Oral Interpretation#4: Kennedy's Speech #3

October 24, 2013

Kennedy's speech #3

"Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you.  With a good conscience our only
sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love,
asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth god's work must truly be our own.

(recite the above)
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Blog presentation: Chapter#4: Welcome to Britain: October 24

October 24, 2013
Dear Students(Welcome to Britain)
I would like to ask you to do the following questions as your presentation:
1. Do you think English should be a compulsory subject in Japanese schools?  Why(not)?
2. Which is the best way to assess the progress of pupils and students (tests, or what else)?
3. What is one good point Japan's system has which Britain doesn't have?
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Oral Interpretation #3: "Enter the Dragon" by Bruce Lee

October 21, 2013 Dear Students and Friends
We would like you to practice the following lines aｓ”Oral Interpretation":

Kick me.
What was that? An exhibition?
We need emotional content.
Try again.
I said emotional content.
Not anger.
Now try again.
With me.
That's it.
How did it feel to you?
Don't think.  Feel!

"Enter the Dragon"
Bruce Lee

What do you think of nursery education in Japan?

Dear Students and Friends
We had a party of three nursery schools which I am a board of director.
Nursery schools are doing fine and given money from Abenomics tax raise of 8 % before being raised.
The government ordered schools to spend money for the employees and pay raise is promised.
This will improve the conditions of the workers and more will work for the nurseries and schools will have easier access to hire teachers and more schools will be opened. This will lead to eliminate waiting list to get into Nurseries.

What do you thing of nursery education(hoikuen) in Japan?

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Imitation, imitation, imitation,,,,that is the base of language learning.."Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"〈模倣とは、最も誠実な追従なり。）

October 16, 2013
Dear Students and friends
Imitation, imitation, imitation that is the base of language learning was the words Professor Haga of Tsukuba and ICU mentioned to me about thirty years ago from what he learnt from his professor in Kobe University.
I am incorporating it into my Speaking classes. I found out those techniques are well used in Nihon, Aoyama, and Keio as courses called Oral Interpretation or Public Speaking.

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery".
(fromLacon)
Charles Caleb Colton
English cleric and writer
1780-1832

模倣とは、最も誠実な追従なり。

Recitation/Oral Interpretation/Public Speaking

October 15-20, 2013

Students task: (No.2)

Boys, be ambitious!
Be ambitious not for money or for selfish
aggrandize, nor for that evanescent thing
which men call fame.
Be ambitious for knowledge,
for righteousness, and for the uplift of your people.
Be ambitious for the attainment of all that
a man ought to be.

Recite above public speaking in next class.

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Aoyama Cemetery.... Thomas Jefferson's words: "Ignorance is preferable to error...."

October 14/15, 2013
Dear Friends and Students
Typhoon is coming
I have Ferris, Nursery school, and Yokohama Water workers on that day.
How to avoid typhoon and start teaching English is a good question.
 Quote of a day is:
"Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who
believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong."
Thomas Jefferson
Third President
1743-1826
無知は誤りよりましであり、間違っていることを信じているものよりも、
何も信じていない者のほうが、真実から遠くは離れていない。

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