Power of Reading

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英語習得

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Reading Scores in South Africa

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英語科目、再履修の学生

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D. Please summarize with your friends what I have said up to this point. (答えは日本語で書いてもいいです。）

1. What information have you learned?

2. What has been the main point?

3. What do you think? What is your idea? Do you have any questions?

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Students who develop the habit of reading books on their own

Such students do extracurricular reading

履修科目の勉強とは関係が全くない読書

HIGHER TOEFL SCORES

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Language Complexity

Language is too complex to learn one word or one rule at a time　

Words have many nuances

Learning vocabulary　from a list is not effective　

言語は限りなく複雑であること

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How do you say “椅子” in English?

Is this a chair?

No, it’s not a chair; it’s a stool.

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going to do　＝　するつもり

I’m going to visit my niece.

When he finds out, he’s going to be angry.

Tomorrow, it’s going to rain.

When is the train going to come?

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These are some other words that have different nuances in Japanese and in English

woman

lie

fat

home (not house)

E.

What words or grammar can you think of that is different in English and Japanese?

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Who are these two people?

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The Story of Malcolm X

Only went to school to the 8th Grade (the 2nd year of Middle School)

Began to read while he was in prison

Became a very eloquent （雄弁な）speaker

Wrote a famous autobiography（自叙伝）