Takao Mizutani
Engineer
SELF ACCESS PARK
English for fun
Seminar Title： English for Fun Seminar
Schedule: Fridays 16:30-18:00
Location: E9-101
Staff in Charge of Seminar: SEYDOU
How to join: Come to the seminar at the scheduled time and talk to the staff in charge.
Course Outline:
The English for fun seminar encourages Japanese students, staffs and teachers to communicate in English through activities they enjoy. The seminar includes discussion about hobbies and leisure activities such as music, movies, game and others. From time to time we play board games which help to develop attendees’ vocabulary and grammar and push them toward communicating in English.
Class Outline:
In general the English for fun seminars are discussion oriented. We start our seminar with “what’s new” segment before moving to the day’s activity. After that we share our actualities or leisure activities, watch movies, listen to music, play games etc. Finally, we discuss and check if we have learnt any vocabulary, grammar or new expressions from those.
Weekly Seminar Title:
Week 1: Introduction
Week 2: Talk about hobbies and leisure
Week 3: Music discussion
Week 4: Fill in word with music lyrics
Week 5: Introduction to Scrabble game
Week 6: Play Scrabble game
Week 7: Movie discussion
Week 8: Movie night
Week 9: Books and travel discussion
Week 10: Introduction to Monopoly board game
Week 11: Play Monopoly game
Week 12: Sports and game discussion
Week 13: Movie night
During this seminar we aim to enhance our English by doing something fun.
このセミナーでは楽しみながら英語のレベルを上げましょう。
Kickoff Party
Play Jenga
Getting to know each other while playing Jenga. We share about our hobbies and what we like to do in our spare time.
Let's talk Movies
We discuss movies and what we like about them. We talk about all time great movies and our prefered ones.
Acquired new games
Updating our gaming arsenal
Play Scrabble
Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter, onto a gameboard which is divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words which, in crossword fashion, flow left to right in rows or downwards in columns