Premier League

Do you like football? I like it very much. I used to play when I was in secondary school. I played on the right wing. These days, I don't play but I like watching. I don't have satellite TV at home, so I don't have much chance to watch Premier League soccer. But I do like following the soccer news on the Guardian website.

I was away over the weekend, so I was disappointed this morning when I checked the website to find that Arsenal had lost their match with Bolton Wanderers (the team where Jun'ichi Inamoto played in 2001-2). Arsenal were top of the table until the New Year, but now they have fallen to third, after drawing most of their recent matches. Now they're fighting to stay in 3rd place. (131 words)

Progress

Please finish the first essay before the next class (May 2nd), and also your 3rd book review.

Also, please count your word total. You should be at 1465 words or more.

Arsenal

Do you like football? I like it very much. I'm a fan of Arsenal, London's most famous team. Their manager is Arsene Wenger, who used to be the manager of Nagoya Grampus Eight in the early days of the J League. Arsenal don't have as much money as teams like Manchester United, Chelsea, and Manchester City. But they usually finish around 2nd or 3rd in the Premier League and play in the Champions League every year. This year, they were first until the New Year, then they were overtaken by Chelsea, and now they are fighting to hold on to the 3rd spot. They seem very tired these days, and always seem to concede a goal at the last minute to draw or lose the match. They lost to Bolton yesterday. (131 words)

Typing 1: First classes

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My recent parties

Hi, today I want to write about some parties that I have been having recently.

Why I Like Typing

Hi, I like typing. They call me the typing man, because I type all day and all night. This is why I like typing: It’s because I don’t have to think about the pain of existence.

Parties

These days, I am having a lot of parties. On Friday, I went to Terrsa, in the Suizenji area, for a retirement party for Prof. Ohwada. Prof. Ohwada used to be a professor at Tokyo University, but he moved to PUK about 15 years ago to create a new faculty. He was the Dean of the faculty for 7 years and also head of the graduate school. His specialty after moving to Kumamoto was plankton in the Yatsushiro Sea. Altogether, 108 people attended the party, from all corners of Japan. Many of them were professors from Tokyo, and many were his former students who now work all over the country. (110 words)

Missing word targets

Maybe you get sick one week, or you become very busy with other study, or your part-time job. In these circumstances, it is possible that you will fall behind the word target that week. Is there a penalty in this case?

The answer is "No", as long as you meet the target the following week. By the week after that, you should try to catch up with the schedule.

The best way to avoid problems with the targets is to write more than the target in the early weeks! Then, if you miss the weekly target one week, you will still be able to keep up with the schedule.

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Word Targets

In this class, the most important thing is writing fluency. Therefore, we have a target for the semester of 10,000 words.

To help you reach this goal, we have weekly targets, too. Since there are about 12 weeks between the first class and the last class, we divide 10,000 words by 12 to get 835 words as the basic weekly target.

However, at the beginning of the course, some of you may not be accustomed to writing lots of English, so the target for the first two weeks is only one half of that (420 words), and the target for the 3rd week is 0.75 (625 words) of the basic weekly target.

By the 4th week, you will have become accustomed to writing regularly in English, so the target for the 4th, 5th, and 6th weeks is the basic weekly target of 835 words.

After a few weeks of writing 835 words, you will be ready to increase your pace, so the target for the 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th weeks is 1.25 times the basic weekly target, i.e. 1050 words. In the final week, you will probably be busy with other things, so the target goes back to the basic weekly target of 835 words.

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Total: 258

Welcome to Writing Ⅲ

Hi, everyone, and welcome to Writing Ⅲ. This course is designed to help you develop confidence in writing and improve your writing, especially your writing fluency. We'll use blogs for the course. I think the course will be challenging, but I think it will also be a lot of fun. Let's enjoy writing in English! (55 words)