Category: Moodle Fall21

Aim: Topic video. Select your topic carefully. Read the information below to make your video presentation. Follow these steps (in order):

TOPICS

1. Japanese Food
2. Traditional clothing and uniforms in Japan
3. Famous sights in prefectures (select one prefecture – different sights)
4. Japanese history (select your favorite era or period of time)
5. NEW* Compare Japanese ___________ with the past and now (select a topic)

VIDEO OBJECTIVE

Your objective is to make a video about 1 topic:

• Title slide – create a slide to say why you selected this topic
• provide 2 slides with information – select your (FOI – research) information (your choice)
• make a personal information slide (different than research) and focus on i)experiences, ii)your opinions, and iii)give examples
• make a slide to give foreigners specific details that might interest them
• Zoom class 24th: Find a website (A) in English to recommend to a foreigner to read about your topic – explain the information (20 words); add the URL link to the slide
• Zoom class 24th: Find a website (B) in English to recommend to a foreigner to read about your topic – explain the information (20 words); add the URL link to the slide
• Reference slide – to track your researched information

Aim 1: To practice presenting

Method: Instructions will be given in class

Steps: Follow these steps:

• Present your Presentation 2 times in class – to another student
• First Practice; then present to each other
• Listen to the speech; and observe (look at) the slides
• Use the PowerPoint Play function to present your slides in full screen

Aim 2: To record your presentation and submit a) YouTube Video, and b) PDF (save your PowerPoint as a portable document file) and upload.

Method: Self record your presentation, record using your smartphone; see steps below:

• read your slides
• hold your smartphone (arms length)
• speak loudly – mask off; please record in a quiet and private place

Submit to the Gandai Online portal link

Aim: To learn about Microsoft Word and how to convert to PDF. Follow the steps below: There are 4 steps.

Method: Create a new Word Document and save the file as student number_W2

1. Title: What is PDF? (10-20 words) and research in English using Google.com.

2. Watch the video and complete the exercise below. The time of the video is given in order presented in the video. Copy the Title and paste 1 to 11 into your Word document.

Title: How to Convert Word to PDF (0:00 to 2:35)

1. 0:47 What kind of Word document is it?
2. 1:00 Its extremely ____________________ (complete this sentence)
3. 1:02 What do you do first?
4. 1:05 Then we are going ____________________ (complete this sentence)
5. 1:17 What does he mean by default?
6. 1:20 What is the Word file format?
7. 1:26 What is under the File name?
8. 1:40 What are the three options he (Kevin) gives to save?
9. 1:54 Is the file type “dot” “PDF” or (.pdf) ? Yes or No
10. 2:13 Does he select any PDF options or does he save the default PDF?
11. 2:22 What does the standard PDF match?

Answers:

3.Title: Summary: Write a short summary about the video (35-50words).

4. Title: My say

1. Explain when you have used PDF
2. What ‘important point’ did you lean about Word document and PDF today?
3. Give your opinion about using PDF at university and in your future work or job.

• write 100 words
• check your grammar
• check your spelling
• 5%

*You will loose marks for not answering the question, and writing less than 100words.

Submit into the Gandai course. Save your word document as a PDF and upload into Week 2: Wedp2

Aim: Watch this video. Prepare a short report about your impression of this video

Definition: Oxford dictionary (2020): Impression: “an idea, feeling, or opinion about something or someone, esp. one formed without conscious thought or on the basis of little evidence“

Method: PowerPoint and speaking activities

Language objectives:

• Title: My impression
• I am impressed by __________ . (20 words)
• My favorite scene was __________ because __________ . (20 words)
• I want to travel to __________ in the future because __________ . (20 words)

Template: see below My Impression

Video:

Criteria: An outline to check you have completed the activity correctly;

• you need 4 slides
• you also need to write 20 of your own words – finish for homework
• practice your speaking; check you can say clearly your speech – for example pronunciation
• in the next class please read your final My Impression to your partner (s)

Submit to the Gandai course