Homework: analyze the TED video

URL:http://www.ted.com/talks/jason_fried_why_work_doesn_t_happen_at_work.html

1) General impression of the video
- persuative
- a new idea which I never thought about
- familiar topic

2) In terms of speaking skills, what are the strengths of the presenter?
- he questions a lot so that audience actually thinks about the topic
- good timing of pause
- gives very familiar examples which make easy for poeple to understand his point
- his topic claim is very clear
- I like when he says M&M, which means manager and meetings, because usually we think of chocolate when we hear M&M. it was pretty funny.
- he says numbers many times which gives specific ideas.
- good use of voice!
- I think it is good to just walk around on the stage as he talks


3) What are the weaknesses of the presentation? How could it be better?
- he talks a bit fast?
- it would be better if he had slides for his presentation. presentation with no slides is sometimes boring....and slides make easier to understand.

Hello everyone in APE class!!

This is my first blog post for the Advanced English class. How are you guys doing?
In today's class, we introduced ourselves to classmates and memorized everybody's names. I'm not sure if I still remember the names though... haha

Anyway, today's homework!

Characteristics of GOOD presentations:
- presentation with good sources
- presenters are confident
- good eye contacts
- start presentation with good attention getter
- topic and claim are clear and specific

Characteristics of BAD presentations:
- repeating the same things over and over
- saying "like"s and "ummmm"s many times
- reading papers that presenter prepare, not presenting
- presenter is not confident in the content of presentation
- not looking toward audience
- boring
- slides include lots of letters

See you on Wednesday!

Thank you all!! xoxo

Today was the last day of Freshman ELP! I can't believe it actually finished....Even though I had hard times doing all the homework, I really enjoyed ELP classes.On the last day of ELP, we continued to watch the movie "This is What Democracy Looks Like". I was wondering what was the position of the police side. We have to listen to them before making judge of the movie. I also thought that Japanese young people do not demonstrate because we do not know about what is going on in the world, we do not care what is going on because we are busy with personal problems and we know that only people on the top can control the world. I personally feel that the world exists somewhere else, I mean I feel it is far away from us. I also got surprised that demo against the Iraq war, only 30,000 people out of 30million did demonstration , although there are much more around the world. Iraq war is not directly related to our life in Japan, which can be the reason for not having demo in Japan. have to thank Rab for giving us many useful knowledge, especially computer skills. I'm sure that those skills will be used in my future work. Also, thank my section mates! Even though we had SEKUKON once in the spring term, I really like you guys that you always go your own way! Best wishes to you all<3Have a great fall break!

Presentations!

Today, we gave our presentations to our classmates to explain the website we made for the group project.

Every group did such a great job and I was actually amazed all the works they had done!

We had classes in 2nd and 5th period today, and in 5th period, we watched the movie"this is what real democracy looks like."(am I right with the title?) I was once interested in media and wanted to get job related to media. However, now I don't because now I figured out that the majority of the media doesn't tell reality to audience. If I worked in the field of media, I would like to tell reality to audience, making documentary, etc.

Anyway, I enjoyed listening to everyone's presentation and watching the movie!

ELP is almost done!

Today, we were supposed to give presentation in the class, but we are good students that nobody had completed websites. haha So we will do that tomorrow morning in the class.

Well, I was working on my website today as well.

We have only two days left. Time goes by so fast. I'll miss you all, and Rab.

gotta enjoy the rest of the class!

Fall break is almost there!

Hello! I finished my essay today! soooo happy, even though task of finishing making presentation and website is waiting for me...

anyway, today we worked on our group project as usual, but somehow Yugo was so high today. lol I'm worried about him... haha I like my group members because they are hard workers that I respect!! Thanks for the all works you do to encourage me to work harder!

As Saki mentioned on her blog, we both are going to Canada for the Fall break coming up. So is Rab! Saki is going to Quebec, and I'm going to Saskatchewan, very very country side, to visit my host family and friends! wonder where Rab is going!

okay, have a good weekend!

Hello Hello!

Wow, we've been working on our group project... so there is basically nothing to write about lol

On Tuesday, our group was so passionate about the project that we came early in the morning and polished up our essays! haha
Rab told us a lot of things that we didn't know, such as how facebook is not private... etc
actually, we only have 4 classes? of ELP left. Time goes by so fast!