Reading & Writing Strategies A

This course will offer students an opportunity to develop their English reading comprehension skills and basic process writing skills focusing on topics related to business, economics and information technology. It will require students to read and discuss various topics in the course textbooks. In addition, students will be required to write essays on related topics. A wide variety of reading and writing tasks will be presented to provide a stimulating learning, to develop practical skills that can be utilized in a work environment, and to build business and economics vocabulary.

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R&WS-A F03 (04/21)
  1. Announcements
  2. Unit 1: Finding the ideal job (unit 01 worksheet c; unit 01 worksheet d)
    • Focus on writing (cont’d)
      • final writing task
        • revise: adding supporting sentences
        • peer review
        • edit: writing the final draft
  3. Unit 2: Creative thinking (unit 02 worksheet a)
    • Focus on the topic
    • Focus on reading (reading one)
  4. Announcements/Homework
    • Before next class:
      • Read the article Can we teach creative thinking in schools? (pp. 30-31) again, and do the details activity (p. 32). Write your answers directly on the textbook.
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R&WS-A W02 (04/19)
  1. Announcements
  2. Unit 1: Finding the ideal job (unit 01 worksheet c; unit 01 worksheet d)
    • Homework review
    • Focus on writing
      • vocabulary
      • grammar
      • final writing task
  3. Announcements/Homework
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R&WS-A F02 (04/14)
  1. Announcements
  2. Unit 1: Finding the ideal job (unit 01 worksheet a; unit 01 worksheet b)
    • Focus on reading (reading one) continued
    • Video
    • Focus on reading (reading two)
    • Connect the readings
  3. Announcements/Homework
    • Before next class:
      • Do the vocabulary activities (pp. 15-16). Write your answers on the textbook.
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R&WS-A W01 (04/12)
  1. Announcements
  2. Unit 1: Finding the ideal job (unit 01 worksheet a)
    • Focus on the topic
    • Focus on reading (reading one)
  3. Announcements/Homework
    • Before next class:
      • Read the article Finding the ideal job (pp. 6-7) again, and do the details activity (p. 8). Write your answers directly on the textbook.
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R&WS-A F01 (04/07)
  1. Announcements
  2. Overview of the course (syllabus)
  3. Introducing the class web site
    • Announcements are posted here.
    • You can download handouts here.
    • Most of the handouts are password-protected.
  4. G-Plus/GOALS/Gmail
  5. Instructor’s self-introduction
  6. Self-introduction (self-introduction form)
  7. Announcements/Homework
    • Join the LINE group.
    • Have a quick look at the textbook. 目次をチェックしたり、それぞれのユニットがどのような流れになっているかを確認したりしておいてください。
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