Lesson 3 - Demonstrative Pronouns

Good morning Online English Students!

We hope you're enjoying the Online English lessons.  And hope you're enjoying making friends with your MKD tutors.  They are great, aren't they?

Today we will study demonstrative pronouns (指示代名詞 shoji daimeishi).
It's a fun and practical lesson.


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Lesson 2 - Weather

Hi Online English students,

Did you enjoy the lesson last week? Homan Sensei and I hope that you did. For our next lesson, you will be talking with your tutor about the weather. We have a hint for you...

Please check the local weather forecast (天気予報 tenkeyohō) for Wednesday and the rest of this week. You can tell your tutor about today's weather forecast, and the forecast for Thursday, Friday...

Also, please review some more difficult vocabulary to describe the weather. Here are 10 words you can review before your lesson:

• muggy: humid, sultry (蒸し暑い mushiatsui)  
• breezy: slightly windy (さわやか sawayaka) 
• damp: wet (湿った shimetta)  
• scorching (weather): very hot (weather) 灼熱(の天気) shakunetsu (no tenki)  
• drizzly: rainy (a light rain) (ぬるぬるした) nurunuru shita 
• hazy: misty, foggy, overcast (もやもや) 
• a downpour: heavy rain, raining heavily (土砂降り）doshaburi  
• rainy season: wet season (梅雨) tsuyu  
• chilly: cold (肌寒い) hadasamui 
• freezing: very cold (とても寒い) totemo samui

 

Enjoy talking about the weather in Japan and in the Philippines! Here is Lesson 2...

Lesson 2 - Weather

Welcome students!

Welcome students! Welcome to class. Thank you for visiting our Online English blog. This blog is for Online English students in the Kokusai Course at Rissho University, Shinagawa Campus. This blog can be used for both Prof. Homan's class and my class, too. Let me introduce myself. My name is Mike Kubo, and I'm one of your Online English teachers. Please call me Mike.

I'm originally from the US (California), but I live and work in Japan. I've been teaching here at Rissho for many years. I am sad that I cannot meet you face to face, but it's nice to meet you here online.

Lets get started!

First, what is Online English? Well, Online English is a popular class with students. Online English gives Kokusai Course students a chance to communicate online, face-to-face with friendly tutors from Mindao Kokusai Daigaku (MKD)in Davao City in the Philippines. Every Wednesday, you can enjoy an Online English lesson with a fun and friendly MKD tutor. You will be surprised how fast your English will improve. Trust me. But! This bad thing...    Yes, it's coronavirus. And this virus is making many problems in Japan and in the Philippines, too. Rissho teachers and students cannot return to school, and MKD tutors cannot return to their school either because of coronavirus. Now, we cannot return, but we CAN still learn!

Onward!

This is lesson one