English Teaching Methodologies 2009 Blog

My reading strength is the blank of the phrases. No matter when I read sentences, I think where is a break point. If we don’t know where to break, we don’t understand the meaning of the sentence. I always try to find break points.
My weakness is pronunciation. Although I try to read English like Americans, [...]

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My reading strength is Rhythm. I always care to listener could listen easily. I think rhythm is important to attract the interest of the people.
My weakness is Pronunciation. I have many wards that I don’t know the pronunciation , so it’s difficult for me to read without practice.

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I think my reading strength is rhythm. Because I often practice reading.
My reading weakness is variation. I want to try to change how to read when characters change.

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Active students speak a lot but inactive (passive) students do not speak so much
この問題を解決するために、先生はよく話す生徒からあまり話さないせいとを分けます。他の解決は話し合いの間、先生はあまり話さない生徒にアイディアについて質問します。
Students might talk about another topic with their friends so the class might become noisy
先生は友達を分けたほうがいい。または、先生は手当たり次第にグループを選んだらいいと思います。
Students use Japanese
先生は教室のまわりに歩いて、 生徒は日本語で話すなら、生徒に「英語で話しなさい」を言ったほうがいい。生徒は英語で話すなら、いい成績を取れます。一方、あまり英語を話さないなら、いい成績を取れません。

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“Some” is used in affirmative sentence. And “any” is used in negative sentence and question.
For example, “There are some strange animals in the zoo.” “Are there any strange animals…?”
When I explain the difference to my students, I can say,
“some” や”any” は不定の数や量をさし、日本語では訳されないことが多い。ただし、通例 “some” は肯定文、 ”any” は疑問文や否定文で使われる。

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1.The grammar of the first sentence is ”the present perfect tense”,and the sentence means experiences of the past. On the otherhand, the grammar of the second sentence is “the past tense”. It means an incident of the past.
2.ex) I’ve met  Prime Minister Aso. I met Prime Minister Aso last Sunday.
3.When I teach students the difference,I will use a line&a dot. The first sentence [...]

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