Saturday, November 29

We did a warm-up using hypotheticals in every class.

Level 1 – We finished the unit on “The Perfect Gift” and completed page 73 of the “Party Planner” unit.

For homework, write 5 sentences to talk about one of the events on page 73 in more detail. For example: “When I was 30, I went to a wedding in the Dominican Republic. I will never forget it! Even though it took me about 53 hours to get there and another 50 plus hours to get back to Japan, it was one of the best times of my life. It was my best friend from high school’s wedding and all of my close friends from high school were there...”

Level 2- Only 2 students (Akiko and Yuriko) attended the class!! We had a wonderful time discussing books and Akiko and Yuriko did excellent presentations on music and books.

For homework, please finish the crossword on page 29 and then we will move on to the unit on “Family.”

Level 3 – We completed the unit on “Anger.” Everyone did a wonderful job with the homework as usual!

For homework, please read “Readings 1,2 and 3” on pages 80 - 82 about "Psychics" and make 2 original questions about the readings. We will use these questions for discussion next lesson. After discussing this unit briefly, we can move on to the unit about “Beauty” like scheduled in our course outline.

Level 4 – We finished parts 1-4 of the unit on the “Homeschooling.”

For homework, please read “Reading 2” on pages 64-65 and make 2 or 3 discussion questions about the unit.

Saturday, November 22

Level 100

We started off with a "Pets" warm-up discussion activity, wrapped up most of the "A Perfect Gift" unit except for the last bit on p. 72, which I assigned as homework.

Homework: Please do the brief crossword (Part A) and the "Level Up" Conversation Ex. on p. 72.

Level 200

After a brief "Food" warm-up discussion activity, we reviewed the crossword homework from the week before, reviewed the vocabulary on p. 24 and I gave them some pointers, speech techniques and advice for their next presentation on "Books."

Homework: Prepare and practice your "Books" presentations and be ready to give your presentation in next week's class.

Level 300

No warm-up, just jumped right into the book. We polished off the end of the  "Online Dating" chapter and then went over the Readings 1-3 and various discussion questions about them in the beginning of the "Anger" chapter.

Homework: Please do Parts 1 & 2 in the "Guess Meaning from Related Words" section, on pp. 73-74. Also, please do the "Reading" in Part II on pp. 75-76.

Level 400

They had a good time doing a Conversation Game warm-up activity. We then finished up the 2nd half of chapter 10, including a final group discussion of the Critical Thinking question, plus their own questions I had asked them to prepare ahead of time. 

Homework: Please do the "Key Word Vocabulary" section in Chapter 11 (Homeschooling), and be prepared to define the terms using simple English next week.

Saturday, November 15

Level 100

Please do parts B and C on pp. 70-71 (Write several sentences about a "dream" gift you'd like to give someone special.)

Level 200

Please finish the Crossword on p. 21. Also, start preparing for your "Books" presentation, thinking about what books you'd like to talk about, photos for your scraps, etc. We'll spend part of the next lesson preparing further.

Level 300

Please do the Readings 1, 2 and 3 about "Anger," on pp. 69-71, and complete the survey that's part of Reading 1, to be ready for discussion in next week's class.

Level 400

Please do the Reading on p. 58 and complete the "Vocabulary" and "Comprehension" sections following on p. 59. Also, please prepare at least one additional discussion question to discuss in groups next week, to go along with the main discussion question on p. 60.

Saturday, November 1

Here is the homework for the level 1, 2, 3 and 4 classes.

Level 1 – After a speaking warm-up and taking up the homework, we finished the first 2 pages of the unit, “A perfect gift.”

For homework, please write 3-5 sentences like the examples at the top of page 67. I’d like to ___what?___ because ___why?___.

Level 2 – After a speaking warm-up, we finished up until page 20 of unit 2.

For homework, read page 20 and answer the comprehension questions # 1-4 and the discussion questions #1-2.

Level 3 – We did Reading 1 and 2 of the unit on “Internet Dating” and answered the comprehension questions.

For homework, please write the headings for Reading 2 on page 59. Also, write example sentences for the “Understanding Two- and Three-Word Verbs” on page 62.

Level 4 – We finished the unit on Sports and Values and had a wonderful discussion with the discussion questions you made.

For homework, choose 5-7 words from pages 55, 49 and 53 and write a definition and an example sentence for each word you choose. You will take turns reading your definitions and example sentences in small groups and guessing what the word is.