DAY#057

Japanese History in English: For Late Beginners and Higher
For any of you wanting to know more about Japan but too busy to bother because of your hectic daily schedules. Herein, some historical facts and figures on Japanese history that every 12 year old should know ——Not necessarily in English but hey! Why not!! By learning all these must-know facts in another language you will know them better in your own language!!! 

A Win-Win situation.

DAY#058

#Talking About Social Media
ACTIVITY#1: @GTQ aka
Guess the Questions
In association with BYOD4US aka Build Your Own Dialogue:
Recycling and Renacting what you have learnt
(ONLY for FULL MEMBERS)
#Low Intermediate

Module#03 Social Media:
Social Media sites you use; frequency of visiting and posting content;
what kind of content; followers and how you react to their opinions;
what inspires you; time spent on networking sites; are they dangerous?
Q5 Do you have many followers or friends?
A5 The last time I looked I had 600,000 virtual buddies. I have no idea how many are real people.
Q6 How do you react when someone gives a thumbs-down to one of your posts?
A6 I do nothing. People are entitled to their opinions. If they don’t agree with me
or don’t like something, it’s fine with me. No problem!
Q7 How much time online do you spend on social networking sites?
A7 No more than 5/5 (pron. fivefive)…5 hours 5 days a week. I’d like to spend more but I do still have a day job.
Q8 Do you think people in general and you in particular should spend less time on social media?
A8 Not at all. Why should I think such a thing! The digital world is a far safer place than the real one.
In association with BYOD akaBuild Your Own Dialogue:Talking about Social Media

DAY#059
#Noone is Coming to Help You
INTVID + SHAPRA COMBO
aka Interactive Video with Comprehension and Vocabulary Expansion Exercises
plus Shadowing Practice
More simple Yes/No Question Practice
#survival NTF ie need to finish!!

DAY#060
ACTIVITY#1: WAPI
#How to bring a folktale alive # What to say upon hearing Good News. Bad News
Asking and answering Questions about a folktale
Intensive Listening and repeating
Intonation Practice
How to
1) talk about nationality
2) Form adverbs from Adjectives
Robotics, Past tense practice rhyming words
Finding similarities in words
World food
Practising Yes or No Questions
Practice giving short answer responses with correct pronoun and auxiliary verb (to be or did).

DAY#061
#A Gathering of the Tribe: Part #1
#Learning English with Allegories and Myths:
At the time of writing (2021/12/16) there is a very real fear of totalitarianism taking over the planet, especially in two western countries in the southern hemisphere. The people of NZ and Australia are at war against their corrupt governments. Evidence suggests that if they are not able to topple these corrupt and hypocritical regimes and regain their freedom and their human rights, the rest of the world might follow.
According to this beautiful allegory, help is on the way. From the future. A million years into the future. From a surprising race of people, Highly evolved versions of ourselves.
Written and narrated by Charles Eisenstein from the book:
Ensure that you answer the questions before Proceeding onto Part #2.

#Allegory See also #parable #Fables
DAY#062
#A Gathering of the Tribe:  Various Exercises to organically deepen grammatical awareness, enrich vocabulary and develop fluency. You MUST watch the video in Part 1A first

Level: Intermediate
Grammar: Various
Pronunciation: Various
Skill: Extended reading

DAY#063@R&R
aka Recreational Reading
(Another way of relaxing)
Take this opportunity to listen to the first couple of minutes of a novel by Philip K Dick. One of the greatest SF writers of all time. Wonderfully narrated, this is a prophetic book.
A link to the full audio book and a rough Google translation is supplied below; broken down into easy chunks.

DAY#064
#A Gathering of the Tribe: Part #2A
#Learning English with Allegories and Myths:

DAY#065

#A Gathering of the Tribe:  Part 2B: Various Exercises to organically deepen grammatical awareness, enrich vocabulary and develop fluency. You MUST watch the video in Part 1A first.

Level: Intermediate
Grammar: Various
Pronunciation: Various
Skill: Extended reading

DAY#066@PRONFOC
Pronunciation Focus @CSI aka Contrastive Stress and Intonation Part #1: Listening & Understanding:
発音の焦点：対照的な単語の強勢-イントネーション、リスニング

DAY#067 #BIGPHARMA
Get the latest news* on how power operates in Australia. How does your country stack up against the land Down Under? Are governments around the world a joke? What do you think?
ACTIVITY#2@VOCEX:
Vocabulary Expansion (and/or Test)
ACTIVITY#3@COMCHECK
Comprehension Check/ Answer The Questions
Stopping political corruption is a major issue in the world。 //corruption within the police 警察内部の腐敗◆汚職・不正など。 #Government corruption

DAY#068
ACTIVITY@RAAGTQ
Read/Answer Guess Question
Topic: Politics-BigPharma Part #2
Level: Low-Intermediate
Grammar Focus: Forming ‘Wh’ Qs
Pronunciation: ‘Wh’ Question Intonation

DAY#069

!!! TOEIC エラーテラーを飼いならして、どんなテストの恐怖も取り除いてください!!
TAME THE TOEIC error terror and REMOVE FEAR OF ANY test!!
CREATIVE VISUALIZATION PRACTICE FOR EXAM SUCCESS: USE CREATIVE VIZUALIZATION TO MAKE ANY ENGLISH EXAM-FROM IELTS TO TOEIC- A WALK (OR BICYCLE RIDE!) IN THE PARK
Activity#1@TTTET-01*:
#CREVIZ AKA: CREATIVE VISUALIZATION OF GRAMMATICAL CONCEPTS
WHETHER YOU LOVE OR HATE TOEIC, IT REMAINS, UNQUESTIONABLY, A REASONABLY ACCURATE DETERMINATION OF YOUR LEVEL IN VARIOUS SKILL SETS. IF YOU PLAN TO WORK IN AN AMERICAN COMPANY, YOU NEED A DECENT SCORE IN TOEIC. HERE, PRACTICE FOUR TYPES OF EXERCISE.
*MINI PRACTICE #11 is MODIFIED, FROM THE LONGMAN PREPARATION SERIES FOR THE TOEIC TEST: INTRODUCTORY COURSE

#My 

DAY#070@TOPCOM aka Topical Comedy
Whenever I feel a tinge of the Apocalyptic Blues coming on, a lowering of psychic defenses, an increase in the sense of vulnerability, a few minutes watching Jim Breuer always resets the heart, centers the mind/spirit/ body and restores the psychic balance with a realigning of the chakras. Need a laugh? Here is where you get it.