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先月大好評だった保護者の来校型の学びなおし講座第2弾です！

実際にご受講された方から
「今までなんとなく理解をしていた部分が理解できた！」
というご感想を頂きました。

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今月の学びなおしの内容は
「日本語にはない英語の音の学習！
いろんな国の英語発音を聞いてみましょう」

＜内容＞
①日本語にない音を学習
②各国の英語の違いに触れる
③母音の音の出し方（口のつくりかた）を学ぶ
④英語学習に関してのQ＆A

是非お待ちしております！

１１月度の受付がスタート致しました！
１２月スタート生、体験レッスン受け付けております！

アミティーは火曜日から土曜日まで開講しております！

体験レッスンはHPもしくはお電話でご連絡くださいませ。
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There are a few different kind of English sentences that are special!

One of these types of sentences is called pangram. This means that the sentences contains every single letter of the alphabet in it.

For example, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." This sentence has all letters a-z!

Another special English word is called a palindrome. This is a word that is the same forwards and backwards.

For example, wow is the same foward and backwards. Racecar is also the same forwards and backwards!

Thank you!

Many of our students are taking the EIKEN JUNIOR tests at the start of November. I'd like to offer a little advice for those wondering how best to prepare.

EIKEN BRONZE!
- This test is vocabulary based. It's best to focus on short simple sentences and try to recognize as much vocabulary as possible. For example, places, colors, food, animals, jobs, household items and hobbies.

EIKEN SILVER!
- This test includes more vocabulary, and also has more conversation based questions. Students should be able to understand simple question answer structures. Students will also need to know first letter phonics for this test.

EIKEN GOLD!
- This test has even more conversation based learning. Students will do well to understand a range of everyday conversations, greetings and questions. Part of this test also has some simple voacbulary reading questions. Students who practice reading will have an advantage on this test.

If you'd like extra guidance and assistance with your EIKEN JUNIOR studies, feel free to reach out and purchase some additional seminars in the upcoming no group lesson week.

Be sure to practice using a pencil and eraser well and look over the EIKEN JUNIOR website before taking the test.

本日は、年中・年長さんにお家で取り組んでいただきたい、プレフォニックスシリーズをご紹介します♪

プレフォニックスとは、 フォニックス学習で本格的に読み書きを学習するための準備として、音と文字の結びつきに慣れる学習のことです。

アミティーの家庭学習教材、Pre-phonics1～4では、アルファベットの書き方のガイドがあったり、単語もイラスト付きで書かれているので、
お家でお子様だけでも取り組みやすくなっています。




日本語で聞いた音を、ひらがなやカタカナでたくさん書くことで覚えていくのと同じように、
英語でもアルファベットを認識して書けるようになるためには、継続的な運筆練習が欠かせません。
富山校では、このPre-Phonicsを一度終えた生徒さんも、2回目、3回目と、くりかえし取り組み、定着に励んでいます。

プレフォニックスシリーズをはじめとした家庭学習教材は、ただいまフェア価格でご購入いただけます！
サンプル本もご覧いただけますので、詳しくは担当教師にお尋ねください♪

無料体験レッスンも受付中です★
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０４７－３１８－６１４１　アミティー市川妙典校

家庭学習教材フェアの第二弾を、10/1～12/23の期間限定で実施いたします。家庭学習用教材をフェア価格で販売します。
幼児が、アルファベットをマスターするには、何回も書く必要があります。ご自宅で丸付けの際には、是非褒めてあげてください。生徒たちは、とても喜びます。それをきっかけに、アルファベットに興味を持つ子も多いです。
また、１１月には、英検Jr.を実施します。本番で本来の力が発揮できるよう、対策ドリルで練習しましょう！
ご自宅での学習方法にお悩みの方は、是非担当講師もしくはマネージャーまでご相談ください。お子様に最適のドリルと、学習方法をお伝えいたします。

It's the halloween season again, and that means one thing - Halloween Movies!

There are so many great movies to be enjoyed during the halloween season to help us really feel the spooky vibe.

Don't worry, halloween movies don't have to be horror movies. There are many great Halloween movies made for children. Watching movies in English can be a great way to study too!

I like "Nightmare before christmas", "Corpse Bride", "Scooby Doo" and "Coraline".

"A series of unfortunate events" and "Casper the friendly ghost" are also on my much watch list!

What halloween movies do you like?

- Alex

先週末、英検一次試験を受験された皆さま、お疲れ様でした！
もう自己採点は、されましたか？
3級以上は二次試験の面接がありますので、早めに対策を始めましょう。

英検の面接では、出題のパターンが決まっているので、
事前にそのパターンを知っておくことがとても大切です。
しっかりとシミュレーションしておくと、本番で必要以上に緊張することもなくなります。
アミティーではノックをして"May I come in?"と入室するところからしっかりと練習を行います。
面接で本来の力を発揮できるよう、先生たちと一緒に対策をしましょう！

対策レッスンをご希望の方は、マネージャーもしくは担当講師までご連絡ください。
☎047-318-6141

Learning to read is a difficult but important process and there are many steps involved in learning to read.

One of the first steps in learning to read is Pre-Reading behaviors. This means that students are becoming aware of the written word around them without understanding its meaning. For example, pointing out signs or pretending to read their favorite picture book. This is an important first step of them becoming interested in reading and literacy.

The next step is learning single letters and their phonics sounds. It is not important what order the letters are taught in but that students are exposed to these letters again and again to better remember and recall them.

After single letter phonics comes blending those single letter sounds together. For example, if students know 'm' sound, 'a' sound, and 't' sound then they need to bring all those sounds together to sound out the word 'mat.' This is a critical step to sound out short words.

Once students are comfortable with sounding out short words it is recommended that they be introduced to sight words. These are words that cannot be sounded out but instead must be memorized to be recognized. Some examples of sight words are 'the', 'are', and 'they.'

Once these steps have been met then it is important for students to work on speed and fluency during reading. For example, being able to read word families quickly can improve students reading fluency and speed. An example of a word family is ending in '-an' there are many words that end in '-an' like can, ran, fan, and man. If students know and recognize these word families they will read faster and more fluently.

Another part of building speed and fluency are working on blending sounds like 'sh' or 'bl' that create common sounds in the English language. Knowing and being able to recognize the sound it makes quickly will allow students to read more quickly.

While all these steps are extremely important in learning to read there is one more step that is critical. Creating and making meaning out of the text is the most important part of learning to read. It is one thing for a student to be able to sound out the word 'mat' but if they do not understand what 'mat' means then they cannot connect the text to the actual object then reading is meaningless to them.

Learning to read is a long and difficult process but can open a world of possibilities in the future. Happy reading!!

This past weekend we had the EIKEN tests. Many students tried the EIKEN 4 and EIKEN 5 tests here at Amity.

We want to commend everyone who tried these tests for their hard work!

Below I'll include a few points people found difficult.

EIKEN 5

1. A. "where's Mom, Arthur?"
B. ( At the store. ) She's buying fruit for dinner.

Students struggled to identify the question word, where, to find the correct answer. Simple where questions are often answered using AT. At the store, at school, at home, at the park, at the zoo etc.

2. A. This umbrella is nice. ( Whose is it? )
B. It's my father's.

Students struggled to identify the question word, whose, to find the correct answer. When asking about belongings, simple whose questions will often be answered by a person and 's. My father's, John's, Sara's. etc.
Alternatively they might use, mine, his, hers, theirs or ours.

EIKEN 4

3. Nancy ( and I were at the concert hall ) last night.

Eiken 4 students often struggle with word order in past tense sentences. Students might also have been unfamilar with "Nancy and I" in place of "We" as the subject of this sentence. This sentence structure is ,SUBJECT were at PLACE DATE.

4. Many students struggled with part 4 in the reading section. This was using an email structure. Younger students who might be unfamilar with emails will have struggled a lot with this question. We have to understand who is the sender and reciever of the email, and how to identify that information.

In conclusion, generally speaking students struggled more with the Reading section than the Listening section across both EIKEN 4 and EIKEN 5 tests. The consistent use of phonics drill books and also simple english storybooks is our recommendation for improving reading at home.

Good work everyone. Let's keep working hard.