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2010年12月28日火曜日

BR 2-14: Christmas Adventure

I read a book "Christmas Adventure". This is one of magic key series. This time, the magic key took children to Christmas adventure. It was Christmas Eve and Chip's mother and father were very busy. They wanted the children to help, but children didn't help. Then, the magic key took children to the land of Father Christmas. There was a father christmas. He was too busy and asleep because he worked all night. He had not celebrated on Christmas day every year, so children decorated a christmas tree and made some strawberry jam sandwiches. A father christmas thanked children. After returning home, children helped to mother and father.

I got warm heart after I read this book because children were kind. I thought that children have to be good children to get present from father christmas. When I am a mother, I want to let this book read to my children. If so, my children may be good children. Also, as the father christmas celebrated on great christmas, I thought that it was good.

I read this book and I learned a new word. It was father christmas. I didn't know the mean of the word, but I found the mean by the nuance. Father christmas is Santa Claus. I first knew another word of Santa Claus. It was good book for me.

[223 words]

Reference
Hunt, R. (1994). Christmas Adventure. [n.p.]: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

2010年12月25日土曜日

BR 2-13: The Play

I read a book "The Play". It was a story that children played the Wizard of Oz. I liked the punch line the best. Chip said "It's like a play," (Roderick Hunt, 1986, p.24) and it ended. It is a storm. In a word, a storm like the play. It was stormy day whenever children played, so Chip said so. It was a story time, and a teacher told The Wizard of Oz to children. Children first knew the story. After finishing the time, there was a storm. Children couldn't play outside, so they played The Wizard of Oz simply inside. The teacher liked the play and she decided to play The Wizard of Oz in earnest. The play was wonderful, but it was a stormy day when they tried to go home after finishing the play. I also felt that a storm like the play.

I also like the illustration of this book. The illustration is simple and even I can illustrate them. But they are very cute, I can never illustrate them. This book is one of Oxford Reading Tree. I like this series. As there are many this series, I want to read much more this series.

[200 words]

Reference
Hunt, R. (1986). The Play. [n.p.]: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

BR 2-12: The Sun and the Wind

I read a book "The Sun and the Wind". This is one of Aesop's Fables. This is the story that the sun and the wind confront to let a man take his coat off. This is famous book in the world. I had heard the story before, but I had never read the story. When I found this book, I decided to try to read this soon. After I finished reading, I thought that it is interesting after all.
This book appeared the sun and the wind. I like the sun better because I don't like cold. The sun is warm, but the wind is cold. So I like the sun. The wind tried to let a man take his coat off by strong wind. But a man felt colder by strong wind, so he didn't take his coat off. It is natural for everyone to think that we want to wear much clothing. What the wind did resulted wearing coat. By contraries, the sun got warmer and warmer, so the man took his coat off. The sun won the game. Like symbolizing it, the man wore T-shirt of the sun. It was a funny punch line.


[197 words]
Reference
Aesop, . (2007). The Sun and the Wind. [n.p.]: Usborne Publishing Ltd..

2010年12月22日水曜日

Typing homework 15

My favorite comic is Dragon ball. I started to read it because I was told to read it from my older brother. It is a story that a boy met a girl and he know about dragon ball. Dragon ball is 7 balls and everything come true when all of 7 balls collect. He follow her and he gets over a lot of trials. With it, he becomes stronger and stronger. It is very interesting. The name of main character is Son Goku. I like him the best. He is the strongest, very cheerful and positive. However hard situation he is in, he never gives up. By contraries, he enjoys the situation. When I read the scene like that, I was always impressed. This comic is really interesting, so I want everyone to read this.

[135 words]

About Sweets in America

I report about sweets and snacks in America because I like them and I am interested in them. Now Japanese sweets and snacks are similar to American sweets and snacks, but I think that there is still a little difference between American sweets and Japanese sweets. I examined three topics to know the difference. The first topic is American traditional sweets. The second topic is popular sweets and snacks in America. The third topic is American healthy sweets. I first talk about Japanese sweets and then about American sweets.

First, I show you Japanese traditional sweets, Japanese popular sweets and Japanese healthy sweets to compare with those of American sweets. Japanese traditional sweet is Japanese-style confectionery. For example, sweet dumpling (dango), manju, sweet bean jelly (youkan), dorayaki, rice cracker (senbei) and so on. Japanese-style confectionery is strained at not only taste but also appearance. They are made by elaborate craftsmen. They are just art.

Next, I show you American sweets. First, I’ll show about American traditional sweets. I searched them on the personal computer and I asked my host family about American traditional sweets. American traditional sweets are Apple pies and cookies and candies. Apple pies are same food which is eaten in Japan. Cookies too. Candies tend to be thought that it is only solid stuff which is made from sugar in Japan, but it is different. But candies include chocolate, gumi and sugar sweets in America. Anyway even if it is not made of sugar and it is a little solid stuff it includes candies in America. Candies in English are wider than candy in Japanese. I also examined about when they eat these traditional sweets. They eat apple pies regularly on Christmas day. They eat cookies at various parties. They serve candies when they visit house of their friend on holiday. Actually, when I went to high school graduation party with my host family and when we picnicked at park with all of each host family cookies were served. Also, American people usually make sweets on their own. The Japanese almost tend to buy sweets, but the American makes them. Various parties are held in America and people who attend these parties make something individually, then they bring them. It seems to be natural for American people to make sweets on their own. Of course, my host family made sweets, too. I also cooked cookies together.

Next, I'll show about popular sweets and snack in America. I examined ranking of sweets and snacks which sell in supermarket and grocery store. I introduce top 10 of the ranking and I explain about some of these. No.1 is Pop Tarts – S’mores. Pop-Tarts are a brand of flat, rectangular, pre-bakedtoaster pastries made by theKellogg Company and it has a sugary filling sealed inside two layers of rectangular, thin pastry crust. There are 7 popular flavers. S’more is the most popular flavor of these flavors. S’more consists of a roastedmarshmallow and a layer ofchocolate sandwiched. No.2 is Marshmallow Fluff. Marshmallow Fluff is stuff which marshmallow is turned as soft as cream. It is like jam. No.3 is Pretzel Flipz Milk Chocolate – 212g. No.4 is Lifesavers – Wint O Green. Life Savers is anAmerican brand of ring-shapedmints and artificially fruit-flavoredhard candy. Wint O Green is mint flavor. No.5 is Wonka Nerds Sour – Apple and Lemon. Wonka Nerds are a form ofcandy currently sold byNestlé under theirWilly Wonka Candy Company brand. No.6 is Candy Corn. No.7 is Reeses Nutrageous Chocolate Bar. No.8 is Oreo Dunkems. No.9 is Reeses Peanut Butter Cups which is a classic American candy bar. No.10 is American Candy Pile. I also introduce top 5 of the American traditional sweets ranking. No.1 is Ice Cream. No.2 is Chocolate cake. No.3 is Apple Pie. No.4 is Jell-O. Jell-O is as same sweet as Japanese jelly. No.5 is Cheese Cake. From this result, the more parties they have in America, they make something to eat. Cakes and Pies are the best dish for bringing to party. I felt unexpected that cookies are not in the ranking.

Third, I'll show about American healthy sweets. There were a lot of high calorie sweets in America, but there were also low calorie sweets because it is said that America is fat large country by the world. For example, it is yoghurt. I was surprised at a lot of kinds. When I went to grocery store in Minnesota, a lot of yoghurt displayed and there were more than 20 flavors. There was vanilla flavor which I have never seen in Japan. There were low calorie chocolates, too. Low calorie chocolates are popular now in Japan. I think that the popularity came from America.

There was not so much difference between Japanese sweets and American sweets, but I show you some features of American sweets. The first feature is the taste. I thought that the taste of even the same sweet is different between the US and Japan. American sweets were too sweet anyway. When I arrived at Minnesota, the sweet which I had first was cake. It was too sweet to have, so I could not have it. I had some sweets then, but most of them were too sweet for Japanese people. I cooked cookies with my host sister. I was surprised at the quantity of sugar, but it is natural for American people. I was convinced that why American sweets are too sweet. The feature of American sweets strained cute design. Though its feature is similar to Japan, but how to design is different. Japan people turn sweets themselves such things as fish, flower, etc… While American people show cute design by topping marble chocolate, chocolate chip and so on. So it can say that Japanese sweets are beautiful and American sweets are cute. Popular sweets were similar both Japan and America. American sweets are cheap and good, so I thought that American sweets became popular in Japan, too. Though Japan sweets are turning to similar to American sweets, I found that taste and design are different by countries. Through this report, I wish that Japanese sweets become more popular all over the world, too.

[1033 words]


2010年12月20日月曜日

Essay2-03a: My University Life

I enjoy my university life. I can spend comfortable in university now. I thought the reason why I am being able to enjoy my university life. Though I have some reasons, there are three big reasons in some reasons. The three reasons are friends, classes and facility. From now on, I will talk about them.

First, I made many friends since I entered university. I have many friends of same department as me. I met friends of same department in April, 2009. I can talk everything to the friends. Thanks to them, I enjoy attending classes. If I have in a trouble about class, they help me anytime. So, I help them when they have in a trouble. I play with them in private time. I have class which I am not interested in. Even such a class, I can enjoy with them. I also have many friends of same club as me. I could met them because I belonged to youth hostel club. There are a lot of things that I thought that it was good to belong to the club. First of all, I have a lot of friends. I could get acquainted with many seniors. Seniors taught me how to make school timetable. I didn't know it at all then, so I was helped by them. They also gave me some textbooks. There are many things that I was able to learn through the club. Like this, I was helped by them. I think that it was good to belong to the club.

Second, there are many specialty classes that I have never study in university. For example, I learned about outline of British literature, Christian outline and so on. Through these classes, I can touch the field that I had never known then. It is very fun. Also, I am being able to study English deeply. As I like English before, It is glad for me to be able to study English deeply. I am looking forward to it when I think that I will be able to study many things that I don't know yet.

Third, I can spend comfortably thanks to facility of this university. Facilities of this university are very beautiful and clean. I am glad to study in beautiful university. There are some my favorite facilities. My best favorite facility is library. The library is very comfortable. When I want to study by alone, I always go to library. I am anxious about my being lonely in university because there are so many people in this university. But I'm not anxious about it only in library. So the library is one of reason that my university life can be enjoyable. My second favorite facility is student hall. When I go there, there are my friends. The student hall has convenient store, barber and so on. I thought it is very convenient place. These makes me enjoyable.

My university life doesn't finish even two years. Still, I can enjoy it very much. My university life has still two years. I'm sure to be able to enjoy it. I have some things I want to do in my university life. For example, I want to get some qualifications. I have to do my best for my two years to go so that I won't regret later.

[552 words]

2010年12月16日木曜日

Typing homework 14

My favorite book is "The Saga of Darren Shan". This book was series which is composed of 12 volume. When I was a junior high school student, I read them. I was recommended reading them from a mother of my friend, so I began to read them. Though I thought I can't read them until the end because all books of the series were long story.However, they were very interesting! I was always excited! The books was about vampire. I didn't want to come to the end because it was really interesting. Also, I cried in all the volumes. This books makes us impressed, too. I come to read them again still, but there are these books in library of KGU. Therefore, if I want to read them again, I have to go to the other library.

[137 words]

2010年12月15日水曜日

Outline

University life in 25 years from now

I’m going to talk about university life 25 years from now. University life will become more comfortable in 25 years. All buildings are rebuilt as No. 14 building. Textbook will be abolished and personal computer will be used instead if textbook. Teachers don’t use blackboard. They type content of the class and students can see it through computer. The university develops technological. Also, parking area is provided for students in 25 years, so most of students come to university.

[79 words]

University life now

I’m enjoying my university life. The best reason why I enjoy university life is friend. I made a lot of friends since I entered university. I am getting along with friends of same department. I can work happily even a troublesome class because there is a friend.

Also, the second reason is class. There are many classes I had never learned in the university. I could learn a lot of things I didn’t know. I am glad to be able to know many things. There are sometimes classes I am not interested in, but my friends cover it for me.

Facilities and buildings are beautiful. This is third reason. I am happy because I can learn in beautiful place. If it is dirty, I don’t want to study. My favorite place in university is library. If I am alone, I don’t feel bothersome. When you would rather do something alone, I always go to library.

[155 words]

2010年12月11日土曜日

Typing homework 13

My favorite drama is "Orange days" now. This drama was broadcasted in April, 2004. This is the love and youth story by a common boy and a girl with auditory difficulties. This drama was being rebroadcasted from 2 p.m. until last week.
I watched it every day by recording. They use some sign language in the drama. It is very great and cool, but common people see them with curiosity in the drama. I saw this drama and I felt sad that society actually does so. I saw this drama and I am made to think the other many things. The drama benefits me. I saw this drama, I also want to learn sign language. This drama ended last week, I felt a little sad because I wanted to watch it more.

[132 words]

Typing homework 12

My favorite clothing shop is INGNI. There is this shop in AEON MALL KUMAMOTO CLAIR and youme town Hikarinomori. Clothing of INGNI has not only cute clothes but also simple clothes. My favorite clothes gathers in this shop. I bought two winter clothes in this shop recently. One of them is knitwear. Another clothe is knit jacket. Both of those clothes are very cute. They are my favorite clothes now. Cost is not cheap, but is not expensive. So I can buy. There are cute clothes I want, so I make much money by part-time job and I want you buy them. The exterior of INGNI shop is also cute. It is feminine. I think that the exterior show clothes cute.

[121 words]

BR 2-11: The Fox and the Crow

I read “The Fox and the Crow”. This book is one of Aesop’s Fables, a collection of stories first told in Ancient Greece around 4000 years ago. I have read this story in Japanese class, when I was an elementary school student. I’ll talk about the story.

There was a fox and he was always hungry. One day, he saw a crow with some cheese. Fox wanted some cheese, so he grinned at crow and talked to crow. The fox admired the crow’s look and feathers. The crow felt good. The fox asked if the crow could sing. The crow nodded and opened beak and sang. Her some cheese fell down. The fox snapped it up. The crow get angry, but the fox laughed and told her not to always believe people who say nice things, sometimes they just want something from you. The fox left the place.

The most impressive passage in this book for me was when Fox says, “Don’t always believe people who say nice things,” “Sometimes they just want something from you.” (Aesop, 2007, p. 22-23). I usually believe people, but I thought that it's not good to believe the person too much either.

[213 words]

Reference
Aesop, . (2007). The Fox and the Crow. [n.p.]: Usborne Publishing Ltd..

2010年12月7日火曜日

BR 2-10:The Three Little Pigs

I read "The Three Little Pigs" today. It was a story by three little pigs. When I was a little, I had read this story. When I was a little I thought only that it was good because a bad wolf dead and three pigs could live happy. But when I read it by this age, my feelings changed a little. Three little pigs were cute but they killed the wolf. For the book that a little child can read, I thought the book is severe book remarkably. But when I was a little, I didn’t think so. Though the book was severe, it was interesting. Poppy's house wasn't blown. I thought that its reason wasn't only being built by bricks. She worked hard and completed. I thought it was one of the reasons why her house wasn't blown. I think I try to work hard whenever I do something.

[150 words]
Reference
Davidson, S. (2007). The Three Lttle Pigs. [n.p.]: Usborne Publishing Ltd..

Typing homework11

My favorite character is Golden eggs. I saw a commercial message of law mileage car and I became to love it. Golden eggs character is used as law mileage girl Haiji in the commercial message. Law mileage girl Haiji is character which changes illustration of Alps's girl Haiji into Golden eggs's illustration. It is very cute! I really love it! I set menu arrange of cell phone to that of law mileage girl Haiji. I have some goods, too. I want much more goods. For example, what I want the most now is schedule diary. I find it, but I can't find my favorite schedule diary. 2010 will end nearly. Until then, I want to find it. May my favorite schedule diary is found!

[124 words]

2010年12月6日月曜日

Typing homework10

My favorite travel is Okinawa trip. When I was a freshman I went to Okinawa with my club member last summer. We went on a four day trip. On arriving at Okinawa first went to beach and swam. The ocean was very clear and beautiful. I was so impressed. The sphere we could swim was narrow unexpectedly, so we finished swimming early. After that, we went to the hotel which we stay to put own baggage. We stayed at youth hostel. The hotel was pretty good. The night, we went out to a inn. The dishes were good. We drank alcoholic, too. We went to aquarium next day. It was very big and beautiful. Jinbei shark is famous in the aquarium. It was also big. I was very excited. I also went shopping in other day. We had a very good time there.

[143 words]

Typing homework9

My favorite dish is fried chicken. I love it very much. Chicken is healther than the other meat. I noticed my loving fried chicken recently. When I went to the restaurant I always chose dish of fried chicken. Also, when I buy lunch I always buy fried chicken lunch. So I noticed that I like fried chicken. I couldn't answer when I was asked about what I like. But now, I can answer soon. Of course, I have the other favorite dish. For example, I like hamburger. When I went to the restaurant I often choose hamburger next to fried chicken. I can make hamburger but I can't make fried chicken. So I want to be able to make fried chicken. I do my best!

[125 words]

2010年12月2日木曜日

BR 2-09: The Musician of Bremen

I read a book today. It was “The Musician of Bremen”. When I was a little girl, my mother and teacher read the book in Japanese for me. I liked the story so I wanted to read it again. Though I remember the story, I did hardly remember it. I liked the story after all. The four animals strain their brain and they ejected the robbers from the house. I thought it is great. If I were the same situation as robber I’m sure of running away like the robbers. I thought that the donkey has good brains because he thought the plan. They could run away from a mean man. I thought that it was the best thing.

I read this book and the most impressive thing was friendship of animals. Four animals had received an awful treatment respectively. The book was written that the rooster was the worst treatment of all the four animals. But I don’t think so, there is no the worst treatment for a bad treatment and bad treatment is all bad. Though four animals were done terrible things, donkey, dog and cat were worried about rooster. They are very kind and they are thinking deeply. I think they are great because they think other friends than own. I want to become such person, too.
[220 words]
ReferenceThe Brothers Grimm, . (2007). The Musician of Bremen. [n.p]: Usborne Publishing Ltd..

2010年11月27日土曜日

BR 2-08: The Ugly Duckling

I read a book. It is "The Ugly Duckling". I had read the book in Japanese before, but I forgot the story. So, I want to read the book and I borrowed it in the library. The book was story by an ugly duckling. When the ugly duckling was a little, he wasn’t liked by everyone. He was bullied and avoided but he didn’t lose. Now, bullying is increasing more and more in this society. There aren’t a few people who commit suicide by bullying. I thought that this book suggests message for such people. For the book that a little child can read, this is deep book.

When I read this book, I also felt pity for the ugly duckling first, but he became swan and he was admitted by everything I was glad of it. I thought other animals were wicked because they avoided and bullied the ugly duckling only his ugly. If I were animal I don't want to do same thing to him. It was good to read this book.
[174 words]
Reference


Davidson, S. (2006). The Ugly Duckling. [n.p.]: Usborne Publishing Ltd..

2010年11月23日火曜日

Typing homework 8

My favorite TV show is variety show. I like comedian very much, so I usually watch most variety show. The show I like the best of all the variety show is "Otameshika!" by Taka and Toshi. I like "Kaerematen" in the show. Kaerematen is the project that some popular comedians and entertainers hit Top10 of popular foods in the fast food and restaurant. In the past, Minter Donut, Royal Host, Mos Burger, 31 ice cream, etc appeared at the project. They hit all the foods of Top10. If they can't hit them they can't go home forever. It is very interesting. After I watched the TV show I always become to want to go to the fast food and restaurant that appeared at the show in the day.

[128 words]

2010年11月22日月曜日

Essay2-02b:My learning Languages

I have ever learned 3 languages from pre- school to University. They are Japanese, English and French. There were many trouble and efforts through learning. I liked to learning until I was a junior high school student. Now, I tell you about these languages learning experience. I'm glad to give your comment after you read this.

First, I tell you in my pre-school days. I looked at a lot of things anyway. Toys, foods, stuffed animals...too much things! I took and looked at what I was interested in a long time one after another. And I asked pre- school nurse what it is. Pre-school nurse always answered what it is and how it uses kindly. I learned them more and more. In pre-school, there was nothing I could but learn what I was interested in.

Second, I tell you in my elementary school days. Learning became full-dress in elementary school. I learned hiragana, katakana and very simple kanji when I was a lower grades student of elementary school. I wrote my name in hiragana many times first. Then I practiced to write the other hiragana. After learning hiragana, I learned katakana as I learned hiragana. I kept writing hiragana and katakana on note again and again. I mastered hiragana and katakana and I started to learn very simple kanji next. I learned a lot of simple kanji which means big, river, dog and so on in English. I saw kanji first then, so I enjoyed learning kanji. I wrote many simple kanji on my note like same way and memorized them. I liked Japanese very much at this point.

Third, I tell you in my junior high school days. Learning became more difficult in junior high school. I learned idioms, difficult kanji and archaisms in Japanese class. Idiom forms meaning by combining some kanji. I studied how to read and meaning of idiom. I liked to study idioms, so I always got perfect score on the test. As I was glad for it I studied harder. I also studied difficult kanji. Kanji learning in junior high school was a quite different from kanji learning in elementary school. The order to write kanji became complicated. But I still liked kanji very much at this point. Therefore, I studied harder and got perfect score on kanji test, too. I started to learn archaism. I learned basic archaism in junior high school, so I could keep up learning archaism. Also, as studying archaism was first time for me I was interested in it. I started to study English. Before I study English I was worried that I can memorize English words, pronounce English propery and so on. But my anxiety changed quickly. I very much enjoyed studying English. I really liked English. I learned basis words, vocabulary, sentences, pronunciation and listening. I could study English without pain because I liked English. I always got good score.

Fourth, I tell you in high school days. Learning became very difficult for me from high school. Text became only books that is used very difficult expression. Since this point it was trouble for me to learn. Everything was difficult for me in Japanese class. Idioms, kanji, archaisms...everything! Even if I studied harder I couldn't get good score on Japanese test. I came to hate Japanese. Studying English was as difficult as Japanese, but I didn't come to hate English except for listening. I was poor at listening then. I usually got good score on English test, but I couldn't get good score on listening test. As I had liked English I proceeded way of English in University.

Fifth, I tell you about learning in University. I hardly have Japanese learning, but I studied Japanese sentence expression. I practiced to write paper in the class. I didn't like the class because I'm not good at writing sentence. I did my best. I got the credit possibly. I am taking writing, reading, listening, speaking and grammar concerned English. They make me fun and worried. I am very busy because I have what to do a lot, but I study hard now. Class I like the best of all the classes is Listening because I can watch some video in the class. I also learned French as second language when I was in first grade. It was very difficult! The structure was similar to English but the other was different. French must change form of verb by subject. I had trouble with it very much. French is the most difficult language for me, so I don't like French. I went to Minnesota in this summer for homestay program. I could study English a little deeper there. Homestay program became my good learning language experience.

I thought that I had enjoyed studying at that time. I don't like Japanese now, but I like Japanese until I was a junior-high school student. I think that I liked not only Japanese but also the other subjects. As I was glad to get good score I studied harder and I got good score again. That time was the repetition. I don't enjoy studying now because learning became more and more difficult. I want to remember feeling of that time again. I like English the best of all my learning languages. I thought that I try to do my best more by writing this essay.

[891 words]

2010年11月18日木曜日

BR 2-07: Chicken Licken

I read a book “Chicken Licken”. This was a story by some animals. Main character is Chicken Licken and he was fearful. Because of his fear, a acorn changed sky's falling. I have experience like the same. Owing to my belief, I got people around me into trouble. I had no excuse for it. I read this book and I remembered it. I decided to be careful.I thought Chicken Licken was cute because he thought the sky was falling. We are sure not to think so. Actually, I wondered animals think like this. I also thought Foxy Loxy was fool because he had the mistaken idea though he didn't believe that the sky was falling.

The most impressive character was Foxy Loxy. He didn't believe Chicken Licken at first, but he happened same thing like Chicken Licken. Foxy Loxy was going to eat animals, so I thought that it was good because a acorn fell down to Foxy Loxy. I read this scene, I thought god always see people not to do mischief.

[177words]
Reference
Punter, R. (2007). Chicken Licken. [n.p.]: Usborne Publishing Ltd..

2010年11月10日水曜日

Typing homework 7

My favorite season is spring because spring is the season when I was born. Also, spring is not too hot and too cold. I like flowers which bloom in spring. I like cherry blossom and Japanese apricot. These flowers bloom in spring and the scene turns pink color. It is very cute and beautiful. There are cherry blossom and Japanese apricot near my house. They are very beautiful. I think that spring is cute season. And above all things, my birthday comes in spring. Everyone celebrate for me on my birthday. I also get many presents from everyone. I can become a leading character only the day. I think that I will be the happiest person only the day. From these reasons, I like spring the best of all the seasons.

[131 words]

2010年11月7日日曜日

Typing homework6

There are some my favorite sports to watch. My best sport is valley ball because girl's all-Japan valley ball team is pretty strong all over the world and I like valley ball. Now, girl's all-Japan valley ball team is No.5 or No.6 in world ranking. I like Takeshita player the best of all- Japam team. Her position is setter and she is a very good setter. She is called the best setter all over the world. I think so but she will probably retire soon. I am worried that a setter appear such as being equal Takeshita player. I want Takeshita player not to retire. World tournament is held now. Of course, I am watching it. It is interesting and exciting.
[121 words]

2010年11月5日金曜日

BR 2-06: The Boy who cried Wolf

I read a book "The Boy who cried Wolf". This book is one of Aesop's Fables. This is a story that a little boy lost his trust from villagers by too much lies. After I read this book, I thought that the lie is bad. I thought so from before, but I felt so strongly again. But I have told a lie, then I felt a pang of guilt regardless of telling a lie on my own. If I tell a lie, someone told a lie doesn't think it is good and I don't think it is good, too. So I decided not to tell a lie.This book suggests everyone think lie is bad. I thought this is message from Aesop.

[121 words]


Reference

Aesop, . (2008). The Boy who cried Wolf. [n.p.]: Usborne Publishing Ltd..



2010年10月23日土曜日

Essay2-02a:My learning Languages

I have ever learned 3 languages from pre- school to University. They are Japanese, English and French. There were many trouble and efforts through learning. I liked to learning until I was a junior high school student. Now, I tell you about these languages learning experience. I'm glad to give your comment after you read this.


First, I tell you in my pre-school days. I looked at a lot of things anyway. Toys, foods, stuffed animals...too much things! I took and looked at what I was interested in a long time one after another. And I asked pre- school nurse what it is. Pre-school nurse always answered what it is and how it uses kindly. I learned them more and more. In pre-school, there was nothing I could but learn what I was interested in.

Second, I tell you in my elementary school days. Learning became full-dress in elementary school. I learned hiragana, katakana and very simple kanji when I was a lower grades student of elementary school. I wrote my name in hiragana many times first. Then I practiced to write the other hiragana. After learning hiragana, I learned katakana as I learned hiragana. I kept writing hiragana and katakana on note again and again. I mastered hiragana and katakana and I started to learn very simple kanji next. I learned a lot of simple kanji which means big, river, dog and so on in English. I saw kanji first then, so I enjoyed learning kanji.

Third, I tell you in my junior high school days. Learning became more difficult in junior high school. I learned idioms, difficult kanji and archaisms in Japanese class. Idiom forms meaning by combining some kanji. I studied how to read and meaning of idiom. I liked to study idioms, so I always got perfect score on the test. As I was glad for it I studied harder. I also studied difficult kanji. Kanji learning in junior high school was a quite different from kanji learning in elementary school. The order to write kanji became complicated. But I still liked kanji very much at this point. Therefore, I studied harder and got perfect score on kanji test, too. I started to learn archaism. I learned basic archaism in junior high school, so I could keep up learning archaism. Also, as studying archaism was first time for me I was interested in it. I started to study English. Before I study English I was worried that I can memorize English words, pronounce English propery and so on. But my anxiety changed quickly. I very much enjoyed studying English. I really liked English. I learned basis words, vocabulary, sentences, pronunciation and listening. I could study English without pain because I liked English. I always got good score.

Fourth, I tell you in high school days. Learning became very difficult for me from high school. Text became only books that is used very difficult expression. Since this point it was trouble for me to learn. Everything was difficult for me in Japanese class. Idioms, kanji, archaisms...everything! Even if I studied harder I couldn't get good score on Japanese test. I came to hate Japanese. Studying English was as difficult as Japanese, but I didn't come to hate English except for listening. I was poor at listening then. I usually got good score on English test, but I couldn't get good score on listening test. As I had liked English I proceeded way of English in University.

Fifth, I tell you about learning in University. I hardly have Japanese learning, but I studied Japanese sentence expression. I practiced to write paper in the class. I didn't like the class because I'm not good at writing sentence. I did my best. I got the credit possibly. I am taking writing, reading, listening, speaking and grammar concerned English. They make me fun and worried. I am very busy because I have what to do a lot, but I study hard now.


I thought that I had enjoyed studying at that time. As I was glad to get good score I studied harder and I got good score again. That time was the repetition. I don't enjoy studying now. I want to remember feeling of that time again. I thought that I try to do my best more by writing this essay.

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2010年10月21日木曜日

BR 2-05: There Was A Crooked Man

I read a book "There Was A Crooked Man". This book is not magic key series and authors are different. This book is in the Usborne first Reading series. This book is story about a crooked man. This book was cute book. Both the story and the illustration were pretty. I thought that the crooked mother cat was kind and she is mother after all. This book was interesting for me.

My best impressive scene is mother cat gave her kittens fish. It made me kind feeling. I thought that mothers regarded children best both human and animal. When I become a mother I'm sure to regard my children best.

Also, this book has 3 puzzles as free gift. It was interesting, too. This book is made to please for children. Though I am university student, I enjoyed it!

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Reference

Punter, R. (2009). There Was A Crooked Man. [n.p.]: Usborne Publishing Ltd.

2010年10月20日水曜日

Outline:My Language Learning Experience

My Language Learning Experience
  • Pre-school
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Mind map: My Language Learning Experience

This is my mind map about my language learning experience. This map is written about what I learned in Pre-school, Elementary school, Junior high school, High school and University. After you saw this please comments!


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My language learning experience

I learned French a little when I was first grade university student. It was very difficult for me. French was different from Japanese and English. Composition and pronunciation were a quite different. Of course, words and vocabulary were, too. As I didn’t understand French I had many trouble first.

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BR 2-04: New Trainers

I read a book "New Trainers". This book is not magic key series, but authors were same. This book is short story comparatively, so it was easy for me to read this book. Though this book was short, it was interesting.

After I finished reading this book I thought that I have to have responsibility and say everything, because main character was told to take care of shoes from his father. But as soon as saying so, his father got dirty his shoes. However I said anything, my words doesn't carry conviction if I can't do what I said. So I have to have own responsibility. I could learn good thing.
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Reference

Hunt, R. (1986). New Trainers. [n.p.]: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

2010年10月19日火曜日

Typing homework 5

My favorite class is Listening because we can watch video in the class. As the video is interesting for me I can enjoy the class. In this class, teacher plays a tape every time. We hear content of the tape and fill some blank about the tape. We are separated some group. We can cooperate with own group, so someone of group helps me if I can't hear some blank. After we finished hearing tape teacher shows us video. We also hear content of the video and fill some blanks, solve some problems about video. I like the video and I gaze the video. So, I miss hearing. But teacher plays the video three times. It is difficult for me to hear native English, but I do my best.

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2010年10月18日月曜日

BR 2-03: The Dragon Tree

I read a book "The Dragon Tree" which is magic key series. This was story that the magic key took children to dragon adventure. This book was interesting. I thought that children are brave because they approached dragon. Dragon was much bigger than children. I will not be able to approach dragon without fail as I am frightened. I am happy because children were safe.

My favorite scene of this book was children go to help Floppy. Floppy ran away out of deep and dark forest at his discretion, but children went to help him. Of course, as children take care of Floppy, it was natural. But I saw it another time, my heart got warm. Because I have a dog, too, I will go to help absolutely. I could identify myself with it.

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Reference

Hunt, R. (1986). The Dragon Tree. [n.p.]: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

2010年10月14日木曜日

BR 2-02: Swap!

I read a book "Swap!" today. Characters of this book are Nadim, his father, Chip, Biff and Wilma. This was a story that Nadim's broken bat changed better things. I thought that this book was similar to "warashibe choja". A straw ended up a big estate in warashibe choja, too. I also thought that Nadim was a kind boy because he was always willing to swap his for broken thing. After I read this book I decided to try to hold various things dear. If I hold them dear, they can keep using for a long time. I think that it was good to read this book.

Also, I thought that Nadim's friends could say it well to swap Nadim's things for their broken things. I felt they were impudent. In spite if it, Nadim was willing to swap. He has a big heart. I want to be a person such him.


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Reference


Hunt, R. (1997). Swap!. [n.p.]: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

2010年10月13日水曜日

October 10th

I went to tap “Muraichiban” on October 10th to congratulate my older brother’s birthday. My older brother’s birthday is October 4th, but the day is weekday and my older brother went to work, so I planned his birthday party on October 10th. The birthday party started at 6:30 p.m. We could eat and drink anything only for 120 minutes. We ate a lot of dishes. For example, fried chicken, tofu salad, kimchi nabe, green soybeans, yakisoba and so many other dishes. Their dishes were very good. We also drank alcoholic drink except for my older sister. The reason why my older sister did not drink was she was a handle keeper that day. We ate so many dishes anyway. It seemed that the clerk was very busy. We took many pictures. My older brother seemed to be fun. I was very fun, too. I had a very good time. After the party I went to karaoke with my older brother and sister. We sang J-pop songs and animation songs only for 1 hour. It was first time to go to karaoke with my brother. But it was very good time. My brother said to me “ You are good singer.” I was very happy. I want to go to karaoke with them again.

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Typing homework 4

My junior-high school memory is club activity. I had been belonging to basket ball club from 4th grade of elementary school to 3rd grade of junior-high school. I practiced every day. It was very hard practice, so I thought again and again that I want to give up. But I did not give up because all of teammate practiced very hard, too. We became strong basket ball team for our efforts. Our team became top in the city competition many times. Also, our team usually finished second in the prefecture competition. I was not regular member, but I was happy that I did my best with them. I could not play game so many times, so I cheered for them hard. Though practice of basket club was very hard it became my important memory.

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Typing homework 3

My favorite flower is tulip because it is very pretty flower and it is flower which blooms in spring. I was born in spring, so I like various vernal things. There are a lot of flowers which bloom in spring but I like tulip the best. It is very cute and I like its smell, too. Also, tulip have various colored tulip. For example, red tulip, yellow tulip, white tulip and so many other tulip. Their flower field is very beautiful and colorful because there are many colors. Talking of tulip field, I think that it is Huis Ten Bosch in Nagasaki. There is tulip garden in Huis Ten Bpsch, but it has season limitation. I have never been there, so I want to go there someday.
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2010年10月7日木曜日

Typing homework 2

My favorite high school memory is, of course, high school trip. I went to Kokufu high school. When I was a second grade student I went to Hokkaido on November. I went on a three day trip to Hokkaido. No sooner had we arrived there than we had free time. So we went shopping and went around various places. There are a lot of famous sweets store. We went to most of these stores, Rokkatei, LeTAO and Kitakaro. We bought a lot of souvenir. For example, Baumkuchen, Okaki, cheese cake and so on. I bought many other things, too. Also we enjoyed skiing. I had never skied until then, so I was worried about it. But our instructor was very kind and a very good skier, so I relieved. I slopped many times at first, but I became a good skier while I skied a long time. I like skiing. As I had a very good time there I want to go to Hokkaido again.

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Essay2-01b:My sweet home

My favorite place is my house. The reason I think so is because I feel relaxed and comfortable. There are 3 places which I like better of my house. It is living room, garden and my room. Now, I tell you about them.

First, it is the living room because all of my family gather in living room. I love them very much, so I like watching TV, talking and eating meals with them. The living room is a place where these things can do. What's more, as it passed 20 years since we began to live in present house, my house is a little old. Therefore, the living room is always cleaned. I am clean, so I like clean living room. There is also the biggest television of all television. It is a liquid crystal television, so the image is very clear. As I like to watch TV, I am watching TV in living room for a long time. Anyway, living room is place where I can feel relaxed.

Second, it is the garden, because the view of my garden is good. There is a river in front of my garden. There is still a lot of greenery, too. Many creatures are in the river. For example, ducks, carps and turtle. Many birds also come to the river. When I was a little, I used to play in the garden and the river with my older brother. We found a lot of insects. It was very interesting like an adventure. Also, we have own tree individually. In this connection, my tree is camellia. It fruits beautiful flowers. My father's tree is little pine tree. My mother's tree is persimmon tree. My older brother's tree is loquat tree. My older sister's tree is golden osmanthus fragrans tree. I don’t know when these trees plant clearly. But trees of my father and my mother were planted when we started to live at our present house. Trees of children were planted when each of us became kindergartner. So my tree is the youngest of all trees. I think that it is good to have own tree individually, so When I have my family someday I want to do same thing.

Third, it is my room. There is my room on second floor. The reason why I like is because there are many things which I treasure. For example, comics, personal computer and my favorite singer's goods. I love reading comic. When I am free I usually read comics, use my personal computer and listen to my favorite singer's songs in my room. I'm mended when I spend time doing these. I also like own time, so I go to my room when I want to be alone. I can feel the most relaxed and the most comfortable.

For such reasons, I chose my house as my favorite place. I really love my house very much. After you read my essay, if you think that you want to come to my house I do want you to come. I am waiting at my house. Thank you for reading it and please comments!


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2010年10月6日水曜日

Essay2-01a: My sweet home

My favorite place is my house. The reason I think so is feeling relaxed and comfortable. There are 3 places which I like better of my house. It is living room, garden and my room. Now, I tell you about them.

First, it is the living room because all of my family gather in living room. I love them very much, so I like watching TV, talking and eating meals with them. The living room is a place where these things can do.What's more, as it passed 20 years since we began to live in present house, my house is a little old. Therefore, the living room is always cleaned. I am clean, so I like clean living room. There is also the biggest television of all television. It is a liquid crystal television, so the image is very clear. As I like to watch TV, I am watching TV in living room for a long time. Anyway, living room is place where I can feel relaxed.

Second, it is the garden, because the view of my garden is good. There is a river in front of my garden. There is still a lot of greenery, too. Many creatures are in the river. For example, ducks, carps and turtle. Many birds also come to the river. When I was a little, I used to play in the garden and the river with my older brother. We found a lot of insects. It was very interesting like a adventure. Also, we have own tree individually. In this connection, my tree is camellia. It fruits beautiful flowers. My father's tree is little pine tree. My mother's tree is persimmon tree. My older brother's tree is loquat tree. My older sister's tree is gold osmanthus tree. I think that it is good to have own tree individually, so When I have my family someday I want to do same thing.

Third, it is my room, because there are many things which I treasure. For example, comics, personal computer and my favorite singer's goods. I usually read comics, use my personal computer and listen to my favorite singer's songs. I'm mended when I spend time doing these. I can feel the most relaxed and the most comfortable.

For such reasons, I chose my house as my favorite place. I really love my house very much. After you read my essay, if you think that you want to come to my house I do want you to come. I am waiting at my house. Thank you for reading it and please comments!

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2010年10月5日火曜日

BR 2-01:Castle Adventure

I read a book "Castle Adventure". This book is also magic key series. This book was also about adventure. This time, 3 children and their aunt were took to Castle Adventure by the magic key. I thought grandmother was very powerful to read this book, because she paid 3 wicths back almost on her own. I have a grandmother, too. She is also powerful. She has still worked though she is already 80 years old near. I respect for her and I like her, so I want to see her.

My favorite scene in this book is aunt hurled a witch away. I felt refreshed when I read it. Because 3 witches are playing a trick, it was natural for them to be done so. This book was so interesting!

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Reference
Hunt, R. (1986). Castle Adventure. [n.p.]: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

2010年9月23日木曜日

Typing homework 1

My favorite club is Youth Hostel Club. I belong to this club now. Youth Hostel Club was formed for staying at training facility "Youth Hostel" cheaply. Actually, we do not stay there only twice or three times a year. We stay at Youth Hostel except for Kumamoto in spring and summer. It called Spring hosteling and Summer hosteling. We have many other activities. We have activity "Shichu Parade" on October 2nd. We are making matching costume and portable shrine. We walk around downtown carrying a portable shrine from morning to evening. It make us tired, but it is very fun. I am looking forward to it. After its activity finish we have school festival. We start to making display and food which we sell in that day. I am bazaar group, so I make "Agepan Ice cream", which fry bread inside ice cream.
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2010年9月22日水曜日

Typing homework E

My favorite movie is Armageddon. Main casts are Bruce Willis, Liv Tyler, Ben Affleck and other famous artists. One day, shooting star rain fell in New York. NASA discovered by research. When a shooting star struck small planets meteoric shower occurred. What is worse, a small planet which is as size as Texas was heading to the earth. NASA thought how to evade it and someone had to dig big hole to the meteorite, so specialists who mine oil went to space. A lot of people sacrificed for protecting the earth. Bruce Willis was the one person, too. I was very sad because a lot of people died. I watched this movie many times and I cry each time. This is really my favorite movie.

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Typing homework D

My favorite music is all music of TOHOSHINKI because their music is very cool and makes me happy. I got to like them recently. I like comic “ONE PIECE” and ONE PIECE is broadcasted on TV now. My friend said to me it and she also said to me that the opening song is very cool. TOHOSHINKI had sung the opening song. I got to like them from the song. Then I listened to their other songs and I like them much more. They are my best artist now. I also like foreign pop music. Especially, I like Avril Lavigne. She is cool and prettyb girl. I knew her to listen to her song “Sk8er boi”. The song was very cool and made me excited. Then I also listened to her songs. She is my best friend, too.

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Typing homework C

I don’t have my favorite dessert. I like all dessert, cake, chocolate, ice cream, pudding and so on. I always think that I want to eat something to sweet, but eating dessert too much is bad for my health and it makes fat body, so I am keeping of dessert now. I want to go to cake Viking. Cake Viking is event which we can eat a lot of cakes within limited time if we pay some money. I wish I could go to it once. I also like to make dessert, but I am not good at it. When I was a elementary school student I belonged to cooking club. I made cookie, rare cheese cake and pudding. I had also made chocolate in Valentine’s Day until I was junior high school student, but I don’t make it now because it takes some money and labor.

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Typing homework B

My favorite vacation memory is homestay in Minnesota. This experience became one of my best memories. I went to Minnesota from July 25th to August 24th. I did various experiences. I rode on canoe there. As I have not ridden on it, I was excited. On the other hand, I was a little scared. I rode on canoe with my 2 friends and host father of my friend, so I had a very good time. I also went shopping with my host family and other students. For example, Shopping Mall near my house, Outlet Mall and Mall of America. I bought many clothes, accessory, bag and so on. Shopping malls of America were bigger than those of Japan. I love shopping very much, so I was satisfied.

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Typing homework A

 My favorite animal is dog because I have a dog. I have had two dogs until now. We had a white dog until I was elementary school student. The kind of dog was Shiba dog. He was very active and powerful. As I was little girl I scared him then because he jumped at me. We had him outside. My parents sometimes asked me to give him dog food. I gave him dog food unwillingly. I did not want to approach his house as much as possible, so I threw dog food away. To be honest, I did not think that he is cute, but my older brother usually took him a walk. Shiro died when I was the lower grades of elementary school. As it was very hot day then, he could not put up with it. My brother cried and we were very sad, so we decided not to have a pet, but I have a dog now because I like dog very much after all.

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2010年9月11日土曜日

9/8

I worked part-time after a long separation because I had gone to Minnesota. I was tensed up, but I worked hard. Many customers came to buy donuts that day, so my mister donut shop was very busy. The reason why many customers came to buy was sale day from Wednesday. We sell donuts at 100 yen and pie at 120 yen in sale day. This cost is more expensive about 20 yen than usual, so customers come to buy in sale day. Sale day is busy, but I like busy better than free so I don't like sale day. We have a takeover note at mister donut. This is a note to write about problem, request and message. It was hard for me to read this note because I must read a lot of messages which someone wrote while I was day off.
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2010年8月8日日曜日

Canoe Trip

I went to canoe trip yesterday. We got together at Bethel University entrance in the morning. We went to St. Croix River by school bus. After we arrived there, we had only own lunch and we wore life jacket. My group member was Hitomi’s host father, Hitomi, Sakura and me. Hitomi’s host father is a good canoe driver, so I was relieved. At last, we rode canoe. Hitomi’s host father got on back and Hitomi got on front. Hitomi paddled for a while, but she was tired so I turned to paddle. At middle point, we got off on very small spot. We swam there and we had lunch. My host mother made my lunch. It was sandwich, chips, apple and cookie. It was very good! After lunch, we also went to paddle. Next Sakura paddled, but she was tired, too. Hitomi turned to paddle. After a while, I also turned to paddle and I paddled to last. After canoe trip we went to picnic at park. We had dinner there. Then we played skit. My skit member was Hitomi, Hiromi, Yaman, Sakura and me. We played skit that American child come to Japan for homestay program. I was nervous but I did my best! Then I came back home with my host family. I had a very good time ywsterday.

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2010年8月6日金曜日

in Minnesota

Today, I write about what I did simply after July 26th. I always go to Bethel University on weekdays and we take classes. We usually go out afternoon. On July 29th, we went to a picnic. We had KFC and we swam at Lake Johanna. On July 30th, we went to Minnesota History Center. After we arrived we had lunch and we looked around Minnesota History Center. On August 2nd, we visited Golden Living Community to present Japanese culture. We did origami. On August 3rd, we went to Old Country Buffet to have lunch. After that, we went to Minnesota State Capital and St. Paul Cathedral. We will do Canoe trip tomorrow. Except for these days, we took various classes. For example, American Education, An American in Japan, Bullying in America, Wedding in America, U.S. Law Enforcement and so on. All classes were beneficial classes for me. I had a very good time here! I’m looking forward to doing canoe tomorrow!

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2010年8月2日月曜日

About homestay program

I am in Minnesota, America now, because of homestay program. I left Japan on 25th July. Minnesota is a nice state! I like it. I arrived at Minnesota at 1 p.m. As soon as I arrived here, my host family was welcome me. I was glad of it! They took me their house by car. Their house is very beautiful and nice! I was impressed. They explained about their house. They prepared my room. It was big room. We felt at home until 5 p.m. We left home because of picnic. We went to park and ate dinner with everybody. After picnic, we came back home. On the second day, I went to Bethel university. It was also beautiful and wonderful university. In the morning, I took some class. Then we ate lunch at university. I ate tacos. Yummy! In afternoon, we went on a cruise to Mississippi River. The view was very beautiful. I took picture of many views. I came home at 4:30 p.m. Then I took two dogs for a walk with my host mother. They have 2 dogs. The one dog’s name is Kiki and the other is Shadow. They are very cute! I love them. After taking a walk, we had dinner. It was delicious.

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2010年7月21日水曜日

What I excepted

I think that I get to be able to do everything on my own. I can’t make myself understood in Japanese, so I will try to make myself understood in English. I will get forwardness. I am a little shy now, but I think that I won’t be a shy person when I return. Also, I think that I can speak English better than now.
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Preparation for studies oversea

There are some useful works for studies overseas. I think that I get vocabulary ability and sentence ability in this class, because I wrote various things on my blog. For example, diary, book review and essay. Thanks to it, I got to be able to think of vocabulary, word and sentence quickly.Voice recording was also good, because I can listen to my pronunciation of English. It helps me when I speak English in class of Bethel university.

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My goals for Minnesota

I will go to Minnesota, America on Sunday this week. I plan to go on hikes with my host family. There is bike trail and walk trail near my host family's house and they have a couple bicycles, so we will do cycling together. Also, they have a pool in their house. I will swim in the pool. What’s more, we will go to shopping mall. I will buy some clothes, souvenir to my family and my friends.
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2010年7月14日水曜日

Outline for my favorite place

Introduction

 ・ Why I chose
 ・ My favorite place in my house

Body

 ・ About living room
 ・ About garden
 ・ About my room

Conclusion

 ・ My impression

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MindMap Outline & Screenshot

My house

  • living room
    • talk
    • eat
    • wacth TV
  • garden
    • see a view
    • play
  • my room
    • comics
      • Dragon ball
      • sunadokei
      • Switch girl
      • etc
    • personal computer
      • study
      • watch DVD, animation
      • listen to music
    • goods
      • CDs
      • poster
      • magazines


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2010年7月10日土曜日

BR 1-12: Roman Adventure

I read a book “Roman Adventure” today. It was a story about adventure to ancient Rome. Now, I will tell you about story of this book.

One day, Biff and Chip were doing a project on the Romans. Biff made a chariot and Chip drew a picture. Mum and Dad looked at the project. Chip showed Mum his picture of a Roman chariot. The chariot was pulled by four horses. Biff showed Dad the model of chariot. Biff and Chip told Mum and Dad about Rome, and they played a joke on Biff and Chip. They play situation of supper. Kipper had some pizza, but Biff laughed that Romans didn’t have pizzas. Biff and Chip went to Biff’s room. Biff wanted to take the chariot to school, but she still had to painting. So they painted together. Suddenly, the magic key began to glow. The magic took Biff and Chip on a new adventure. The magic took the children back to Roman times. Biff and Chip saw a girl who was playing in the street. The girl took the children to show a real chariot. The girl was called Diana, she had a brother called Mark. He was a chariot driver. He showed his chariot to the children. It was like Biff’s model, but it was very big. Mark let Biff go on the chariot. Biff pretended she was a chariot driver. After they finished watching it, everyone was hungry so Diana took the children home. Her father is a baker, he was just making bread. The bread didn’t look right the day, it was flat. It didn’t look like bread at all. Diana’s father baked breads in the oven, but it was flat, too. They had a problem. Chip looked at the flat bread, and he had a good idea. Chip suggested that we turn the flat bread into pizza. Chip taught them how to make pizza and they made pizza together. The pizzas looked good and tasted good. They went outside to sell the pizzas at once, but there was nobody in the street because everyone went to see the chariot races. The children went to sell pizzas to chariot races place. As everyone was sold on the chariot races, they gave pizzas the cold shoulder. The children got Mark eaten pizza. Biff looked at the chariot and she had a good idea. She got Mark put a banner which was written “BUY A PIZZA”. Thanks to it, pizzas sold quickly. Just then, some soldiers grabbed the family and the children, and they took them to the Emperor. The emperor got angry because Biff made Mark put a banner on the chariot, but the emperor was happy as the emperor ate pizza. The emperor allowed them. Then the magic key began to glow and the children went back home.

I thought that this book seemed not to be interesting, but it was interesting. I first knew about chariot races. I wonder chariot race carry out now. If so, I want to watch it.
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Reference

Hunt, R. (1994). Roman Adventure. [n.p.]: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.