BBS (A) - 3-minute speeches - Mitsu Matsuoka's English Class

BBS (B) - Short Essay - Mitsu Matsuoka's English Communication Class - Nagoya University

1st Period, Monday, 2nd Term, 2009 - School of Informatics and Sciences

State your opinion, between 150 and 200 words in length, on a specific topic or theme picked every week.

NO JAPANESE ALLOWED HERE!



			171 【Attendance Policy】
			★ 2010/02/01(Mon)
			It lacks persuasiveness even if I give self-evaluation for me only by saying I have leadership,cooperativeness and personality. However, I surely have the results to become the grounds. I entered Nagoya University by school recommendation. In addition, as for me, entrance to school was already settled when the Center Test was performed.That is I have appeal to replace the result of the test. First,having had the qualification of the recommendation entrance examination. Because a person who want to into the university by school recommendation must enter a school of higher grade in the high school having a recommendation in the university becoming the aim.It is not allowed to enter the senior high school with the person of the incomplete ability. Furthermore,must do model life to deserve whether a school recommends it between the third grade at a high school. If a modus vivendi and results are bad, the qualification is not given.And only one person is given the qualification each choice.Therefore, only the person who was recognized by the high school to have a qualification to enter the university can take recommendation entrance examination. Second,I had been a persident of the science club in my high school. That's experience give me a leadership, a sence of responsibility, the power to act, and so on. I have an ability to survive in the world. In conclution.I have enthusiasm for science and enough achievement to be in the lecture of university. But also, I have enough sociality to go through the world.
			by kazunori ITO



			170 【Occupational Preference】
			★ 2010/01/31(Sun)
			When we choose our career, we have many standards. For example, interest, salaries, talents and so on. Which is the most important is based on personal idea. Interest is the most important for me. Of course salaries and talents are also important. But if we take the job we can’t be interested in, how do we live a life? We have to go to work at early morning and do the job we don’t like all day long. Sometimes we may have to work over time. Perhaps we will be tired mentally. So I think it is important that we work with interest and enjoyment. We need minimum money to live. Now we need money when we do something. When we take a job we are interested in and we can enjoy, if we can get few salaries, we have complaint. It is very difficult to find the job we can be satisfied with. But it is very important that we don’t compromise.
			by MAKINO aya



			169 【Attendance Policy】
			★ 2010/01/31(Sun)
			There are many ways to evaluate student’s grades. For example, attendance for the class, result of the examination and so on. Above all, I think that the result of the examination is the most important for evaluating grades. Personal ability appears at the examination. We have taken a lot of examinations from entering elementary school. We have been evaluated by the result. Of all others, the entrance examinations for high school and university are good examples. We got good score at the entrance examination for university and have got through. So we can be here. Of course, attendance for the classes is very important for us. But if we don’t attend the class, it is impossible for us to get the good point at the examination, I think so. If we are interested in the class and want to get the good grade, we ought to attend the class. Perhaps if the examinations proceed, university students who are lazy about study have to study. After all, I think that as the final method of evaluating grades, the examinations are the best way. Personal ability comes out at the exam. I think that evaluating the personal ability by referring to the result of the examination is effective.
			by MAKINO aya



			168 【Weird Food】
			★ 2010/01/31(Sun)
			When I was in the second grade of elementary school, my homeroom teacher gave my classmates and me souvenirs from Mongolia. It was cheese made from sheep's milk. It was wrapped in paper one by one. I opened the wrapping paper, and found a white thing like an eaten chewing gum. It smelled something strange. I was not able to eat it first because I was scary. Other classmates seemed to be not able to eat it. But they began to eat with one person and one person. I heard someone saying "Yuck…" in a small voice. I thought that I put it without eating it. However, I decided to eat, because my friend said "Let's eat." I bit it just a little. I cannot recall the taste clearly, but it was very unpalatable. I could not vomit it. I swallowed it. I did not have courage and I stopped eating it. I thought that I should not have eaten it. I thought that I would judge carefully whether to eat something weird.
			by Haruka FUJII



			167 【Attendance Policy】
			★ 2010/01/30(Sat)
			In my opinion, professors ought to base part of students’ grades on attendance and class participation and the rest should be evaluated on their performance on exams and papers. There are two reasons to support my claim. First, if students are entirely evaluated on their performance on exams and papers, it means that they do not necessarily have to attend the class. Extremely speaking, very smart students are allowed to be absent from the class because they can get a good score on exams. On the other hand, students who have a poor score cannot get a good grade on exams even if they attend all classes seriously. It is fairly odd thing that they are evaluated badly. However, when professors mainly evaluate students on attendance and attitude, students whose grade are poor but who are serious can get good grade. Second, looking from the term of education, is the aim of it to base all students’ grades on exams? What education means is not how much score they get on exams. It is whether they make effort on study and whether they try to get a good grade. To sum up, for students who study and the aim of education, it is important to base their grades on attendance and participation.
			by Takahiro IIHOSHI



			166 【Attendance Policy】
			★ 2010/01/30(Sat)
			I am sure that professors should base part of students' grades on attendance and class participation. To begin with, I cannot understand why some professors base students' grades entirely on the performance on exams and papers. Universities should be the place where students make mistakes and overcome them to become grown-ups helphul in the real soiety, I think. However, if professors base students' grades entirely on the performance on exams and papers, universities will be the place where mistakes are never forgiven and those who often get tense or so cannot prove their ability at all. It is true that it is the best for all students to prove their ability in one-shot situations, but many students cannot do so. To soften such problems, professors need to base part of students' grades on attendance and class paticipation. I do mean that professors should give students the chance to make up for their failure in one-shot exams or papers. It is important that students will be able to prove their ability in one-shot situations in the near future. They do not have to prove their ability adequately in one-shot situations in their universities. They should prepare there.
			by TODA Takaya



			165 【Attendance Policy】
			★ 2010/01/27(Wed)
			I agree with the statement that it is acceptable for professors to base part of students’ grades entirely on performance on exams and papers. If attendance and class participation based on grades, many disadvantages have, I think. First, we may be absent from classes because of a variety of reasons. We are university students, it is necessary that we take lessons. However, for instance, we may be too busy with our part-time to do our schoolwork. Besides, some students join circles and their activities may be also too hard to study. If students are able to attend a class, the number of the students would feel sleepy and be likely to be fallen asleep. That means the same that it is absent from a class. Those who do with such hard schedules should learn an absent class for themselves later. Second, when the number of a class attendance is not sufficient, I think it is not very worried about their scholastic achievements. For originally, study is not something that you should be forced to do. If necessarily, students will study of their own accords. After all, university is a place in which we can learn many things. It is also, however, the place in which we can learn how to live in society, study, and communications or so. I think it is acceptable for professors to base part of students’ grades on performance on exams and papers.
			by Masato TSUTSUI



			164 【What Success Means?】
			★ 2010/01/26(Tue)
			Meeting many people is the key ingredients required for leading a successful life. There are many different people and each of them has his or her view. When you meet a person with a different view from yours, his or her view will affect your thinking. How many kinds of people you meet is very important. The more kinds of people you meet, the more times you will change your view and the better it will become. You should go to many places in order to make more chances to meet different people. Until now, I have met many different people. If I had not met my friends, I might have been a self centered person. If I had not met the teachers who had helped me in high school, I would not have entered Nagoya University. I owe what I am today to them, so I appreciate having met them.
			by UERA Yuki



			163 【You can't judge a book by its cover】
			★ 2010/01/26(Tue)
			When I was a junior high school student, I was a member of table tennis club. In my junior high school, all of the students must join club activities. I was not willing to do them, so I wanted to do something easy. When we play table tennis, we use a table. We do not have to run around a large court like tennis. I thought that table tennis was not as hard as the other sports. I decided to join table tennis club. However, the club activities are harder than I had expected. I had table tennis practices every morning. In addition, a coach who taught us table tennis was very strict. I had been scolded by him many times. I could not stand the hard practices. After all, I stopped to go to the activities a year after I had joined the club. I regret having decided to join the club because table tennis was seemed to be easy.
			by UERA Yuki



			162 【Attendance Policy】
			★ 2010/01/26(Tue)
			I think that part of students’ grades should be based on attendance and class participation. It means the non-necessity of the test. If students’ grades are mainly based on their result of an examination, simple mistakes during the test are unforgivable. A university professor may not measure accurate scholastic ability of students because of inappropriate form of the test. Some students do not usually attend at the class, though take the good results on the test. On the other hand, some students who attend at the class every time fail the credit by the result of the test. I too feel sorry for such students. I think that the test is not necessary if students try to participate in a class and to understand class contents. Instead, their enthusiasm should be praised. There is the following fact. In the class that attendance strongly influences the evaluation of students' grades, the attendance rate of students is high. If students did not attend at a class, the students would not study in a true meaning. It lets students attend at a class to make an attendance of students the important point of view of the scholastic evaluation. I think that part of students’ grades should be based on attendance and class participation because evaluation method by the element except the test is good for study of students.
			by Akina HARA



			161 【Attendance Policy】
			★ 2010/01/25(Mon)
			Grades should be based basically on students’ performance on exams and papers, I think. I will tell you my opinion about it. It is fact that many students attend classes hard and fail exams and papers, but who is responsible for it? Attendance and participation is very important, but these students really participate in their class? They sleep in their class, chat with their friends, or do something differ from the main theme of their class, do not they? I think they do not participate in the class really. Attendance and Participation itself is not important. It is important that they listen to what professors’ say carefully. They can perform the knowledge they accumulate there on exams and papers. Professors should be notice what I said before, I think. I often meet a professor who gives me very difficult exams or papers which is not related to the content of the class. When it happens, earnest students who always listen to what professors say carefully fail exams and papers. That mechanism is wrong, I think. Professors should give students exams and papers from which earnest students benefit. Of course attendance and participation is very important. So professors should use them as a relief. From these reasons, I think that grades should be based basically on students’ performance on exams and papers.
			by Azusa MATSUTA



			160 【Attendance Policy】
			★ 2010/01/25(Mon)
			In my opinion, we students had better not be evaluated based on whether we go to classes or not. Furthermore it is necessary for professors give understandable lectures and reflect them in the tests. Since entering the Nagoya University I have seen lots of students not listen to lectures seriously. For example, they sleep, play games and use mobile phones. Is it ridiculous to consider them present at classes, isn’t it? I am able to consent that class participation of all students is not recognized. Additionally it is better that lazy students cut lectures than they disturb classes. I believe, however, there are some problems with professors also. Some of professors present lectures which are meaningless to students. Others make tests which students can pass if they do not attend the lectures. They are not used to teaching students because their jobs are doing research. I think Professors have to deliver lectures all the participants can understand and the contents of them must be reflected in the test. In sum, I mean that students’ sincerity can be assessed on tests rather than on attendance classes. It depends on what lectures and professors are like, though. Therefore school performance does not need assessing based on class participation.
			by Yumi OGASAWARA



			159 【Occupational Preference】
			★ 2010/01/24(Sun)
			I think that interests are most important for an individual to consider when choosing a career. I am working part-time as a teacher in a cram school. The reason I started to work is only to earn money, so I do not have a great enthusiasm to teach. However, other people who also work there want to be a teacher. They are more earnest about teaching their students than me. I am ashamed that I decided to work as a teacher for money. I should have considered interests when deciding a part-time job. Salaries are also important when choosing a career, but interests are more important. If you decide a career which you are interested in, you will work eagerly. You can also enjoy working. Even if your salary is not high, you will be satisfied with your work. I will consider interests more than salary when choosing a career in the future.
			by UERA Yuki



			158 【Attendance Policy】
			★ 2010/01/24(Sun)
			I think that grades should be based entirely on students' performance on exams and papers. I have two reasons to think so. First, there are some students who exit a classroom after a professor take attendance. It is no use taking attendance. Some students are also sleeping in class. I think class attendance is not only being in the classroom but also listening to what the professor says. Second, one’s class attendance can be judged from the exam or paper. The most important thing is to understand what is taught by the professor. In the first term, I took lectures on physics. The professor told us that we have only to write a report and do not have to attend the classes. I was sad to see few students attend the class in the next week. Professors should make exam questions which only the students who understand what the professor said can solve or make students write papers concerned with the classes. Students should not miss every lecture. Many professors give really interesting lectures to their students. Knowledge learned in the lectures is useful. I think that making more difficult exam questions is more effective in making students attend a class. Therefore I think that students’ performance on exams and papers are most important.
			by UERA Yuki



			157 【Attendance Policy】
			★ 2010/01/24(Sun)
			In my opinion, performance on exams is most important when teacher grades students. Students are evaluated based on their scores on exams. Exams are considered to be a standard way of judging students' ability. From elementary school to high school, students take a variety of exams and each time they are tested. All teachers refer to his/her scores when they decide his/her grade, and the most remarkable example is an entrance exam on university. Whether a student passes the exam or not is decided only his/her scores. Scores are considered to be important in academic places. Generally speaking, attendances should be evaluated. If attendances are ignored, students don't come to their classes, some people say. It seems to be good opinion, however, if a student is interested in a class, he/she is never absent the class, I think. To begin with, the student who don't come to the class can't get a great score in the class. So there is no need to include attendances in grades. I think grades should be based performances on exams. Exams clearly show how much the student study the subject. The student who studies harder is evaluated. And such a student must be come to the class.
			by Satsuki TANIKAWA



			156 【Attendance Policy】
			★ 2010/01/22(Fri)
			I insist that professors should grade students including their attendance and class participation. I think that grades based on only their performance is not proper for them. Then I mention the reasons. For one reason, the way of grading students based on only their performance is risky for them. They have joined the class for a half year. Chances are too little in the grades based on a few exams or papers. One may be sick and not be able to take the exam or to study enough. Though he is usually able to get a high score, he will get a low score in bad condition. This is a pity. Evaluation by students’ performance does not always judge their real ability. It is true that if you choice to base on attendance, some students will attend but not study hard. However, if you do not judge their attendance at all, someone do not attend the class. If one has already had high ability and absents oneself from the class, one need not take the class. If one skips the class and studies immediately just before its exams and forgets all soon, it is meaningless that one take the class. A person who has low ability and participates in the class is better than them. In those reasons, I tell you that grading students by only their performance is not appropriate. Professors should base part of their grades on their attendance and class participation.
			by Fukumi KATO



			155 【Attendance Policy】
			★ 2010/01/22(Fri)
			Both Attendance and grades grades are very important. Attendance is essential to look student's desire and grades are essential to look student's ability. I think Attendance is more important than grades. If you start to work in the real world, you were needed to go office on time everyday. Lating and oversleeping were not forgive. If you are late, how wonderful gift you have, your social valuation will fall. If your social valuation fall, people will not give you important job. Your wonderful gift will end without finding. I was surprised to hear what the president of a company said on TV. The president said, "I regard diligence as important than gift. Most important thing is human relations in working. Good human relations are besed on confidence. Confidence is based on dilligence. Steadily effort is the nearest road to success. How great idea a person have, many people's help is needed to carry out it. Without confidence, people don't obey your indication. Your idea was lost. So, in imploymenting, I watch person's dilligence." If grades be based entirely on student's performance on exams and papers, if we look it in terms of wide view, lead to social differentials. However hard you work, you will not be able to get ahead. I don't hope such society. So, I think that professors should watch attendance and class participation when giving a grade.
			by SUZUKI Hazuki



			154 【Attendance Policy】
			★ 2010/01/21(Thu)
			I think it is acceptable, or perhaps I should say that it is a must for professors to base part of students’ grades on attendance and class participation. The reason I say this is that it is fairer and have better effects to do so. I believe most of you have at least one or two subjects that you are not good at. I do, too. No matter how hard we tried, we might not get good grades in that subject. On the other hand, there are some people who can do well without taking time and working hard. The only way we can equally compete we them is by showing our efforts by attending and participating aggressively in class. There should be a chance for students who are weak in the subject. I also think that by taking class participation into account, students would work harder and might gradually lead many of them to perform better in the subject. In my opinion, there is a tendency for people that they would try harder if their efforts were rewarded. Anyone would feel happy and be encouraged if they were praised by their endeavor. This should become a good effect on the students. Basing part of students’ grades on attendance and class participation is good in many ways. Professors must do so and encourage the students.
			by SUMIYA Chika



			153 【Weird Food】
			★ 2010/01/21(Thu)
			The most unusual food I have ever eaten is watermelon juice. It was sold in station vending machines near my school. Upper-class students always recommended younger students to drink it once. I was also recommended to, and drank it once. Its color was shocking pink. The appearance made me feel uncomfortable. In addition, it was a smell to have surprised to me. It was like a stinkbug and not at all a smell of foods. And it tasted of a cucumber!!!　Moreover pulp such as a cucumber was included. The moment I drank it, I almost vomited. After drinking, I was full of the taste of a cucumber and a stinkbug in my mouth and I wanted to cry!!!! The other hand, my upper-class students smiled to make me drink it. I never wanted to drink. Then I was very angry, however, I also made my younger students drink it the next year.
			by Hitomi MIZUTANI



			152 【Attendance Policy】
			★ 2010/01/20(Wed)
			For a student, I am glad if my attendance at the class gives me a definite promise of a part of my grades. But I think that attendance should not be evaluated by professors on deciding student's grade. For one reason, it is natural that we students attend the classes. We come to the university in order to attend the class and get to know a lot of new things which we did not know. If we do not attend the classes, we never gain knowledge or broaden our mind. Professors gave us so many clues for learning if only we attend their classes. Usually, the opportunity to learn is not found in our chatting or playing with our friends. It is given at the class. For another reason, we become lazy if our grades is partly promised just because of attendance. We may attend the class, but only to spend time for nothing. Some of us do our private things, such as reading or playing games. Others just sleep. Of course, there are some people listen to a professor, but most of us do not. Student's grade should be decided by exams and papers. If we listen to professors, we can get good grades without their generosities.
			by AOYAMA Takuma



			151 【Attendance Policy】
			★ 2010/01/19(Tue)
			I think students’ grades should not include attendance and class participation. The most important thing I think is not whether students attend the class or not, but whether they try to comprehend content of the lecture. Students who attend a class every time do not necessarily have pure wills to study in the class. Such people often snooze on their desks or do things which are not concerned with the class. For example; they send e-mail to friends by their cellphones, listen to music on their portable music players, read magazines and comic books. And what is worse, some students ask another friend to reply in behalf of them when their names are called in checking attendance. Such students should not get high grades. On the other hand, exams and papers are not the things students can skimp. So they can measure students’ comprehensions appropriately. They also represent students’ zeal for study. If one student didn’t pay attention to teacher’s lecture or would not try to study, he could write no words on his paper. These are why I think that students’ grades should be based entirely on student’s performance on exams and papers. There are many stupid students who attend a class but do their own affairs. Teachers should get rid of the wrong idea that attending student is good.
			by KASUGAI Shoko



			149 【Attendance Policy】
			★ 2010/01/19(Tue)
			I think that part of students' grades should be based on attendance and class participation basically. I have three reasons. First, attendance is an act to express one's will to join a class for a professor. Even if a student who is present at the class does not show serious attitude toward the professor very much out of some kinds of reasons, he/she is conscious of the class absolutely and has not a little will to study. No matter how clever he/she is, a student who does not have will is stupid. Second, absence makes a professor feel uncomfortable more or less. When I was a high school student, a teacher said, "The less the number of students is, the less my power is." No professor probably will not do his/her best if some students are absent, I think. Third, there is at least some room for a professor to evaluate him/her from some viewpoints if a student is present. It is impossible for a professor to evaluate an absentee. Only an attendee can be an object of assessment. Of course, when a student who attends all the classes does not have enough ability to pass the exam, a professor should take this into account, though.
			by FURUTA Tomoya



			148 【Occupational Preference】
			★ 2010/01/18(Mon)
			I think that the most important factor in choosing a career is the skill of communication. A person who may be successful can tell his opinion well and hear other person's opinion. A person who can do so will think about his own deeply. Therefore, he can decide his future plan. A person who may be unsuccessful cannot tell another person about his own and cannot hear other person's opinion. A company judges person in short time. So we have to tell about our own. I know the person who has the great skill about computer and programing. When he was high school student, because he was an arrogant and taciturn person, he has few friends in the school. However, He had the chance to take recommendation entrance exam because of his great skill. A few weeks after, he could not pass the exam. He said that he could not have responded to the question in the individual interview. I felt sorry for him when he told me so. Ithink the communication skill is very important.
			by Yutaka HONMA



			147 【Attendance Policy】
			★ 2010/01/17(Sun)
			Is it acceptable for professors to base part of students' grades on attendance and class participation, or should grades be based entirely on students' performance on exams and papers? Write an essay consisting of four paragraphs, between 200 and 250 words in length. Support your position with evidence from your own experiences, observations or reading. This is your final essay. Do your best.
			by Mitsu MATSUOKA



			146 【Occupational Preference】
			★ 2010/01/12(Tue)
			Interest is most important when choosing your career, I think. Certainly, salary and talents are important but if you don't have interest in your work, you would be tired to work. You feel happy to work if you like the work and it's most important feeling. I work at two places, they are so different. One is a waitress and the other is a tutor, and I like latter. I like teaching and communicating with people, so I enjoy a tutor. When you work at two or more places, you can compare the works. That time, you can choose the more interested one. But I don't think you don't have to consider your salary. To live comfortably, some money is need. You should choose your career paid a regular income. If you forget it, your family would live poor life. It is tragedy. You should choose your career that fascinated you, but you don't follow only your interest. Money is also important in your life.
			by Satsuki TANIKAWA



			145 【Weird Food】
			★ 2010/01/12(Tue)
			I have never had weird food. My life is nomal. In addition, I don't have food if the food has strange color,smell and so on. I have a prejudice a lot. Recently, I went to restaurant with my friends. There were the fried frog. My friends had it saying it was good. My friend who come from China said that chinese had frog. I was surprised! I tried having it. But I could not have it after all. I think that I had better have fighting spirit. I will challenge weird food when weird food is served next time.
			by MAKINO aya



			144 【Occupational Preference】
			★ 2010/01/08(Fri)
			I think stable salaries are most important when choosing a career. Life is supported by incomes. Everybody must work in order to earn living costs. Unstable income leads life feeling uneasiness. Losing your job leads to frighten your life. You need stable earning in order to live. I heard a story from my father that his friend lost job before. The friend had worked for his company for fifteen years. However, he was fired in the company's planned restructuring. He was supposed to make a bare living by unemployment insurance and savings, and have a hard time until finding new job. Trouble by losing job is not only physically but also mentally such as impatient or uneasiness. And a family budget is problem of whole family. Losing job causes all of your family some hardship at least. Though the friend made much effort to make his family happy, the life is different from before one. Nonetheless, stable salaries are most important when choosing a job, in order to live happily.
			by Fukumi KATO



			143 【Occupational Preference】
			★ 2010/01/03(Sun)
			The most important factor when choosing a career I think is suitability. However high one's salary is, he cannot continue his life if the job is not suitable for him. I have a friend whose father had died from overwork. Another friend who used to work part-time at a family restaurant quit the job because it had been too busy. It was difficult for him to go to school and work at a time. These cases are examples of jobs which are not suitable for individuals. I sometimes work as invigilator of high school student's practice examinations. This job is so suitable for me, for I am not good at service and manual labor. What is more, I prefer keep still and quiet. Even if the salary is not high, you can continue your job long if it is proper for you. I wish you find the job which is most suitable for you.
			by KASUGAI Shoko



			142 【Weird Food】
			★ 2009/12/31(Thu)
			Frankly speaking, I haven’t ever eaten something strange, but I heard my friend speaking about a strange ramen he ate 3 years ago. When he went to Katsushika Ward, Tokyo, he discovered a strange restaurant “Aroma” in which “Coffee Ramen” was served. He had his interest aroused and entered the restaurant. He wanted to know what “Coffee Ramen” tasted like, he tried ordering it. When the owner brought it, it naturally smelled like coffee. The owner said “Please pour milk over the soup”. But he tried eating it without milk. Actually, the soup was black coffee. So it was very bitter. He didn’t like black coffee, he was regretted eating it without milk. He decided to pour milk. The taste became mild. Then he tried to eat noodles. They were flavored with coffee, but they tasted like normal noodles. My friend told me that he wanted to eat “Coffee Ramen” again. After I heard this story, I came to want to eat it. If occasion offers, I want to go to “Aroma”.
			by Satoru NONOYAMA

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