Hi everyone,
It was another busy class today since we focused on listening discussions and visual aids. Visual Aids: At the beginning our our lesson, we continued with visual aids. We learned how to explain a graph. Many of your will need to include graphs in your presentations, so you can use these steps to help you: 1. Introduce 2. Explain 3. Emphasize There are a variety of expressions you can use to explain your graphs, and these are in your handouts from class. We learned three expressions in our lesson: 1. This ___ graph shows _____. 2. The x-axis shows _____ and the y-axis shows _____. 3. The key point is that ____. Interactions Feedback: As usual, you're doing a great job with your interactions. I'm glad to see that you're giving clear instructions and managing your time effectively. For next week's interaction, remember these points: Speak loud enough
Ask for repetition
Homework: 1. Interactions (see schedule) 2. Blog Comment #6 3. Listening Report #3 4. Start your slide presentation Blog Question #6:
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OE2-Tomoyo
11/9/2013 01:26:16 pm
I think that my listening skills are getting better than before. Doing listening activities such as listening interactions and listening reports is at the same time hard and interesting to me. Of course I think it difficult to listen to English, but I feel that I’m getting used to listening to English. When I watch movies and listen to music or news in English, I can realize that. On the other hand, I think that this semester’s activities motivate me to learn English. Since this semester, I have been trying to do several things in my free time. For example, I watch movies which I already know very well with English subtitles. Also, I listen to news in English on iPhone. In addition, I take part in sessions where we can talk with students studying abroad with my friends once a week. Therefore, even though our course is finished, I’d like to continue to do these things in order to maintain and improve my listening skills.
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OE-2 Ryutaro
11/9/2013 10:40:17 pm
I think that my listening skills got better a little. The reason why I think so is that I became possible to comprehend what my classmate or my teaacher said.I can't understand what they said completely, but I became to possible to guess what they wanted to tell. But, I still tend to ask speakar to repeat again. So, I should concentrate all my energies on our class. In addition, I need to aim for an improvement in qualities of listening interactions and listening reports. On the other hand, I am afraid of declining my listeng skills after finishing our class. I am fearful of losing oppotunities which use English. I don't want to lose what I got in our class. So, I want to contact with English in several ways.
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OE2-Mio
11/10/2013 12:53:34 pm
I think that my listening skills are improving and progressing better than before by listening interactions and listening reports. I feel I can listen to what the people who appear in movies, my teacher and my classmates say more. The people who appear in movies usually speak fast, so sometimes I can’t listen. However, I can listen to important parts of what they say. I think my listening skills are not good enough now. Therefore, I want to progress my skills better in this course. For that purpose, I have to do these listening activities harder. If this course is finished, I may lose my opportunities to speak and listen to English. I think it's bad, because my listening skills what I learned in this class become worse if I lose the opportunities to do that. Therefore, I think I had better take or participate in the English course next year to keep and progress my listening skills.
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OE2-Yuki
11/11/2013 10:47:02 am
I believe I have made a progress with working on listening interactions and listening reports. By watching a movie trailer for a listening report, it helps me a lot to imorove my listenig skill because the actors/actress speaks the real native English. They are a little bit complicated for me. However, that difficultness inspire me to do my best! One problem I want to point out is that I never know the correct answer because there are no subtitiles in allmovie. After finishing our English course, in order to keep my listening skill which I improved through a year I would like to do some efforts; listen to English musics and start studying for TOEIC and listen to its CDs.
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OE2-Anjyu
11/11/2013 11:31:25 am
I think my listening skill is better than before this semester. At the start, I watched a movie trailer. Actually, I can't pick up the words what actors say. However, when I was a discussion leader and prepared work seats, I listened again and again. I adjust gradually to listening English. Now, I think it is easier to listen to English these days than before. After our class is finished, I want to talk with my friends in English. I have a friend from Torinidad and Tobago. I want to have a talk with her at short intervals. I think listening English is better way to maintain and improve my listening skill.
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OE2-Kodai
11/11/2013 12:02:12 pm
Firstly,I'm talk about the progress of listening skills. I think my listening skills make progress. Listening report and Listening interaction become trigger for my motivation for my listening ability. By doing the interactions and listening reports, I wanted to be able to listen to English correctly. Therefore, I studied English more. Secondly, I tell you about how to maintain my listening skills. Maybe I think the best way is to listen English every day and talk with native speaker. The reason is that we must get used to listeing to English. In order not to waste OE-2 classes, we must continue to make an effort to come in touch with English.
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OE2-Kodai
11/11/2013 12:06:55 pm
Firstly,I'm talk about the progress of listening skills. I think my listening skills make progress. Listening report and Listening interaction become trigger for my motivation for my listening ability. By doing the interactions and listening reports, I wanted to be able to listen to English correctly. Therefore, I studied English more. Secondly, I tell you about how to maintain my listening skills. Maybe I think the best way is to listen English every day and talk with native speaker. The reason is that we must get used to listeing to English. In order not to waste OE-2 classes, we must continue to make an effort to come in touch with English. Through these ways, we can maintain our English skills. I want to search for the place to be able to talk with foreign people.
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OE2-Yuuki
11/11/2013 01:49:12 pm
I think my listening skill is improving little by little. I've listened native English at the lesson and as the homework since the second semester. I got used to linstening English and I realize that I don't need to listen to all wards. Now, I do an effort to understand the outline, so my listenig skill got better than before. However, my listeng skill can improve more and more. I can't still understand the outline immedately. I'm still upset when I listening fast English. If this semester is finished, I want to continue to listen native English. I will watch foreign films and listen to foreign musics. when I watch the foreign movie, I try not to listen the words and try to understand the rough story. I can maintain listening skill's trainig having fun.
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OE2-Ayako
11/11/2013 03:31:04 pm
I think I have improved my English skills in this semester. When I was a high school student, I studied English everyday so I was good at reading English. However, since I entered the university, I had only two or three classes in a week. So I was worried about my English skills. In this oral English class, we speak a lot about many theme and our opinion. I can learn how to express my opinion plainly. I have to study more to improve my skills. After this course is finished, I want to continue studying it. I'm not going to take English course next semester. But I think we need studying it, so I'll study for TOEIC test or Practical English Proficiency test.
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OE2-Yugo
11/11/2013 03:52:12 pm
I think I have had more touch in listening to English that before. I have not had chance to listen to English such this semester. I feel my skills of listening to English make progress a bit better. It is hard to do these works, for example, listening reports and listening interactions. However, I think it is easy and interesting to do. So I can work on them intentionally. And after this course is finished, I want to do things like watching movie in foreign countries. I want to watch DVD with watching subtitles in English. It’ll help me develop my skills of listening to English.
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OE2-Chiaki
11/12/2013 06:53:12 am
I feel I've been able to develop my own listening skill through activities in this class. Listening interactions specially help me improve my English. In listening interactions, I noticed difficulty to catch words spoken by native English speaker. Also, managing my own interaction was one of problems to be solved for me. However, I found watching movies in English are interesting. Last week, I watched Harry Potter in English at once. It was difficult, but I felt exciting when I could understand what the characters say. I'm going to continue watching movies in English after our course.
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OE2-Kanami
11/12/2013 07:10:13 am
I think that I have made a little progress in my listening skill than ever. In this semester, I have watched many trailers and videos, and they make me improvement of English skill. Summarizing and writing my opinion also help me to do. However, I didn't get skill as capable as it is easy to understand spoken English. It is necessary to do more practice. After OE2 course is finished, I will talk with my father who is good at speaking English and watch
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OE2-Saki
11/12/2013 07:57:48 am
I think that I made a big progress in both listening and speaking skills. I became able to listen English spoken in movies. At first, I couldn't understand what the movie says because it is too fast. However, recently, I can understand the main points of the movies by listening the key words or sentences. Also, by doing listening interactions, I think my speaking skills have been improved. At first, I couldn't explain my opinion to the discussion members, even if I want to. However, by doing discussions again and again, I became used to express my feelings in my own words. Thus, it is important to continue using English and trying to make ourselves understood in English. What I would like to do to maintain my listening skills is watching movies in English. It may be hard or sometimes boring if I try to listen to the CDs which are only made for people who want to improve listening skills. However, I think watching movies would be exciting for me and also easier to continue.
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OE2-Mamina
11/12/2013 09:56:09 am
I think that my listening skill is improving step by step. This is because through interactions and listening reports, I feel that I can follow what my teacher and classmates say than berore. At the start of listening interactions, I couldn't catch the word what actors say. The result of it, I took a lot of time to anser skills activity. However, even if I can't catch all sentences, I can listen the word and understand the content of the movie. In addition, I can express my opinion in English confidently. I want to improve my listening skills more. After this semester, I'd like to maintain my listening skills. I think that I should make chances listening English to maintain it. Therefore, I make an effort not to decline my listening skills,for example watching foreign-films in English. I want to continue my efforts to learn English.
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OE2-Andrew
11/12/2013 12:23:43 pm
I don't know if my listening skills are improving but I think everyone else's in class are improving. Most of them used to ask me what I said but now nobody does that anymore. A good way to maintain listening skills is to watch English movies without using subtitles. It's hard finding people that can speak English fluently in Japan. You can borrow movies at TSUTAYA easily so this will help a lot. I also think listening to music is a good way because you can borrow CDs and listen to them in an iPod or Walkman. Although, you should avoid listening to rap music at first because it's too fast. You can start listening to rap when you're used to other music. I think "Chris Brown" "Jason Derulo" "Maroon5" will be an easy start.
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OE2-Akari
11/12/2013 12:41:31 pm
I think I could develop two abilities. First, l could develop the ability to understand spoken English. I had tried to understand it by translating into Japanese in my brain but, in this way I can not follow the speed and grasp the meaning I get to be able to understand spoken English just as it is through these activities. Second, I became to grasp the meaning roughly. I try to understand the main point and what he or she want to say in the first time. I could raise attitude to listen and understand English through this semester. And I want to do two things to maintain my listening skill. One is watching foreign films not with dubbed version but with a sound as it is (in English ). There are some differences in nuance between English and Japanese ,and I want to watch movies with original sound for enjoying the pleasure of it-selves. The other is to listen western music. I learned that I come to be able to listen what they say gradually by listening again and again. In these ways , I want to maintain and develop my listening skill in everyday life.
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OE2-Honami
11/12/2013 03:55:38 pm
I think my listening skills is better than before this semester. I wasn't good at listening English before. When I was freshman in college, I didn't understand correctly what teacher and classmate said. However, in this semester, I think my listening skills would have improved. That's why I think so is that I came to have many opportunity that I listen to English. By listening to English again and again, I learned what they said in the video. And now, I became able to comprehended the conversation with classmate than before. After our course is finished, I want keep to have chance that I listen to English. Therefore, I'm going to watch the foreign films and listen to foreign music. To have many chance will help my listening skills decline.
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OE2-Ayame
11/12/2013 04:04:03 pm
I think my listening skills got better . When we started listening discussion, I couldn't understand completely or couldn't hear words sometimes. However, I think times I miss words decreased. Also, maybe I became to understand what video is saying than before.
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OE2-Yuta
11/12/2013 04:09:19 pm
I'm sure that my listening skill is getting better a little by making listening reports and doing listening interactions. I want to make my English skill better but it is difficult to take action. If it were not for these activities, I would not try to listen to English. Thanks to my homework, I can get a chance to listen to English. Also, I can enjoy these activities, especially listening interactions at this class. Therefore, I feel that speaking and listening English is a lot of fun and my motivation to improve my English skill has risen. I'm sure to be more active than before. However, my listening skill is still weak so I will make an effort even if this course is finished. In my opinion, it is important to have the oppotunity to listen to English in daily life. Therefore, I will try to listen to English music, conversation and speech on my way home. Also, I want to try TOEIC. In order to study, I will use Internet such as websites which you told us. I believe that they will help me maintain or improve my listening skill.
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OE2 - Natsumi
11/12/2013 04:47:21 pm
I think my listening skills are improving in this semester. I have gotten used to listening interactions, so now I can enjoy them very much.
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OE2-Haruka
11/12/2013 04:56:40 pm
I think my listening skills have improved little by little. At first, it was too difficult for me to listen what speakers say when I work on a listening interaction and a listening report. I couldn’t answer leader’s questions in the listening interaction, and I had difficulties to finish my listening reports. Now, however, I can do these things more smoothly than before. This is because I have a lot of chances to listen real native English in this semester. After our class is finished, I will lose my opportunities to listen English and my listening skills will get worse. I don’t want to lose my listening abilities which I have got in this semester, so I want to keep listening English to maintain my abilities. For example, I want to watch movies in English, listen English songs, and watch news in English. I think these things is not very difficult way, so I can keep doing every day. I feel it is difficult to build listening skills but it may be easy to lose that skills. I have to try hard to maintain listening skills.
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