第41回 WORKSHOP報告(7月21日) / 参加者90名

第41回 WORKSHOP報告(7月21日) / 参加者90名

 

みなさまこんにちは。

 

7月21日(土)に開催されたworkshopの報告をさせていただきます。

 

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《 今回のworkshop 》

 

○workshop参加人数:90名(うち新人の方:16名)

 

○【前半】: 英語で「交渉@家電量販店」(ロールプレイ)

○【後半】:「食料自給率」に関するテーマでディスカッション

 

○【懇親会】約60人の方々がご参加されました。

 

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(新人の方の自己紹介中です)

 


この日は昨年からずっとE’s clubのNATIVE講師として

貢献していただいたB先生の最後の講義となりました。

先生は講義だけではなく、懇親会やイベントなどに

積極的にご参加いただき、メンバーとの交流も

深めていただきました。メンバー一同とても

さみしく思っていますが、今後の先生のご活躍を

お祈りしております。これまでありがとうございました!

 

 

<英語サークル E’s club 第41回workshopのご案内>

 

今回は前半のマテリアルをHさんに、後半のマテリアルをKさんに作成していただきました。前半は、家電量販店でお客様と店員の立場になって、英語で交渉のロールプレイをしていただきます。

後半ディスカッションのテーマは「食料自給率」です。

 

<FIRST HALF>

皆さん初めまして、Hです。

いま私はメーカーで働いており、主にお客様への営業を担当しています。

営業は互いの立場を超えての交渉の場であり、個人又は会社として優先順位を見極めることが非常に大切だと学びました。

というわけで、前半のトピックは「交渉」です!但し、今回は分かり易いように「家電量販店」をテーマとします!

 

A.1テーブル6人、店員・買い物客・ジャッジ役の各2人ずつ、3チームに分かれて下さい。

B.1試合5分間で店員チームはより高く、買物客はより安い値段で製品を売買してください。

原則的には別紙(当日各テーブルに配布します)の情報を参考に交渉をしてもらいますが、他にアイディアがあれば自由に議論していただいて結構です。

C.試合後、各グループはジャッジを中心に3分間の講評をお願いします。

D.役割を交代し、合計3試合を行います。

(時間管理は各テーブルごとにジャッジ役の人が行ってください。)

 

時間が余ったグループは、以下の質問でフリートークをお願いいたします。

 

・Which do you like shopping on the Net or at an electric appliance shop, and why?

・When you buy an electric appliance, what point is most important for you? (price, quality, brand, etc.)

・If you have any techniques to buy one, please share in your group.

 

<LATTER HALF>

Agenda : How can Japan solve the problem of the level of food self-sufficiency?

 

Exchange your opinions to the followings.

1.Do you worry about Japanese food self-sufficiency?

And give the reasons you worry (don’t worry) about it.

 

2.What do you think is the reasons for the rapid worsening of this problem for the last few decades?

 

3.Do you agree with the opinion that the fall in the level of food self-sufficiency occurs in other countries – especially in developed countries?

 

4.In consideration of the problem of Japan’s food self-sufficiency, the government is working to increase the rate to 45 % by 2015 from the current 40%.

(“Food Action Nippon” retrieved from http://syokuryo.jp/index.html ).

Have you heard of this government’s approach to the problem?

(e.g. Promotion of rice flour retrieved from http://www.japanfs.org/en/pages/029645.html)

Can you devise any other plans?

 

5.How can we contribute to solving this problem?

 

 

JFS Newsletter No.93 (May 2010) “Japanese Food Self-Sufficiency and Local Initiatives to Improve It”.

Retrieved from http://www.japanfs.org/en/mailmagazine/newsletter/pages/030007.html

 

Have you ever wondered what the level of food self-sufficiency is in your country? If you live in a place where food is abundant and agriculture is thriving, you may not have even thought about it before. The circumstances surrounding food issues and agriculture are dramatically changing, however, especially with an increasing number of natural disasters like droughts and floods caused by extreme climate phenomena having a direct impact. In addition, depending on the kind of food being produced, formerly major food-exporting countries such as India and China have become food importers, spurred on by their increasing populations and changing eating habits. Then there is the issue of increasing “food miles,” the overuse of energy eaten up by long-distance food transportation, along with the corresponding growth in greenhouse gas emissions. Under the circumstances, it is important to pay attention to the rate of food self-sufficiency, which indicates how well a country can feed its citizens without relying on imported food. As this issue is closely related to any nation’s security, it is drawing public attention in Japan, too.

 

Current Status of Japan’s Food Self-Sufficiency Rate

The food self-sufficiency rate is an indicator that shows how much daily food per capita is produced within a country. In Japan, it is based on calories and is calculated as daily domestically supplied calories per capita divided by daily totally supplied calories per capita. Self-sufficiency in grains is also often used to compare between countries, as almost complete data from industrial and developing countries are available.

 

The food self-sufficiency rate in Japan was 78 percent in 1961, but it has since been in a long decline. Within a decade, it had dropped to 58 percent in 1971, down 20 percent. In 1989, it actually fell below the 50-percent level. Since 1998, the figure has been hovering around 40 percent. In fiscal 2006, it broke the 40-percent level, declining to 39 percent, which made media headlines and the topic frequently comes up in discussions. The figure is the lowest among major industrialized countries. In Switzerland, whose food self-sufficiency is comparatively lower than other countries, the rate varies between 50 and 60 percent, while in Korea, Japan’s next-door neighbor, it is a little lower than 50 percent.

 

Almost 100 percent of Japan’s own staple food rice is produced in Japan. Self-sufficiency in grains as a whole, however, was only 28 percent in fiscal 2008, well below the overall food self-sufficiency rate. This is because grains used for livestock feed, such as corn, come mostly from imports. Moreover, Japan is only 10 to 20 percent self-sufficient in the production of the wheat and buckwheat needed to make bread and noodles.

 

From among the various factors involved in the rate’s decline to 40 percent — down by nearly half from the previous 78 percent — is a general trend of moving away from local agricultural production and depending more heavily on imports, but one of the biggest factors is changing eating habits. As the country grew richer, people became more westernized in their food choices. For example, the consumption of meat and food oils has trebled or even quadrupled since 1960, while the consumption of rice has been almost halved. This means that the consumption of domestically produced food has decreased, while the appetite for imported food has grown. This trend is largely what has spurred on the dwindling food self-sufficiency rate in Japan.

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