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My current lot of Japanese short-course people are engineering students of one sort or another. And so, I plan to take that sort of approach to their English.

Today in class I shall demonstrate how I reduce an authentic text down to i+1 sentences. I’ll do that for the Japanese version of Harry Potter. Then I’ll give them an Enid Blyton book, The Adventurous Four, to try for themselves. 

While they’re doing that I’ll be able to assess their speaking one-by-one. Their reading, listening and writing have already been done. Again, I’ll go over their results from an engineer’s perspective.