English Education Center NEWSLETTEROCTOBER,OCTOBER, 2008
◇ ALC NET ACADEMY WAS UPGRADED◇ THE SELF-LEARNING SYSTEM ROOM WILL CLOSE◇ INTRODUCTION OF A NEW LECTURER◇ MEMORIES OF MY SUMMER VACATION◇ TALK!TALK!TALK!PROGRAM WILL START SOON
◇ REPORT FROM AN S3 CLASS◇ INFORMATIONALC Net Academy was upgraded!
You can access to ALC Net Academy2 outside the university!
On campus

http://alc2serv.eec.ehime-u.ac.jp/anet2/

Off campus

https://alc2serv.eec.ehime-u.ac.jp/anet2/

We have upgraded the ALC Net Academy so that it correspondsto the new TOEIC test. This system is an effective way for

Report from an S3 class
We have four different type S3 classes for students whowant to study more practical English. Let’s see one of them!
TEACHER：TEACHER：Tzehaie Ogbamichael
THEME：
THEME：Business English

Class Contentsstudents who want to try to take the TOEIC.

The aim of this course is to prepare students who plan toIn addition, there are two more courses for medical andwork in the business field. In addition to learning how toengineering students to learn science technical and medical

compose e-mails, faxes, letters and reports, if students areEnglish.

ambitious,

Why don’t you try to improve yourEnglish skills anywhere and anytime?

wemayevencoverbasic

exercises

innegotiation, presentation and research. Students are also
advised to read the newspaper and discuss business topics
in class. Upon completion of this course students should be

Self-Learning system room will close
The Self-Learning System room on the 3rd floor will close fromable to transact business in English with little problem.

Comment From a StudentNov. 7th due to renovation. It will newly open on the 2nd floor

Tzehaie's English S3 is a really exciting, intelligent andin April.

high-quality class. I wasn't interested in business or politics
before, but now, reading a newspaper is my daily routine!!

Talk! Talk! Talk! program will start soon!

One more important thing I got from this class isCOURAGE. Students are demanded to talk in class. LittleThis program will start from Nov. 12th. Students can takeby little, I am learning to speak without fearing making

30-minute conversation lessons with a native speaker. You canmistakes, because the instructor and my classmates alwayschoose from various topics and timetables. You can choose aslisten carefully. I'm sure my English skill will improve andfollows:

I'll like English more. Thank you, Tzehaie and S3Speaking
How to order in a fast food restaurantExpression and phrases on the phone
etc.
ListeningFamiliar topics in daily life
Announcements made in public placesetc.

members!!!

Little by little one goes far!

Introduction of new books
New books have arrived at the Student

SCHEDULE

Support Room! Why don’t you check themMondayTuesday
WednesdayThursdayFridayWillem de Goei
Soren Kerr
Adam Serag
Soren Kerr
Sam Barclay
Willem de Goei
Kevin Chavis

12:50 － 13:20
15:30 － 16:00
16:30 － 17:00
10:30 － 11:00
15:00 － 15:30
16:30 － 17:00
10:30 － 11:00

out? There are about 1000 books thatstudents can borrow. There are various
types of books that will satisfy your curiosity, such as
Manga (Cartoons). Manga, which you might have read
during your childhood, is easy to understand and will be
helpful for learning basic and useful phrases. There are

Please come to the EEC office to sign up!

DVDs that you can watch in the room as well.

Introduction of a new lecture

Memories of my Summer Vacation

My name is Adam and my hometown isKanako

Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. QueenslandisastateofAustralia,

occupying

Katayama

thenorth-eastern corner of the mainland continent.
It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, SouthAustralia to the south-west and New South Wales to thesouth. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea
and Pacific Ocean. The state is Australia's second largest byarea, following Western Australia, and the country's third
most populous after New South Wales and Victoria. Brisbane
in the Australian state of Queensland is the third mostpopulous city in Australia.
I have been living in Japan for almost 6 years working
towards my PhD in Computer Science at Kagoshima
University and teaching English at the faculty of medicine
and various English schools. I just arrived last week here inMatsuyama and started my new job at Ehime University.
I am committed to education as a lecturer and researcher.
My primary research interest is the development ofcomputational models of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and thetechnologies used in Computer-assisted language learning(CALL) instruction including software and Internet-basedactivities.
I enjoy water activities and surfing, bush walking, social
mountain biking, traveling, jogging, and reading. I love
Japanese food and culture so much so that I think I wasJapanese in a previous life!

Last August, we had a really hot worldwide event inMatsuyama here. Who had expected we would have
“WORLD CUP” in this kind of rural area?! For myself who
have played baseball for 10 years, I had just beenenthusiastic. As the national softball team got the victory
just before it, it was also right on the charts then. I guess
you also heard about it everyday on the local news or evennationwide one. Did you go to Botchan stadium and seesome of it or passionately all of it? I hope you did andenjoyed it. They must have done theirbest. I also did my best there as the
only local volunteer interpreter. The
world cup gave not only the mostbrilliant gold medal to JAPAN, but
valuable memories to me. From theearly morning to the midnight, I helped 14 umpires, TCsandscorers

eachothernot

onlyoninterpreting but on office work and negotiating. Those
people were from all over the world. We always
communicated in English. Each English had an original
accent, pronunciation and dialect. We Japanese had to getused to all of them and occasionally guess non-native poor
English. For me, the most difficult was I had to interpret
variousInformation

communicate

spokenEnglishintohonorific

Japanesesimultaneously. It was more difficult than doing Japanese
into honorific English. I had helped so many foreigners
understand Japanese and did Japanese tell what they

GTEC TEST will be held on Dec. 4th, Thursday. First-year

wanted to tell their selves. But I had never tried thatstudents must take this test. If you get a high score on theSIMULTANEOUSLY. I couldn’t help being ashamed myself.

GTEC, you can apply for English credit exemptions. Details

What helped me was the kindness of everyone’s trying towill be put up on the notice board at the end of the second

understand my poor interpretation. That really made mysemester, so please have a look and remember to apply fordays. I’m proud of what we did there. Seriously, that madeit.

it a success. Keeping in touch with them even now is what
motivates me up. Next is international universities’
ENGLISH GANG is a reading group for enthusiastic

baseball tournament. Hope to work there with some of you.

English learners. Members study the NHK radio program
called “Let's Practice” during lunch break every Friday.
Come and join us!
The EEC Office will move in the end of November to a

new office on the 2nd floor.

Please come and see meto the new EEC office!!

ENGLISH EDUCATION CENTER
2nd floor, General Education Main Building,
3 BunkyoBunkyo-cho, Matsuyama
089--927927--8340
Tel / Fax : 089
eec_jimu@eec.ehime--u.ac.jp
Mail : eec_jimu@eec.ehime
http://web.eec.ehime--u.ac.jp/
HP : http://web.eec.ehime