In university, they have many friends and they spend time in university together. For example, they eat lunch, study in the library, and go to class together.
There are a variety of useful facilities at KGU. Diligent students here come to building No.14 and go to the 4th floor. Then they use the computers.
They use the computers to learn something, finish their reports, or just kill time for free! There is a receptionist's office by the elevators and the students who want to borrow something come there. They have the website and this is the link to it. http://www.ecc.kumagaku.ac.jp/ Students who major in English and are sophomores often borrow headsets to listen to and speak English because they have a lot of hard assignments. It usually runs from 9 a.m. to 9:50 p.m., opening times on weekdays and from 9 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. on Saturdays. Unfortunately, it is closed on Sunday. There are a lot of Windows computers and some Mac computers. Of course, students in KGU can print out some documents and borrow laptop computers.
Recently, an East Asian cafe opened on the 2nd floor on building No.14. There are a lot of drinks and sweets, and the students can study calmly there! Though many of the students may have been there yet, they should go there once. There are a lot of menus. For example, coffee, tea, juice, cake and so on. There supply to them fair trade products. There runs from 10 a.m. to 14:30 p.m. They can study a lot at building No. 14.
This year, English Department students have a lot of homework. They always do English Central at home. There family may think strange because they always speak to computers. That is speaking class' homework, but they also have listening, writing and reading class' homework, too. They must blogging, typing, listening, listening and write dictation every week. Compare with last year, they have more homework, but it is good for growing English skill. Actually, some students think their own English is getting better than last year. But there are some students who is not good at speaking. When they want to say something in English though, they need a little time to translate to English in their brain. They'll study more to improve this in university. They may want to try more study with their friends and teachers.
They have to take four English classes.
On Monday, they have reading and speaking class. Teacher of reading class is Mr. K. They study grammar, and world news. Last class, they studied about conjunction. For example, how to use “and”. They often use this word when they write any sentence, so this class is very important for them. The homework of this class is to read English newspaper, and to find titles that are matched with five themes. It is very difficult, because there are a lot of titles. Also, there has a lot of words which is they do not know. They use them a dictionary, and compare with them to match with theme. The other class is speaking class. Teacher of speaking is Mr. T. Last class, they asked their classmates a lot of things. For example, “Did you go to a restaurant recently?” “Do you have your cell phone?” “Have you watched any cinema recently?”. Then, they could find about other students.
Next, this class, they are going to examine about part-time job. They asked one hundred students in KGU, and they have to presentation about this result. They have to think about a lot of questions for students. It is very difficult to ask questions for one hundred students, but they will do their best.
On Tuesday, they have a listening class. Teacher of listening is Mr. W. They study British English in this class. They think that British English is more difficult than American English. These accents are very different, so it is hard for them to listen to them.
On Wednesday, they have Writing class. Teacher of writing is Mr. B. This class’s homework is Book review, Blog, and Typing. They do them every week. Writing English is difficult, but they can write a long English sentence better than last year. They think that they want to write more long English sentences.
