マイチューターのQuestions

Part 1   (Comprehension Questions with Sample Answer)

1. Why does the large groups of animals formed?

 

2. How does the tapeworm infect the body of an Artemia?

 

3. Why do the fellow writers of the speaker interested about the story of the parasites?

 

4. What were the findings of Kevin Lafferty and the three Californian estuaries about the parasites?

 

5. What was the chemical weapon found by Israeli Scientists

 

Part 2   (Express Yourself Questions):

1. Tell me about insects.
2. What is the scariest insect for you?
3. Do you have insect that you like?
4. Do you think that insects have a role in our world?
5. Do you know someone who have insect as a pet?
6. If you have a chance to pet an insect, what type would it be?
7. Do you have a pet?
8. What is your pet’s name?
9. What kind of pet would you like to have in the future?
10. How do you take care of it?
11. Do you think they can become a big part of our life?
12. What influence do you think a pet can give to its owner?
13. Tell me something about parasites?
14. What would you do if you got infected with a parasite?
15. Do you think eating shrimp is not a good thing?

 

Part 3 (Activity): VOCABULARY MATCH

Part 1   (Comprehension Questions with Sample Answer):

1. What did he said about being sentenced to jail term in Santa Barbara, California?
2. What solution did they apply for those who don’t want to stand in long lines if they go to the amusement park?
3. What example did he share regarding “Paid line standing.”?
4. What is the difference between Market economies to Market societies?
5. What market values begin to dominate every aspect of life?
6. What reasons did he stated on the question; “why worry about our becoming market societies?”
7. Give me one example he use for controversial use of a market mechanism, and cash incentive?

8. In his lecture he asks some of the audiences’ opinion. What is the opinion of Heike Moses?
9. How about Elizabeth Loftus’ opinion?
10.  What isn’t good for democracy?

 

Part 2   (Express Yourself Questions):

1. Why we shouldn’t trust markets with our civic life?
2. What should be the role of money and markets in our societies?
3. Would you worry about our becoming market societies?
4. What would you do if you’re at the last line of buying a ticket for a concern of your favorite singer?
5. You saw a women standing at the last line to buy a food, there’s no counter for senior citizens. What should you do?
6. Do you think our world can become a better place if we use money all the time?
7. Have you ever tried paying someone to fall in line for you?
8. Do you want to try the incentive for your kids in the future so that they will learn and study hard?
9. Is it okay to read books and get a pay?
10. What do you think about incentive programs at work?
11. Do you think Perfect attendance, best employees, Honor student; etc… incentives programs (Money) needs to be implemented in your company/school?
12. In your own idea, what is intrinsic motivation?
13. What would you do if you have a failing grade and your teacher would ask you to pay for it to pass the exam?
14. In what way can we motivate ourselves without using money?
15. Michael Sandel’s asked; do we want a society where everything is up for sale,or are there certain moral and civic goods that markets do not honor and money cannot buy?

 
Part 3 (Activity): VOCABULARY MATCH

Part 1   (Comprehension Questions with Sample Answer):

1. How many neurons are there in the human brain?
2.  Are brains made the same way?
3. How heavy is the human brain?
4. How many calories do we need to keep our brain working?

5. So what is the human advantage?
6. What’s the probability that made us human?
7.  Based on the talked what is animal should be compared to humans and why?
8. Why should the rules of evolution apply to everybody else but not to us?
9.  What was the theory of Charles Darwin about the human brain?
10. How did we come by this remarkable number of neurons, and in particular, if great apes are larger than we are, why don’t they have a larger brain than we do, with more neurons?

 

Part 2   (Express Yourself Questions):

 

1. What is it that makes the human brain so special?
2. Why do we study other animals and they don’t study us?
3. What is it about the human brain that allows the cognitive ability for abstract reasoning and creativeness?
4. Is there an intelligence relationship in the size of an animal’s brain to the size of its body?
5. What happened in our evolutionary process that made human brains so proportionately larger?
6. So what do we do that no other creature does?
7. Which came first, our intelligence or our human body?
8. She said that the first cooks were animals.

Assume them to be baboons. If so, can baboons cook today?

9. What do you think of the brain?
10. Do you do anything to look after your brain?
11. How much of your brain do you use?
12. What do neuroscientists know about the brain?
13. What do neuroscientists want to know about the brain?
14. How is the brain structured?
15. Who is the brains of your family?
16. What are some extraordinary things some people can do with their brains?
17. What does your brain do that you hate?
18. Do you think humans will ever completely understand the brain? Why or why not?
19. What is the most amazing thing about the brain?
20. Do you think male and female brains are better at different tasks? Why or why not?

 

Part 3 (Activity):     Vocabulary Match

Part 1   ( Comprehension Questions with Sample Answer):

1. What’s the conclusion of the speaker after several years of teaching?

 
2. Where did she go after she left the classroom?
 

3. What is grit?

 

4. What is the most shocking thing about grit?

 

5. What is the best idea she heard about building grit in kids?

 

6. Who developed the idea about growth mindset?

 

7. What is growth mindset?

 

8. Where does Angela Lee Duckworth study grit?

 

9. What does she found out after studying?

 
10.  What does the data show about talented individuals?
 
 

Part 2   (Express Yourself Questions):

 

1. What is ‘grit’ according to Duckworth?

 
2.What’s the best predictor of success?
 

3. What do you think is the key to success?

 

4. How do you achieve short and long term goals?

 

5. Do you think children who experience poverty are more successful in life?

 

6. What is your biggest success in life?

 
7. Is having grit the key to success?
8.What are the keys to success?
 

9. What motivates you?

 
10.Who would argue against long term passion and perseverance?
 
11.How are grit and resilience related?
 
12  Do you think the same is true of grit?
 
13.And should we help young people see that they can develop grit, that it’s not just something you’re born with?
 
14. Are there programs that are ahead of the curve in developing important character qualities, including grit?
 
15. How have your theoretical frameworks changed since you became a teacher/administrator?
 
16. Do you agree with the teacher? Why or why not?
 
17. Is “grit” something you can teach? Why or why not? How?
 
18. How does your school promote perseverance?
 
19.How does your school drive students to pursue their passions?
 
20. Do you agree with Duckworth?
 

Part 3 (Activity):

Part 1   (Comprehension Questions with Sample Answer):

1. What was Amanda Palmer’s name when she was still a street performer?
2. What kind of a street performer does she do?.
3. What kind of people does she encounter with her job?
4. What would she do if the people she handed flowers did not accept it?
5. Was it an easy job for her?
6. What was the name of her first band?
7. What does Amanda Palmers though about having twitter around?
8. What do you mean by couch surfing?
9. Is it the same as crowd funding?
10. Do you think Amanda Palmer’s crowd funding was helpful

 

Part 2   (Express Yourself Questions):

1. How would you consider yourself a hardworking person?
2. Do you think the job being a statue is easy?
3. What would you do if people look down on you because your job is ordinary?
4. Do you easily get angry if someone makes fun of you?
5. What would you do if you saw someone having this kind of job? (Statue)
6. Do you like music?
7. What kind of music do you like?
8. Do you know how to play musical instruments?
9. Let’s consider you’re planning to make a band, what name would you give to your band?
10. What kind music would you play together?
11. Where would you want to tour with your band?
12. How would you endorse your band?
13. What would you do if you encounter problems with the band?
14. What should you do to catch the people/crowds attention?
15. Is music career a job? a hobby? or a passion? (Why?)

Part 1　 (Comprehension Questions with Sample Answer):

1. How often are we lied to on an average day?
2. What does she say about when strangers meet for the first time?
3. What does she say about the difference between men and women?
4. What does she say about marriage and relationships?
5. What does she say about how children develop their deception skills?
6. She says we live in a post truth society, what does she mean by that?
7. What are the speech patterns of a liar we see in the Clinton video?
8. What are the body language patterns?
9. What other videos did she show?
10. What did she say about the attitudes of honest/dishonest people?

 

Part 2 (Express Yourself Questions):

1. Why do people lie?
2. What lies do couples tell each other?
3. Are these little white lies?
4. How often do normal people distinguish a lie from the truth?
5. Are you a good liespotter?
6. How often do you lie?
7. When is it okay to lie?
8. What’s the biggest lie you’ve ever told?
9. Have you ever lied in a job interview?
10. Has a lie someone told you ever hurt you?
11. What do you think of liars?
12. People often say: “It’s easy to tell when politicians lie – they move their lips.” Do you agree with this?
13. Do you think white lies are OK?
14. Do you think you could lie and beat a lie detection test?
15. What would you do if someone spread lies about you?
16. Do you feel guilty when you tell a lie?
17. Do you think it is ok to lie to avoid hurting someone’s feelings?
18. At what times do you appreciate people being honest with you?
19. Is it ever all right to give only a partial truth?
20. What are some common situations when people are sometimes dishonest ?

Part 1  (Comprehension Questions with Sample Answer):

1. What is the instrument we all play?
2. How many habits that we need to move away from?
3. What are they?.
4. According to Julian Treasure, What is GOSSIP?
5. What does he thinks about complaining?
6. Julian talks about Dogmatism, what is it?
7. What is HAIL?
8. What does each word means base on his own findings?
9. What is the importance of HAIL?
10. How do you define prosody?

 

Part 2   (Express Yourself Questions):

1. What can you say about Julian Treasure’s speech?
2. Tell me something that you’ve learned from the word HAIL that Julian Treasure talks about?
3. In your own idea why do we need to avoid the seven deadly sins of speaking?
4. Do you like to talk in front of a huge crowd?
5. Have you ever tried talking and nobody’s listening?
6. Do you think you can ask them to listen to you?
7. What would you do if nobody’s listening to you when you’re talking in front?
8. What topic would you want to choose if you’d be given a chance to talk in front of many people? Why?
9. Have you tried not listening to someone’s speech or lecture?

(Tell me about it.)

1. Does it feel good to know that a lot of people listening to you while having your speech?
2. How would you feel if they are not interested with your speech?
3. Do you think human voice / mouth is an instrument? How?
4. How important for you to be heard by people?
5. If you’d be given a chance to talk in front of professional people, would you take that opportunity?

 

 

Part 1 (Comprehension Questions with Sample Answer):

1. What can you say about Lisa Bu’s Experience?
2. What year did she learned gymnast?
3. After Lisa Bu survived the Cultural Revolution, She said something about only one sure way to happiness. What is it?
4. What was her dream?
5. When nobody around to teach her on how to become an opera singer, what did she do to start learning?
6. What book made her efficient?
7. What are the books that inspired her to study abroad?
8. What book did she read first when she went to U.S. that she cannot find in china because it was banned there?
9. What has given her courage to connect with people of the past and present?
10. Was she happy with her life experience?

 

Part 2 (Express Yourself Questions):     

1. How can you relate your life to Lisa Bu?
2. Do you think it’s important to have a dream?
3. Why do you think people have dreams?
4. Why do you think some people cannot reach their dreams?
5. Do you think reading a book is helpful?
6. How can book change a life?
7. Do you think book can help you answer all of your questions in life?
8. What do you think is the purpose of living?
9. Are you happy with your life now?
10. If ever you’d be given a chance to change your life story? Would you change it?
11. Do you think being positive can help someone reach their dream?
12. What would you do if you fail?
13. Do you get tired easily?
14. Are you willing to change for the sake of your family’s decision?
15. In your own opinion, How books can open your mind?

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

■　高騰する授業料

高額な授業料を見ると二の足を踏まざるを得ません。
それはアメリカにいる高校生たちも同じです。
例えばハーバード大学は、2014年～2015年の1年間に掛かる
総費用の概算は約68,000ドル（約8,200,000円）と言っています。
 
ハーバード大学に限らず、よくアメリカの高等教育価格の高騰が問題に上げられます。
なにせ、トップ私立校の殆どが軒並み年間約45,000（約540万円）するのです。
州立大学では、アメリカの市民権を持ちかつその州に住んでいる学生の
授業料は約13,000ドル程度ですが、
留学生も含めてそれ以外の学生の授業料は36,000程度です。
それに教材や生活費が掛かり途方もない金額になります。
 

 
しかし、アメリカでは収入も高騰しているのでしょうか。
いいえそんなことはありません。
実際のところアメリカでも大学の学費を全額払うことの出来る人はごく少数で、
残りの大半の人たちはこの、「Financial Aid」に頼るのです。
 

■　Financial Aidとは

Financial Aidというのは、直訳すれば経済的援助で、
学費負担を軽減するための金銭的支援プログラムの総称です。
このFinancial Aidというものは家庭の経済状況や生徒の能力に応じて
学校より与えられるのですが、留学生にFinancial Aidを出す学校は限られています。
 

■　Merit-based とNeed based

アメリカのFinancial Aidには、Merit-based とNeed basedがあります。
 
Merit-basedとは、学力やリーダーシップなど学生の能力への評価
として給付される奨学金のことです。
その金額は、大学がその学生をどれくらい欲しているかで決まります。
額は、1千ドル程度からフルスカラシップ（学費全額免除）までさまざまで、
家庭の経済的ニーズの有無にかかわらず給付されます。
また、国籍やビザの種類も問わないため、
外国人学生にも大いに獲得のチャンスがあります。
 
Need basedは、各家庭の収入と資産によってその家庭が支払われる
能力があると思われる金額を算出します。
これに生徒が学期中と夏休み中にアルバイトをした場合の収入を加えた金額が
生徒とその家庭が支払うべき授業料と寮費とされます。
学校側は、 表示価格の授業料、寮費、予測した本代、交通費等を加算し
1年に掛かる全費用を使って、その差額をGrant(返還の必要無し)と
ローンをFinancial Aidとして各生徒に提示します。
これは、とにかく優秀な学生を募りたい！
そう願う多くのアメリカの大学が取り入れてる制度で、
ざっくり言ってしまえば、年収によって学費が異なる制度なのです。
 

■　ハーバード大学はNeed-based

 
ハーバードの奨学金（Financial Aid）はneed-basedといわれ、
ハーバードの合格者全てに対して必要な額を支払います。
大体アイビーリーグやＭＩＴ，スタンフォードなどの一流大学は
すべてneed-basedの奨学金（financial aid)になっています。
 
この「Need-blind」の制度を、ハーバードを例にとって説明すると、
世帯年収780万円（約6万5000ドル）未満の家庭は無料になります。
世帯年収180万円（約15万ドル）未満の家庭は、10％以下の学費へ減額されます。
 

■　留学生に開けたFinancial Aid の大学を選ぶ

先にも述べましたように、留学生にもFinancial　Aidは出願する大学は限られています。
出願する大学を選ぶ際に留学生へのFinancial Aidに対する
各大学の態度がとても大切になってきます。
 

 
TOEFL特訓ゼミはこちらをご覧ください
IELTS特訓ゼミはこちらをご覧ください
 
 
 
 

▮　アメリカの優良大学にいくのにお金は要らない ?！Financial Aidとは

アメリカの大学に留学したくても、高額な授業料を見ると二の足を踏まざるを得ません。
それはアメリカにいる高校生たちも同じです。
例えばハーバード大学は、・・・
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▮　米スタンフォード大学　学費無料プログラム

米スタンフォード大学は2019年度が始まるまでに、親の年収12万5000ドル（約1500万円）
未満の学生を対象に、学費を無料にするプログラムを発表して話題を呼んでいます。
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▮　世界最強のリケジョ”　STEM教育がグローバルリーダーを育てる

今、アメリカの大学では『STEM教育』が注目されています。
STEM教育とは、サイエンス（science）、テクノロジー（technology）、エンジニアリング（engineering）、数学（math）に重点を置いた教育です。
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▮　TAFEで実践的な専門職を身に付けろ!

 
TAFE とは、オーストラリアに100校以上ある、州立の職業訓練専門学校です。
留学生を対象とした様々な専門コースを開講し、
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 ▮　夢をつかめ！　返済不要な奨学金で米国留学へ

「アメリカ大学奨学金留学プログラム」は授業料、滞在費、食費の50％以上を支給する
大学が数多く参加しています。
奨学金の制度を正しく理解して上手に利用する事で、誰でもチャンスがあります。
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▮　変革を続ける　ロンドン・ビジネス・スクール(LBS)とは

世界で評価の高いビジネススクールは米国に集中していることは事実ですが、近年、英国の
老舗ロンドン・ビジネス・スクール（ＬＢＳ）が高い評価を得ているのをご存知でしょうか。
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 ▮　MBA(Master of Business Administration) = 経営学修士号
 
海外、特にアメリカでは「MBAは経営幹部へのパスポート」と言われるように、MBA取得と企業側の採用とが強く結びついています。　アメリカではビジネススクールの「ブランド」が重視され、
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▮　オーストラリア　トップ大学Go8(グループオブエイト)とは

 
世界から高い評価を受けているオーストラリアの大学。　ノーベル賞受賞者数は人口比から見ると世界TOPであり特に優れたトップ8校がGroup of Eightと呼ばれています。
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▮　2014年　留学先のトップはカナダ

 
留学ジャーナル「留学白書2015」によると、2014年人気の留学先はカナダになりました。
昨年は同率で1位だったアメリカが2位となり、いずれにせよ、カナダ・アメリカの2強体制は変わらず、
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▮　5分でわかる！オーストラリアの大学進学の注意点

 
オーストラリアでは大学入試はなく、入学の合否は全て書類審査で決まります。
審査に必要な書類は、大学指定の願書、高校の英文成績証明書（英文）、
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