I am so looking forward to seeing the rest of the videos and hearing the new album from Red Yarn.
This is a friend who used Kickstarter to fund his album and videos.
I was so happy to see so many people supporting my friend, and this kind of work.
These are some fun songs, great for kids, and for people learning English. You probably won’t learn any of the difficult vocabulary for TOEIC or TOEFL, but it’s all good.
Watch the video below:
Professor, how long should my report be?
Professor, how long should my presentation be?
I get these questions a lot.
I have these requirements given to me as well. When writing papers, it’s fairy common to have page requirements.
I understand there are cases where it is helpful to have at least a general idea of how long, or short, a paper or presentation should be, but I often reply with a joke. This joke:
Question: How long should your legs be?
Answer: Long enough to reach the ground.
This is supposed to be funny, and maybe it is, but it is also to make a point. Legs are different lengths based on whose legs they are. Yet, for the most part, they perform the same functions even with being different in length.
If your paper or presentation meets its requirements it will be the proper length. So, what are those requirements?
Given your thesis statement or purpose, do you answer all of the questions completely enough?
That’s it.
No more.
No less.
Those questions are different for different topics and situations, but you should be able to discern what those questions are and then whether you have answered them completely enough.
“You” should be able to do that. Your teacher is looking for that in your work. Did you fulfil the basic requirements? Did you provide enough detail, enough support, enough specific information to make and and support your point or to complete your story?
Then that is long enough.
Here’s a picture I used in one of my classes. What are the ‘questions’?
A couple of weekends ago my wife and I went on a Saturday excursion to Mie prefecture to walk in the mountains and see some beautiful waterfalls.
The area is called Akame 48 Waterfalls – but there aren’t really 48 waterfalls though there are certainly a large number of them in varying sizes, heights and widths. Some really beautiful weather for our day and the walk was not too hard. I saw a lot of huff-and-puffers we passed along the way, but we walk a lot so we made the nearly 18 kilometers for our day fairly easily.
It was a 3 hour bus ride there, and 3 hours again to get home. That ride back was not so comfortable after all of that walking. Still, it wasn’t too bad and it is always nice to get out with my wife when we get the chance to enjoy a nice, slow time together.
Here’s a link to some more information about the place we visited:
http://www.travel-around-japan.com/k54-04-akame-48-waterfalls.html
Here is one of my favorite pictures we took there.
Akame waterfall