It's the halloween season again, and that means one thing - Halloween Movies!
There are so many great movies to be enjoyed during the halloween season to help us really feel the spooky vibe.
Don't worry, halloween movies don't have to be horror movies. There are many great Halloween movies made for children. Watching movies in English can be a great way to study too!
I like "Nightmare before christmas", "Corpse Bride", "Scooby Doo" and "Coraline".
"A series of unfortunate events" and "Casper the friendly ghost" are also on my much watch list!
What halloween movies do you like?
- Alex
先週末、英検一次試験を受験された皆さま、お疲れ様でした！
もう自己採点は、されましたか？
3級以上は二次試験の面接がありますので、早めに対策を始めましょう。
英検の面接では、出題のパターンが決まっているので、
事前にそのパターンを知っておくことがとても大切です。
しっかりとシミュレーションしておくと、本番で必要以上に緊張することもなくなります。
アミティーではノックをして"May I come in?"と入室するところからしっかりと練習を行います。
面接で本来の力を発揮できるよう、先生たちと一緒に対策をしましょう！
対策レッスンをご希望の方は、マネージャーもしくは担当講師までご連絡ください。
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Learning to read is a difficult but important process and there are many steps involved in learning to read.
One of the first steps in learning to read is Pre-Reading behaviors. This means that students are becoming aware of the written word around them without understanding its meaning. For example, pointing out signs or pretending to read their favorite picture book. This is an important first step of them becoming interested in reading and literacy.
The next step is learning single letters and their phonics sounds. It is not important what order the letters are taught in but that students are exposed to these letters again and again to better remember and recall them.
After single letter phonics comes blending those single letter sounds together. For example, if students know 'm' sound, 'a' sound, and 't' sound then they need to bring all those sounds together to sound out the word 'mat.' This is a critical step to sound out short words.
Once students are comfortable with sounding out short words it is recommended that they be introduced to sight words. These are words that cannot be sounded out but instead must be memorized to be recognized. Some examples of sight words are 'the', 'are', and 'they.'
Once these steps have been met then it is important for students to work on speed and fluency during reading. For example, being able to read word families quickly can improve students reading fluency and speed. An example of a word family is ending in '-an' there are many words that end in '-an' like can, ran, fan, and man. If students know and recognize these word families they will read faster and more fluently.
Another part of building speed and fluency are working on blending sounds like 'sh' or 'bl' that create common sounds in the English language. Knowing and being able to recognize the sound it makes quickly will allow students to read more quickly.
While all these steps are extremely important in learning to read there is one more step that is critical. Creating and making meaning out of the text is the most important part of learning to read. It is one thing for a student to be able to sound out the word 'mat' but if they do not understand what 'mat' means then they cannot connect the text to the actual object then reading is meaningless to them.
Learning to read is a long and difficult process but can open a world of possibilities in the future. Happy reading!!
This past weekend we had the EIKEN tests. Many students tried the EIKEN 4 and EIKEN 5 tests here at Amity.
We want to commend everyone who tried these tests for their hard work!
Below I'll include a few points people found difficult.
EIKEN 5
1. A. "where's Mom, Arthur?"
B. ( At the store. ) She's buying fruit for dinner.
Students struggled to identify the question word, where, to find the correct answer. Simple where questions are often answered using AT. At the store, at school, at home, at the park, at the zoo etc.
2. A. This umbrella is nice. ( Whose is it? )
B. It's my father's.
Students struggled to identify the question word, whose, to find the correct answer. When asking about belongings, simple whose questions will often be answered by a person and 's. My father's, John's, Sara's. etc.
Alternatively they might use, mine, his, hers, theirs or ours.
EIKEN 4
3. Nancy ( and I were at the concert hall ) last night.
Eiken 4 students often struggle with word order in past tense sentences. Students might also have been unfamilar with "Nancy and I" in place of "We" as the subject of this sentence. This sentence structure is ,SUBJECT were at PLACE DATE.
4. Many students struggled with part 4 in the reading section. This was using an email structure. Younger students who might be unfamilar with emails will have struggled a lot with this question. We have to understand who is the sender and reciever of the email, and how to identify that information.
In conclusion, generally speaking students struggled more with the Reading section than the Listening section across both EIKEN 4 and EIKEN 5 tests. The consistent use of phonics drill books and also simple english storybooks is our recommendation for improving reading at home.
Good work everyone. Let's keep working hard.
今月も受付がスタート致しました！
今月は①入学金全額免除 ②１１月の授業料無料
のキャンペーンを実施中です！
体験レッスンは火曜～土曜まで随時行っております！
★０４７－３１８－６１４１までご連絡くださいませ。
お電話でお子様の様子をヒアリング→来校・体験レッスン
→料金面等のお話→入会手続きという流れで進めて参ります。
お問い合わせお待ちしております。
アミティー市川妙典校 青木
11月は、英検Jr.(R)を実施します。BRONZE/SILVER/GOLDの３段階になっており、それぞれ音声を聞いて実施するテストです。目指すは100点満点です。満点の優秀賞もGETしましょう。また、10/30～11/4は、直前対策レッスンを実施します。初めて受験する子も、１年ぶりの子も、準備をしっかり行い、本番に臨みましょう！対策レッスンにご興味のある方は、マネージャーもしくは担当講師までお知らせください。
本日は、赤ちゃんが数ある言語の中から新しい言語をどのようにして学習するかについて、興味深い発見をご紹介いたします！
パトリシア・クール博士（2010）によると、言語の学習には臨界期と呼ばれる期間があり、7歳になるまでが言語習得能力がもっともっと高くなり、その後徐々に言語習得能力が低下していくそうです。赤ちゃんは音を聞きながら統計を取ることができ、赤ちゃんはすべての言語を区別できるので、世界市民（citizens of the world）と言われています。
赤ちゃんが統計を取るうえで大人は大きな役割を担っており、大人が直接話してあげる必要があります。ある研究によると、ビデオを見て機械音を聞いていた赤ちゃんは何も学んでいませんでした。これは社会脳が機能していなかったためです。オーディオやビデオは人間の役割を担うことはできないということになりますね。赤ちゃんの言語習得方法はとても興味深いですよね！
アミティーでは、生後半年からの赤ちゃんクラスがございます！
まだ日本語も話さないのに、英語と思うかもしれませんが、
ベビーから英語を始めるメリットはたくさんあります！
是非興味のある方はご来校ください！
What do you like about the Fall?
Summer is coming to an end and fall is finally beginning.
We asked some of the teachers what they like about fall.
Alex sensei said " I like seeing the leaves change color. I also like wearing autumn style clothes."
Hayato sensei said "I like the weather in fall, and I LOVE Halloween!
Aoki Manager said "I like the water leaves and the chestnut and pumpkin flavoured confections."
Lily sensei said "In fall it's a little chilly, so I like drinking hot drinks."
What do you like about fall?
Here are some interesting Fall vocabulary!
Chestnut - 栗、マロン
Pumpkin - かぼちゃ
Cool - 涼しい
Autumn - 秋
Cozy - 居心地がいい
Trick or Treat - トリックオアトリート
Nippy - 肌寒い
Harvest - 収穫
Deciduous - 落葉性の
英検協会より、2025年度、新設級が導入されることが発表となりました。
■英検に新設級（準2級と2級の間）導入
英検準2級と2級の間に新たな級が導入されます。
英検（従来型）/英検S-CBTともに2025年度からの開始を目指して、今後開発を進めていくそうです。
※今後、詳細に関しましては、英検協会からの情報が分かり次第お知らせ致します！
