Second Semester 4th Year English Communication Class  2008-9
Mondays 120-250

The second semester for 4th Year students has recently covered these topics:

How work has changed and is changed - including reducing child labour, people increasingly working beyond retirement age, and automation.

The current economic downturn and its effects - including looking at newspaper and TV news reports on:
The issue of bonuses when companies are receiving government bailouts
Leading by example - an airline boss takes a reduced salary and 'perks'
Jobhunting pressures for students in China

On 22nd December we also heard from Shogo

about his experiences studying in Vancouver: Canada.

Graduation Thesis Development:
In the Autumn, students presented their 'chuukan happyo', the interim report on their graduation theses.  Following that, students are now explained their progress in small groups in this class.  Nami is shown here on 17th November talking to Tuswadi and Yuriko: