After the placement test, every of the student allocated to different class. I end up being in the highest class, which mean is the most difficult class. My class start from 9am until 1230pm afternoon from Monday to Friday every week. Sometimes there are activities after the class, it’s either compulsory or not compulsory. Total of three lecturer handling my class. Monday and Wednesday is Mr Kameyama, Tuesday and Thursday is Ms. Mukai, and lastly Ms. Morikawa for Friday.
In my class, lecturer conduct of a lot of communication and disccusion. Monday to Thursday syllabus will be like below:
- Lecturer play the radio with dialogue of two person, and we have to follow after and say it. After few time of listen and practicing. We have to do a role play of using the same dialogue and speak with the person sitting beside you.
- Lecturer will throw out a topic. We are separate into group and draw a mind map about the topic given. After giving out a lot of idea for the mind map, we have to introduce our mind map to others group. IN JAPANESE!!
- Lecturer will play the radio again, but this time with a whole paragraph of story. Students have to listen and try to understand. After playing for two times, lecturer will give us the photocopy of the paragraph and learn the grammar that used in the paragraph.
- Reading, lecturer gave us a book and we have to read and understand it. This book is all about articles from different authors. Sometimes lecturer uses magazine instead of the book. So, students won’t be boring.
- Kanji, kanji is Chinese wording in Japanese language. We have to learn it for two days once. And we have dictation after learning every chapter of the Kanji.
Friday syllabuses are all the above and one more: Lecturer will play the radio with a paragraph of NEWS. After listening the news, students have to answer the question given from lecturer. This part is the most difficult for me. Because, there are still a lot of words that I haven learned comes out in the news with difficult grammar. I CAN’T UNDERSTAND IT FOR 100%. OMG… But, is ok. Later on, lecturer gives us the photocopy of the whole paragraph of the news.
Homework for everyday:
- Have to find information about a topic which given from lecturer. For examples of the topic: Prime minister, Japan whaling and others more difficult. On the next day, student have to use the information to tell about for 1 minutes to your friends. Lastly, there will be a student presenting in front of the class by luck drawing.
- Have to write a paragraph of three sentences about a topic which given from lecturer also. For examples of the topic: spring, favourite pets, street and others more. On the next day, student have to tell what you have write about to your friends next seat.
- Kanji. Learn it before class. I am lucky that I learn mandarin before, so at least I know how to write. But still need to memorise the pronunciation in Japanese of the Kanji. Can you imagine how difficult it will be for student from Indonesia, Hong Kong, Korea, Thailand and Malaysia who never learn Mandarin before.
My class, now is totally different from the class that I learn Japanese in Malaysia. It is no more teaching in word by word, grammar by grammar, sentence by sentence anymore. Lecturer in my class speaking like normal Japanese and you have to catch up fast to understand.
There are 25 students of us from Malaysia, Korea, Taiwan, Hong kong, Thailand, Indonesia, and China.
My classroom have a nice view.
My class look very small right. Haha…. My seat is at the center of the center row. Luckily, because I am facing front to the whiteboard. Others student who sit at the side row, the whiteboard are at the side. So, after 4 hours of lecturer their neck will be very pain.
These are my classmates.
Stay tune for the next post about activities in my school.
xoxo
Estelle-C
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