John Moale

Japanese Club - Group Club Picture of 2009 - 2010

This picture was taken in the Winter of 2010 (If memory serves me correctly).  Half of the group were students in my Japanese II class at the time and the other half were club members.  Do you see yourself or your friends in this pic?  Enjoy !

The latest "pics" taken this semester

Its hard to believe the semester is coming to a close soon.  Here are some pictures of things Japanese II & III and the IEL students have done during the semester.  Of course this is only a small portion as there were times when we did something awesome .... only for me to have forgotten to bring my camera that day.  Enjoy!

(The first couple pictures are of the cats I was fostering at the time.  As you can see in the first pic, one of them wanted to come to school)

   

 
 

 

  

 

Japanese II - Te Form of Verbs

Just browsing Youtube and came across some videos that might be of educational interest.

Mastering the TE Form will be a challenge so let's see how some students attempted to display their talents in helping you remember the TE Form verbs !

(Disclaimer : Watch Youtube at your own risk.  These links were listed for educational purposes only.)

Here's one student's explanation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euMTUsbMFLI&feature=related

Here's a group of students and their performance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_l0LCwUnio&feature=related

How about a rap?!?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZI361scerQ&feature=related

This isn't related to TE form, but might get a good laugh if you try asking out a Japanese person:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTtoSIeNcKE&feature=channel

 

IEL Students - Language of Sci - Classification of Life

Here are the links for the biology section on animal classification.

Please use the worksheet with the following links :

Site #1 : Biological Classification

     http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/9b.html

Site #2 : (Please skip this section)

Site #3 : Ology : It takes all kinds

     http://www.amnh.org/ology/marinebiology#features/ittakesallkinds?TB_iframe=true&height=500&width=750

Site #4 : Classifying Critters

     http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/forkids/critters/critters.html

Site #5 : PBS Classifying Life

     http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/classifying-life.html

Site #6 : A Touch of Class (FUN TIME ! ! !)

     http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/class.html

 

 

 

IEL Students - Idiom Explanation

Use this link to look up various idiomatic phrases :

http://www.englishclub.com/ref/Idioms/index.htm

You can look up under the food heading and find the meaning to the following idioms:

• bread and butter
• couch potato
• piece of cake
• not my cup of tea
• put your eggs in one basket
• icing on the cake

A Decent Typing Game Site

For those of you who need help in beating my typing ability of 3,000 WPM...

Allow me to introduce this educational typing website:

     http://www.freetypinggame.net/free-typing-lesson.asp