IE Core 3 Thursday: Lesson 7

Hi everyone,

Can you believe that we're almost half way through our course? I hope you're making progress with your English communication skills.

Asking for and Giving Examples:
Before our discussions, we had a short activity on how to ask for and give examples. It's important to give detailed information when you give an opinion, so you can give examples to support it.

To ask for examples, you can use these questions:

1. Can you give me an example?
2. Like what, for example?
3. Can you expand on that?

To give examples, you can use these expressions:

1. For example, ... / For instance, ....
2. One example is...
3. Let me give you an example.
   
4. Off the top of my head, ...

Discussions:
For next week's discussions, remember these points:

1. Member interactions. In your discussions, there is a lot of communication between the group lead and the members. However, we need more communication among members. To improve member interactions, group leaders can ask these questions: (1) Are there any comments on ...'s opinion? (2) Do you agree with ...'s opinion?
   
2. Balance speaking time. Make sure that all members get a chance to speak enough during your discussion. If you need to interupt someone to let another person speak, you can use this expression: "Let me stop you there for a minute, and let's hear from ..."
   

Presentations:
After the break, you received the guidelines for your group presentations that you'll present near the end of June. We also learned about the different parts of a presentation and expressions for each part.

All of our presentation materials and today's slide presentation are in the Presentation section of the website. Also, you can find the Presentation Outline template in that section.

Homework:
1.  Blog Post #7
2.  Discussion Preparation
3.  Read Graded Reader (15 pages)
4.  Journal Topic #6: a Japanese social issue
5.  Presentation outline

• submit Monday, June 1 by 12:00 noon to ntakeda.aogaku@yahoo.com
  

Blog Question #7:

We have finished our first round of discussions. You have received a lot of feedback in our lessons and on your worksheets.

Which three points do you think you have to focus on to improve your next discussion?

• Write 8-10 sentences.
• Use capitalization, punctuation & spelling correctly.
• Submit by Wednesday, May 27 by 6:00pm.