We have been discussing various ideas recently for fun events and activities to have with our students, when one of our older students came up with an interesting idea.
As a lot of our recent events have been aimed at our younger students, this time we are mixing things up. Our resident Music Artist Mitchell, will be hosting and leading a group based Karaoke event. Students will form into teams of up to 5, practice their songs and dance moves in a private room upstairs, then perform for a round robin style event!
If students do not have a team beforehand, we will be organising teams on the day.
もし当日までにチームをつくれない場合は、当日にこちらでチームをつくってあげますよ。
Those same older students have given us an ultimatum, haha. That is this event is restricted to junior and senior high school students, and that there are no parents allowed. (I guess we have a bit of performance anxiety!)
So to all our budding musicians, or even those who want to have some fun, on Sunday, February the 16th, we will be hosting the first TDEV Karaoke event at 12pm! Invite your friends to your team.
Thank you everyone for coming and helping us celebrate Christmas. I am still checking all the photo’s that we took on the day (wow I took a lot!), but so far they are amazing.
Lobby talk is where students can sit down with one of our English teachers and talk about anything! The teacher will be helping the students learn to relax in an English environment and practice their speech.
Currently we have lobby talk with the following schedule:
現在、次のスケジュールでロビートークを行っています。
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 4pm until 5pm: For Primary school aged students 6pm until 7pm: For High school (Junior and Senior) aged students.
This service is free for all of our current students, and ￥1000 per month for any non-students.
ロビートークは英語村生は無料で参加できます。外部生は月額1000円で参加可能です。
So please, feel free to call up our front desk and book your child in for lobby talk.
お気軽にお電話等でロビートークの予約をしてくださいね。
Our New Teachers!
新しい先生のご紹介！
I have been looking forward to writing about this!
ずっとこのことを書くのを楽しみにしていたのですよ。
We have been busy recruiting the best teachers available, and training them in our unique style of teaching. So please, let me introduce you too:
新しい先生に来ていただいて、我々のレッスン方法を研修してもらいましたので、一緒にご紹介しますね。
Mitchell My name is Mitchell.I am a new teacher at English Village.I have traveled all the way from Australia to Japan, to help Japanese children learn and understand the English language! Back in Australia I was formally a music teacher. I like music, sports, hiking and camping.Come and see for yourself just how fun English Village can be .
Alyssa Hello, my name is Alyssa I am from America and was born and raised in Oregon. I have lived in Japan for five years. I enjoy kimono, drawing and going to local concerts! I love teaching English and hope increase the number of English speakers in Tokushima by encouraging communication in a friendly and fun environment. I speak Japanese so feel free to speak with me anytime!
Yvonne Hi! I am from the Philippines, I graduated with a degree in Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Mass Communication and with a Certificate of Teaching. I have taught for 7 years in Preschool and Grade school in the Philippines and in Audi Arabia. I love teaching because you get to spend your career cultivating young minds. I like making art and crafts, and I enjoy cooking. I know that English Village will be your first step in learning English in many different ways with the help of your teachers.
These teachers have been studying and learning about how our core and project lessons work hand in hand to expand upon the standard learning style in Japan Eikaiwa. They are all excited to be working here and look forward to helping your children grow.
Update on our teaching styles With this time to train up new teachers, we have used this opportunity to expand upon our plans to create the best environment to help children learn to speak and live in a bilingual society.
To this effect we have hired Yvonne, She will be teaching our younger learners, and as someone who grew up learning both her native tongue and English, is perfect to help children learn and grow.
For the higher level learners (Oxford Discover level), we have attained the services of Dr. Ashtar, who is currently training to become a professor. His technical expertise and training for giving exacting and precise instructions will be invaluable.
Our new mixture of teachers allows us to both help students learn traditional styles of English as they would encounter in a western country, they are also learning about the slight differences in pronunciation that they will encounter while in Japan, where the only group language they may have with future employees will be English.
We know that this new system will help create more well rounded students, much better able to approach the English language, not only in its traditional form, but in the more realistic environments that they will encounter in their lives.
Good evening everybody, I wanted to take this chance to inform everyone of our upcoming event and a new exciting project we are starting at English Village.
I can’t wait! A certain jolly fellow in a red suit will be there on the day as well.
もう待ちきれませんね！赤い服を着た陽気な仲間たちも、その日には来てくれるかも。
On top of this exciting news, we also are starting a new Lobby Chat, beginning on the 12th of November. This means for 2 hours each day (Tuesday – Friday, 5pm – 6pm and 7pm – 8pm, Saturday 10:30am – 11:30am, 11:30am-12:30am), a teacher will be available downstairs for free conversation and activities.
The teachers will be rotating, to allow any students to experience all of our teachers, and different accents to help them become more worldly English speakers. I, for one, am excited by the possibilities that this gives us.
This service is free to any of our existing students, as a little extra from us to you. So please, either call us up to book your student in, or pick up a form from the front desk at any time.
We are excited to start our new semester. As we finish our current series of text books (the Let’s go series), we will be beginning our new books Reading with Writing.
英語村でも新しい学期がスタートしました！レッツゴーシリーズをテキストとして使用していたクラスに関しては、新しいテキスト「Skills World Reading with Writing」シリーズでのレッスンがスタートしています。
These new text books are a brand new release that we are looking forward to teaching, with a more condensed format allowing us to expand further upon the ideas presented in the lessons.
The biggest change is with the audio files. Previously they were provided with the book on a CD, this time they are available at www.oup.com/elt/oxfordskillsworld .
Over the last three months, our art students have been busy making:
3か月にわたり、アートクラスの生徒たちが取り組んだ作品は：
Paintings 絵 Sculptures 浮彫彫刻 and mirror boxes ミラーボックス
During the August counselling week, all the Art Project creations will be displayed in our rooms and corridors. We hope you can drop by to see everyone’s great work.
8月のカウンセリングウィークに、これらの作品を英語村にて展示いたします。
ぜひ、素晴らしい作品を鑑賞しに来てください。
In the Drama Project class, our students have been learning English storytelling skills. In recent weeks, they’ve been using the new language to create and perform amazing short plays of their own.
In the Programming Project, students have made computer quizzes, to test one another on spelling, punctuation, spacing and capitalisation. We have also created original animations, with English speech recordings.
It’s been an amazing year on the project courses, with many great, imaginative ideas that have helped us to practise English. Keep up the good work, everyone!
In September, we are launching two new twelve-week project courses.
9月には２つの新しいプロジェクトコースが始まります。
Leslie sensei, our expert chef, has designed a Food Culture course. English Villagers will study different countries, and make meals or do craft activities from each.
We plan to study the cultures of Italy, Mexico, the U.S.A, India, and one other (currently top secret!) place.
イタリア、メキシコ、アメリカ、インドと、あともうひとつの国（まだ秘密です！）について学ぶ予定です。
We will also launch an art course about Moving Images. Our Villagers will make flip books, zoetropes and other animation devices, before filming a presentation to display on a home-made projector.
