夏の夜の肝試し ― 考える時間 ― (その1)
Dare in a Summer Night – Time to Think - (Part 1)
LLシホヤ新井教室では、第36回LL スピーチコンテストの練習がたけなわです。
The practice of the 36th LL Speech Contest is now in full swing in LL Shihoya Arai School.
PCクラス以上(実用英検5級レベル～準1級レベル)では、課題文の末尾に「自分の意見、考え」を述べる部分があります。
There is additional part, “the students have to try to tell his/her own opinion or thought” on each recitation, which is from PC-class (the levels are from the 5th to Pre-1st of Eiken).
例えば、PDの「亀は万年」の課題文では、…
For example, according to “The Tortuous Lives for Ten Thousand Years” of PD class …
ペット屋さんに、「亀は1万年生きますよ。」と言われ、喜んで買った庭師が…
Relying on the pet shopkeeper’s words: “this tortuous will live for ten thousand years”; the gardener bought it quickly. But, …
買った亀が、翌日すぐに死んでしまったので、早速苦情を言いましたが、…
His tortuous died the next day, then he went to the shopkeeper to complain of its death,; however, …
「今日が1万年目です。」で落語の落ちのようになっています。
The pet shopkeeper said to him, “So today was the tortoise’s birthday. It must be ten thousand years.” – That sounds like a punch line of a rakugo, Japanese sit-down comedy.
課題文の最後にある通り、ヨッシーは、「そう言われて、庭師はペット屋さんに、どう言い返すでしょうか？」と6人全員に意見を求めました。(この場合は日本語でのQ-A)
Yoshy tried to ask all the six students of the class as it is written at the last question of their recitation, “Well, everyone, how do you think the gardener will say to the shopkeeper?” (Q-As between Yoshy and them were in Japanese in this case.)
「ああ、そうですか。」と引き下がる客は珍しいでしょうね。応答はたくさんあるはずです。「寿命直前の亀だったら、見ればわかるぞ！」とか、「うまい！座布団1枚！」とか、…
In this case, there is very few customers would retire back home, saying, “I see.” There must be lots of replies to the shopkeeper. For example, … “Hey! Anyone can see if the tortuous is just before its death or not!”, “Cool excuse! You can get a cushion!”, etc.
今回のレッスンでは、残念なことに、生徒の顔色を見ていると、「真剣に考えていた生徒」は、6人中2名だけ。全員、答えが出ません。
I was sorry, in their last lesson; most of all could give Yoshy no answers; two of the six were thinking earnestly, Yoshy observed their faces.
一般論ですが、今の日本の小学生は、「学習方法」ばかりか、「遊び方」、「躾」すら、「大人から与えられていて」、手間暇かかる「創意工夫の機会」がどんどん少なくなっているのでは？
In general terms, most Japanese elementary school students of today have been given so many things by adults such as not only “how to learn”, but also even “how to play” and “good manners”. So to speak, “good opportunities to stretch children’s originality and ingenuity” are rapidly increasing, aren’t they?
つづく。
This continues to an upcoming blog.
2013年度、LL スピーチコンテストの課題文は、You can read all the script of LL Speech Contest in 2013 by clicking：HERE:ここをクリックなさってください。