Here at Dokkyo Med, we're trying to motivate our (Japanese) students to practice, and hopefully develop, their English speaking skills. In preparation for this podcast; Talking Gist, students were given four questions to build a dialogue around: Where does the conversation take place? What situation are the students discussing? What is person A asking about?What does person B want to do? Because the focus of the class is TOEFL Gist, students are not allowed to give away the main topics (answers ...
Sep 24, 2021•3 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Here at Dokkyo Med, we're trying to motivate our (Japanese) students to start practicing, and hopefully develop, their English skills. And what better way than by making podcasts. In Just a Minute to...(talk)! Two students talk about a topic (they chose) for around a minute, with the idea of using key-words so that the listener (you) is able to guess what the main topic is. This is part of our TOEFL Class which is focused on Gist. To check your answers, follow this link: https://www.eclatdmu.com...
Sep 22, 2021•3 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Here at Dokkyo Med. we're trying to motivate our students to be more active and productive by challenging them to make a podcast. In this podcast the students were given five questions: 1 What would you really like to be different now? (Your desire) 2 What would you really like to be different in the future? (Your desire) 3 What do you really regret doing in the past? 4 What do you really regret not doing in the past? 5 What situation would you like to change? And asked to comment. Because of Ja...
Sep 20, 2021•5 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Here at Dokkyo Med, we're trying to motivate our (Japanese) students to practice, and hopefully develop, their English speaking skills. In preparation for this podcast; Talking Gist, students were given four questions to build a dialogue around: Where does the conversation take place? What situation are the students discussing? What is person A asking about?What does person B want to do? Because the focus of the class is TOEFL Gist, students are not allowed to give away the main topics (answers ...
Sep 17, 2021•3 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Here at Dokkyo Med, we're trying to motivate our (Japanese) students to start practicing, and hopefully develop, their English skills. And what better way than by making podcasts. In Just a Minute to...(talk)! Two students talk about a topic (they chose) for around a minute, with the idea of using key-words so that the listener (you) is able to guess what the main topic is. This is part of our TOEFL Class which is focused on Gist. To check your answers, follow this link: https://www.eclatdmu.com...
Sep 15, 2021•3 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Here at Dokkyo Med, we're trying to motivate our (Japanese) students to start practicing, and hopefully develop, their English skills. And what better way than by making podcasts. In Just a Minute to...(talk)! Two students talk about a topic (they chose) for around a minute, with the idea of using key-words so that the listener (you) is able to guess what the main topic is. This is part of our TOEFL Class which is focused on Gist. To check your answers, follow this link: https://www.eclatdmu.com...
Sep 08, 2021•3 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Here at Dokkyo Med, we're trying to motivate our (Japanese) students to practice, and hopefully develop, their English speaking skills. In preparation for this podcast; Talking Gist, students were given four questions to build a dialogue around: Where does the conversation take place? What situation are the students discussing? What is person A asking about?What does person B want to do? Because the focus of the class is TOEFL Gist, students are not allowed to give away the main topics (answers ...
Sep 08, 2021•4 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Here at Dokkyo Med, we're trying to motivate our (Japanese) students to practice, and hopefully develop, their English speaking skills. In preparation for this podcast; Talking Gist , students were given four questions to build a dialogue around: Where does the conversation take place? What situation are the students discussing? What is person A asking about?What does person B want to do? Because the focus of the class is TOEFL Gist, students are not allowed to give away the main topics (answers...
Sep 01, 2021•3 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Here at Dokkyo Med, we're trying to motivate our (Japanese) students to start practicing, and hopefully develop, their English skills. And what better way than by making podcasts. In Just a Minute to...(talk)! Two students talk about a topic (they chose) for around a minute, with the idea of using key-words so that the listener (you) is able to guess what the main topic is. This is part of our TOEFL Class which is focused on Gist. To check your answers, follow this link: https://www.eclatdmu.com...
Sep 01, 2021•3 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Inspired by BBC Radio 4's Just a Minute, hosted by Nicholas Parsons, two friends take each other on to see who can talk for just a minute . The first speaker is given a topic/subject, and must talk about that topic without hesitation or pausing, if the speaker does pause etc, then their friend can interrupt. The timer is stopped and a question can be asked. Each question asked equals 1 minus point ! The timer is started again and the speaker continues until a minute is up! The roles are then rev...
Feb 02, 2021•7 min•Season 1Ep. 1
