Football & Nagoya

I went to Nagoya at the weekend.

Nagoya and other things

Hi everyone, how's everything? At the weekend I went to Nagoya to attend a seminar and use the Nagoya University library. The seminar was very good, and the library was very nice, and I also had the chance to see The Hobbit, so it was a very good trip.

Football (yet again)

This last weekend's Premier League matches were very exciting. Manchester United beat Manchester City 3–2, and Liverpool beat West Ham by the same scoreline. Chelsea beat Sunderland 3–1, and Arsenal beat West Bromwich Albion. Apart from Spurs losing to Everton, the traditional top teams all won, and the table is looking closer to what it usually looks like, with the traditional top teams in the top half. Perhaps the only big disappointment is Newcastle, who were in the top 6 last year but are now in 14th.

In Japan the FIFA Club World Cup is going on, but unfortunately I haven't had time to see any of the matches. On Saturday, Chelsea flew to Japan after their Premier League match to join in the competition.

Working on writing errors

Hi everyone,

Today, let's work on writing errors, using my student Maika's worksheet. Let's use our typing homeworks. Please print out 3 or 4 of them and use them with the worksheet.

Nagoya

I went to Nagoya at the weekend. It was just a short trip: I flew up there on Friday night after classes, and had to come back on Saturday night because I had work to do on Sunday. But a teacher in Nagoya took me to a beer restaurant there on Friday night, and the workshop I attended on Saturday was excellent. I had to leave a little early to catch my flight back.

The FIFA Club World Cup 2012 is starting very soon. The first match, between Sanfrecce Hiroshima and Auckland City FC, is on December 6th. The competition will continue until December 16th. You can check out the schedule here.

Soccer, soccer, soccer

The Premier League is getting more and more exciting. Usually by this point in the season it is beginning to become clear who the top 4 teams will be at the end of the season. The general consensus at the beginning of the season was that those teams would be Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea, and Arsenal. However, Chelsea seem to have lost confidence, and the same appears to be true of Arsenal. Chelsea are still hanging on to third place, so the predictions may still turn out to be largely true, but Arsenal are now in 10th place, and it's difficult to see where improvement is going to come from. You can find the league table here.

The Football Club World Cup is coming soon. Maybe Chelsea will be able to discover a new mentality in Japan!

Blog Stats

As I have explained several times, it is very important in this course to write monthly Blog Stats posts. These posts allow you and your teacher to keep track of how much you have been writing, and to solve any problems that you discover.

Here is one example of a good Blog Stats post. You will notice that it has figures for November and also total figures for this semester. If you look around the blog, you'll also notice that it has Tags in the sidebar, and that the Tags include "blog stats". This is also necessary, because it enables us to find this important information easily at any time.

Mr Tomei will be checking all the blogs from Tuesday. There is a strong possibility that those without a blog stats post for November—visible in the sidebar—will fail the course.