Typhoon Day Work!

September 21, 2011

To my EAL 7, EAL 8, EAP 9 and my EAP 10 students, I hope you are enjoying your ‘typhoon day’ today! Stay indoors and be safe. Meanwhile I would like you to watch the following video called ‘TOKYO SLO-MODE’ made by Alex Lee, a YIS graduate of 2010. He made this video over this [...]


Elements of Short Stories

September 15, 2011

Elements of Short Stories: Character Setting Plot Theme Characters are people(or animals) that take part in the action of a short story. The main character of the story is called a protagonist. And the character that opposes this main character is called an antagonist. Setting is where the actions of the story take place. The [...]


Argument/Persuasion

September 12, 2011

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Character Study in Fiction(novels and short-stories)

September 8, 2011

  In our first unit of study, some of the commonly used techniques of characterisation employed by writers in their novels and short-stories will be introduced. We will identify and analyse the effectiveness of these techniques used in building characters in stories. The way a writer presents a character in a story is known as [...]


Argument / Persuasion

September 7, 2011

https://docs.google.com/a/yis.ac.jp/document/d/1q5j48boFhbH9drxWrv_s8lIDMCSHbemVD22nujvNHTA/edit?hl=en_US