English @Tsuru

• Choosing English as a major – who?• Choice, choice, choice!• New – New Global Careers Program– More and more Study Abroad opportunities– English Conversation Space (E-Space)

UK Exchange Program

Oxford Brookes University

USA & Canada Exchange Programs

University of California

St Norbert

St Norbert – close to the Packers!

American football team

Rutgers – New Jersey (New York)

University of Regina (Canada)

University of Tasmania (Australia)

Hawaii – 3 Week Program

NEW!! E-Space

Come and try it at Open Campus in July

Now 5 days a week!

Speak freely with friendly

native speakers

E-Space

E-Space

E-Space

E-Space

Me

World-famous orangeeye picture

OK, NOT world-famous

Famous in my house

My website

fujisantrip.com

Mobile learning

Using computers and mobile phones

Use the tools

Use the tools – my motto!

fujisantrip.com

Pairwork with mobile phones!

Good “face to face” communication

We’ll get you doing some pairwork soon!

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Text and pictures

Stuff like this

Traditional reading based stuff

It’s all free!

Some listening plus traditional quiz

So what?

Pairs page

Partner A

Partner B

Check the same ones

Well done!

Never mind

Gap-filling A

Gap-filling B

HINT

Pictures A

Pictures B

Local A

Local B

I teach Intercultural Communication

Introduction to Mount Fuji

And Linguistics

言語学

Let’s do a little Linguistics!

Sound boring?

Sometimes it is

Sometimes it isn’t

Sometimes it’s funny

Ambiguity

Two meanings

• 両義性• Or maybe MORE than two manings

Ambiguous

Could mean more than one thing

Faces or goblet/vase?

Ambiguity in language

The linguist loves ambiguity more than WHAT?

More than he loves most people?

More than most people love ambiguity?

Sherlock saw the man with the binoculars

Structural ambiguity

“Call me”

• Call me a taxi• You’re a taxi

What?

Who is drinking the beer?

How?

Why?

Who’s got the knife?

Cook what?

Great camouflage!

Camouflage

It actually DISAPPEARED!

Great camouflage!

How could they?

Kids make nutritious snacks

Big news?

Not anything?

• Eye drops off shelf• Stolen painting found by tree• Dealers will hear car talk• Miners refuse to work after death

• Man eating piranha mistakenly sold as pet• Grandmother of eight makes hole in one• 7 foot doctors work in the area• Angry cow injures farmer with ax• Nurse helps dog bite victim• Drunk man gets nine years in voilin case

Lexical ambiguity: English and Portuguese

Ambiguity: more than one meaning

What is this?

Structural ambiguity

I saw the man with glasses

• I [saw [the man] [with glasses]]• I [saw [the [man with glasses]]

Sherlock saw the man with the binoculars

Who has the binoculars?

• She killed the man with the tie

• She [killed [the man] [with the tie]]• She killed [the [man with the tie]]

“With the tie” as part of the verb phrase

The cat with the tie: Noun phrase

I’m going to kill the cat with my tie: Prepositional adverb

[Porcelain [egg container]]

[[Porcelain egg] container]

[The chicken [is[ready[to eat]]]]

[The chicken [is[ready to eat]]]

• Ready-to-eat chicken

Let’s get you talking!

• これはペンです• Say it in English!!• This is a pen

Spot the difference

Same or different?

Picture A

Picture B

From Shizuoka

From Yamanashi

Picture A

Picture B

J2 next year

J1 next year

Non-stop speaking in English

• Say the sentences to each other IN ENGLISH• Are they the same or different?• If they are DIFFERENT, write a circle around

the different part• If they are the SAME, do nothing

Same or different?

Circle the different part

Same or different?

If they are the SAME …

… do nothing