Final presentation

1. Saki : woman's place
              She made a presentation about woman's social place. At work, women tent to be looked down. In addition, once woman quit her job because of childbirth, it's so difficult for her to return the work place. This is the real situation in Japan. In Japan, there are few women cabinet minister. At home, it's believed that housework and childcare is women's work. So women have to work both at outside and inside of the house. But this situation is gradually changing. The number of stay-at-home-dad. Saki talked us about her uncle and aunt.

2. Ayari : Compromise
               From her experience, she sometimes compromised. She lives with her mother, older brother, her grandparents, so she have to take a bath so fast everyday. It's so stressful because she like take a long bath. But she has to compromise for her family member. At the end of her presentation, she told a definition about compromising. If it's OK for yourself, you should compromise for others. But if it is something most important for you, you should not compromise.

3. Miho : Digital watch and Analog watch
              She really love watch, so she made a presentation about watch. Digital watch is easy to see and suit sports. The visual feature inso needle. Analog watch can change ties and is fashionable. The visual feature is it has about two needles. Miho prefer analog watch. In her presentation, she introduced her 3 favorite watch brands. They are so fashionable!

4. Aya : the problem of abandoned cats
            She has cats at home and really love her cats. She is  animal lovers. The reason why she picked up this topic is she often see abandoned cats near her house. and when she searched about abandoned cats, she found some brutal articles. The most common reason why people abandon their cats is they fed up with caring. Aya said it's unbelievable and people should think cats's lives as human's lives.

5. Kenta : Housework
                His parents are both teachers and they are so busy. It means Kenta has to help his family. He did housework from young age. He think housework is not women's work because of his family life. In fact, in his family, his father made breakfast everyday because his father is good at getting up early. It's so nice. As to Kenta, he did washing clothes and washing bathroom. Thanks to this experience, doing housework is not troublesome for him now.

My presentation : I made a presentation about sharing room. In unit 3, two boys who living together in an apartment argue about the setting temperature of air conditioner. I think about the difficulty of room share. In Japan, the number of young people who wants to share house is so smaller than other countries. I think the result comes from a thought that hate quarelling and making trouble with someone. But if someone share room with others, he should set rules in advance. This is my biggest knowledge about sharing room. For this presentation, I prepared some data and tried speak without watching script. It was so hard and I sometimes stuck in words. I thought I had to practice harder...

my strength and weakness

Yuko's presentation : goals for the future
                                  She wants to get suitable job in the future. The suitable job means comfortable
                                  and light work. She think working too much is not good and showed us a graph
                                  of the number of death from overwork in Japan. She won't work like that. She                
                                  also think communication skill is important. to get the skill, she try to have self-
                                  confidence by doing something new.
                             
Taku's presentation : goals for the future
                                 He has 3 goals. First thing is to improve his English skills. Second is to travel
                                 travel alone. And the last is to be a hotel man and Barista. He talked 3 goals in
                                 order. His presentation was so simple that I din't have trouble to understand his
                                 speaking.

Maco's presentation : strength and weakness
                                  She did a lot of lessons when she was a elementary school student. From each
                                  lessons, she got many things. Especially, from her IKEBANA's experience, she
                                  had an interest with Japanese culture. She think her lots of experience are her
                                  strengths. And also she talked about her present life. 1, having interest which
                                  she've never tried. 2, talking with adults 3, cooking dishes
                                 

Maria's presentation : strength and weakness
                                  Her strong point is being able to get calm and keep trying something till she
                                  achieves. Even if when others are  in panic, she can think or stay in clam.
                                  So she properly act habitually.
                                  Her weakness point is being not able to use time effectively. For example, she
                                  doesn't do her homework until the last minutes.

My presentation : strength and weakness
                             I picked my 2 strong points and 2 weak points. my strengths are being optimist and
                             being not nervous in any situation. I think I have strong heart because I don't care
                             small thing. Even if I heard something bad for me, I don't care, so I can live easily.
                             as to being not nervous, it comes from my experiences. For example, I belonged to
                             track and field club in junior high school and I have to run in front of hundreds of
                             people. It was so nervous. But I think it made me strong. In contrast. my weak
                             points is tend to give up and apathy. I act immediately if I think but I stop it very
                             fast. And I am apathy to everything. I like doing nothing. It make me bad. So I
                             want to improve these points.

Success

 Saki : Her definition of success is making great effort to achieve goal
           an example of success is "the tortoise and the hare"
           Her experience : she had difficulty to pass entrance exam of high school when she was in
           junior high school, but she studied hard everyday and finally passed the exam.

           Her presentation was good because she showed some examples and illustrations. Her
           definition had persuasiveness thanks to her real experience. While she talked, she didn't look
           she was nervous. These were good points.


 Arisa : Her experience→she was not good at math and science and good at English when she was in
            junior high school. So she studied English hard everyday for English examination. It was hard
            for her. But she noticed that making efforts is the most important.
            She introduced us five things to succeed. 1, write a diary 2, meditation 3, control feelings 4,
            having time for myself 5, patience

           Her speaking voice, facial expression, gestures, and speed was ideal.

 Mako : She talked about 3 small goals. Her real experience was so persuasive that I could easily
             understand what she wanted to tell about success. The words "If you want it, keep do it" was
             impressive.
 
            She speak with her self-confidence. Her facial expression and the pronunciation were good.
            But I sometimes couldn't hear what she was saying. So if she speak more slowly, listeners will
            be able to understand her presentation.

 Kenya : First, he said that he is not sure what is success. And he gave us some image of success.
              Success is composed by 4 contents. 1, making efforts 2, sacrifice 3, affection 4, hard working
              He also said "I think success is whether people satisfy with their own lives"

              I thought he is good at making presentation. Because he spoke fluently and made us fun. I
             was absorbed in his presentation.


 Me : this time I notice my weak point that the structure of my presentation is not well-organized.
        maybe listeners are confused. I want to improve my flow of the story.

How I was as a child

  SAKI :  how I was as a child
               When she was young, she was full of energy. and she learned swimming for 5 years. But she
               was nervous when she went to swimming school at first. So except the swimming time, she                
               was cheerful girl. And she learned 3 years.
                Her presentation was interesting and she prepared well. the data made her presentation              
               more good. If she has more gestures, it'll be better!


  AYA :  1. some rules in her house
              Her mother was so strict and she had severe curfew. And she did household work. It helps  
              her now.
              2. what she liked and what she likes now
              She liked playing outside and "SEIRA-MUUN" in Japanese. And she like English now. She        
              wants to be English teacher.
              When she made a presentation, her facial expression was good and made good eye contact.
              So I could enjoy listening.
 
KENYA : He was born in Kagoshima and was noisy boy. He said himself very cute. I thought it's  
               true. When he was second grade in elementary school, he got DS. Playing it made his eyes
               bad. He took an entrance examination oh junior high school.
              When he took an presentation, he looked fun. His voice and gestures were good. I want to
               listen again.

 KAKERU : when he was as a child
                He was  rush so he got a lot of injuries. In elementary school, he had an accident. So he      
                rode an ambulance twice. He was absorbed in reading Manga.
                I thought he is good at take an eye contact and make gesture. His speaking voice and speed
                is good for me to listening. If he prepared more, it'll be better.

 MACO :  how she changed
                 She learned piano. She liked playing piano and played Bach when she was a junior high
                school student. And she introduced us books and words she likes. By them, she was
                encouraged many times.
                she prepared well and was good at speaking. and took eye contacts many times. Her
                presentation style is good!


 MYSELF : I prepared some papers and documents. But I think, I concentrated to reading word, so
                   didn't take eye contacts with listeners. It was my introspection point.

best friends

   Yukiko

She defined three definitions of best friends. 1, relationship that we can help each other. 2, understanding relationship. 3, relationship that we can live together.


   Yuri

The terms to be a best friend
1, person who understand and accept you. 2, the person who can scold you when you have done what not to. 3, the person who be able to talk about from good news to bad one.

   Taisei

He gave us five questions. 1, can you call best friend after long time? 2, can you give severe advice to best friend? 3, can you spend a long time with best friend? 4, do you mind causing troubles for him/her? 5, do you think you can get along with him/her any life stages?

   Satoru

He introduced us his best friend named Masafumi. Masafumi's personality matched Satoru's it.
He also defined two definitions of best friend. 1, the person can scold you. 2, the person can accept you.


All of them prepared well for their presentation so I easily understand what they want to tell me. I want to apprentice them.