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Muroran Times speaking. Homeroom teachers will take charge of the MURORAN classes; however, the assistance of ALTs, assistant foreign language teachers, is necessary. TIMES Muroran Board of Education has brought in February 1, 2011 No.255 three ALTs, and the teachers in charge will Muroran City Office 1-2 Saiwai-cho, Muroran, team-teach some English classes with the ALTs. Hokkaido 051-8511JAPAN<0143-22-1111> し がつ しょうがくごねんせい ろくねんせい え い ご じゅぎょう はじ ４月から小学５年生と６年生で、英語の授業が始ま に し い ぶ り せんせい けんしゅう おこな News and Topics るため、西胆振でも先生の研修が 行 われていま す。 Frigid Winter Weather Continued in Muroran Information and Invitations The severe winter weather and unusual amount of snow falls have continued across the country Free Consultations during this winter season. The high temperatures in Muroran ranged mostly below [Date]February 12(Sat) 1:00p.m. ~ zero in January. Muroran has been unusually 3:00p.m. cold. The unusual amount of snowfall [Place] Muroran Citizen’s Hall burdened the Muroran citizens with excessive [Counselor] Lawyer, licensed tax accountant, snow removal. Senior citizens who live in the judicial scrivener, doctor, and dentist Mizumoto and Takasago area have been [Application] on that day assisted in snow removal by the association of [More Information] Muroran East Rotary the Muroran Institute of Technology students. Club;Mr.Arai (Tel: 090-1308-1955) The snowfalls have burdened not only the civic life but also the municipal budget for the Chuo-cho Festival current fiscal year. More snowfalls will add [Date] February 19(Sat) 11:00a.m.~ 4:00p.m. costs to the snow removal budget; the original [Place] Chuo-cho sho-koen (park) budget is two hundred thirty million yen for the [Contents] There will be a penguin march, year, and forty million yen was added to the a slide made of snow, and yakitori sales. budget last year. More Information] Executive committee: ぜんこくてき きび さむ おおゆき つづ ふゆ 全国的に厳しい寒さと大雪が続くことしの 冬、 Mr.Funamoto(Tel:0143-22-8211) むろらん ちほう いちがつ と う か れ ん ぞ く ま ふ ゆ び Danpara Winter Festival 室蘭地方も １ 月に１０日連続して真冬日となりま [Date] February 20(Sun) した。 [Place] Danpara Ski Ground English Education [Contents] in Elementary Schools ・Opening Ceremony and Muroran Board of Education is now training Scattering Mochi(rice cake) elementary school teachers to start English 10:00a.m.~ classes which will be newly added to the Snowboard Lesson curriculum for 5th and 6th grade students from ・ April this year. Applications will be accepted at 9:30 on that day. The English classes will be held for 35 hours in [Conditions] over the third grade a year. The aim of the classes is to make the of elementary school students feel familiar with English so the [Limit] first 50 people primary content of the classes is listening and [Application] by telephone until February 18 1 ・ Cross-country Ski Lesson Winter Festival at KARURUSU Hot Applications will be accepted at 9:30 on that day. Springs [Conditions] over the third grade of Let’s go into the hot springs at KARURUSU elementary school after enjoying many games [Course] 3km or 5km [Date] March 6(Sun) [Application] on that day [Place] Noboribetsu SANRAIBA skiing area ・Large Janken Rally: There is no age [Contents] 9:30a.m.~ looking for oranges in the snow 10:00a.m.~ Parent-and-child limitation. Winner will get a present. bobsled competition(Limit:first 100 pairs, 0:30p.m.~ Registration begins from 9:45 a.m.) ・Treasure Search on the Snow Mountain 11:00a.m.~ Strike one 0:30p.m.~ Hole-in-one 2:00p.m.~ Orofure snowfield treasure search [Conditions]: under junior high school student 2:45p.m.~ Scattering Mochi(rice cake) on 1:30p.m. ~ the snow ・Citizens’ Skiing Rally [More Information] Noboribetsu Sightseeing Association (Tel: 0143-84-3311) Applications will be accepted from 9:00a.m. on that day. [Conditions] over elementary school children [Game] Giant slalom Interview [Information] Lodge Danpara (0143-43-5600) Konnichiwa “Muroranese”〔Vol.16〕 Danpara Winter Events ・Bobsledding by Rubber Tube [Date] February 6(Sun) ~ 20(Sun) Achy Guillaume [Admission Fee] 100 yen per 1 day: Under elementary school children is free ・Citizens snow figure Competition [Date] February 13(Sun) ~ 20(Sun) Interviewed by Mike Nima Victory ceremony will be held on February 20 1:00p.m. Achy Guillaume is from Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, [Information] Executive committee (Tel: and lives in Muroran. He speaks English, 090-8273-7417) French, Japanese, and the African languages Attié and Dioula. He first came to Muroran in Hand-made Noodle Course 1998 and has lived in Japan for over ten years. I spoke with Achy at the Green store in [Date] February 27(Sun) 9:00a.m. ~12:00noon Nakajima while listening to Christmas songs [Place] Sun Life Muroran playing in the background. [Limit] 10 people ∗ by lottery if (First of three parts) number of applicants exceeds 10 [Admission Fee] 1.000 yen What were you doing before you came to [Application] by telephone until February 20 Japan? What countries and places in Japan [More Information] Sun Life Muroran have you visited? (Tel: 0143-55-3040) Thank you very much for your interview. 2 Before coming to Japan, I was in my country China, Lebanon, and so on. Many of them have working at the weather office, and also I was a dual nationality and live in Côte d’Ivoire student at the national university. permanently. But there are almost no Japanese I was in Europe, so I visited France, Spain, and people there except the personnel of the Hungary. I have not travelled a lot in Japan. embassy. I’ve stayed in Sapporo, Muroran, and Eniwa. I’ve been to places like Kushiro, Obihiro, and I was reading today that some Japanese of course Tokyo. companies like Rakuten and Panasonic are trying to make English their official corporate What are some positive aspects about living in language, because they want to be able to do Japan? What are some differences between your business on a more international level. What lifestyle in Côte d’Ivoire and your lifestyle here? do you think of that? Is your home in Côte d’Ivoire less safe than it is Right now we are in a global world, so to be here? international is very important, specifically for Tokyo can be very busy, but in Muroran we can companies, because that can make them much live at a slower pace and enjoy many more competitive and puts them on a better things—restaurants, facilities, and so on. track. I hope that they will continue on their Personally, I like doing sports, and I have had process and that other companies will join many occasions to practice sports like soccer them. and jogging. It’s very safe here, and we can enjoy good night life. We don’t need to worry In Japan, there are many different opinions too much here about insecurity. Generally about English education in the school system. speaking, I have a very quiet lifestyle here. In What do you think the role of English learning Africa, I would spend more time with my is in Japan, and what direction do you think it family and friends there. But I like my is going? lifestyle in Muroran. Yes, Japan is a safe place. Talking about internationalization, you need to For example, right now, we have had political have an open mind. People here are used to elections in Côte d’Ivoire, and we are going speaking and learning Japanese, so in order for through some troubles with the results of the them to be international, they need another election and so on. So some people are fighting language, which is English. So to study over that, and there are some conflicts between English is very important, I think, for the future different parts of the country. of Japan. The truth is that many Japanese students spend a lot of time studying English, Japan is called a fairly homogeneous but their English ability is not very high. That country—over 98% of the people are said to be means something is not correct in the English Japanese. What is the ethnic mixture like in teaching process. It’s important for those in Côte d’Ivoire? Which country would you say is charge of English—not the teachers, but those more international? at the administrative level—to think about We have about sixty languages, so it’s not really better ways of improving English teaching, so homogeneous. Each language is localized in a that Japanese students can have better levels of specific part of the country, with its own culture. English. Ivorians are physically the same, but culturally we are quite different, depending on the language. Japanese Lesson More than twenty-five percent is of foreign “Nihongo de hanasou” origin. In Japan, that number is less than two percent, I think. Most of the foreigners in ＜Topic of the month＞ Côte d’Ivoire are from other African countries, but we do have other foreigners from France, “Setsubun”：節分〔setsubun〕 3 Vocabulary bean-throwing ceremony：豆まき〔mamemaki〕 About Japan ■How to read (yomikata) throw：なげる〔nageru〕 bean：豆〔mame〕 soybean：大豆〔daizu〕 roast：炒る〔iru〕 cast out：追い出す〔oidasu〕 demon：悪霊〔akuryou〕 devil：鬼〔oni〕 ■How to write (kakikata) good luck：福〔fuku〕 invite：招く〔maneku〕 mask：お面〔omen〕 health：健康〔kenkou〕 Phrases (1)「鬼は外、福は内。」 〔oni wa soto, fuku wa uchi〕 “Devils out, Good luck in!” （2）「年の数だけ豆を食べると健康になる Cinema Guide Muroran Gekijo (Higashi-machi) と言われています。」 1.ＧＡＮＴＺ (Japanese) 〔toshinokazudake mame wo taberuto kenkou ni naru 2.僕と妻の１７７８の物語(Japanese) to iwarete imasu〕 3.相棒Ⅱ(Japanese) People eat the same number of beans as their 4.Unstoppable age for good health.
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