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Isesaki School English Magazine 2018 Winter Impress Think outside of the box Impress Contents Staff 3 Sweet Traditions George Liu Toni Kobayashi 5 Unusual Traditions Martin Campbell Rachel Beilsmith Isesaki International 7 Christmas Party Yoshiko Araki Wakana Nakajima 9 2018 Haiku Contest ALTs of Isesaki 11 2018 Speech Contest The Isesaki Board of Education Impress Online 13 Miyago Visitors Guide www.Isesaki.in/Impress 14 Changing Lives Visit our website to get extra materials or to contact us. You can also reach us at: 15 Things in Winter • Sakai Kita Junior High • Sakai Nishi Junior High • Uehasu Junior High + It’s a Wrap 1 | Impress Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man Issue 10 sees one. Winter 2019 — Ezra Pound Winter 2019 | 2 Fruit Cake Christmas Pudding Trifle Cougnou Kransekake the UK the UK the UK the Netherlands Denmark / Norway Cookies Gingerbread Bûche de Noël Stollen Bolo-Rei Medieval1 Europe Unknown (Armenia?) France Germany Portugal The holiday2 season3 is a time for us to get 1 together4, share stories, and rebuild5 family bonds6. And it’s also a time to eat! Every country around the world7 has desserts8 they eat during the holidays. Some desserts are for Christmas. Others just take a 5 Sweet lot of time9 to make. Holidays are a perfect time for making and eating these delicious treats10. Traditions You can find lots of holiday desserts in every country. There are breads, cookies, cakes, candies, sweet soups, and sugary drinks. How about in 10 Japan? What kind of traditional11 desserts are there? And when do you eat them? Vocabulary 3 | Impress Šakotis Panettone Baklava Klappertaart Bibingka Lithuania Italy Greece / Turkey Indonesia the Philippines Rosca de Reyes Pan de Pascua Pavlova White Christmas Christmas Cake Spain Chile New Zealand Australia Japan How to Make Rice Pudding Rice pudding is an easy, tasty winter treat. Do you want to try to make it? Ingredients12 Procedure15 (注意しないと危険なので、 大人と一緒にやりましょう!) 1. Put all the Rice Cinnamon 1 cup 2 teaspoons ingredients in a pot and boil. 2. Turn the heat Milk Butter 6 cups (optional14) low and stir for 20 minutes. Sugar Raisins 3. Mix in the 1/4 cup (optional) optional extras. Vanilla Condensed 4. Cool, serve, and 2 Milk 13 enjoy! teaspoons (optional) Winter 2019 | 4 Japan has been celebrating Christmas in the past few decades but not as a religious activity1 Unusual or a holiday. It is celebrated by2 going on a date while watching illuminations, eating Kentucky Traditions Fried Chicken with family or making a Christmas cake which is usually decorated with whipped by Toni Kobayashi cream and strawberries. Here are some other countries who celebrate Christmas differently3. Filipinos celebrate Christmas for four months, the longest in the world! You will hear Christmas carols4 from September to January. They usually go to early morning masses5 for nine days. At midnight on Christmas Eve, the last day, they welcome Christmas Day with a mass. They say that if you finish your nine days, your wish will come true. The Philippines KFC in Japan, ham or turkey in the USA, and fried caterpillars6 in South Africa. We love our Christmas cake, but children there look forward to7 these treats8 for Christmas. These caterpillars are called “The Pine Tree Emperor Moth” or Christmas Caterpillars. If you have them for Christmas, you will be extra lucky next year. South Africa Vocabulary 5 | Impress Who comes on Christmas Eve? Santa Claus and his reindeers! But not in Norway. They believe that witches go around on Christmas Eve on a flying broom9. People hide10 their brooms because it will be stolen11. People do not go out on Christmas Eve, so the streets are very quiet. They have their Christmas dinner quietly in their homes. Norway In Austria, nice children get presents from Santa, while naughty12 children hide from Krampus. He is Santa Claus’s evil accomplice13. He looks like a goat14 and a man. He looks for naughty children, puts them in a sack15 and takes them away. He punishes16 them by hitting them with a stick. Krampus walks the street from early Austria December to Christmas Eve. The oldest Christmas tradition17 is the Yule Goat. It started in the 11th Century. Long ago18, the Yule Goat asked people for gifts. If they didn’t give him any, he played tricks on them. Today, he is a good goat. You can see small and big straw ornaments of the Yule goat everywhere on Christmas. Sweden Summary Winter 2019 | 6 Isesaki International Christmas Party 2018 Place: Isesaki Civic Plaza Time: 12/16, 2:00-4:00 Fee: 500 yen Try snacks from around the world! Enjoy face painting! “It was good to be “It was fun! “ involved with everyone.” “I was able to meet a lot of people.” Make a pastel art postcard! Sing Christmas songs! “I enjoyed it.” Can you answer the “I really wish I could questions here? speak English.” Come join us again next year! 7 | Impress Mixing Pot 1 1 Vocabulary A long time ago , Christmas wasn’t a big event. People went to church2. Over the years, Christmas changed to include3 trees, gifts, and Santa Claus. It changed because many cultures mixed4 and added their own traditions5. 5 Cultures are mixing in Japan, too. People from other countries are coming to Japan to visit, study, and work. They are bringing their own foods and events with them. And so we now have curry, churrasco, and pho. 10 A long time ago, Japan didn’t have Christmas. But now, almost6 every child in Japan gets a present from Santa. The Isesaki International Relations Association Questions held its first international7 Christmas party this 15 year to create strong relationships8 between its mixing cultures. A lot of people from many different cultures came. Nobody9 spoke perfect English or Japanese. But we all had fun10 getting to know each other11 and enjoying the 20 activities. Will you come next year? Summary Winter 2019 | 8 2018 Contest Results Koto Fujii Haruna Yoshida A snow Summer night white winter A fluffy In the quiet sky floating present From the Flowers bloom winter sky Impress Nene Aoki Riri Nakazato In the Sunflowers English autumn wind Under the Colorful trees Haiku blue sky are around Fall down Beautiful Contest while dancing Ayumi Sekiguchi Toru Hagiwara Mothers have My name is Toru two faces They are sweet But my teachers and kind outside call me Tom But scary I can’t write at home my name 9 | Impress “I wanted to do 2018 Speech Contest something special to remember the last year of junior high school. My friend was going to do the speech contest, but he wasn’t able to, and I thought, ‘Chance! ’ “I was very nervous, but I was relieved to finish my speech.” —Riru K. “I want everyone to know the importance of time with their families. I experienced A being relocated when I was in elementary school... the Way time I spent with my father decreased. But I learned a lot and I would be happy if with you could read about my experience and know how proud I was!” Words —Sayuki Y. “I didn’t like Gunma before, but at school, I learned about kankuro (burdock) and meisen (silk). I want to tell others about them. I was glad that everyone was interested in my speech. And I was glad that I could talk about the beauty of Gunma.“ —Sayuki I. Winter 2019 | 10 1. Miyako-Higashi The Miyago Times —————————————–———————–— Park Miyago Visitors—————————————–— —————————————–— Guide 2. Fireworks Featuring work by students of Miyago 3. Kasamatsu Junior High School —————————————–— 11 | Impress 4. Cosmos Field 5. Nature 6. Momiry-Witch Winter 2019 | 12 Changing Lives I teach my students with Diamond Dialog. It’s a tool to create free conversation using four related questions without reading or writing. I make it before I go to bed. It takes at least one hour! I got it from a teacher in Hokkaido, Shin Kato. His students can talk with their friends in English fluently. It was amazing. I was really impressed. I asked him, “How do you teach English? How did “When I was a high your students develop their English skills?” school student, my He answered, “Communication without letters.” basketball coach told Then he taught me about Diamond Dialog. me, ‘You will be a I ask my students, “Why do you study English? What do you think? For globalization? To good teacher.’ That is communicate with foreign people?” why I started to study I think learning English has a lot of merits. to be a teacher.” English is so useful that it makes your life better. For example, when you search for “how to practice basketball” in English, you can get more information than when you search in Japanese. A lot of experiences will teach you the importance of English, such as talking with foreign people, reading articles in English, or watching foreign videos on YouTube. Don't think about English, just feel it! Yuya Aoyama teaches English at Isesaki’s Dai 2 Junior High. He uses presentations and Diamond Dialog to 13 | Impress teach interesting lessons filled with student voices. 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