Memorial Day - Friends and relatives put flowers on the graves of soldiers. He has a sore throat, a fever, and his body aches. Mail Carrier - Van is going to apply for a management position at work. Grand Canyon - The Soto family is at the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Sanchez is pregnant with her first child.ĮSL Student - Benito is too shy to read in front of his ESL class.įamily Dinner - The Smith family starts eating healthy meals.įather's Day Gift - Maria wants to buy her father a special Father's Day gift.įireman - Fire fighters respond to a fire on Elm Avenue in Bayside.įlag of the United States - The American flag was adopted June 14, 1777. He is coughing a lot.ĭentist - James has a toothache on the right side of his mouth.ĮSL Teacher - Mrs. Short Stories Arbor Day - Marla and Tio plant a tree in the yard.īreakfast - Jack has high cholesterol and has to stop eating donuts.īus Driver - Adan wants to retire next year when he turns sixty-two.Ĭar Accident - Oh, no! Bob had a car accident, but he's okay.Ĭhecking Account - Rosa's fiance wants to open a joint checking account.Ĭolds - Pedro has a cold. I suggest reading the stories to the class before assigning the writing exercises. They are presented in pdf format and should download quickly. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.EL Civics Home Civics Lessons ESL Lessons Life Skills Famous Americans Maps Worksheets Website DirectoryĮach worksheet includes a short paragraph about an everyday problem a character faces, a true-false exercise, a writing prompt, and a black and white image. Seiichi Makino with a decoration: The Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, for his outstanding contributions in the mutual academic exchanges between Japan and the United States and the development of Japanese language education.

In 2014, the Japanese government honored Dr. He also directs the Princeton-in-Ishikawa Summer Program.

Summer Program at Columbia University since 1996. Professor Makino has been the Academic Director of the Japanese Pedagogy M.A. He is an experienced ACTFL oral proficiency trainer in Japanese and frequently trains Japanese instructors internationally in proficiency-oriented instruction and in the administration of the Oral Proficiency Interview. Before beginning his tenure at Princeton University in 1991, he taught Japanese language, linguistics, and culture at the University of Illinois while training lower division language coordinators. He is an internationally prominent Japanese linguist and scholar who is recognized throughout the world for his scholarship and for his many publications. in linguistics in 1968 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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