Today’s guest is Nick. He’s from somewhere near Philadelphia, in the United States. He’s been teaching English in Japan for five years. And he currently teaches young children at an English school in Hokkaido.
Hi, I’m Sarah. Welcome to The Daily English Show. Today’s guest is Ayumi. She’s originally from Iwamizawa in Hokkaido and she now lives in Sapporo. She’s a third year student at Hokusei Gakuen Daigaku (Hokusei Gakuen University) studying English and psycholinguistics. I met her at the JALT conference last month and I asked her why she was interested in studying English.
I think it’s because of my mum. My mum is an English teacher and I grew up with, like, looking at her, so I think I was interested in English because of her.
Today a friend came to visit and I asked him if he’d like to do an interview and be a guest on The Daily English Show. And since he was already sitting on the yellow couch, he couldn’t really escape.
Christopher is from Seattle in the United States and he’s the first real-life American I’ve seen since the election so I asked him what he thought about Obama’s victory.
I’m really happy that Obama won. I think McCain would’ve been a fine president. Either candidate would, would’ve been a marked improvement over the last eight years. Um, but I was really happy to see Obama elected, his politics are closer to mine than McCain’s. Um, yeah, and I think it, ah, yeah, I think it marks a new direction for, ah, you know, for the American government. And also, it’ll make it a lot easier as an American to live overseas because, um, you know, for better or worse the, the president represents all of us, as Americans. And, ah, when I was being represented by Bush, I wasn’t the … I was not the most popular person at the party.
First … about October’s tdes member giveaways. Congratulations to Hideto in California and Joon in Seoul. I’m going to be sending a Scott Adventure Sports T-shirt to Hideto and some Miyamoto Ken postcards to Joon. Thank you for becoming members and supporting The Daily English Show and I’ll be sending them tomorrow, because the post office is closed today, because it’s a public holiday, it’s 文化の日 (Bunka no Hi), which means: Culture Day.
Today’s guest is John from New Zealand. I met John in Sapporo. He gave a presentation at the JALT conference. It was the last presentation I saw actually and it was about giving presentations. He was introducing these new books, because he works for this publisher, Cambridge University Press, who also happen to publish one of my favourite books – which I’ve talked about many times before – English Grammar In Use.
I just had a really nice weekend. We went to Sapporo to go to the JALT and CALL conferences. And I’m glad I went – I met some really nice people, some of the presentations were interesting and I got some free stuff too. Check it out: a free bag, some books, a free pen – I love free pens – and some coffee from Laos. Two teachers gave a talk about how they’d taken some of their students to Laos – and then they imported some coffee to do some fund-raising. And they gave me some which was very nice.