第１３０回　WORKSHOP報告（７月２日） / 参加者９２名

第１３０回　WORKSHOP報告（７月２日） / 参加者９２名

１．前半のマテリアルの紹介　Iさん
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２．後半のマテリアルの紹介　E先生
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３．会場の様子
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《　今回のworkshop　》

○workshop参加人数：９２名（うち新人の方：８名）

○【前半】：How to improve English effectively?

○【後半】：Share Economy

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みなさまこんにちは、E’s club幹事のKです。
７月２日（土）開催の第１３０回workshopの詳細をお送りいたします。

今回もE先生をお迎えしてのworkshopとなります。
E先生には後半のマテリアルをご作成いただきました。

前半のマテリアルはIさんご作成いただきました。
今回は”How to improve English effectively?”というタイトルでディスカッションを行います。

[今週のマテリアル]
＜FIRST HALF＞
How to improve English effectively?

1. Please separate your group into 2 teams.

Team A: think speaking English is important, can speak or studying English.
Team B: don’t like English, and don’t think it is necessary for their life. Failed in studying, or didn’t like it since they were students.

Team A, please share your stories when you feel happy to speak English or why you are studying.
Team B, please use “but” or “I cannot” “Everyone should speak Japanese in Japan”, etc…and try to object team A as well as you can.

2. People in E’s can speak good English. How do you keep being motivated?

I read an article about how motivation is originated. There are 3 patterns of motivation which is originated in your mind.

*Ideal

(ex. Having specific goal, target score TOEIC900)

*Curiosity

(ex. Having foreign boyfriend/girlfriend, travel abroad for the first time, you really want to try a game, but only English version is available)

*Confidence

(ex. You have achieved something similar, can jump 100cm and try to jump 130cm next, your project on business has sold 1million yen before, and has a plan for 1.5million project. )

Many people set their goal to be able to speak English, like in “ideal” part, but people also easily lose motivation because of their “ideal”. (ex. Cannot achieve target score.)

It is important to keep motivation to prevent from being less motivated.

So, please share your experience on “Curiosity” or “Confidence”.

Firstly, share your story about motivation to study English.

Secondly, share your story about anything, apart from studying English.

3. There is a business man Ichiro and he can’t speak English at all. He hasn’t studied English since he graduated high school, but suddenly he has to go to USA in 3months for his business, because his company starts the business there.

*He is a 35 years old single man.
*He works in a Japanese manufacturing company as a sales representative.
*His hobby is playing tennis.
*He has never been abroad.
Please invent best program to improve his English.
*He can use 1 million yen, and limit is 3 months.
*In the program, you can do anything in Japan, but cannot go abroad to study.

Please select a person in your group to have a presentation of the program.

I would like 2-3 groups to have a presentation.

＜LATTER HALF＞
＜Agenda＞
Share Economy

＜Reference＞
https://youtu.be/D9pdmiXseSQ – Airbnb

http://www.japantoday.com/category/business/view/uber-finally-makes-inroads-in-aging-japan – Uber
Uber finally makes inroads in aging Japan
By Junko Fujita
Business Jun. 05, 2016 – 06:00AM JST

TANGO – Ride-hailing app Uber has finally cracked Japan – approved to offer its service in Tango, part of Kyotango city in Kyoto Prefecture, with a population of just 5,560 and abandoned by the local taxi firm eight years ago.

Tango is one of Japan’s almost 800 designated depopulated communities, and about 40 percent of the population is aged over 65, well above the national average ratio of 27.1%.

For public transport, residents have to rely on an on-demand bus operated by a non-profit group, but bookings have to be made by the evening before travel and the bus doesn’t go beyond the town.

Uber, valued at over $60 billion, hopes to tap that demographic demand to ferry around the elderly.

“Finally, we were able to make our very first step,” said Masami Takahashi, president of Uber Japan Co. “This service can be a solution for Japan’s ageing society.”

The U.S. firm, one of the pioneers in the “sharing economy”, has faced resistance and restrictions in some cities as established taxi operators complained of unfair competition.

In Japan, Uber was blocked by authorities from setting up in two cities as Japan bars non-professional drivers from offering taxi services. In Tokyo, Uber operates as a travel agent, connecting users to established taxi company drivers through its ride-hailing app.

Non-professional drivers can only operate where public transport is not readily available – like in Tango, where rice paddies surround a main street dotted with old, wooden houses.

Among the challenges Uber faces in Tango are persuading seniors to use mobile devices and credit cards.

Residents will use tablets, such as iPads, to book Uber rides. Uber is making available 50 tablets – easier for the elderly to read than smartphones – for free for six months to book one of 18 registered cars.

“What a great service,” said 84-year-old Miyoshi Azuma, brandishing one of the tablets. “With this, we can call the car by just clicking the button.” She did add that locals may need simpler instructions on how to use the tablet and Uber app.

“I think it will take time to judge whether this service will be a success because people here are sensitive to money,” said Takashi Ose, a 79-year-old head of a senior people’s club.

Uber charges half the rate of the taxi firm in central Kyotango city.

Takuo Nakanishi, 66, who drives for Kyotango’s sole taxi operator Mineyama Taxi, worries that Uber may hurt his business.

“I can’t afford to live on just my taxi salary. I can be a driver only because I receive a pension. That’s how small demand is here for taxis,” he said, adding it is not viable for his company to offer a full taxi service for Tango.

Uber hopes to roll out similar services in other depopulated areas in Japan. It’s global UberASSIST platform already caters for seniors and people with disabilities, and it provides transport services for elderly care homes in Florida, for example.

“There are many communities which cannot respond to people’s need to go somewhere when they need,” said Takahashi. “Uber can be a sustainable business model in such places because we can provide services using existing assets.”

One of those assets, 68-year-old Uber driver Yoshihiro Hatanaka, welcomed the flexibility of Uber’s service.

“I love trekking, so I’ll probably only drive when it’s raining,” he said.

(c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2016.

＜Questions＞
Japan now expects perhaps 35,000,000 tourists by the olympics in 2020. Taxis are expensive and there’s already a hotel shortage.

1. Other than Airbnb and uber, what other kinds of share economy businesses have you heard of?

2. Have you ever used a share economy business?

3. Would you consider trying a share economy service?

4. Would you consider working in the share economy service? For example drive a car or rent an apartment?

5. What do you think of share economy services?

6. Are share economy businesses good for consumers? How?

7. Are share economy businesses bad for the economy? How?

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