Impt! Please read through this:
Date: Tuesday 1st March 2005
Time: 4.00.pm (or 4.30.) to. 6.30.pm
Venue: Waseda Shibuya Senior High School (Rooms 31 and 32)
Aim: to promote cultural interchange between our Japanese students and their visitors and to make both sides aware of the joys and difficulties of learning a new language. Talks or presentations to centre on culture of the different groups, followed up by language games to encourage Waseda students and their guests to talk to each other in English and Japanese, at all levels of language ability.
Programme:
(1) The topic of the students of Waseda Shibuya Senior High School
Topic/Theme: Places and Culture - Past &/or Present:
“Where would you take me if I went to Japan?”
“What would you show me?”
Waseda Students present to visitors places or activities of interest in Japan in terms of :
Nature, History or Religious Importance,
Cultural experiences (e.g. hot spring baths etc.)
Food and Fashion (what is unique to a region where possible)
Festival of that region (when to go, what you will find etc.)
NOTE: the topics chosen may include cultural aspects of past and/or present-day Japan
(2) The topic of the guests (that’s US!!)
Topic/Theme: Places and Culture - Past &/or Present:
“Where would you take me if I went to Singapore?”
“What would you show me?”
The guests present to visitors places or activities of interest in Singapore in terms of :
Nature, History or Religious Importance,
Cultural experiences (e.g. hot spring baths etc.)
Food and Fashion (what is unique to a region where possible)
Festival of that region (when to go, what you will find etc.)
NOTE: the topics chosen may include cultural aspects of past and/or present-day Singapore
Students in Waseda Shibuya Senior High School will be divided according to Level and will work in classes, but may choose one or several topics per class. The students will choose the topics.
Groups/levels will focus primarily, but not exclusively, on a region:
Yokohama-Tokyo - Advanced
Hokkaido - Standard
Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe - Basic
After that guest will present.
Rough Guideline of the Day
4.30. to 5.30.pm:
Welcome speech, Presentations
Presentations (in English) will take about ten minutes per Level (1/2 hour for Waseda) and ½ hour for the visitors (in Japanese if they are learning the language). After each Waseda group presentation, visitors will be invited to ask a question in Japanese. Waseda students will try to answer in English.
5.30. to 6.30.pm
Snack
Interactive language games
Closing speech
Clear up
NOTE: Visitors will be invited to apply the same theme: Places and Culture - Where would you choose to take me in Singapore? What would you show me? Visitors can deliver speeches in Japanese at all levels of ability.
The Singaporean participants are encouraged to use Japanese at this forum, but not compulsory.
