Appendix 1: Presentation Evaluation Forms

Appendix 1: Presentation Evaluation Forms Project 1 Project 2 46

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Appendix 2: Listening Transcripts Project 1: The American Family Today In most countries around the world, the idea of family has been changing, and in the United States (U.S.) it has been changing a lot. Over the last 50 years, every aspect of the American family has changed. There are differences in what a family looks like and the roles people have in them. The idea of marriage is different, too, and that change has influenced the birthrate. Let s take a look at some of these changes. What does the American family look like? It seems like an easy question, but actually, it is difficult to answer. In the past, the traditional family in the U.S. included a mother, father and children. For most of the last century, other family members, like grandparents, have lived independently. In the traditional family, the father was the breadwinner, he alone provided most of money for the family, and the mother stayed home with the children. Today, that type of family is unusual. Non-traditional families are becoming more common. Non-traditional families include single-parent families, mixed families and homosexual families. Single parent families are families where a mother or father is raising children alone. This type of family is generally formed in one of three ways: parents divorce (nearly 50% of all marriages in the U.S. end in divorce), a parent dies, or a single woman chooses to have a baby alone. Mixed families are when two divorced people marry and their children live with them. Sometimes these couples have children of their own, so they have three types of children: his, hers and ours. The last type of family is the gay or lesbian family. About eight to ten million children are being raised in gay and lesbian households in the U.S. Most of these children were adopted; homosexuals can adopt children in 49 of the 50 U.S. states. The roles of men and women are also changing in the U.S. These days many American women want to have careers, so more women are working outside the home; now families often have two people earning salaries. As a result, in modern American families men are helping around the home more. Many men cook, clean and take care of children. Some men even work full-time at home while their wives support the family. These changes in sexual equality are good, but women still work more hours a week than most men when you include their work both inside and outside the home. You might have guessed that the view of marriage in the U.S. is changing, too. In fact, many people are choosing not to marry. In 2000, married families made up only 53 percent of American households, with non-family (for example, two college friends sharing an apartment together) and single-parent households holding the other 47 percent. In recent years, many Americans have been marrying people of a different race. This used to be considered bad, but these days the number of adults who approve of interracial marriage is 83%, a big change. Also, the people who are getting married are getting married later. These days the average age of first time marriage for men is 27 and for women it s 26. Since marriage is happening later, so is childbirth. Women are having children later, and they are having fewer children, so families are not as big as they were in the past. 49

As you can see, the American family is difficult to describe because there are a lot of varieties. The idea of family and family life has changed very much over the years, and it will probably continue to change. However, one thing that has not changed is the importance of family. Whatever type of family a person has, that family is still important to every American. Project 2: Ada Lovelace Imagine dying at age 36. Your parents divorced when you were one year old, and they were not happy because you are a girl. You suffer from painful headaches, and at age 13 you become paralyzed for 3 years because of the measles. Your mother decides to make you study math and logic, because she is worried. She is worried that you will go insane, because she thinks your father was crazy. She also hates your father. Maybe she doesn t take care of you, because you are your father s daughter. Your grandmother takes care of you. By the way, your father was a famous poet. He died when you were 8 years old, but you never met him after the divorce. The world will remember you as an amazing woman. It sounds like the beginning of a drama, right? This is the true story of Ada Lovelace, who was born in 1815. Ada Lovelace was the first known person to believe that machines can be programmed to do amazing things. At age 17, she met and began to work with Charles Babbage. She expanded his ideas about the Analytical Engine. The Engine was a machine that could do math with the world s first computer program, but it wasn t built until 2002. Ada Lovelace believed machines could play music or solve very difficult problems very quickly. Her notes were the concept, or the idea, of a computer. These notes were studied almost 100 years later during the development of the computer. Project 3: The History of Moving Pictures Today, movies are a part of all of our lives, but they haven t always been. In fact, the history of the world s biggest entertainment industry is really quite short. The first moving pictures were shown on The Lumière Cinematograph on December 28, 1895 in a Paris café. That day the Lumière brothers showed The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station, on their special machine. Afterwards, one brother said to reporters that he thought that movies would never become popular. He was completely wrong! In less than a year, cinemas had started to open in Europe and the USA. People loved the movies. By 1905 movie making wasn t just an idea, it was a successful new industry, and soon after, it had a capital Hollywood, USA. Hollywood was established in 1912 when a group of New York film makers decided to open a studio in California. They chose California because the weather was good (it didn t rain much there), and there were many beautiful places nearby to film their movies. Hollywood quickly attracted many actors and technicians from all over the country. At first, movies were silent because there was no recorded sound. Instead, the actors dialog was shown on cards every 20 seconds. One director at the time said, There will never be speaking pictures. He, like the Lumière brother, was wrong. 50

In 1927 a revolution began. It was in this year that the actor Al Jolson spoke and sang in a movie for the first time. The reaction of the movie audience was very enthusiastic; they wanted more talkies! Soon, movie audiences had increased from 57 million people a week to 110 million a week. Only 31 years after the Lumières' first film showing, movies were a huge source of entertainment for people around the world. In 1932 there was another big change in movies: Technicolor. Color made movies more popular than ever. The next 20 years are often called Hollywood s golden age. In the 30s and 40s, millions of people went to the cinema every week, so it was a golden time for Hollywood. However, in the late 40s, movies had a new and dangerous competition: TV. America s TV revolution began after World War II. John Logie Baird invented the television, and at first Hollywood didn t worry about it because it was small and only showed pictures in black and white. However, by the early 50s movie audiences had been cut by half because people were watching TV. The movie industry had a serious problem. Hollywood studios competed with TV by trying to make movies bigger, better and more realistic. Some of their ideas succeeded others failed. Interestingly, what really saved the movie industry wasn t a technical development at all; it was something completely different teenagers. In the mid- 50s, teenagers started going to see movies. Before this time, most movie audience members were over 30. Suddenly that changed. That change has continued ever since. These days 75% of all movie tickets are sold to people between the ages of 15 and 25. Today, TV and cinema live side-by-side. The movie industry didn t die after the invention of the TV, but movie audiences are still low compared to 60 years ago. Because of this, movie making is very different than it was in the golden age. Movies today actually have three lives: first in the theater, second on DVD and finally on TV. However, one thing hasn t changed, whether in the theater or at home, people still love watching movies. Project 4: Daym Drops Super Official Food Review (Very fast) YouTube Facebook Twitter, it's your main man Daym Drops, back again with another Super Official Review. Can you dig it baby? And I know you can. (Normal speed) Hey listen, man, and you know what it is. Let's see what's happening. You know I had to get bacon. You know what I'm saying? Slide that down there. Uh-huh, slide that top back. Oh, isn't that cute. Oh-hoo! Tight, brother, tight Let's go in, players. 51

I'd better bring you all in for this action. Man, listen. Crispy bacon. Mean seasoning. Bacon, cheese. How's that crust looking? That crust it's not it doesn't look extra crunchy, but it looks like it has possibilities. Look at the little cute little pizza sign right there dead smack in the middle. Pizza. Where is the rest of my pretzel-shaped butter cookie, is what I want to know. Why Why is it all broken up on the inside, man? Like, let me bring you in on this. All right? You see what's happening right now? Um-hm. The cheese is just wrapping itself around me like a king cobra. So I've got to do this quick, players. Now that bacon is right there at the bottom. I can't lie to you. That bacon is dead right. Um-hm. Crispy bacon. I told that boy extra-crispy bacon, he did extra-crispy bacon. Alright, hold on, time out. CVS they smell like gym socks, B. Let me just go ahead. Look at the little the little cute slices. Look at look at look at that. This is when you don't want to go too hard, you want something to hold you down. Ho! Hot! Hit that, hit that. Now the cheese itself, for my particular taste, I only like mozzarella cheese on my pizza. Mozzarella cheese on a burger: for some of you, you might love it. I like it. Love it? Mm. Like it? Yeah. The bun is right. The meat is extra juicy, and knocked out most of the fat by getting steamed. Just that cheese is throwing me for a loop-deloop. Be ashamed of yourself, you taste so good, boo. That basil. That extra crispy bacon. And that oh-so crunchy crust. Oh, and you're buttery too, oh you're buttery. What's wrong with you? Come here, come here. Mm. Oh, man. Let me hit these things. Oh, oh, oh. Oh, these things are foul. Oh, shoot. Ugh! Oh, jeez. I can't get that taste out of my mouth. Er, I'm just going to give the burger a four. Yeah, on a one to five, Ted's steamed cheeseburger gets a four from big Daym. If I never have those cookies again another day in my life, even if there was nothing else on the world to eat, it would be too soon. Those cookies on a one to five get a negative two, a negative two. On a one to five Famous Pizza on a reopening scale, baby you're getting a four and a half all day from your boy. I like it. It's personal. It's intimate. If you ever go to your local CVS and you ever see those cookies on the shelf for any type of holiday, leave them on the shelf, please. Hat's off to the chef inside Ted's steamed cheeseburger spot, baby. Wo! It's your main man, Daym Drops, I'm out of here, baby! Reproduced with kind permission from Daymon Patterson 52

Appendix 3: Conversation Recording Topics Each week in the spring semester you will record a 20-minute conversation with a different partner. Choose two or three topics from this list to discuss. As the semester progresses, you may have to repeat certain topics. Topic Family Pets/Favorite Animals School Life Love Favorite Foods Favorite Songs/Singers/Band Favorite Movies/TV Shows/Actors Favorite Books/Comics Jr. High/High-school Memories in general Memories of School Trips Hobbies Clubs Work/Jobs Driver s License Sports Where You Want to Travel Where You Have Traveled Holidays: Japan or Other Countries Foreign Countries Studying Abroad Future Plans Career Goals Popular Trends: What is Hot Now? The Latest Fashion New Stores in Nagoya Dieting and Exercise Scary Experiences/Embarrassing Experiences Festivals/School Festivals Recent News/ World Politics Women s Rights Date 53