月: 2021年10月

ハンカチ王子こと斉藤佑樹選手が引退を表明しました。

先日の授業で斉藤選手に英語でメッセージを送るなら何を言いたいかを課したところ、いろんな回答を得ることができました。その中でも特に心を打ったものを紹介いたします。

某男子学生の作品
Pitcher Yuki Saito, thank you for your hard work.Did you look back at your 11-year career? I think there are many memories that only you know.I will continue to support you,Thank you for your hard work.

某女子学生の作品

I’m not an avid baseball fan, but my friend was your enthusiastic fan. I regret not being able to watch the last game yesterday. Thank you for your hard work for 11 years.

Former high-school baseball star pitcher Yuki Saito will retire at the end of the season after 11 years in Nippon Professional Baseball, the Nippon Ham Fighters said Friday.

The 33-year-old was nicknamed the “Handkerchief Prince” after he used a blue handkerchief to wipe sweat away while steering his team to the high school national championship in the summer of 2006.

Injuries plagued Saito’s pro career, however, and he has not thrown in an NPB game since last season due to a right elbow issue. The right-hander pitched in 88 games in total, going 15-26 with a 4.34 ERA with the Fighters.

“I could not leave the kind of record I hoped for, but I’m really thankful for the fans who cheered me on until the very end. I’m happy to have played with my teammates,” Saito said through Nippon Ham.

Saito outpitched former New York Yankee Masahiro Tanaka in the 2006 summer final as Waseda Jitsugyo beat Komadai Tomakomai in a replay, with his use of the handkerchief becoming a social phenomenon at the time.

“Having pitching duels in front of many fans at the final at Koshien (Stadium), and also in pro baseball, are really nice memories,” Tanaka, who was back at his first club the Rakuten Eagles from this year, said.

Saito had a strong record while at Waseda University before he was drafted in the first round by the Fighters in 2010 after the Pacific League club won a four-team lottery.

The right-hander won six games in his debut season in 2011 and five in 2012 when he pitched on Opening Day. But limited appearances due to injury meant the two wins he picked up in the 2014 season was the best he could do thereafter. His last win came in 2017.

英検準2級や2級を受ける中高生たちが異口同音に言うのは「単語を覚えられない。どうやればたくさん覚えられるのか」

形のある言葉はイラストや映像と結びつければいいから覚えるのは大変でない。問題は形のない言葉だ。without や　suddenly はそのいい例だ。

そこで当塾では生徒たちに歌を聞かせて覚えさせるようにしている。

例えばwithoutの場合、ニルソンの名曲Without You。

Suddenly の場合 ビートルズのyesterday

　

スマホをいじくり、YouTubeの画面を出して曲を聞かせながら歌詞の説明をし、単語の意味をわからせる。

単なる自己満足かもしれないが、この方法が子供たちの記憶に長く残ると信じている。

赤シートを使う学生は多いが本当の意味で英単語が身につくとは思えない。

STOCKHOLM, Oct 5 (Reuters) – Japanese-born American Syukuro Manabe, German Klaus Hasselmann and Italian Giorgio Parisi won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for work that helps understand complex physical systems such as Earth’s changing climate.

In a decision hailed by the U.N. weather agency as a sign of a consensus forming around man-made global warming, one half of the 10-million Swedish crown ($1.15 million) prize goes in equal parts to Manabe, 90, and Hasselmann, 89, for modelling earth’s climate and reliably predicting global warming.

The other half goes to Parisi for discovering in the early 1980s “hidden rules” behind seemingly random movements and swirls in gases or liquids that can also be applied to aspects of neuroscience, machine learning and starling flight formations.

“Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann laid the foundation of our knowledge of the Earth’s climate and how humanity influences it,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in a statement. “Giorgio Parisi is rewarded for his revolutionary contributions to the theory of disordered materials and random processes.”

先週金曜日に行われた英検の2級ライティング問題は、「大きなショッピングセンターは地元に良い効果があるか」と言うものだった、と生徒から聞きました。

今までと少し趣が違う問題に受験生たちは戸惑ったことでしょう。

旭川に西武、ダイエー、イトーヨーカドー、イオンがやってきたときどのような影響があったか。その時代を生きてきた人しかわからないかもしれませんね。それを10代の生徒が答えるわけだから簡単でもないでしょう。

古くからあった小規模な店舗が競争に勝てず廃業し、そこに勤めていた従業員が職を失った。

大規模な店舗は郊外に建てられるので、買い物客は市の中心部から離れ、結果的に空洞化現象が起きる。

一方、メリットとしては幅広い駐車場があるから買い物客が楽に車で行ける。子供から高齢者まで楽しめるような娯楽施設を兼ね備えている。