Oral English 1: Lesson 4

10/19/2015

Hi everyone,

Wow! Can you believe this is our fourth lesson already! One month has already passed! I hope everyone is enjoying the semester.

How to Disagree (Refuting Opinions)
At the beginning of today's lesson, we learned different ways to disagree with opinions.

When you hear an opinion, and you want to diagree, there are two ways you can diagree. You can say the opinion is not true or it is not important.

When it is not true, you choose one of these three ways to show disagreement:
a. This is not true because...
b. This is not always true because...
c. This is not necessarily true because...

When the opinion is not important, you can choose one of these three ways to express your disagreement:
a. This is not relvant because...
b. This is not significant because...
c. This is easy to solve because...

In next week's lesson, we'll review these expressions. You'll be using these a lot when we start our debates in November/December.

Homework:

Blog Posting #4
Opinion Presentation Preparation
Presentation Vocabulary: write down example sentences from today's opinion presentation vocabulary
My Vocabulary: write down 5 new words that you learn this week (e.g. in other classes, from watching TV/movies, etc.)
Opinion: In the homework section of your notebook, write your opinion on one of the topics from today's opinion presentations. These were the topics: (1) Barrier Reef pollution; (2) cigarette marketing; (3) student confidence; (4) soccer; (5) coffee and caffeine; (6) baseball; and (7) Tokyo 2020 Olympics new sports.

Blog Question #4:

When you were a child, what was your dream? Has your dream changed? (If yes, what is your dream now?)

* Write 12-15 sentences.
* Use capital letters, punctuation and spelling correctly.
* Submit by Monday, October 26 by 6:00pm.

31 Comments

OE1-Haruna.T

10/20/2015 02:11:23 am

When I was a child, I wanted to be a pet trimer.Pet trimer meaning is beautician of animals.This is because, I like animals.When I went to the pet shop, I looked at a pet trimer.I decided to become a pet trimer then.But, I don't want to be a pet trimer.Now I want to be a teacher.When I was junior high school student, I wanted to be a teacher.This is because, I met the wonderful teacher.He is my longing.I want to be a teacher like him.So, I entered the department of education.I want to do my best towards a dream.

OE1-Emiri

10/20/2015 09:09:52 am

When I was a child, I wanted to be a pastry chef. Because I liked cakes very much, and I had thought to make cakes by myself. However I don’t have the dream now. Instead I sometimes became to make cakes as a hobby. Then, now my dream is to be an elementary school teacher. The reason is that I met a teacher that can be respected. She was very kind and to take care of each student. She was also good at grouping the students, and she was a man of distinction. I was felting her like another my mother. I want to be a teacher such as her. I think probably a very hard profession that teacher, but I decided to be a teacher, and I went to this department of education. Therefore, I don’t want to give up. I’m going to fulfill a dream by studying hard.

OE1-kumi

10/20/2015 07:23:49 pm

My dream is teacher since I was child.But this dream was change sometimes.For example,my dream was public employee when I was junior high school student.My dream changedsince then sometime.Veterinary,composer,ballerina andpianist etc.My dream decided when I was high school student.This chance is high school teachers ward,″you suitable for teacher″.Also I like taking in front of people and I love children.So my dream is elementary school teacher.Moreover my mother,father and brother were teacher.In a ward,maybe my vacation is teacher.But the best chance is my elementary school teacher is good teacher.

OE-1 Hitomi

10/21/2015 02:20:09 am

I wanted to be a preschool teacher when I was a child. This is because I like children from long ago. So, I wanted to take a job that I can concern children. But I changed my dream when I was a junior high school student. The trigger was a chance encounter that I met a extra English teacher. I liked her soon because her teaching was very simple and interesting. I was getting along with her and I thought I wanted to be a teacher like her. Since then, my new dream is to be a teacher now. But I don't decide to choose a primary school teacher or a junior high school teacher. I'm worried now. So, I want to decide to choose participating in many volunteers. Of course, I'm going to study hard in AGU.

OE-1 Satomi

10/21/2015 04:51:28 am

My dream in the days of the child was a kindergartner. This is because it loved the place called the kindergarten. However, I came to love to read a book after I graduated from a kindergarten. If there was even time at the age of a primary schoolchild, I went to the library. I was crazy about a book. And the reading talk that a librarian performed was a favorite. In addition,I loved the place called the library, too. I came to be interested in the job called the library librarian. In summer vacation of the second grade at a high school, I participated in the job experience. I learned importance and the pleasure of this work. My present dream became a library librarian in this way. I want to do my best towards a dream from now on.

OE1-Tomoki

10/21/2015 06:56:54 am

The dream in the days of the kindergartener was a superman. Probably I think that it was a future dream because a figure in conflict with a bad enemy was cool. In addition, I wanted to become a member of breeding after I entered the elementary school because I liked a fish. The fisherman longed, too. However, I intended to become a teacher from the encounter with various teachers after entrance to school in a junior high school. It did not change even after entering the high school. So I entered the present university. However, I mention various stimulation when I become a university student. It is a chance to think about the image again in one's future. I thought that it is limited in one's future, but the thought is changing a little. So there is the place where I become a honest teacher or am at a loss. It becomes obedient and wants to try one's feeling hard towards a dream.

OE1-Minori.N

10/22/2015 10:51:26 pm

When I was a child, I wanted to be a singer.My family often use car for a method of transportation.My father and mother were playing music during driving car. I have liked to listen to music since I was young.Always,singing a song in the car,my parents praised me. I felt so good and I became to like singing more and more.My father always listend Hikaru Utada's songs,so I love these.But now,my dream has changed. I was a dream only by the childhood period. I still like singing but I wouldn't to be a singer.There is one friend who wants to be a singer. I support her. I don't occur my dream now.

OE1-Takayuki

10/25/2015 05:47:34 am

When I was a child, I wanted to be a racing driver. Racing cars are very very fast and they make a cool and big sound. I loved to go to a racing circuit to watch races. They made me much excited. Now I still like motorsports but I gave up the dream. My dream has changed when I was a junior high school student. I found out that to be a racing driver, we need a vast capital and racing circuit to ride a car for a practice. Now I want to be a teacher. I respect my father and he is a high school teacher. So my ideal teacher is a teacher who is relied on by everyone like him. I want to teach Japanese and handball at a high school. Therefore I intend to learn most more at Aoyama gakuin university.

OE1-Nanami

10/25/2015 06:43:49 am

When I was a chilld,I wanted to be an illustrator.Perhaps I liked the painting at that time.Now it's also like, but I do not intend to become now.On the contrary, I thought not to want to be a teacher.Because, my elementary school teacher was terrible.There of teachers only selfish people, I could not respect.However, I have changed my opinion after entering junior high school.I was met very good teacher in there.She was very enthusiastic language teachers. And I became like the language thanks to her class.In addition to that, she gave me a dream that I want to be teacher.This dream is also unchanged after entering high school.And,I am studying in the Faculty of Education to become a teacher even now.

OE1-Yuki

10/25/2015 06:45:11 am

When I was a child, I wanted to become register clerk. I often went shopping in a supermarket. When the clerk was going to scan goods at that time, I found to see counting money and seem funny. After that, I was buying a register machine for a toy and was playing. I had another dream. That's a bank clerk. I like money very much. I thought I'd like to become a bank clerk from the simple reason that much money can be fingered. When I thought now, I thought the dream is simple in a child. I work part-time at a supermarket now. I'm register clerk but I can't become a bank clerk. When a part-time job in a register was decided for me, I was a little happy. I found out that it was possible of me to grant a dream in a child.

OE1-ellena sa

10/25/2015 12:43:09 pm

I was a child, I want to a figure skater. This is because I had been figure skating from a young age. However I fulfilled my dream. Because I participated many times figure skate competitions, as a skater. Thus I changed my dream. Then I have a different dream. That is a primary school teacher. I affected my mother. Also my mother is a primary school teacher . I went up university , and I major a education subject. In conclusion , I more study about education . I want to came true my dream.

Haruna.k

10/25/2015 07:35:02 pm

When I was child,my dream was salesman in SOBAYA. I loved soba and still like it. I liked fragrance of the sonata so I wanted to be the man.
Now,I want to be a elementary school teacher. When I was 10years old ,I met one teacher. The teacher is cool woman. She always fine and fright character . She was good at playing a lot of sports. I did'nt like playing sports but I love it now to her. My results of studying was improved too because I liked her class. So I want to a teacher like her. I want to teach for children pleasure of the school !

OE1-Yukari

10/25/2015 08:04:07 pm

When I was child, I had a dream which I become a pastry cook and open my cake shop.I liked to cook when I was a child.So, I often helped my mother to cook meals.I cooked various dishes with my mother.For example, curry and rice, tempura, and so on.Also, I often baked cakes with my mother.My mother was good at baking cakes, so she teached how to make various cakes to me.I liked both to cook dishes and to bake cakes.But, I gradually more liked to bake cakes than to cook dishes as I was older and older.In addition to, I had my dream.But, I have another dream now.My dream is a counselor of psychology.I study knowledge of psychology in my university, and I want to realize my dream.

OE-1 Shunsuke

10/25/2015 08:31:52 pm

When I was a child, I wanted to be a soccer player.I play soccer from five years old.I thought that I wanted to become a footballer to see World Cup of 2002.I wanted to become it like Ronaldinho and Beckham.I am still excited when I watch their play.I have another dream now.It is to teach children soccer.I was taught it by various leaders until now.They are very splendid leaders.I want to become the person who I become a leader, and is respected by children.Therefore I entered an education subject.I learn various things and want to keep it alive in the future.This is my old days and present dream.

OE-1 Elena Se

10/25/2015 09:13:46 pm

When I was a child, I wanted to be a veterinarian.I love animals very much.It hasn't changed.I have many animals so far in my house.One day, I told my veterinarian how can I become a veterinarian, he answered that I must study hard and study mathematics.When I entered the junior high school, I had a hard fight in mathematics.I tried to study hard, but I could not do it.I gave up to became a veterinarian.Now, I want to do many things in the future, so I have to select.For example, I want to be a cooking expert, an Italian interpreter, open my store, and so on. I am troubled well to select my best way to my life.I am looking forward to know, what I will be in the future.

OE-1 Natsumi

10/25/2015 09:56:25 pm

Surprisingly, I don't remember what l wanted to be when l was a child. And l asked my mother about my childhood. She said I always told her that l want to be happy forever; l did not mention a dream but only how to live. As time goes by, I started thinking to be a nursery school teacher. The reason l thought it was the experience l had when l was a high school student. There was a nursery school within the grounds that my school was standing on so that the fifth grade students had to do a student teaching every year. And, on my turn, I felt so comfortable to be with children and they made me pure. I was amazed the feeling l had never felt before. From the experience, I studied hard and entered the college where l can learn lots of knowledge relating to education. Yet l have been wondering if the dream is the right way to accept as my portion in life. More or less, l realized the need to select a job in which I won't go hungry from and can earn a decent living. Also, it will be changed by my future husband or partner. In short, I'll take as much time as l need and hope to find my dream.

OE1-Haruna.I

10/25/2015 10:05:13 pm

I wanted to be a Patisserie when I was a child. This is because I like pretty things. For example, cakes, color of pink and cotton candy and so on. And I like making cakes. But I want to be a elementary scool teacher. Now I belong to the department of education. Because I like children after a younger sister was born. And I want to teach children various things. For example, swimming. I am good at swimming and I love swimming. So I want to teach children pleasure of the swimming. And I want to teach cooking cakes too. This is because it is a former dream. I intend to make an effort to have a dream realized.

OE-1Taku

10/25/2015 10:35:31 pm

My dream when I was a child was the Olympic athlete of gymnastics. I was belong to gymnastics club team since I was graduate primary school. My gymnastic club is not serious and hard, but I was the one of the best player in that club. And I like gymnastics and I had a few talents of gymnastics. So, I thought I will be Olympic athlete someday. However, I retired gymnastics at the age of the examinee. Because I wanted to enter to Aoyama junior high school.
Now, my dream turned into working for the big company. This is because, it has a big influence in the life that you working for what kind of company. Some property is necessary for spend the good life. of cause, the property is not all, but it is very important to life.

OE1-Komugi

10/25/2015 11:06:56 pm

My dream was to become a veterinarian when I was a elementary school student. The reason is that I loved animals very much at that time. I had had two dogs and five birds. I treated them with affection. The other reason is that my mother is a school nurse. I was affected by her job. I wanted to be related to the health. However, my dream disappeared. The doctor for animal must be good at math the same way as the doctor for human, but I'm not good at math. Now, I don't have my dream because I don't have the brave to decide job of my lifetime. I only hope to live in peace. That's not surely difficult.

OE1-Reina

10/26/2015 12:02:11 am

My dream in the days of the child was a kindergarden teacher.This is beacause I likes my kindergarden teacher very much at that time.She was always kind and smiled me.I liked her smile.She is,so to speak,my idol.I thinked that I will be a kindergarden teacher until I entered a university.Therefore,I entered the education department.However,my dream is changed.Now,my dream is to get a Italian or French restaurant company.I work in a restaurant of Italian and French.So,my part time job taught me a lot of new thing of knowledge about Italian and French.I am exciting now!

OE1-Misato

10/26/2015 12:28:21 am

When I was a child, my dream was to be a kindergartener. This is because I liked my kindergartener very much.I especially liked a teacher. She was very kind to us. I longed for me to be an adult like her.
But I don't want to be a kindergartener. I want to be a elementary school teacher now. I have two reasons. First, as I grew up, I was more interested in elementary school education than kindergarten. I met wonderful teachers when I was a elementary school student. Second, my mother became a elementery school teacher when I was a 5th grade student. I want to be like her.
My dream has changed, but my feeling that I kike children hasn't changed. So, I want to be a good teacher.

OE1 karin

10/26/2015 12:43:26 am

When I met in children, my dream was patissier.I show cute image of the patissier.And it is a clean image.I loved a cake.Therefore I wanted to make a delicious cake with oneself.However, the dream changes.It is because interest changes.
I was not serious in a dream.I do not have the dream now.I do not understand oneself to want to become.I only think just I want to find happiness.My present dream is to find happiness.Though it is not clear, it is surely my present dream.

OE1-sakiho

10/26/2015 01:00:49 am

My childhood dream was a swimming coach. This is because, when I second grade in elementary school , it is started I want to be swimming coach. It becomes more and more swim as thanks to the coach, and two years later I went up to the players course. Through participate in many swimming meat , I came to think swimming is nice sports. 英語
I did not like the practice of swimming. However, my coach told me that it is important to make efforts in order to achieve results. I learned the importance of the effort.
I have changed the future of a dream at the time of the third grade junior high school. Then, my future dream was changed to an elementary school teacher. As with the effort swimming coach who taught me the importance of that, and now I think I want to teach that it is important to strive in everything to children.This dream does not change even now. It is responsible that it Teaching. This is important work. I want to do my best to refer to the experience that I got as a child.

OE1-Yu

10/26/2015 01:03:42 am

When I was a child, I thought I'd like to be a florist. Because I like a flower very much. And my mother often went to a flower shop to buy a flower. So, I felt a flower close. Therefore I thought I'd like to do the work to sell a favorite flower. However, my dream has changed. Now, I want to be a teacher, most. An encounter with one teacher who has that influences my future dream. I'd like to come to be the teacher. I like a flower even now. But I don't match the dream which would like to become a teacher. However I'd like also to do a dream of small dice importantly.

OE1-kotone

10/26/2015 01:10:00 am

My dream when I was a child was to fly in the sky. I wanted to fly the sky freely. Because I liked Peter pan. But, when I get older, my dream changed. My dream is to be fin swimming in an Olympic event. I learning swimming when I was child. Now I’m an athlete. But it is spread little by little. For example, we hold the Experience Association and increase contestants now. I think it is important to raise the level of the athlete first. And I’d like to make minor sports famous. I’d like do the activity to make fin swimming an Olympic event in the near future.

OE1-chikako

10/26/2015 01:16:24 am

When I was a child, I wanted to be a kindergartener. This is because I have two older brothers, it is the youngest child. So I had an admiration to a small child. I learned ballet and a piano since I was young, I thought that I could become the teacher who delighted a child.
And the dream is not changed now. However, I intend to find a job in the general company if I graduate from a university. The reason is I do not know the word too. I went to Aoyama Gakuin since the age of a kindergarten and have not experienced examination.Will you think that you want such a person to teach oneself? If it is me, I do not want to be taught it by such a teacher. It is to become a teacher after my present dream graduates from a university and finds a job in the company and learns the world.

OE1-Yui

10/26/2015 01:37:00 am

When I was a child,my dream was kindergarten teacher.When I was a kindergartener,I took to the teacher.She's very kind.She did my hair arrange at lunch break every day. It was a pleasure time for me.She was a teacher I admired.Therefore,I wanted to be a kindergarten teacher like her.However,I gave up the dream.Now,I haven't decided my dream.I'm looking for things what I want to do in the future.I want to find my dream early.Also,I have to study hard at the university for my future.

OE1-Ryota

10/26/2015 01:38:15 am

My dream was to be professional soccer player.It is because I had learned soccer for many years.I want to be a good player. So I practiced very much.I was much frantic.But my dream changed.It is because my way of thinking changed realty.I thought I do not becone professional soccer player.So my dream is to be rich now.To do this I will study very much.And I will enter a good business firm.My way of thinking changed very much.

OE1-Takeshi

10/26/2015 01:44:17 am

My dream when I was child is maybe being pro baseball player.
Because I played baseball in elementary school.
But I remember that I think that I can't be it.
because I wasn't good at batting.
So my dream changed.
Now, my goal rather than dream during college life is leading my team to the japan one.
And my unclear dream is being a sport mental trainer.
From my high school days, I have same unclear dream.
So I chose the department of Psychology.
But sport mental trainer is not popular now.
So, I have a little anxiety.
Although because I have little bit of time, I should decide about my own future.
Tentatively, I will go to talk with sport mental trainer.
Anyway I decide my future through its talking chance by the end of this year.

OE1-Minori.H

10/26/2015 01:53:19 am

My childhood dream was to become a cake shop.
I like cakes very much.
This is because, I was thought that cake shop employee could eat cakes all times I want.
And, I thought the life would very nice.
But, now my dream changed.
Because,If you always surrounded by cake in my life.
I would become to hate cakes.
I thought cakes are very delicious precisely because eat occasionally .
Now my dream is to become a teacher of junior high school .
I was able to meet a very good teacher at the time of the junior high school students.
There are two reason.
First, I like child very much.
So I want to play with my student.
Second, I want to teach how interesting stady is.
It may be difficult to became teacher,but I will do my best.

OE1-Hiroki

10/26/2015 01:59:53 am

I want to become the teacher of the high school.
The subject is society.
The opportunity that I thought to want to become a teacher is time of the ninth grader.
I decided to aim attracted by a teacher in charge at the time.
The teacher is faithful.
I am enthusiastic about education.
I was popular with all students and was respected.
In addition, it was the teacher of club activities.
I had you instruct it by the club activities strictly.
I respect him, and there is me.
I want to become a teacher like him.
Therefore I want to become a teacher.

Oral English 1: Lesson 4

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