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Favorite Vacations

Asking Questions

9:30-9:40 Ice Breaker

What was the best thing that happened this last week? What was the worst thing that happened this last week?

9:40 – 9:50 Preview Questions • Can you identify the city and country in the picture? • Have you ever been there? Would you like to visit this place?

9:50 – 10:10 Dialog Cathy and Joan are discussing vacations. Cathy: Joan, did you take a vacation this summer? Joan: Yes, we went to a very romantic city – the city of Ola in Santorini, Greece. It’s the most romantic place I’ve ever been. It’s a city at the top of a steep slope with breathtaking views. All of the restaurants are built into the cliff. What’s the most romantic place you’ve ever visited?

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Cathy: That’s easy – Paris, France! What’s the most important thing you’ve learned from your travels? Joan: Be open-minded and try everything! Cathy: That’s good advice. What are some of your favorite cities?

Joan: Austin, Texas; Beijing; Bogota, Colombia.

Cathy: Interesting. Where would you like to go that you have never been?

Joan: That’s hard to say – there are so many places I’d like to visit.

Cathy: I agree. What kind of research do you do before you go on a trip?

Joan: I usually ask people who’ve been there.

Cathy: What is your worst travel memory?

Joan: Having my luggage lost in India. I had to wear Indian clothes for a week!

10:10 – 10:30 Discussion Questions

Directions: In the time you are given, please answer some of the following questions. You won’t have time to answer them all, so please choose the questions that interest you.

1. Did you and your family take a vacation this summer? If yes, describe your vacation.

2. What is the most romantic vacation place in your opinion?

3. What’s the most important thing you’ve learned from your travels?

4. What are some of your favorite cities?

5. Where would you like to go that you have never been?

6. What kind of research do you do before you go on a trip?

7. What is your worst travel memory?

8. What was the first trip you took as a child?

9. What are some of your favorite hotels? Restaurants? (anywhere in the world)

10. What’s the best travel advice you’ve ever received?

11. What’s the most difficult thing about preparing to leave on a vacation?

12. What’s the most difficult thing about traveling?

13. What’s your favorite thing to do on vacation?

10:30 – 10:40 Grammar

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Directions: Write at least 6 questions about vacations to ask the people at your table. Try to write questions that are not in the dialog or discussion questions. Use the present tense, the past tense, and the present perfect tense to ask your questions. Make sure to use the correct helping verb.

• Write 3 “Yes/No” questions • Write 3 “Information” questions: what, where, who, when, why, how.

After you write your questions, take turns asking each other your 5 questions. Your tutor will help you with the grammar and sentence structure.

Yes/No Questions

1. ____________________________________________________________________

2. ____________________________________________________________________

3. ____________________________________________________________________

Information Questions

1. ____________________________________________________________________

2. ____________________________________________________________________

3. ____________________________________________________________________

10:40 – 11:00 Introduction to God, Jesus John 1:1-14

1 1-2 Before anything else existed, there was Christ, with God. He has always been alive and is himself God. 3 He created everything there is—nothing exists that he didn’t make. 4 Eternal life is in him, and this life gives light to all mankind. 5 His life is the light that shines through the darkness—and the darkness can never extinguish it.

6-7 God sent John the Baptist as a witness to the fact that Jesus Christ is the true Light. 8 John himself was not the Light; he was only a witness to identify it.

9 Later on, the one who is the true Light arrived to shine on everyone coming into the world.10 But although he made the world, the world didn’t recognize him when he came. 11-12 Even in his own land and among his own people, the Jews, he was not accepted. Only a few would welcome and receive him. But to all who received him, he gave the right to become children of God. All they needed to do was to trust him to save them. 13 All those who believe this are reborn!—not a physical rebirth resulting from human passion or plan—but from the will of God.

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14 And Christ became a human being and lived here on earth among us and was full of loving forgiveness and truth. And some of us have seen his glory—the glory of the only Son of the heavenly Father!

The Word You May Not Know:

Exist=to live; Jesus Christ=the Son of God; alive=not dead; create=to bring into being; eternal life=life that lasts always and forever; mankind: all human beings; darkness=so dark, one can’t see anything; extinguish=to delete; John the Baptist = a man sent by God to introduce Jesus to us; witness=a person who sees and hears; identify=to find out what something is; recognize=to understand; Jews=people whose ancestors were from the story in the Bible; receive=to accept; trust=to believe; reborn=rebirth; forgiveness=free from guilt, shame, blame, debt; truth=a thing that is real; glory=majesty, greatness; Son=Jesus Christ; heavenly Father=God

*Evil (devil) is Satan who opposes God. He is an evil spirit who leads us to disobey what God teaches us in the Bible.

*Sin (sinful nature) is fallen human nature. The Bible says that sin is in us and comes through Adam and Eve who were the first humans, the parents of mankind. They were tempted by Satan, ate some fruit – which God had told them not to eat – and disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden. (Genesis 3)

Questions from John 1:1-14

1. Who is the Son of God? 2. What did God create through Jesus? (v. 3) 3. For what purpose was John sent by God? (v. 6-7) 4. What did people, who believed in Jesus, see? (v. 14) 5. You could name Jesus as the Light, Creator, Glory of God, Son of the Father from this

story of the Bible. Which of the names of Jesus is especially significant for you? 6. Why do you think that Jesus became a human? (v. 14) 7. What does the Bible say will happen when people believe in Jesus? (v. 11-13) 8. What can Christ give to you through his fullness of grace and truth? (v. 14)

神イエスキリストの紹介 ヨハネの福音書１章１～１４節

１２まだこの世界に何もない時から、キリストは、神と共におられました。キリストは、いつの時代にも生きておられます。キリストは、神だからです。３このキリストが、すべてのものをお造りになりました。そうでないものは一つもありません。４キリストには永遠のいのちがあります。全人類に光を与えるいのちです。５そのいのちは暗闇の中でさんぜんと輝いていて、どんな暗闇もこの光を消すことはできません。

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６７イエス・キリストこそほんとうの光です。このことを証言させるために、神はバプテス マのヨハネをお遣わしになりました。８ヨハネは自身は光ではなく、ただその光を指し示す証人にすぎません。９後に、ほんとうの光である方が来て、全世界の 人々を照らしてしださったのです。

１０ところが、世界を造った方が来られたというのに、だれもこの方に気づきませんでし た。１１１２ご自分の国に来ながら、ご自分の民に受け入れられなかったのです。この方を心から喜び迎えたのは、ほんのわずかな人たちだけでしたが、受けいれた人はみな、この方から子供となる特権をいただきました。それにはただ、この方が救ってくださると信じればよかったのです。１３信じる人はだれでも、 新しく生まれ変わります。それは、人間の熱意や計画によるものではありません。神がそう望まれたからです。１４キリストは人間となり、この地上で私たちと 共に生活なさいました。彼は恵みと真実のお方でした。私たちは、この方の栄光を目のあたりしました。それは、天の父である神の、ひとり子としての栄光でした。

聖書のことばの意味

キリスト＝(神)の子、永遠のいのち＝終わりのないいのち、光＝イエスキリストご自身、暗闇＝非常に暗く何も見えない状態、消す＝打ち負かす、バプテスマのヨハネ＝わたしたちにイエスを紹介するために神によって送られた人、証人＝事実を証明する人、新しく生まれ変わる＝罪によって死んだ状態から、キリストを信じることによって、永遠のいのちが与えられ、新しく生まれ変わること、栄光＝すばらしさ、偉大さ（神を表すときによく使われる）、恵み＝十字架のうえでのキリストの死によって与えられる、神からの贈り物。真実＝聖書の言葉である神からのメッセージ。真実の反対は、誤り。父＝神、

＊悪（悪魔）サタンは、神に反逆する悪魔のことです。聖書では、このサタンが、わたしたちが神に従うことを、邪魔すると教えています。

＊罪（罪の性質）堕落してしまった人間のことを指します。聖書は、わたしたちの中に罪があることを教えています。その罪は、私たちの最初の人間の父母にあたる、アダムとエバによって、もたらされてしまったことを、聖書は、教えています。聖書によると、彼らは、サタンによって誘惑され、神との約束をやぶり、食べてはいけないと教えられていた実を、彼らが生活していたエデンの園で食べてしまいました。そのことから、罪の性質が私たちの中に引き続き残っています。（創世記３章）

質問に答えてみましょう。

1. 神の子ってだれのことでしょうか？ 2. イエスキリストを通して神は何を造りましたか？（３節） 3. ヨハネは、どういう目的で、父なる神によって送られたのでしょうか？（６、７節） 4. 神を信じる人々は何を見ましたか？（１４節） 5. イエスを、神の子、神の栄光、創造主、光などとあなたは、呼ぶことができます。どのイエスキリストの名前があなたにとって当てはまるでしょうか？。

6. どうしてイエスは、人となったのでしょうか？（１４節） 7. 聖書は、イエスキリストを信じると、どうなると語っていますか？（１１-１３節） 8. 神の真実と恵みを通して、キリストは何をあなたに与えることはできますか？（１４節）