Solution Intermediate 3rd Edition Audio Workbook

[Magnhild Lachowicz]

Likethe JBPI, the book's lessons are organized into 8 units, each of which covering a specific topic. They will help expand the student's breadth of conversation with increasingly more complex subject matters.

This edition presents a new method of studying kanji. Each lesson offers about 7 topic-specific kanji to add to the vocabulary. Kanji Worksheets for kanji practices are available for download on Kodansh USA website.

Volume 3 is similar to Volume 2 and comprises 8 units of study topics. Students are gradually introduced to various aspects of the Japanese society while also learning the syntax and vocabulary required for the intermediate level.

This workbooks provide practices for using the vocabulary and grammar in the textbooks, including conversation Exercises, Speaking Practices, and Target Dialogues, which are accompanies by a large number of illustrations.

This workbook provides practice problems on the grammar and vocabulary covered in each unit of the textbook. There are also practice problems for listening comprehension and reading comprehension. Reading materials include a blog written by a Canadian living in Japan. Each entry covers the lessons presented in a unit, and there is a field for adding comments on the entry.

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Hello everybody and welcome to this inaugural lecture. I'm really, really, really honoured to be here and talking to my family, my grandma, my friends, my academic colleagues, some students, some graduates, and even my mentees from the SMF are here today and it's amazing to see how many people have taken the time out of their evening to join me in this journey through wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff.

So I guess you already know this, but I absolutely love teaching. I always have done and I always will do. It's the one part of my job that gives me goosebumps. It's one part of the job that I always look forward to. In fact, when I'm feeling a bit stressed about work or about things outside work, the world when I get in the front of the classroom, I find it completely evaporates and I lose myself in the moment and I kinda hope the students feel the same, to be honest with you.

But I've been thinking quite a bit about 'Why do I love teaching so much?' and I guess the start of my talk comes from a reflection on that very, very question. And this picture here, I suppose, encapsulates to me something about the way I teach.

So this picture was taken in 2018 at the University of Derby's Family Fun Day, I believe I'm talking to some young family, youngsters and their families about forensic science. You know that I'm dressed in my normal smart attire that I wear at the University. And I think I like his picture 'cause it encapsulates the key thing I feel about teaching.

So some of you might be saying 'fun? Fun at universities? Having fun whilst learning? Nahhh! What a load of rubbish!' As words of wisdom, the first one was 'Dad don't be embarrassing' and the second one was 'Dad, don't do any dancing' - so hopefully I don't disappoint there. But after those words of advice, I decided that I'd do a bit of reflection through my own education experience, all the way back to when I was very small, to see if I can understand where this sense of fun came from.

And the first picture I came across was this one. So this is me aged around two and you can see I've got a Jedi robe on there of some description and a Spiderman under my arm. And I think this is the earliest picture encapsulates the sense of fun.

Some of you may be laughing at home at the picture, but to be honest with you, the only thing I'm wondering about is what my mum did with that Doctor Who - Spiderman figurine. Bet it's worth a few quid now and I think I've taken that sense of fun all the way through my academic career. In fact, I think you'd be hard-pressed to find anybody else who's managed to get away with coming to University dressed as a Jedi, a pirate, Santa Claus - twice, even Doctor Who. I think perhaps the lycra Spiderman costume would be a step too far, but we'll see on that. So that sense of fun has always been in me. But where did that sense of fun come from?

So what I did is I delved into my school reports, which I've kept all the way from primary school. And this one that you can see on the screen now comes from my year six, so my last year of primary school. And it's a statement at the end of the work, and I'll just read a teeny little bit out to you, and it says 'Ian is a quietly spoken, almost shy boy, is very popular with his close group of friends, is extremely reliable and polite and always willing to work hard.'

Now I'm not convinced many people now would describe me as a 'shy and quietly spoken' person. But in fact, this theme is in every single one of my school reports. All the way from Year five all the way up till I got to A-Level. Then something changed. And the only other consistent feature in my school reports is that I have terrible handwriting and spelling, which I know my dad would be nodding sagely at home to agree that's still the case. So what changed for me?

Well, I think one of the main things that changed me was a secondary school teacher I had called Mrs. Hatten. Now Mrs. Hatten taught well, she was a bit bonkers, but she was over the top and exaggerated in the way that she explained things. She really took that embryonic love of biology in me and cemented it into something solid, and it hasn't gone away ever since.

I think that's the early roots of showing me how to teach properly and enthuse people. So hats off to Mrs. Hatten for that experience. In fact, she probably did too good a job, because if you look at this school report you can see from my A-Level biology, the first line says 'He sometimes shows OVER enthusiasm which can hinder his progress'. And I'm pretty certain a few people in the audience, perhaps even a certain PVC Dean may agree with that statement.

I think also at this time of my life I came a little bit involved with amateur dramatics, and I got to play Willy Wonka in the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at school, and I guess this is an early nod to what I call 'theatre-based teaching', which is something that I like to do with my undergraduate students on occasion. And both of these things carried through into my undergraduate days where I studied biology. So I've managed to find at least one picture from my undergraduate days that I could share with you - safely - with the family audience, which showed off these theatrical roots. And this is a picture on the bottom right from when we were fundraising for Operation Wallacea.

We're trying to go to Sulawesi in a conservation effort. And I think you could probably work out which one I am in the picture. Yep, I'm the gorilla. And just so you know I'm not friends with the Emoji Family, I'm just protecting the identity of these people.

So my last reflective point for looking back on my school days and definitely the most important one for me was this. So this is from when I was in year seven, so my first year in secondary school, and in my personal statement, at the end, you have to write your hobbies, and when I read this I was outstanding because nothing has changed since I was that age.

So war-gaming. OK, so I still love games, not that war game anymore but I love games, I still like role play games. I still love reading. Not horror, but I love fantasy. I still love music. I like playing computer games. And a little-known secret; I've sacrificed all the Star Wars and Doctor Who in the world for football, which is my greatest love, and that unfortunately, you can see on that statement there is incredibly prophetic, you know, very much true today.

So you're probably thinking now what's all this got to do with learning and teaching?' And what I'm trying to say to you is this sense of fun and these things I've had in me ever since I was a young boy really affect the way I feel about teaching now.

I want to start this story with a tale of two pyramids. So the pyramid that you can see on the left represents something that we call 'Blooms Taxonomy'. So Blooms Taxonomy is a hierarchical framework. There are in fact three, which deal with the Cognitive, the Effective and the Sensory domains. And these are the skills that we want to generate in our students. And the ones at the top of the pyramid are the ones we really desire. So we want students to be able to be evaluating creating things by the time that they leave us.

In fact, this really applies to a game. If you think about a game like chess, when you start playing chess the first time, the first thing is remembering - the bottom part of the pyramid - the way all the different pieces move. Then you start to understand the interactions between the pieces before we start applying them and playing some games. After you've played some games, you start analyzing what you've done and evaluating that before finally starting creating your own strategies to playing chess and hopefully beating people.

So that shows you the evolution process through this hierarchy. The pyramid on the other side is a crude representation of how students learn, where the thinner parts of the pyramid, representing where they learn least So they learn least in what we call 'Passive Learning' techniques. So just reading about things, hearing about things, seeing things, and they tend to learn more when those things are done in combination or when they are actively involved as part of the learning experience.

So if we just flip that pyramid around like this. I believe really to get the higher order skills, that creating and evaluating, then we should be adopting a very active learning approach to our teaching.

And what do I mean by 'Active Learning'? So I certainly don't mean doing a bit of Joe Wicks MBE whilst talking about molecular biology, that though I'm happy to give that a go one day if I think it will give some benefits to the students. By active learning, I simply mean allowing students to be part of the learning experience. They're not passive recipients, they're actually doing something.

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