Let's try
to write e-mail in English
(For Better Cross-Cultural Understanding )
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Those
of you who participate from the Daini Middle School should first engage
themselves in writing up your own stories, as individuals or groups as
the case may be, which will introduce you to your counterparts from other
participating countries. Please keep in mind that your stories are going
to be read by the young people from other cultures where values and social
customs are at variance from yours. Different histories and languages are
bound to produce cross-cultural precipitin gaps.
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Take your own pictures, using
digital cameras if possible, which will be of great help for your counterparts
in other countries to understand what you write about describing your
life in Japan. Visit the actual projects created by the pupils of America's
Art-Freiler School of California, Japan's Mama Elementary School of Ichikawa
City, and Nepal's Little Angeles School of Kathmandu. They will show you
examples which tell you what can be more or less effective ways of portraying
your life to foreign friends.
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Upon completing this first-stage
project of "self-introduction," you can embark upon a variety of more advanced
projects such as brushing up your English ability, designing and undertaking
joint cultural and social projects, organizing international discussion
groups, just to mention a few.
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