Saturday morning starting at 10:30, was my private lesson with the 8 year old girl, who really tries to speak English at every moment during her lessons.
What a pleasure this is for her, and me as well. Today, we used some hand written cards that I made many years ago, to learn words of opposite meaning, ANTONYMS 反意語.
Words such as HOT and COLD, LONG and SHORT, DEEP and SHALLOW, etc. Not only did she learn all of the words, but she used her imagination in coming up with short sentences, that use both words in a meaningful way.
For example, The ocean is DEEP but small rivers are SHALLOW.
Girls have LONG hair, but boys have SHORT hair (not always).
Summer is HOT and WINTER is cold in Hokkaido. And so on and so forth.
It was a very interesting lesson for both her and myself, and when her mother came by my classroom at 11:30 to pick her daughter up, the eight years old girl was surprised to see that ONE HOUR had already passed by, like it was just one wrinkle in time.
The rest of the day I spent watching some interesting BBC documentaries on YOU TUBE, and also playing my black Fender Stratocaster Electric Guitar, UNPLUGGED while listening to some of my favorite POP ROCK CDs on the music player.
It is overcast and rainy today, and not a nice day to be out and around, unless you absolutely have to be.
On Sunday morning, I woke up at about 07:00 and noticed immediately, that it was going to be very hot and humid today.
Yesterday's rain and today's sunny weather were combining to create that heavy, sticky and hot air, which really takes the fight out of me.
Time to close off all the windows, and turn on the cooler.
I have a big job to do today, and you can see what that job was in today's blog photo.
Yep! That's right, A3 sized full color laminated presentation cards, designed to go along with that very well known CHILDREN'S SONG; Mary had a Little Lamb.
What a classic! And so easy for even 3 year olds to understand.
Not only do the words of the song appear on the back of each picture card in both English and Japanese, but I also made three A4 sized handouts, which the kindergarten teachers can use to teach the kids the lyrics, in both English and Japanese.
The entire job took me about 5 hours to complete.
Well worth the effort as I will be using these cards and my acoustic guitar tomorrow morning at めばえ幼稚園 and many more times after that, at various gigs.
FUN FOR HIRE!!! Have Car and Guitar. Will Travel.
What a pleasure this is for her, and me as well. Today, we used some hand written cards that I made many years ago, to learn words of opposite meaning, ANTONYMS 反意語.
Words such as HOT and COLD, LONG and SHORT, DEEP and SHALLOW, etc. Not only did she learn all of the words, but she used her imagination in coming up with short sentences, that use both words in a meaningful way.
For example, The ocean is DEEP but small rivers are SHALLOW.
Girls have LONG hair, but boys have SHORT hair (not always).
Summer is HOT and WINTER is cold in Hokkaido. And so on and so forth.
It was a very interesting lesson for both her and myself, and when her mother came by my classroom at 11:30 to pick her daughter up, the eight years old girl was surprised to see that ONE HOUR had already passed by, like it was just one wrinkle in time.
The rest of the day I spent watching some interesting BBC documentaries on YOU TUBE, and also playing my black Fender Stratocaster Electric Guitar, UNPLUGGED while listening to some of my favorite POP ROCK CDs on the music player.
It is overcast and rainy today, and not a nice day to be out and around, unless you absolutely have to be.
On Sunday morning, I woke up at about 07:00 and noticed immediately, that it was going to be very hot and humid today.
Yesterday's rain and today's sunny weather were combining to create that heavy, sticky and hot air, which really takes the fight out of me.
Time to close off all the windows, and turn on the cooler.
I have a big job to do today, and you can see what that job was in today's blog photo.
Yep! That's right, A3 sized full color laminated presentation cards, designed to go along with that very well known CHILDREN'S SONG; Mary had a Little Lamb.
What a classic! And so easy for even 3 year olds to understand.
Not only do the words of the song appear on the back of each picture card in both English and Japanese, but I also made three A4 sized handouts, which the kindergarten teachers can use to teach the kids the lyrics, in both English and Japanese.
The entire job took me about 5 hours to complete.
Well worth the effort as I will be using these cards and my acoustic guitar tomorrow morning at めばえ幼稚園 and many more times after that, at various gigs.
FUN FOR HIRE!!! Have Car and Guitar. Will Travel.
