昔の人類のように、ビジネスから遠く離れ、自分の牛を使って先祖代々の畑を耕し、利子の支払いに縛られていない人は幸福である。

He's happy who, far away from business, like the races of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any interest to pay.
Horace
Roman lyric poet
65BC-8BC

May 31, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
This week Core and Active Listening classes are working on "Food".
Think about lunch, breakfast and dinner you had this week.
Write them down and see how it was.
Ferris students should think about medicine and it affects people and people studying about "Job", think about a good job for you and how to approach it.
Ace classes, do Lesson Two of Prof. K. Mark's book.
Students of Nihon U., remember to answer yesterday's blog on women.
Good Day
gto

Three questions concerning Women in Society.

May 30, 2013
"The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work."
Elbert Hubbard
US author
1856-1915
To the students:
Read and write and discuss:
1.) Which British/Japanese woman do you admire and why?
2.)  Compare and contrast the life of women in Britain and Japan.
3.) What do you think of the idea that companies should be made, by law, to have a certain number of women managers?
gto

Seneca:"As it is a tale so is life, not how long it is but how good it is what matters."

May 28, 2013
Watch J.K. Rowling's Harvard University Commencement Address of 2008.
She started with fear of failure and concluded with
Seneca(Ancient Roman philosopher):
" As it is a tale so  is  life,
not how long it is but how good it is what matters."
Comment your view on this.
gto

暴風雨にしなうヤナギは、 それにあらがうオークよりも、 しばしばうまく被害を免れる。それゆえ大きな難局においては、楽天的でまじめすぎない人は、より偉大な人よりも、順応性と心の平静を取り戻すのが早い場合もある。

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
Sir Walter Scott
Scottish poet, novelist and biographer
1771-1832

May 28, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
You should watch JK Rowling's commencement address at Harvard University in 2008.
It would take about 21 minutes.
Three points I want you  to listen:
1.) What was her back ground before entering a university and what did she agree with her parents and what did she really study or did in the university life?
2)  Tell us her experience while she was working in the Amnesty International in London and what did she learn from her work in the Amnesty?
3.) What did she want to tell the graduates of Harvard University to do?
4.) What was her message to us in the last few lines of her speech?  It was her concluding message to us, what was her message?
Write the answers of the questions above.
gto

Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.

May 28, 2013
Dear Students and Friends

"Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders."
Walter Bagehot
British Writer and Economist
1826-1877
物書きは、歯と同じく、切歯のよういに鋭く切り込むタイプと、臼歯のようにじっくり噛み砕くタイプ
に分けられる。
What do you think about this statement?

If pro is the opposite of con, then what is the opposite of progress?
gto

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

May 26, 2013
Dear Students and Friends

This week:
1.Reading/writing classes should work with reading and writing journal plus news summary.

2. Oral/ communicative classes should work with textbook, presentation and news summary.

3. Ace classes should work with Kevin Mark sensei's textbook plus what we are doing.

4. Aoyama G University Core  should work with three topics from Journal writing and one news discussion, reading and exercises from the textbooks. Get ready for the book report.

5. Active Listening Online report on Food, Interaction on Food, Do ReallyEnglish.


"The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resist; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character."
sir Walter Scott
Scottish poet, novelist, and biographer
1771-1832

Businesses are looking for leaders, people who can take initiative and get work done.

May 24, 2013
Dear Students and Friends
Today is the day of John Wesley's redemption day.

1. To oral/communicative students:  read and think about speech.

2. Journal Writing classes:
You should have three journal entry
plus one special journal on a certain topic or on News.

3. To Core students: you must have three separate journal entry from three categories of writing.
                            answer questions on the Reading section of Food(116)
coming Friday(1) correct the answers
(2) news interaction (3) questions on Food(4) Journal

4, To Reading and Writing classes of Monday(and some Wednesday)
What is a good job?
Businesses are looking for leaders, people who can take initiative and get work done.
Leadership demands self-confidence.
The outcome for this unit is to describe the duties of the job that you want and give reasons that it is a good job for you.
Describing why a job is right for you is an important way for you to discover why you are the right person for that kind of job.
Choose a job that you want.  Write a list of your skills that are good for that job.

5. To Reading/writing class of Newsmaker(Wednesday)
Topic is Medicine.  We should also write on News, too.

gto