To Increase Friends Abroad's Postings

Students who will apply to Osaka University are to be examined on a themed English composition test as a part of the college entrance examination. That's why I gave some 20 students special English composition lessons for 5 days last week. In Osaka University's themed English composition test, students should compose their writing within about 70 words. Lsat week, I picked up 5 themes from the university's past entrance examinations: 1 Do you want to use a time machine, or not? ; 2 What is your proudest experience? ; 3 How do you use the Japanese phrase "mottainai"? ; 4 What bad example shouldn't parents show to their children? ; and 5 What Japanese cultural literacy do you want to tell to foreigners? Some of my students even posted their writings onto Friends Abroad, a mailing list designed to enhance international communication among high school students. In addition, I have been organizing self-expression weekly activities since last April, the first month of our school year. There, students are encouraged to keep diary (or memos?) in English, to combine the materials into a writing, and to post it onto an international communication mailing list, Friends Abroad.