FALL 15. FINAL CLASS!
1. Listen to latest news at English Club Listening 2. Check the top ten news for 2017 3. Enter a chat room! For people who were absent, the passwords are alert4 and top104 4. Do the final quiz! And please continue to study English news!
14. 1/5 WELCOME BACK!
This will be a special class! Make a group of 3-4 people and: 1. Listen to latest news at English Club Listening 2. Do THIS WEEK’S QUIZ 3. Get your password and enter a chat room! 4. Discuss face-to-face in English 5. Fill in the quiz for this week: FINAL CLASS Let's check the top ten news
13. 12/22 TOP TEN NEWS FOR WORLD AND JAPAN!
1. Listen to latest news at English Club Listening 2. Do THIS WEEK’S QUIZ 3. Get your password and enter a chat room! 4. Discuss face-to-face in English 5. For next week: FINAL CLASS Let's check the top ten news
12. 12/15 Trump, Jerusalem and the Middle East http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-42274946
1. Listen to latest news at English Club Listening 2. Do THIS WEEK’S QUIZ 3. Get your password and enter a chat room! 4. Discuss face-to-face in English 5. For next week: TOP TEN NEWS FOR WORLD AND JAPAN!
11. 12/8 Sumo scandal http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42178483
1. Listen to latest news at English Club Listening 2. Do THIS WEEK’S QUIZ 3. Get your password and enter a chat room! 4. Discuss face-to-face in English 5. For next week: Trump, Jerusalem and the Middle East http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-42274946
10. 12/1 Women and work http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/24/japanese-politician-barred-bringing-baby-council-session/
1. Listen to latest news at English Club Listening 2. Do THIS WEEK’S QUIZ 3. Get your password and enter a chat room! 4. Discuss face-to-face in English 5. For next week: Sumo scandal http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42178483
9. 11/24 We will have a special class on English in Hong Kong by Professor David C.S. Li.
Here is your reading article: http://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/2105454/time-change-hong-kongs-language-policy-so-city-can-succeed
8. 11/17 Man on the Moon? https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20171110_14/
1. Listen to latest news at English Club Listening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBs-zDZkScU 2. Do THIS WEEK’S QUIZ 3. Get your password and enter a chat room! 4. Discuss face-to-face in English 5. For next week: http://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/2105454/time-change-hong-kongs-language-policy-so-city-can-succeed
7. 11/10 Helping to Commit Suicide https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20171110_18/
1. Listen to latest news at English Club Listening 2. Do THIS WEEK’S QUIZ 3. Get your password and enter a chat room! 4. Discuss face-to-face in English 5. For next week: Man on the Moon? https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20171110_14/
1. Listen to latest news at English Club Listening 2. Do THIS WEEK’S QUIZ 3. Get your password and enter a chat room! 4. Discuss face-to-face in English 5. For next week: NO lesson--have a good school festival and keep posted for 11/10
5. 10/20 https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/10/11/editorials/ican-says-world-can/#.WeBI0I-Cx0w
1. Listen to latest news at English Club Listening 2. Do THIS WEEK’S QUIZ 3. Get your password and enter a chat room! 4. Discuss face-to-face in English 5. For next week: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Honda-repatriating-popular-motorbike-production-from-China
4. 10/13 After the Las Vegas shooting
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/05/kazuo-ishiguro-wins-the-nobel-prize-in-literature 1. Listen to latest news at English Club Listening 2. Do THIS WEEK’S QUIZ 3. Get your password and enter a chat room! 4. Discuss face-to-face in English 5. For next week: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/10/11/editorials/ican-says-world-can/#.WeBI0I-Cx0w
3. 10/6 Japan election!
1. Listen to latest news at English Club Listening 2. Do THIS WEEK’S QUIZ 3. Get your password and enter a chat room! 4. Discuss face-to-face in English 5. For next week: After the Las Vegas shooting
2. 9/28 Kim says 'deranged' Trump shows need for nuclear programme
1. Listen to latest news at English Club Listening 2. Do THIS WEEK’S QUIZ 3. Get your password and enter a chat room! 4. Discuss face-to-face in English 5. For next week: Japan election!
1. 9/21 Welcome (back!) to Current events II
1. Listen to
(1) dateline: 23 August 2017: Turkey Dropping Evolution From Curriculum (in class) AND (2a) dateline: 20 September 2017: Cyclist Makes it Around the World in 78 Days OR (2b) dateline: 13 September 2017: Hurricane Irma Batters Caribbean Islands at English Club Listening
2. Do THIS WEEK’S QUIZ 3. Get your password and enter a chat room! 4. Discuss face-to-face in English 5. For next week: Kim says 'deranged' Trump shows need for nuclear programme
SPRING
15. 7/28 airbnb racism https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/13/racist_airbnb_host_punishment/
1. Listen to the news story at English Club Listening 2. Do THIS WEEK’S QUIZ 3. Get your password and enter a chat room! 4. Discuss face-to-face in English 5. All done! Have a great summer!!
14. 7/14 China's take on the Japanese political scene http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1055258.shtml
1. Listen to the news story at English Club Listening 2. Do THIS WEEK’S QUIZ 3. Get your password and enter a chat room! 4. Discuss face-to-face in English 5. For 7/28 https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/13/racist_airbnb_host_punishment/
13. 7/7 LOTS OF RAIN : http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/raging-waters-kill-3-leave-20-missing
1. Listen to the news story at English Club Listening 2. Do THIS WEEK’S QUIZ 3. Get your password and enter a chat room! 4. Discuss face-to-face in English 5. For 7/14 China's take on the Japanese political scene http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1055258.shtml
12. 6/30 MOBIKE: What do you think? http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/22/business/chinese-bicycle-sharing-startup-expand-japan-year/#.WUygEZKGN0w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYxFiSP5rrQ#t=158.84657
1. Listen to the news story at English Club Listening 2. Do THIS WEEK’S QUIZ 3. Get your password and enter a chat room! 4. Discuss face-to-face in English 5. For 7/7 LOTS OF RAIN : http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/raging-waters-kill-3-leave-20-missing
11. 6/23 Japan's new Anti-conspiracy law http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40283730
1. Listen to the news story at English Club Listening 2. Do THIS WEEK’S QUIZ 3. Get your password and enter a chat room! 4. Discuss face-to-face in English 5. For 6/30 MOBIKE: What do you think? http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/22/business/chinese-bicycle-sharing-startup-expand-japan-year/#.WUygEZKGN0w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYxFiSP5rrQ#t=158.846573
10. 6/16: Qatar Crisis http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/06/qatar-gulf-crisis-questions-answered-170606103033599.html
1. Listen to the news story at English Club Listening 2. Do THIS WEEK’S QUIZ 3. Get your password and enter a chat room! 4. Discuss face-to-face in English 5. For 6/23 Japan's new Anti-conspiracy law http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40283730
9．6/9 London Bridge Attack http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/07/three-men-arrested-late-night-london-bridge-attack-terror-swoop/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKzEzn0jtd4 1. Listen to the news story Trump Pulls Out of Paris Agreement at English Club Listening 2. Do THIS WEEK’S QUIZ 3. Get your password and enter a chat room! 4. Discuss face-to-face in English 5. For 6/16: Qatar Crisis http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/06/qatar-gulf-crisis-questions-answered-170606103033599.html
8. 6/2 MAKE UP classwork for those WHO DID NOT ATTEND THE KGU-SZU 30th Anniversary International Conference 2017
0. READ the news story Chinese exam authorities use facial recognition, drones to catch cheats http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/08/asia-pacific/chinese-exam-authorities-use-facial-recognition-drones-catch-cheats/#.WToowZKGN0w 1. Listen to the news story "Great White Shark Jumps Onto Fishing Boat" (31 May 2017) at English Club Listening 2. Do THIS WEEK’S QUIZ 3. Get your password and enter a chat room! 4. Discuss face-to-face in English 5. For 6/9: London Bridge Attack http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/07/three-men-arrested-late-night-london-bridge-attack-terror-swoop/
7. 5/26 Could Trump be impeached?
1. Listen to the news story at English Club Listening 2. Do THIS WEEK’S QUIZ 3. Get your password and enter a chat room! 4. Discuss face-to-face in English 5. For 6/2: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/07/three-men-arrested-late-night-london-bridge-attack-terror-swoop/
6. 5/19 South Korea's new government
1. Listen to the news story at English Club Listening 2. Do THIS WEEK’S QUIZ 3. Get your password and enter a chat room! 4. Discuss face-to-face in English 5. For 5/26: Could Trump be impeached?
5. 5/12 First foreign housekeepers in Japan
1. Listen to the news story FOR MAY 3 (TURKEY BLOCKS WIKIPEDIA) at English Club Listening 2. Do THIS WEEK’S QUIZ 3. Get your password and enter a chat room! 4. Discuss face-to-face in English 5. For 5/19: South Korea's new government
4. 4/28 Ongoing elections in France Terrorist attack and elections in France
1. Listen to the news story at English Club Listening 2. Do THIS WEEK’S QUIZ 3. Get your password and enter a chat room! 4. Discuss face-to-face in English 5. For 5/12: First foreign housekeepers in Japan
3. 4/21 Goodbye Mao Skate queen Asada brings end to sterling career
1. Listen to the news story at English Club Listening 2. Do THIS WEEK’S QUIZ 3. Get your password and enter a chat room! 4. Discuss face-to-face in English 5. For next week: Terrorist attack and elections in France
2. 4/14 Trump, Xi dine together while Syria strike underway
1. Listen to the news story at English Club Listening 2. Do THIS WEEK’S QUIZ 3. Get your password and enter a chat room! 4. Discuss face-to-face in English 5. For next week: Skate queen Asada brings end to sterling career
1. 4/7 Introduction to Current events
1. Listen to the news story at English Club Listening 2. Do THIS WEEK’S QUIZ 3. Get your password and enter a chat room! 4. Discuss face-to-face in English 5. For next week: Trump, Xi dine together while Syria strike underway