For 19 December 2014

In English, write an ending for the story on page 141.

For 15 December 2014

Please do not read page 140.

For 12 December 2014

Please try the top of page 139 ("Test Tactic").

Test results for tests 1 and 2

For 1 December 2014

Please try question 2 on page 113.

For 21 November 2014

Try part B of page 100.

Special homework for 14 and 15 November 2014

On 14 November 2014: Go to sleep early!

On 15 November 2014: Drink coffee, tea, or cola (something with caffeine in it)!

Examples from 10 November 2014 class

Feature	Now	In 20 years	Chance
Weight	12 kg	He will probably be about 75 kg. He won’t be 12 kg any more.	About 80% 0%
Height	80 cm	He is likely to be more than 170 cm tall.	75%
Language	“ma ma” is me “da da” is microwave is finished	He’ll probably be bilingual. His Japanese may be stronger than his English.	85% 65%
Hair style	Bowl cut	He almost certainly won’t be bald. He might have some gray hair.	2% 20%
Facial hair	None	He’s unlikely to have a beard.	20%
Girlfriend/boyfriend	None	He will probably have had a girlfriend. He might have had a boyfriend.	90% 10%

Class test results for level-check test (x-axis) and test 1 (y-axis)

Test results for all classes

For 17 October 2014

If you did not finish the minitest on pages 39-43, please finish it for homework.

For 6 October 2014

Please try part C on page 29. Please do not look at pages 31 to 34.

Level check scores

For 29 September 2014

Homework:
Try part 3 on page 25. Use your own original word.

Antihomework:
Do not read page 26.

For 26 September 2014

Get the textbook, please. We will be using pages 24 to 27 on Friday, 26 September 2014.

For 18July 2014

Please try page 130, part 1A.

For 7 July 2014

Please try part 2 on page 92.

For 4 July 2014

Please finish part 1A on page 91.

For 30 June 2014

Please write a good TOEIC-style question for the responses in part 1B on page 88.

Example:

1. Where were the 1936 Olympics held?
Berlin.

Test result chart

For 13 June 2014

Please read the questions and answers in part 3 of page 58. Think about

• what the topic is
• if you can cross out any of the answers

For 9 June 2014

Try part D on page 56. That is, write a TOEIC-style conversation about a time you talked about a bad situation.

For example:

A: Excuse me. You've been in my way for 20 minutes.

B: I'm sorry. please go ahead.

A: Thank you, but you should stay on the right side. Didn't you see the sign?

B: Oh! I didn't see it.

For 2 June 2014

Please try part D of page 51. That is, choose two sets of question words from the gray box and make two TOEIC question-response questions from them.

For example:

1. Did he say when he'd be home?

a. He likes foam on his coffee.

b. Heed the directions.

c. On Wednesday, I think.

2. Do you want to join me for lunch next Wednesday?

a. That'd be nice.

b. I joined the tennis club.

c. Lunch is at 12 o'clock.

Please write your homework on a separate piece of paper.

For 26 May 2014

Write 1 good TOEIC-style response for each question at the top of page 50. Don't use yes or no, and don't use the same sounds.

Comparison of level check test scores with first test scores

Graph of scores for tests on Monday (12 May 2014)

Here is a graph showing all the results for this week's test. Your class's code is at the top of the chart. The round point is the score (試験1能力スコア), and the lines going up and down are the error (誤差).

For 12 May 2014

Read the questions and answers for the mini-test on pages 21 and 22. Underline key words and think about the contexts.

For 28 April 2014

For page 17, part C, please think of other ways to say the same ideas in the questions and the answers.
Think of (a) different words for the same ideas
(b) different level words for the same things
(c) places where you might hear "not" plus an opposite word.
Please write the answers somewhere.

Level check test results for your class

Here are the overall results from the level check test you took during the week of 7 to 12 April.

Your class code is written at the top of the boxes, so that mf2s14 is the Monday and Friday, second period class. This is the same code as the class e-mail address.

The high scores are toward the top of the chart, and the low scores are toward the bottom. Each person's score is a dot. The lines going up and down from the dots are measurement error (誤差).

7304 people took the test, and the middle score was 0. A score of 1.0 is very high; a score of -1.0 is low.

For 18 April 2014

Please try page 13, part A, Follow up. That is, please write 2 more good responses for questions 1, 2, and 3.

For 14 April 2014

Please write two original TOEIC-style sentences for each of the photographs on page 10 of the textbook.

For 11 April 2014

a. Get the textbook. We will be using pages 9-11 on Friday.

b. Send an e-mail to me with

• your name in kanji
• your name in Roman characters
• your student number

For 20 January 2014

Answer this question in English or Japanese:

For what audience was the article on pages 94-95 written?

For 17 January 2014

Finish the Task Reading 1 from pages 87-89.

For 10 January 2013

Please try page 85, but skip number 3.