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Shibaura Institute of Technology Autumn 2014 Classes - Joining Coursebase
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Cross Cultural Awareness and English
CE-II Autumn 2014: The New Semester Begins!
Hello everyone, welcome back! Today we are going to start our next unit of study. We are going to study....water. First, lets study some vocabulary. Please click the link: Cross Cultural Awareness and English 2 . This semester we are going to use the manaba learning management s…
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Cross Cultural Awareness and English Spring 2014 Week 7: Love and Marriage in Japan
Hello everyone. Well this is the last class before the final test. You can download your study guide by clicking the link. Today we are going to talk about love and marriage in Japan. The material for today's lesson was written by two University of Tsukuba students. Click…
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Cross Cultural Awareness and English Spring 2014 Week 6: Love and marriage in Bangladesh
Hello everyone, Today we will continue discussing Love and Marriage. Look at the picture above. This is a picture I took of a Bangladeshi bride and groom at a wedding reception I attended in Dhaka, Bangladesh. In the photo below you can see me with my colleagues. The men, inclu…
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Cross Cultural Awareness and English I Spring 2014 Week 5: Jewish Wedding Traditions
Photo downloaded from Wikipedia Hello everyone! Today we are going to finish learning about love and marriage in Greece. Then we'll learn about some Jewish wedding traditions. First, let's review some vocabulary. Please click the link: Cross cultural awareness and Englis…
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Cross Cultural Awareness and English I Spring 2014 Week 4: Love and Marriage in Greece
Photo by Louis Konstantinou Hello everyone! Today we are going to learn about love and marriage in Greece. Last week we learned about dowries. Dowries have been a part of Greek culture too. It's interesting that two very different cultures, China and Greece, can share a cul…
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Cross Cultural Awareness and English I Spring 2014 Week 3: Love and Marriage in China
Hello everyone, I hope you had a nice weekend. Today we are going to start our next topic, Love and Marriage in China, but first let's study some vocabulary on Quizlet , please click the link: Cross cultural Awareness and English Vocabulary . Like Botswanan marriage custom…
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Cross Cultural Awareness and English I 2014 Week 2: Love and marriage in Botswana
Hello everyone. I hope you enjoyed the week-end. Today we are going to start using our textbook. Our first reading is about a marriage tradition in Botswana. look at the picture on the left. It is a picture of a contemporary Tswana family. The Tswana are a people living in sout…
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Cross Cultural Awareness and English I 2014 Week 1: Welcome!
Hello everyone, welcome to the University of Tsukuba! Today I'm going to introduce you to the course. Please click the link to download your Course Outline . Well, as you saw from the course outline, we will be discussing love and marriage in various cultures this semester. …
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CE-II Autumn 2013 Week 14: Online Grocery Shopping and Final Test Review
Hello everyone, Today we are going to talk about customer service and online grocery shopping. Japanese shops are famous for good customer service. In Japan people say, " お客様は神様です ( okyaku-sama wa kami-sama desu)", which means, "The customer is a god", right?…
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CE-II Autumn 2013 Week 13: Shopping!
Image by Caden Crawford Hello everyone, Happy New Year! This is our first class of 2014. After today's class we have only two more classes. The final test will be held in the last class, which is on 27 January. I'll give you a study guide next class. Today we are going…
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CE-II Autumn 2013: Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas everyone: Today we are going to learn about Christmas in various cultures. First, let's look at a Christmas video card I made in 2010. In the past, there were Twelve Days of Christmas . This period was known as Christmastide , or Yuletide. The twelve days of…
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CE-II Autumn 2013 Week 11: First Flight of the Wright Flyer
First flight of the Wright Flyer Hello everyone, Today we are going to read about the Wright Brothers . First, let's study some vocabulary. Please click the link: Cross Cultural Awareness and English 2 . The Wright brothers successfully flew a independently powered airplane …
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CE-II Autumn 2013 Week 9: The Fast Track
German ICE train Hello everyone, Today we are going to talk about high speed trains, also known as bullet trains. In Japan we call these trains 新幹線 shinkansen. Germany, France, China and some other countries also have high speed trains . Look at the picture on the left. In the p…
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CE-II Autumn 2013 Week 8: Free Bike Programs
Hello everyone, Last week we talked about trash. Look at the picture on the left. These are abandoned bicycles. Often, abandoned bicycles become trash in Japan. Many of the bicycles are in good shape, and they are still ridable. What a waste? In other cities, abandoned bicycles …
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CE-II Autumn 2013 Week 7: Down in the dumps
Hello everyone, Last week we talked about endangered and extinct species. Let''s review. Please click the link: CE-II Autumn 2013 Week 6 . Today we are going to read about the largest garbage dump in the Middle East. You can see a picture of Hiriya below. Hiriya is in Is…
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CE-II Autumn 2013 Week 6: Going, going, gone
Hello everyone, Today we are going to talk about endangered and extinct species. Can you name 10 or more extinct species? For example, Tyrannosaurus Rex is an extinct species. Can you name 10 endangered species? For example, the common chimpanzee is an endangered species. Now le…
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CE-II Autumn 2013 Week 5: A Trapper's Life
Public domain image downloaded from wikipedia Hello everyone, Today we are going to finish our discussion of overfishing, and then we'll talk about animal trapping. You can download the answers to the questions about the Jeremy Jackson TED Talk by clicking the link. Animal t…
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CE-II Autumn 2013 Week 4: Give a man a fish...
Hello everyone, For the first 3 weeks of this course we have been talking about water. Now we are going to talk about the things that live in water, and how we interact with those things. Those things are...fish! I have been fishing a few times in my life. I have gone fishing i…
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CE-II Autumn 2013 Week 3
Hello everyone, Last time I asked you to watch The Story of Bottled Water and answer some questions, relating what you saw in the video with what you have read in your textbook. Here's is an example of a good answer to the first question: Question 1:According to the Story o…
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CE-II Autumn 2013 Week 2
Hello everyone, I hope you stayed inside, stayed safe, and had a nice relaxing "Typhoon Day" yesterday. Today we are going to review the homework about Michael Pritchard and his Life Saver bottle. First, let's study some vocabulary. Please click the link: Cross Cul…
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