English for Activists

Dear All,

Hello. I hope you are well there.
I'm sorry to delay delivering E-news letter.

We had a class on Apr. 6th 2010, we did four activities.

1) Correction
We corrected Seika's E-newsletter which delivered last week.
It was almost perfect, but there are some uncommon phrases for native speakers,
we interchanged some words common expression.

2 )Discussion about the new meeting room
We have to find the new meeting room, which is used, from May 11th,
we discussed about it.
Some people propose some places.
For example, "Yotsuya Hiroba", "YWCA", "Cafe Renoir",

Hi, everyone. This is an e-news letter for the last class on 30th March. I will briefly describe the activities in the class and make small notes of what appeared remarkable to me.

We did three things in the class.

Firstly, we did the correction of the last e-news letter written by Yasu-san. There, Yasu-san detailed the process of Monopoly we played in the class. I thought it amazing that he could represent the process so meticulously, none of which I could recall (perhaps I did not know what was going on, even when I was playing!).

From Yasu-san:

Good evening everybody ! I try to write my home work.

Learning Plan of 3/23
Practice making the sounds and rhythms of English -- It had not done.
Talking about some topics and news -- May be it had not done, too.
Play monopoly -- So good!
Write a short report for the EFA e-newsletter -- Too severe for me, but is fun for me.

Go to dinner and drink -- It warmed up. We wanted to talk each other, but we must roll dice in class, so at tha restaulant we talked and talked, I think.

Hi everyone,
Here is the report of the EFA class on March 13th.

1) Memorizing the members' names
12 people got together including new members. So at first, we repeated each
member's name one by one, and memorized them.

2) Chanting in English.
"Education under attack" "What do you do?" "Stand up! Fight back!"
The key point was to shorten between "do?" and "Stand", like "What do you
dostand up! Fight back"

3) Know each other
In order to know each member's interest and to find out who have the similar
interest of his own, we exchanged own ideas with each other.

SUMMARY/NOTES on planning discussion (from March 9, 2010 class)

Top objectives: Communicate with foreign activists, Participate in discussions at conferences (in English), Learn about people's activism

Our end is to communicate to foreign activists, not ordinary people, about political issues and labor movements and social movements. It's better we can invite some activists from foreign countries but it's a little bit difficult. Instead we can talk about current topics in the class. If we can, we want to debate some issues.

Thanks to Takasu-san, we now have a google group. Please check it out!

http://groups.google.co.jp/group/english-foractvists?hl=ja

(Prepared for the class of English for Activists, 2009/04/14)

by Seika SATO

Nepal at a Glance

• Population: more than 27milion (Kathmandu metropolitan area: far-exceeding a million).
• Area: approximately as big as Kyushu, comprising environmentally diverse area stretching from Hindustan Plane to Mt. Everest.
• Average life expectancy: 61 for men, 62 for women (2003).
• National gross income per person: US$240(2003).
  

Hallo, everyone.　

This is Tsuruta writing, and my "Writing practice"

Please forgive me, becouse, I disturb you, and you have read such a broken English unfoutunetly.

By the way, my Japanese blog is "kyou, kangaeta koto"("That I think, today")
http://tu-ta.at.webry.info/

If you have enough time, Please read this, without expect. (^L^;)

とりあえず、スペルチェックなしで書き込みます。したら、すごいことになりそう。

何か、もう少し内容のあることを書いてみたかったのですが、難しいです。

[This is a corrected version of Maeda-san's presentation about her upcoming trip to Nova Scotia. Good luck on your trip! Please blog about what you see and learn! -- Matt]

Introduction

Hello, everyone.
Thank you giving me time to make this presentation.
Before my presentation, let me introduce myself again.

My name is Kaoru Maeda.
I have been an elected member of the Koto Ward assembly since last year.

I am going to visit Nova-Scotia in Canada from July 29th to August 5th. It is a study tour to learn about their waste/resource management policy.