Finishing "12 Angry Men"

先日の授業で"12 Angry Men"の最後の部分を見ました。次回の授業で次のこうをしようと考えています。

• いくつかの重要な場面の解説
• 裁判員・陪審員制度に関するビデオを見せて、制度の意義およびアメリカ文化との関係について考える
• Reasonable doubtのテキスト解説の続き（最終回）

なお、はっきりと覚えていませんが、今週の授業の後に、２週間前の授業で「次回はquizなし」と言ったのに、そのことを忘れてしまい、quizをしたのでは、ということが気になりました。次回はこのことについても皆さんと少し話したいと思います。

English Lounge

課題ではありませんが、受講生の皆さんにEnglish Loungeの利用をお勧めします。

How to study

Last semester, we talked about how to use this blog to study. Please click here to look at that page.

Interpret

Here's one of the lines that we are studying in this movie:

You've had the law read to you and interpreted as it applies in this case.

In this situation, "to interpret the law" means to "explain the meaning of the law." I'll talk about this in class.

I can tell by . . .

Last week I introduced part of a couple of songs that have the phrase "I can tell by . . ." in the lyrics.   I put the video on YouTube so you can all watch it whenever you want.



Also, you can download an mp4 version of the video (for your iPods and other mobile devices) by right-clicking here.

Make sure you understand the expression that I explained in class. I may test you on them.

VLC

If you are using a Windows machine, it might be necessary to download iTunes or another program in order to play the mp4 files I put on my blog.  Here's the address for VLC, which I think is a very useful program:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html

VLC is free and can play almost any kind of video or audio file.