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標準受講期間中16週で16回です。
標準学習期間:4か月 レベル:TOEIC 800~ (CEFR C1 レベル)
インプットとアウトプットが効果的に連動している講座です。
Eラーニング(知識)+添削指導(実践)+Skype英会話 (実践)のサイクルを16回行います。
Lesson | Lesson Topic | Reading 1,2 | Usage Notes | Assignment Part 1, 2 |
Online Conversation Topic |
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1 | Dating and relationships (デートそして恋愛関係) |
Asian women put off marriage | Likes, dislikes and preference (Likes, dislikes and preferenceの使い分け) |
Bridging the Pacific | Dating and relationships |
Marriage in Japan: from arranged meetings to love marriages | What’s your opinion? -- Dating and relationships | ||||
2 | The Roles of Husbands and Wives (夫と妻の役割) |
I take thee for weekends only | Advice and obligations (助言や義務を表現する) |
This isn’t as easy as it looks | The roles of husbands and wives |
Learning to be a dad | What’s your opinion? -- The roles of husbands and wives | ||||
3 | Pressure in Education (教育におけるプレッシャー) |
Nation’s education system is under examination | Talking about the past (過去について話す) |
Where summer vacation means more work | Pressure in education |
Cautious generation Y disappoints Japan’s bosses | What’s your opinion? -- The Japanese system | ||||
4 | University Education in Japan (日本の大学教育) |
A wide variety of choices | Expressing regret(後悔を表現する) | Professor’s interview | Problems in the Japanese education system |
Universities are for students, not administrators | What’s your opinion? -- The Japanese university system | ||||
5 | Gambling – the lighter side (ギャンブルー良い点) |
Do urban casinos create positive effects on neighboring communities? | Conditional sentences 1 (条件文1) |
Why do we enjoy gambling | Legalized forms of gambling in Japan |
Winning the lottery is like an earthquake | What’s your opinion? -- How does money affect people’s lives? | ||||
6 | Gambling – the darker side (ギャンブルー悪い点) |
Lottery winners have sad accounts | Conditional sentences 2 (仮定法) |
Do I have a problem? | Problems associated with gambling |
Addictions to gambling on the rise | What’s your opinion? -- Gambling | ||||
7 | Technology and You(テクノロジーとあなたの関わり) | How technology feeds our neuroses | Wishes and Hopes(wishとhopeの使い分け) | How technology has changed my life | Technology and me |
Love online | Technology and Me | ||||
8 | Review Lessons 1 – 7 (復習) |
Learning second language may delay dementia, Scottish study finds | Q&A | ||
About my language learning | |||||
9 | Technology and Society (テクノロジーと社会の関わり) |
Technology and its negative consequences | Speculation (推測) |
Give your opinion | The social implications of technology |
Ethics of Genetic Engineering | Technology and society | ||||
10 | Working Men (働く男性) |
Japan’s salarymen learn to save in tight economy | Talking about the future 1 (未来のことをを表現する−1) |
The agony of a salaryman | Issues in the working environment in Japan |
Sometimes you have to take a chance | The working environment in Japan | ||||
11 | Working Women(働く女性) | Asian women prefer work to boyfriends survey shows | Talking about the future 2 (未来のことをを表現する−2) |
Working mothers’ woes | Women”s role in the workplace |
Women in management: delusions of progress | Working women in Japan | ||||
12 | Pop Culture (大衆文化) |
Cultural integration and the anime boom in America | Reported speech 1(間接話法−1) | Mass media and popular culture | Discuss an aspect of pop culture important to you |
Nasty games do make nasty children | Pop culture | ||||
13 | What’s important to you? (あなたにとって大切なものとは?) |
What your wishes say about you | Reported speech 2(間接話法−2) | From opera to vegetables | What’s important in your life? |
Finding a hobby today makes boring life go away | What is important to you (or the society)? | ||||
14 | Environmental Issues 1 (環境問題1) |
Local residents say waste not want not | Conjunctions(接続詞) | Recycling basics | We should take care of the environment. Discuss. |
Types of renewable energy | Why we must save the environment. | ||||
15 | Environmental Issues 2 (環境問題2) |
The Debate Over Climate Change: It's not happening | Sounding more natural (より自然な表現) |
Dear EarthTalk Recycling not worth it(Dear Earth Talk | The earth can take care of itself. Discuss. |
Earth can take care of itself | Alternative energy sources a waste of time | ||||
16 | Review Lessons 9 – 15 (復習) |
Bilingualism is good for brains | Q&A | ||
You can never finish learning. |