teaching in Japan is a fantastic
experience the students are great and
there's a lot of scope for creativity
and having fun in the classroom making
learning English fun one of the best
resources we have a Japanese English
textbooks and I say Japanese English
because they tend to be written by
non-native speakers of English
aka Japanese speakers so the content is
often very useful and interesting and
engaging and valuable and today I want
to talk about how valuable and how
useful those books those textbooks are
in this video so one of the things I
like to do in my old communication class
is practice practical dialogue and
roleplay for example at a party I was
very lucky when our oral communication
textbook had a chapter on a party it's
called a party at home and it's
absolutely it's brilliant we have John
here and Yuki and John is hosting the
party invites Yuki over hi yukky welcome
to my house hi John thank you very much
for inviting me and Yuki's the first
guest and then she's the only guest is
it a party it was John John trying his
luck and then on the second page we
really get into the heart of the party
dialogue Yuki pass me the salt please
here you are thank you and then us
that's the party dialogue
one of the best things about the
textbooks are the stories which are
always uplifting and happy and and
rather positive and I like that for
example we have the story of quill the
guide dog here and his beloved owner mr.
Watanabe and it's the story of how mr.
Watanabe hated dogs and he was blind but
when he met quill the guide dog they had
this fantastic relationship and it's a
beautiful story I'll read it
quill helped mr. Watanabe as a guide dog
and learned many things to happy years
past however their happy days did not
last longer than this mr. Watanabe
became ill and went into hospital mr.
Watanabe died Oh clue lost his job after
turning 12 years old quill could not
move any part of his body except his
head his puppy Walker slept beside him
late one night his puppy Walker said to
him Thank You quill you don't have to
try so hard anymore just relax
soon after quills breath stopped
comprehensive question 1 why did their
happy days not last very long
I think this is quite a heartwarming
story what is love it's the story of
Helen Keller the famous American writer
and her teacher miss Sullivan and
they're really close really nice
relationship one day miss Sullivan
spelled in my hands I love Helen what is
love I asked if Sullivan held me close
and said it is here and touched my Ches
her words puzzled me yeah yeah me me
teeth and all right maybe miss Sullivan
can clear up the definition of love for
Helen love is something like the clouds
in the sky you cannot touch the clouds
but you feel the rain you cannot touch
love but you can feel it without love
you would not be happy at 1:00 to play
what the does that mean
Oxford Dictionary defines love as a
feeling of deep affection why couldn't
you just say that you stupid question to
fill in the blank
miss Sullivan touched Helens blank and
said love was there he saw as themselves
there as well as being inspiration or
really quite well written so here we
have soccer balls Afghanistan and it's
the story of some students that made
soccer balls to send to Afghanistan's
really which is you know really a really
nice gesture at first all of us were
excited but it wasn't easy to make
soccer balls it took seven hours to make
one ball sounds we worked day and night
and we finally made 500 balls we all
shouted we made it yeah seven seven
hours per ball five hundred pulls us
that's a long time at first the children
look nervous but when we showed them the
balls they gave us big smiles it was
like a magic like a magic beautiful
something stories a really inspirational
as well I'm really to get you here
make you want to do great things and I
think that resonates with the students
as well for example this chapter here
called our life it's about disabled
people and says our life is not a
tragedy it's full of challenges and
adventures we can do anything we feel
the same as you all do which is just
brilliant I think that's great and I
think a case study from the Paralympics
or something would be fantastic
ah I don't know not so much the
Paralympics but this is good but
sometimes we feel frustrated
for example we hate steps they don't
listen to us we are dreaming of a new
world all the people there will live
together then we will be full members of
society what does that mean we're
dreaming of a new world all the people
there will live together if somebody
came up to me on a wheelchair and said
we're dreaming of a new world all the
people there will live together not
really sure however how I'd react to
that is that disabled disabled people
planning something starting to feel with
paranoia so there you have it you come
to Japan YouTube can teach using these
fantastic resources of course there's
many more it was just a small song
really are just
don't what is great