New Energy Sources!

Hello Environmental English students! Thank you all for your mails along with your answers and your choices for the upcoming project. I'm not sure that everyone understood fully what you were supposed to do. On part E, page 42, number 1, you were to choose ONE of the renewable energy sources on page 43: Solar or Hydro. Then you were to study the information and answer number 2 from part E. Most of you did this well, although a few of you didn't write enough, or wrote answers for both. Thank you for this, but you didn't need to do it. Part E, 3 says to conduct a seminar on your decisions. We will change this slightly and you have an opportunity to choose a topic from which to complete a bigger, more challenging project. This leads us into...

...the second part of the homework, which was to choose your renewable energy source for the Topic Design/Presentation similar to design your own recycling center. This project will be similar to that one, except I will give vocabulary and sentences for each topic in class. Then you should write the Japanese meanings of the words, answer the questions, and finally design your topic. A few of you did not give me your topics yet. We will finalize the topic selection, as well as the vocabulary and questions, in class tomorrow. After that, you and your partner will need to design your own topics in class and for homework.

Again, for your reference, the topics to choose from are: 1) solar power, 2) wind power, 3) hydro power, 4) geothermal power, or 5) wave power. The words under these are the vocabulary for that topic, not other choices. I'm sorry if I wasn't clear about this, but we will give the topic more attention in tomorrow's class. In addition, we will begin to design the topics in class as well. Everyone's topic and theme may be different; however, this is a very interesting chance to see many students' ideas for such an important topic. This project will be more open-ended than the first one, but it will give you more flexibility to be creative with your designing process. Your ideas are very important, and it is a good chance to let others share your thinking.

Thank you for reading. If anyone has not sent me your homework, please do so. We will continue to focus more on the topic of renewable energy for the next two weeks. Any question, please mail!
See you tomorrow.