Reflection

This course was a little bit hard for me because I have not made slides and speech for presentations. Moreover I am so shy so I was worried about doing presentation. But I experienced doing presentation, I could have confidence that I speak in flont of people.

Making presentation slides was difficult because I had to think about many things for instance, its design like put pictures or photos, and easy for classmates and teacher too see slides.
I like slides of Interesting Place in Nagoya because I could enjoy making this slides. While I don't like slides of Festival because that was too simple. I didn't realize importace of slides when I made the slides.

Writting speech for presentation was good training for my writting skill. I realized my fault. My speech is too long for 2 minutes. I am not good at summary. However thanks to this cource, I have come to give a lot of care to grammar, words and so on.

Double Degree System(universties)

I am going to introduce you which universities we can go. There are five universities. The countries are England, Australia, Belgium and China.

England has two Universities. They are University of Central Lancashire in Preston and University of Portsmouth in Portsmouth. Australia is University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. Belgium is Brussels University of Foreign Studies. China is Dalian University in Dalian. Entrance seasons are on August in England, on February in University of the Sunshine Coast, on September in Brussels University of foreign Studies, on February or September in Dalian University.

Reference

Object departments are

▼University of Central Lancashire

・Department of British and American Studies

・Department of English and Contemporary Society

・Department of Global Business

▼University of Portsmouth

・Department of British and American Studies

・Department of English Language Teaching

・Department of English and Contemporary Society

・Department of Global Business

▼University of the Sunshine Coast

・Department of British and American Studies

・Department of English Language Teaching

・Department of English and Contemporary Society

・Department of Global Business

▼Brussels University of Foreign Studies

・Department of French Studies

▼Dalian University

・Department of Chinese Studies

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Interesting Places in Nagoya

I explain history of Nagoya Castle. Nagoya Castle was raised a castle by Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1609. He raised it for his ninth son, Yoshinao on around the site of Nagoya Castle which is said Oda Nobunaga was born. After it was raised, it used as a main residence of lord by the Owari Tokugawas until Meiji era. Parts of Daisho Tenshu which is castle tower, Yagura which is building for protecting the castle and Goden which means a palace had remained until beginning of Showa era but they were burnt because of Nagoya air raid in 1945. However after World WarⅡ, Tenshu was restored. Trace of castle is maintained as Meijo Park.

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Montmartre Grape Harvest Festival

I am going to tell you about what we can eat and drink in Montmartre Grape Harvest Festival.

There are lots of stands for eating and drinking.

There are stands that we can drink cocoa, shop for Raclette (eating bread and potatoes with melted cheese) stand for sausages escargot, crepes, pate de foie gras, chocolates, jam and honey etc.

Above all things, wine stands are more than another stands. You can taste wine from each region for 2-5 euros (about 320yen-500yen). There are 27 types of grapes which are grown in Montmartre.

Looking at production, 85% of them are Gamay, 20% of them are Pinot Noir, Merlot, Sauvignon Blanc, Gewürztraminer, Risling and so on.

But there is only 1 type of wine which produced in Montmartre. This is made from Gamay and Pinot Noir. About 1500 bottle of wine are produced every year. It is called [Ru] Cros [do] Montmartre. There are few productions so it is valuable.

Of course you can taste this wine in this festival. You can also buy one for 40 euros (about 6,500yen).

The Berlin Wall

I am going to explain about location and history of The Berlin Wall.
First, I explain about the location. The Berlin Wall was in Berlin. Berlin was in East Germany and it was separated by west and east. So The Berlin Wall was not on the borderline between East Berlin and West Berlin but surrounded West Berlin in East Germany.

Next, I tell you about the history. The Berlin Wall is a wall that separates East Germany and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989.

After World WarⅡ,Germany was divided into West Germany and East Germany .Berlin was also divided into west and east.

In East Berlin, the Soviet Union which took East Germany was strict with workers, so there were many people who migrated from East Berlin to West Berlin.

It was bad for the Soviet Union so East Germany made the Berlin Wall so that people could not escape from East Berlin to West Berlin. It was founded inside of East Germany.

While the wall existed, people who tried to get over the wall were killed by border security guards in East Germany.

People could leave East Germany by way of Hungary because of picnic affair which happened on August 19th in 1989.

The government of East Germany made a bill and passed it so that people could not leave East Germany but it went wrong by mistake. Because of that, The Berlin Wall lost its meaning.

Next morning, the wall was broken by Berlin citizens. After that, East Germany removed the wall.

PARQUE ESPANA

I am going to introduce characters of PARQUE ESPANA.

Donquixote is the character with dog motif. He is lord of Donquixote village. He was trusted by people who were in the village as the lord with the sense of justice and kindness.

Dulcinea is character with white cat motif. She is an only daughter of lord in Guard village with history. She likes going on trip with Donquixote and other friends.

Choquyvivito is character with domestic rabbit motif. He came to Donquixote village after meeting Torovar. He is trainee carpenter.

Sancho Panza is character with hedgehog and baby bear motif. He was a child of attendant who serves Donquixote family so he was always with Donquixote. He takes care of Donquixote even now.

Julio Ranana is character with frog motif. He is poet who is by Dul’s side and Dul’s good adviser. He is good at playing lute and singing.

Alejandro is character with wolf motif. He is the lord of Lobo village. His ancestors were great magicians so there were lots of strange things in his castle.

Trovar is character with cow motif. He controlled World Sea as a sailor when he was young. He is carpenter in Donquixote village now.

My Three Favorite Movies

1. Shonen Merikensack
Introduction
This movie is kind of music comedy.
Its material is punk music.
Release 14/02/2009
Runtime 125 minutes
Main casts Miyazaki Aoi, Sato Koichi, Kimuura Yuichi, Yusuke Santamaria, Katsuji Ryo Tanabe Seiichi etc
Music Mukai Shutoku
Film Company Toei
Director Kudo Kankuro
Recommendation
This movie is so fanny. Kanna who is heroine in this movie is amusing.
The material is music and I like music. So I really enjoyed the scene of the bands concert.
I think it is good movie for people who want to laugh.
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2. L change the WorLd
Introduction
This movie is kind of emotional movie.
It is concerned with [DEATH NOTE] which is movie based on Japanese comic.
L who is detective that solved lots of trouble accidents is main character and he supposed to die within 23 days because of DEATH NOTE. What would he do rest of his life?
Release 09/02/2008
Runtime 129 minutes
Main casts Matsuyama Kenichi, Fukuda Mayuko, Fukuda Narushi, Kudou yuki,
Takahashi Masanobu, Nanbara Kiyotaka etc
Film Company Warner Brothers
Director Nakata Hideo
Theme song Lenny Kravitz
Recommendation
I watched this and I saw L that against a virus terrorism appealed to me. L is genius and cool person so isn’t good at everything but using brain. But this time, he is trying to protect kids and people all over the world hardly. So I thought he was so cool. “Whoever lives can change the world” (The line L said in the movie) is impressed me so much.
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3. Boutaoshi!
Introduction
This movies theme is youth.
Boutaoshi is sport that separate two teams, and attack rival team to throw pole down. (How the team can throw pole down as soon as they can)
Release 21/03/03
Runtime 93minutes
Main casts Taniuchi Shinya (Lead), Kaneko Kyohei (FLAME), Furuya Keita (Lead)
Kagimoto Akira (Lead), Nakadoi Hiroki (Lead) Taira Airi
Film Company I have no clue…
Director Maeda Tetsu
Theme Song Lead
Recommendation
The scene of this movie is a sports day in high school. Tugio who is this movies hero is asked to take part in boutaoshi by Isamu who really wants to play boutaoshi for sports day. This movie let me think about what I am living for. So when I watch this, I often close to tears.
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