hand, in the good discussion they listened other`s ideas carefully, saw person`s face who was talking, said agreeing,disagreeing,and confirming expressions, the leader said summary and conclusion. In the first place, all members tried to have a good discussion.

Third, the movies of Mr. Tanaka, I noticed that I might have said the reactions like that unconsciously before, so next time I take care in speaking, and try to use English confirming expressions.

APS Assignment

We discussed the following topics in the class. :
１｝"What is a good discussion and what is a bad discussion?"
　２｝ "Japan should start teaching English(Language)from the beginning of Elementary School every day."
　３｝"The age of consent/adulthood should be １８(or other age)in Japan."

　　１｝●good
　　　　speak own ideas/opinions positively
choose leader and writer
listen to other`s opinion
ask friend`s idea
all members say their opinions
circle(we can see all member`s face)
leader says summary-halfway
compare opinions
eye contact

●bad
silence
only one person speak
only answer a word (Yes/No)
don`t listen other`s opinion
speak small voice

I think we all should try to speak their opinions positively in order to have a good discussion. If we do that, a discussion will continue smoothly, and we can hear many different ideas.However, it is difficult to say many ideas at first because we need to have a lot of vocabulary and have many opinions and ideas by myself,but if we often discuss any topics with our friends or teachers,and always think about anything, we will be able to speak more and come up with ideas easily. I think it is nice to have a good discussion.



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In our group, some of us agree with the opinion because chrildren will think that studying English is not so difficult if they study English by singing a song or remembering easy English words.However, some of us disagree with the opinion because children will not understand the meaning of studying English, and it is so tough to study every day.
In my opinion, I disagree with the opinion because I think children will forget English words or sentences soon because they won`t understand the meaning well, and I also think that it is more important for children to play outside with thie friends.



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In our group, all members agree with the opinion because most of us guraduated a high school and then we go to university or work in the society, so it is good time to think about the society and politics and vote,and have a resposibility what we do.

ARW Blogging Assignment

The thesis statement I`ve chosen for essay 1 is the following :
Improving speaking skill can improve other academic skills because practice in speaking helps increasing a lot of vocabulary, listening, coming up with ideas easily.

ARW Blogging Assignment 1

How do "good"college teachers present information?

According　to Mailand, a "good" college teacher presents information the following way that they spend much time talking about the basis on which this information is currently believed.To put it shortly, discussing and examining the basis of current beliefs because college requires a different and higher type of understanding and students must perform another sort of intellectual work on the material,namely critical examination and evaluation.

I agree with Mailand's opinion because I think it is important to understand basis before we perform intellectual work on the material because most of us will not find good reason which make us trust what we believe.