2011年5月18日水曜日

Reflections on My BRs

Q1's A. is that All of books I reviewed are written for young children
Q2's A.The reason why I chose to post BR are just easy for us to understand the contents of books. I didn't need to use an electrical dictionary for the books I read to post BR.
Q3'sA.10 BRs so far
Q4.A book written a contents about a soldier.I don't remember the title of the book.
Q5's A.I was very impressed by it mainly and It made me think about something important.

2011年5月12日木曜日

Essay 1-02a: Your Valuable university Life

I am writing to you as a senior for congratulation on going up to English department of KGU. I think English department is the hardest department in KGU as far as I know. Even if you went in to KGU as you didn't hope to go in to, please don't give up studying or be lazy. Some friends of mine tends not to study English in KGU because of such a reason, but Please don't do this. This may make your  valuable university life a waste. I know how you feel. You may not have any friends in English department if you are a boy. I can imagine situation in which you are. In the situation, I want to say just one sentence,"be brave". I mean be brave is to  try to talk to students. In university, there is nothing more than friends. If you could did it, your valuable University life may become more valuable.Trying to talk is good thing,but Too much trying to do it is not good at all. My friend did. Please imagine the rest after he did!Anyway, you may feel nervous right? If I say that you don't have to be nervous about university, you would't be calm. Something fun, funny is waiting you in University.

The day before you go to entrance ceremony, you should prepare for it,and make sure anything necessary for it hard. If you don't do that, your first day will become worst day of University life like me. In my case, I awoke in time for it, but I made a very big mistake not a small mistake. That was I misunderstood the time of begging of entrance ceremony. When I arrived at ceremony hall, I wasn't allowed to get in the room ceremony was being held,so I watched kind of movie which is about ceremony I should have attended on another hall parents of students were. I felt so sad that I couldn't watch the movie. Actually, I felt sleepy though.While sitting down a seat on the hall, I saw a student who looked like a boy,so I thought that this boy also made same mistake like me. I asked him why he was there. He whispered that He.... student. I couldn't hear all of them he said,so I asked which department he would be in. He also whispered ... department. As a result of chatting of us, we couldn't communicate with each other. My university entrance ceremony was over. After finishing it, I moved to go somewhere. I didn't know where to go ,so I tried to talk to many students who went out from hall entrance ceremony was held. I asked them where I should go to gather. Since all of them I asked are not in English, they didn't know absolutely.I finally found the place I had to gather. In classroom, most of the students were girl. They were most pretty, beautiful women I've ever seen.
That's why my first day of university became a happy day of mine then.

Anyway, if you are eager to study English, all of professors will help you out, but if you are hesitant to study English,they will not only help but give away you.In my opinion, you have to be being eager to them. You don't have to be smart to be in English department. Just relax and study English!
If you don't satisfied with English classes you take like grammar class,Speaking class, please come to English Lounge where you can enjoy talking to international students,be taught English from senior students,professor,or international students. Also, you can teach Japanese to international students instead. Because most of international students study Japanese in KGU, you can share something enjoyable,hard to understand for a second language with them.I think when you try to enter, you also feel nervous like you feel when you enter University fast. You don't have to be nervous and brave because students in English Lounge may be friendly. Kindest student in it is of course me!lol I may be friendly to anyone, but I will encourage you to try to speak for you as an English lounge staff.If you are interested in TOEIC, I will talk to you about it a lot.
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2011年5月8日日曜日

BR 1-10:THE MONSTER GANG

This story seems so real for me. When It rains for a long time, we will feel bored to do anything in room or house,for example, playing video game, watching movie,and so on. That's why we try to do something fun and dangerous since we are young and curious.In this story, many children decide to play roles each other wearing kind of strange costume which cover their faces and figures. By doing that, they can recognize each other saying a password.They assembled on the top of a big tree one day.Their member consisted of nine people, so food server give away foods to nine people, foods server didn't realize one thing that is mysterious. If you want to know rest of the story, please read it by yourself. You will enjoy and assent what I say here.

I think like this story is likely to do happen in many situations.For example, most of Japanese business people go for a drink after their work or their free time at night. They move from place to place to drink much alcohol. It is called "Hasigo". I have never experienced though. This action is likely happen most of times they go for a drink. When they do Hasigo, they meet many people and talk a lot copping a head. Although they sometime quarrel people in bar for no particular reason, they mostly talk to each other happily. The more they feel better, the more they become good man. That's why they tend to invite people who are not acquaintance at all. It is a kind of culture of Japanese business world.But their enjoyable chat is over after their drinking.

I will experience it I introduced above in the future,but It seems interesting. I don't want to make any accidents by doing that though.Please be careful Japanese drinking culture and kind of Japanese drinking culture,Hasigo.
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Reference:Lesley Sims2002THE MONSTER GANG



2011年5月5日木曜日

BR 1-09:The Elves and the Shoemaker

As a title of this book shows, situation of story is in a shoemaker. The shoemaker sell many shoes well everyday because of their quality skill and good material. But one day,one salesperson came to a town the shoemaker live. The salesperson was good at advertising many shoes he brought from another country,so many people noticed that new shoes came in town. The shoes the salesperson sells became popular more and more. Because of it, sales of the shoemaker became bad. It considered how it can go over such a terrible situation. It tried to do anything they could,but it didn't change anything. The shoemaker finally became not being able to make a  few shoes because they didn't have money enough to buy materials.Finally, it could get some material which It can make a pair of shoes. After that Something drastic happen to the shoemaker and the salesperson,but I didn't say the rest. If you want to read this. You will check out this book in KGU library. This book may be available from May 11th because I will not return this book till that day.I'm so sorry for annoying you.

After and when I read this book, I remembered that I have been wanting a boot. Actually I want  many pairs of boots though. Since I started to work current work place, I have been interested in boots.Before I started to work there, I had been thinking that boot is not suitable for Japanese people,but now  I don't think so at all.I like boots.Boots have many kinds. As far as I know, Boots are trekking boots,work boots,hunting boots etc. These boots were made for limited use,but they are made for multiple use for young people to old people.

Anyway,this book is very fun and informative.I want you to read this book and become interested in boots.I want to talk to people who have read this book about boots and the story of this book.
I highly recommend.

Reference:Lesley Sims2004The Elves and the Shoemaker
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2011年5月4日水曜日

BR 1-08: Stories of Knights

In this book, there is a complicated story. The story move very quickly. One day,there are many fighters in banquet hall to eat dinner. Then one person came in. The person is very important in this book.Since he is very strange person and his all of body was green, he ask people who eat dinner there to cut his head down. They were very upset to hear that,but they have to choose the person to do so. Long years ago,cutting head of people down was a kind of popular according to this book story. After they considered who do,suddenly one brave person stepped forward and hesitated to do that,but did.After he did it, a head cut down said that "I have to cut down your head next and I will wait for you in my castle."The brave person's long journey started from then.

In my life,I experienced like this awkward. When I was working part time job, I asked a senior associate how to deal with a messy work,and I could finish it.A few days after, I went to workplace to work as usual, then my boss was standing in front of door of office with angry face. He got so angry for a solution I did by asking my senior associate. The boss asked me why I did do that. He didn't know that I was taught how to deal with it from a senior associate. If I state further myself, I am really honest ,in other words, I can't say any lie. If I say a lie, I will smile for it.That's why My boss looked confused for my behavior,but I was also confused for what to say. This is very complicated.
As a result, he gave up to make me say something real. I didn't need to say honestly. Then I thought that I grew up a little by part of it.

It is easy for even students who are not good at reading English literature very much to read this book,and readers will enjoy it. I recommend reading in the later part of story if readers don't have to read all of contents because readers will be surprised and feel happy.

Reference:Lesley Sims2004Stories of Knights
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