English Education Center NEWSLETTEROCTOBER,OCTOBER, 2006

◇ NEW S3 CLASSES START◇ INTRODUCTION OF NEW FACULTY◇ SUMMER VACATION MEMORIES◇ WHERE ARE YOU FROM?

◇ MANY BOOKS ARE WAITING FOR YOU◇ “ENJOY ENGLISH” WILL START SOON◇ QUIZ◇ INFORMATION FROM ENGLISH GANGNEW S3 CLASSES STARTINTRODUCTION OF NEW FACULTYGood news for students who want to study more!

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Canada Inside OutNicholas Travers
TUESDAY 5 Classroom M31

Associate Professor
TOMOHITO HIROMORIHello! I’m very happy at the prospect of working at Ehime
University. My name is Tomohito Hiromori. I’m from
Hokkaido and I have lived there all my life. Although I’m

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Exploring English Media
Iain Campbell
THURSDAY 2 Classroom L12very surprised at the summer heat here I love Matsuyama,
especially the food and the people! I hope I can contribute tothe development of English education in this university. I’mreally looking forward to working with the staff and studying

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TOEIC; TOEFL Ron Murphy
FRIDAY 2Classroom M12

with the students!

M: KYOTSUKYOIKU HONKAN

You can come to each classroom
directly on the first day.

L: KYOTSUKYOIKU KOGITOU“ENJOY ENGLISH” WILL START SOON
The ENJOY ENGLISH program will be announced in the

MANY BOOKS ARE WAITING FOR YOU

middle of October. There will be “EIGO GAKUSHU ”COURSES
and “TALK! TALK! TALK!” COURSES. You can both brush up

Many books can be borrowed from the Student SupportRoom. They are“GRADED READERS” which

are different levels of difficulty.

on your English skills and enjoy English culture from thisunique and wonderful program.

“EIGO GAKUSHU” COURSE
New courses will be ready for you.

Come and find books
you are interested in!

“TALK! TALK! TALK!”COURSE
Students can take 30-minuteconversation lessons with up to five members.

Students can enjoy watching DVDs, using English
computer software and looking at English reference booksin the STUDENT SUPPORT ROOM, which is next to theEnglish Education Center office on the second floor ofKYOTSUKYOIKU HONKAN.

Look at the bulletin board in KOGITOU
1F or in front of the English Education
Center for regular updates. You needto sign up each class.

Kurt

Hi everybody, and welcome back to classes! I hope you hada fun and relaxing summer holiday. Because I'm new to thiscountry, I spent my summer break getting to know Japan. I love

Santa Barbara

in CALIFORNIA

From Associate Professor Mark Stafford

cycling, so I decided to travel by bicycle. I toured around Kyushu,Shikoku, Chugoku and Hokkaido. It was a lot of fun. I met somegreat people, saw beautiful sights, ate lots of delicious Japanesefood and soaked in an ocean almost every night- fantastic! One of
the highlights of my holiday was a short backpacking trip inBecause people in The U.S.A. often move from place to place, they

Daisetsuzan

beautiful

don’t really have the concept of “JIKKA” that Japanese people

mountains, abundant wildlife, fresh air and chilly nights

have. Since the U.S.A. is such a new country, we don’t have thereminded me of Canada. I'm looking forward to more travel inhistorical attachment to an ancestral land that the Japanese haveJapan in the future!

had for hundreds, if not thousands, of years ago. Instead, we might

NationalParkinHokkaido.

TheBy Kurt Goltz

have a more emotional attachment to one of the places where wehave lived in the past. For example, I was born in Ventura,
Bruce

Welcome back to the new semester, I hope you have all had

a great summer break and you have seen and been to many
interesting places. When I was a student I had long summer
holidays just like you so every year I would go traveling to adifferent country. As you are students you have long holidays
and can avoid the most expensive times of year to travel.

Ilearnt so much traveling, saw so many great places and met somany fantastic people some of which are still my friends today.
This summer I went back to Scotland to see my family and wentsightseeing in Italy and London. Traveling can teach you much
more than you can ever learn at university, so don’t waste yourtime playing games or reading manga; get a part time job andsave for next summer’s trip, just remember this, you will never
have such long holidays again.
ScotlandBy Bruce Lander
Torre di Pisa
in Italy

California, but I have also lived in Fillmore, Carpentaria, Saticoy,Goleta, Berkeley, and Thousand Oaks. However, because of thegreat memories I have of Santa Barbara, California and its natural
beauty, I consider it my hometown.
Santa Barbara is located on
the Southern Pacific Coast about
125km north of Los Angeles, and about 450km from San
Francisco. Like many locations in California it has a Spanish
name because it used to be part of the Spanish colonies. That is
not all, though. The city has made a strong effort to preserve theSpanish architecture, which shows in the many white-walledbuildings with red tile roofs. There is even a yearly festivalcalled the Old Spanish Days Fiesta where there are parades,concerts, dances and markets that recall how life used to be longago. In modern Santa Barbara, however, it is mostly thefantastic weather and the beautiful natural environment withthe sea on one side and mountains on the other that attracts
most visitors. People enjoy outdoor sports such as hiking,fishing, surfing, and SCUBA diving, but the most popular
pastime is just lying on the beach. It is such a nice place thateven though my family no longer lives there, I go back to my“hometown” whenever I visit the U.S.A. Oh, did I mention thatFill in the blanks.
1. Don’t pull my (). = Don’t be kidding.

2. I pay through the () to buy a car. = muchyou can often see movie stars who have made Santa Barbara
their second home such as KARUIZAWA in Japan?

money
3. It’s pain in the (). = too troublesome

4. Let’s play it by (). = Anyway let’s do it.

5.He got cold () before getting married. = didn’t gothrough the plan because of fear.

EHIME UNIVERSITY
A201, 2nd floor, General Education Main Building
3 BunkyoBunkyo-cho, Matsuyama

INFORMATION FROM ENGLISH GANG

TEL/FAX: 089089-927927-8340

We are reading aloud the NHK Radio English Conversation

MAIL: eec_jimu@eec.ehimeeec_jimu@eec.ehime-u.ac.jp

Program “Let’s Practice” during the lunch break on Fridays.

http://web.eec.ehimehttp://web.eec.ehime-u.ac.jp/u.ac.jp/

Office Hours:

8:30~17:00