Oral English 1: Lesson 7

Hi everyone,

We had a busier lesson than usual, especially since we started our presentation preparation today.

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. NO READING. Too many discussion leaders were reading their summary and opinion sections of their worksheets. You cannot read your worksheet to your group. You need to know this information before our lesson, so you should practice at home. During your summary and opinion, you also have to checking understanding 4-5 times.
   
2. Conversational Style. Many discussions were less than 10 minutes today. This was because group leaders did not use conversational style. In all of your discussions, group leaders and group members have to ask questions and give comments on each others' opinions. Please review the questions you can ask to develop your conversational style from our past lessons.
   

Homework:
1.  Discussion Preparation
2.  Blog Post #7
3. Choose presentation topic

• Group leaders need to email me their presentation topic by Monday, June 1 by 6:00pm.
  
• contact: ntakeda.aogaku@yahoo.com
• Use formal email writing when you contact me. Please see the model in our Student Guide.
  

Presentation Topics:
Before the end of our lesson, we through our presentation guidelines. For your presentation, your group has to choose a Japanese social problem and give two solutions for it. Examples of social problems include:

• nuclear power safety
• child poverty
• child abuse
• cell phone addiction
• hikikomori
• gender discrimination
  

Blog Question #7:

Choose two sentences from today's Asking for and Giving Examples Practice worksheet and make two conversations. For each conversation, ask for and give examples. (If you don't have the worksheet, you can find the file at the end of today's summary.)

Examples:
Conversation 1:
A:  Many Japanese have small dogs as pets.
B:  Can you give me an example?
A: Well, for instance, terriers and chihuahuas. 

Conversation 2:
A: There are many famous dogs.
B: Can you expand on that?
A: In the U.S., there's Rin-Tin-Tin, Benji and Lassie.

• Write 8-10 sentences.
• Use capitalization, punctuation & spelling correctly.
• Submit by Monday, June 1 by 6:00pm.

OE1 Presentation Guidelines & Groups
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Asking for and Giving Examples Worksheet
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