Hello! I am Jodai, an English teacher.
In the "English Performance Koshien Pre-Tournament," an English speech contest to introduce Japanese culture, Toyonaka High School Global Studies team won grand prix!!
Here I will report on the event.
Look at the news story.↓
(NHK) http://www3.nhk.or.jp/kansai-news/20170819/3127921.html
(Sankei Shimbun) http://www.sankei.com/west/news/170820/wst1708200028-n1.html
In this tournament, three second year students and six first year students participated.
When the team decided to participate in the tournament, Captain (Yuka Hanabusa in the second year) and Vice-Captain (Kyoka Maeda in the second year) aimed for victory ambitiously.
However, the members had difficulties to find enough time and a suitable place for practicing. They prepared costumes and props by themselves. Sometimes conflicting opinions arose among them. But they overcame the hardness by sharing a single purpose toward the goal.
Especially, their performance had improved remarkably two days before the contest. I believed they would truly get a victory.
Please look at the photos of their performance.
(Scene of their performance)
(Scene of the commendation)
Congratulations for winning the grand prix!!