NEWSLETTER
English Education Center

NOVEMBER, 2010

■ “Talk! Talk! Talk!” Starts!

■ “English Education Reform Seminar””■ “Yarinaoshi Eigo Juku”■ Take a Glance at the Student Self-learning Room

“Talk! Talk! Talk!”” Starts!

“Yarinaoshi Eigo Juku ““Talk! Talk! Talk!” program started on November 1th.

Do you like English? “Yarinaoshi Eigo Juku” is provided for

Do you know what “Talk! Talk! Talk!” is? It is a free English

students who are struggling with English. In this class you canconversation class. You can enjoy talking with native speakers

learn basics of English grammar. This class is taught inof English. It is a good opportunity to speak English and makeJAPANESE, so don’t worry. If you would like to brush up yourfriends. Sign up, and you can enjoy talking in English!

English, why don’t you come to the EEC office and apply forthis class?

: From Nov 1st To Feb 9th
At Student Chat Room1
Application : Sign-up at the EEC office beforehand
Schedule

Schedule: 17:00-18:00 Every Tuesday
At Lecture Building #23
Application : Sign-up at the EEC officeEnglish Education Reform Seminar
Have you ever heard “English Rakugo”? On September 25th, we had a seminar of “English Rakugo”(or rakugo in English) at Aidai Muse as a part of our significant annual activities in EEC, welcomed
Associate Prof. Kimie Oshima of Bunkyo University as a plenary speaker, who is also famous for aprofessional “English Rakugo” performer in Japan, and enjoyed her lecture, including her rakugo
performance in English, and workshop with the audience.
In the morning session, Oshima sensei gave us a lecture on the reason why “English Rakugo” can be understood in the foreigncountries, the characteristics of “English Rakugo”, and the difference between the original (or traditional) Japanese rakugo andrakugo in English. Next, just after her plenary talk, Oshima sensei changed her clothes to kimono and showed us her exciting
performance of “English Rakugo” in front of us! The endai (enmoku), the topic or theme of the title, was “Zoo”. Her way of talking was
really attractive and all of us were carried away by her performance.
In the afternoon session, we had a workshop of practicing rakugo in English. The attendee included not only English teachers but also
our students in Ehime University and the general public. We all enjoyed practicing and performing their rakugo and Kobanashi (ashort version of rakugo).
Through this seminar, we found the possibility of installing rakugo in English to our English program especially as a part of thesubjects in English Professional course and motivating our students to use English in a “real” situation for introducing our culture.
From Akira Nakayama

The Student SelfSelf-learning Roomis located on the 2nd floor in Aidai-Muse building. Items and materials available are as follows:【 BOOKS 】
You can read and borrow over 2,000 English books, and paperbacks.
All books are categorized by the reading level. The level indicates how many headwords(number of vocabulary) you can read in each book. Use the chart below to select books.

Book level by color
EASY【 NEWSPAPER】

・International Herald Tribune

MEDIUM

・The Daily Yomiuri
・Asahi Weekly

HARD

purplered
yellow
green
bluepink
white

200 headwords
300-400 headwords
600-800 headwords
1000-1400 headwords
1400-1800 headwords
1800-2300 headwords
2500-3800 headwords【 SOFTWARE and DVDS 】
Why don’t you study English by watching English movies? Wehave a wide selection of DVD movies such as love stories, action
movies, or comedies. You can use also CD players to practice yourlistening skills.

The EEC staff always help you and support your study.
Have fun! Let’s study English!

“English Gang” is waiting for you!
We are reading English
conversation skits in a group.

Activity schedule: 12:30-13:00 every Friday
at the Student Chat Room(2nd floor, Aidai Muse)All students and staff members ofthe Univ. can join.

EHIME UNIVERSITYENGLISH EDUCATION CENTER

2nd floor, Aidai Muse, 3 Bunkyo-cho, Matsuyama
TEL: 089-927-8340 E-mail: eec_jimu@eec.ehime-u.ac.jp HP: http://web.eec.ehime-u.ac.jp/