This course aims to learn the advanced skills of how to tell a reason. Students will be requested to pick up a thing which you like most, write a short essay on it, and present your peers how much you love it with good reasons.
By the end of this course, students will be able to acquire the applications of 1) telling a good reason; 2) learning Japanese idiomatic expressions, and 3) remembering all of the kun'yomi kanji.
how to write an essay, written style Japanese, kun'yomi kanji, idiomatic Japanese
Specialist skills | Intercultural skills | ✔ Communication skills | ✔ Critical thinking skills | ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
We will ask students to discuss each topic in a small group. The class will start with a lecture, followed by pair work. Students will make a presentation of the discussion outcome.
Course schedule | Required learning | |
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Class 1 | Orientation and diagnostic test | Consider what the best way of expressing a reason is. |
Class 2 | Learn how to tell a reason. | Collect what kinds of expression which indicate clear reason. |
Class 3 | Pick up your favorite thing for the final presentation. | Consider the reason why you like your favorite thing. If there is a reason for it, tell the reason. |
Class 4 | Make a well-structured paragraph. | Consider how you construct a paragraph in which you clearly insist on the reason why you like it |
Class 5 | Collect suitable materials for your presentation. | Collect suitable materials for your presentation. |
Class 6 | Find and arrange proper speech styles. | Find and arrange proper speech styles. |
Class 7 | Make a presentation. | Make a presentation. |
Class 8 | Feedback. | Feedback. |
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Assessment will be conducted based on student's attendance, discussions, a final report or a presentation.
Only the first year international student can take this course.