Here at Dokkyo Med, we're trying to motivate our (Japanese) students to start practicing, and hopefully develop, their English skills. And what better way than by making podcasts. In Just a Minute to...(talk)! Two students talk about a topic (they chose) for around a minute, with the idea of using key-words so that the listener (you) is able to guess what the main topic is. This is part of our TOEFL Class which is focused on Gist.

To check your answers, follow this link:

https://www.eclatdmu.com/forum/just-a-minute-podcast/just-a-minute-to-answers

Enjoy!

Here at Dokkyo Med, we're trying to motivate our (Japanese) students to practice, and hopefully develop, their English speaking skills. In preparation for this podcast; Talking Gist, students were given four questions to build a dialogue around: 

Where does the conversation take place? What situation are the students discussing? What is person A asking about?What does person B want to do?

Because the focus of the class is TOEFL Gist, students are not allowed to give away the main topics (answers to the questions), instead they use key-words that help the listener (You) to understand what the gist is.

Enjoy!

Here at Dokkyo Med, we're trying to motivate our (Japanese) students to start practicing, and hopefully develop, their English skills. And what better way than by making podcasts. In Just a Minute to...(talk)! Two students talk about a topic (they chose) for around a minute, with the idea of using key-words so that the listener (you) is able to guess what the main topic is. This is part of our TOEFL Class which is focused on Gist.

To check your answers, follow this link:

https://www.eclatdmu.com/forum/just-a-minute-podcast/just-a-minute-to-answers

Enjoy!

Inspired by BBC Radio 4's Just a Minute, hosted by Nicholas Parsons, two friends take each other on to see who can talk for just a minute. The first speaker is given a topic/subject, and must talk about that topic without hesitation or pausing, if the speaker does pause etc, then their friend can interrupt. The timer is stopped and a question can be asked. Each question asked equals 1 minus point! The timer is started again and the speaker continues until a minute is up! The roles are then reversed, the winner is the one who spoke for a minute with the least number of questions asked!

For our first pod, two 5th year students, Takeo and Eugene, bravely volunteered to take part and what a lot of laughs were had, all thanks to them!

Enjoy😂

Any views, information, or opinions expressed during the pod series are solely those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily represent those of Dokkyo Medical University and its employees.