BR2-16: Dad and Dan GO Camping

I like this book. I think family is the most important and smallest society in human society. As this book's title shows, this book's main story is about camping which Dan's dad and Dan goes. They have good relationship with each other. I'm jealous of them because I don't have good relationship with my father. I often feel annoyed with him and try not to talk to him by staying my room for a long time. I usually see family members for an hour totally in one day. I don't think this period is good. I know I should communicate with family members,but there is just only simple reason why I hesitate to talk totem. That is I'm shy. From 15 years old, I have been shy and had tendency not to communicate with someone new.

Because of this book, I remembered many memories with my fathers. My father used to take me fishing and tell me how to fish. When I was taught such things, I was bored with them and didn't want to go fishing. Looking back the memories, I neglect not enjoying the time with father.

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Reference

Brasch, Nicolas, & Nickel, Adam (2007). Dad and Dan GO Camping Thomson Learning Australia

BR2-15: BUZZ TAKES OVER

This book is one of series of BUZZ which is so interesting and make people not be able to stop reading once they get interested. Attractive point of this book is main two characters which are all unique. When they try to solve something dangerous seriously, they can't solve it and their intention cause opposite effect. 

I don't know why they travel around the universe but I think they like to travel. When they do something, they argue each other,but they look they like each other. It makes me remember a memory which happened 9 years ago. I was a 10 year old elementary school student nine years ago. Then I was aggressive and used to often go out with one of my friends who used to be the closest friend.I don't know what he is doing now but I have never forgotten him. This books told me how important friends are.

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Reference

Reilly Carmel, & Young, Karen, (2007). BUZZ TAKES OVER Thomson Learning Australia

BR2-14: BUZZ and ZIP GET LOST

 This book is one of series of 'BUZZ and ZIP' books. All of these stories series are interesting and make me remember something. As this title shows, there are two main characters and they travel around the universe. They are completely ugly. If I had an opportunity to see them, I would get unconscious. 

I think they are brave. Even though they don't know the direction they have to go, they travel around the universe.All they know is just the place they have to go. They get into trouble on the way to the destination. Actually I don't think they get into on the way to the destination because they don't know the direction to the destination. What they do seems funny but if I had such friends, I would get angry soon and wouldn't want to be with them. I don't have any friends who get lost more often than me. I am not good at remembering the direction.

(161 words)

Reference

Reilly, Carmel, & Young, Karen (2007). BUZZ and ZIP GET LOST Thomson Learning Australia

BR2-13: Renovations

I this the story of this book is famous for Japanese people. When I was a children, I watched a video called Alladin whose story is similar to the story of this book. This story is interesting and makes me imagine the situation in which the story of main character is. If I were him, I would do something dynamic,destroy the world,save the environment around the world.It makes my brain make the most.

Though the story of this book is similar to alladin's story, ending is different. This is a kind of interesting point and I want you to pay attention to it.

When I watched the story first time, I didn't understand the story because English in this book is a little bit difficult. In the future, I want to read the book easily and understand smoothly.

I hope this book contains something you learn and are interested in. If you want to read this book some day, you can buy it on amazon website.

(163words)

Reference

Reilly, Carmel, & Hopkinson, Courtney (2007). Renovations Thomson Learning Australia

BR2-12: TIME TRAVEL:SHIP AHOY!

In this story, a travel of two aliens is mainly treated. The two aliens are funny. When they are faced with a serous problem, they try to solve it in a serious way,but they can't do it. They travel around the universe. Though I have never experienced to travel around the universe like them, I have experienced a trip in which I was faced with problems.When I went to kinawa prefecture fast time, I couldn't arrive the airport in time for the departure time. Fortunately, I didn't have to care about such a thing there. Inhabitant in Okinawa prefecture were kind and merry.It made me want to go there again in the future. I have never been there after that though.

I think trip is a kind of nice experience. It is better to go overseas than go around in Japan. After going overseas, people have much knowledge and generousty. It means that when they meet foreign people, they can probaly communicate with them more fluently than the other people who have never experienced before.

This book doesn't tell us how to travel but how to spend the time during the travel in which some problems happen.

(195 words)

Reference

Brasch, Nicolas, & Tate, Russell (2007). TIME TRAVEL:SHIP AHOY! Thomson Learning Australia

BR 2-11: Shark!

Have you ever watched jaws which was produced by a famous film director,  Steven Spielberg. The movie shows us a real horror of shark and tells us to prevent ourselves from going to the sea.

In this book, there are two boys,who enjoy surfing ,while something seeming dangerous is happening.

I often watch TV and many TV programmes show how dangerous natural animals are. They are probably dangerous,but I think they are cool. 

I have never experienced danger in the sea. That's why I have never thought that the sea is dangerous. The danger of sea happens from the laziness of people.

Next time I go to the sea, I try to concentrate on just swimming and being cautious about flow of the sea. Please be cautious when you go swimming to the sea and have fun.

If you want to read the book, please go to the library of KGU. It's easy to read.

(152 words)

Reference

Millett, Peter, & Jurevicius, Luke (2007). Shark! Thomson Learning Australia

BR 2-10: Taking Off

I think most of people tend to want to show new items they have bought fast time to their friends when they are young. In this story, a main character do the almost same thing as I introduced above.

When I was an elementary student, I couldn't buy anything enough and felt stressful. Many friends around me were bought many items they wanted by their parents. I was jealous of them all the time.

I remember even now that I could use whatever I wanted to use by borrowing them from my friends. 

Although I was jealous of them, they were kind to me.

In this story, a main character,who is a girl shows an item. This story seems similar to my story considering what I say ' In this story, a main character,who is a girl shows an item.', but something impressive happens in the end. I hope it makes you impressed and it is useful to your life.

(157 words)

Reference

Reilly, Carmel, & Young, Karen (2007). Taking Off. Cengage Learning Australia

BR 2-09: The Chalk Circle

There are one police woman and two girls in this book. The police woman's idea is very unique and sensible. One day, a theft happened. one girl was shocked by the theft because one of her belongings      

were stolen by someone. The other woman got a valuable item suddenly and used it in front of the shocked girl. 

When I was in a elementary school, thefts often happened. I couldn't believe so many thefts and was disappointed with them. I wanted to solve the problem, but I couldn't do it. As a result I graduated from the school as usual like nothing had happened.

I think although the case in this book is rare, the police woman's idea to solve the problem is nice and makes sense in any ways.

If you want to know the way, please read this book, which there is in library of KGU.

(151 words)

Reference

Brasch, Nicolas, & Dawson, Amanda (2007). The Chalk Circle Thomson Learning Australia

BR 2-08: THE Inventors' CLUB

I went to a high school which is famous for industrial products and in which many students are interested in component of product, for example, air plane, car, motor bike and so on.

Actually, I was not one of them,but I was interested in making something simple,not complicated.

In high school, I had to make things and learn about something technical. It was so hard for me to continue to study all of them. I gave up studying them and started to concentrate on studying English with no particular reason one day.

I think language is a kind of invention by many people. Before the time when no language was, mankind made sounds and communicated with each other. I guess it was hard for them to give and receive information because the way to communicate was delusive.

In this story, a woman is main character and one man is mean to her. He is a troublemaker. The story begins with them.

(157 words)

Reference

Brasch, Nicolas, & Small, Phillip (2007). THE Inventors' CLUB. Thomson Learning Australia

BR 2-07: Mercury and the Woodcutter

This story is even famous in Japan. I think if readers,especially Japanese don't understand sentences in the book grammatically, it's not a problem. They can understand contents because they have heard the story before.

The story tells people that they should be honest. When I was younger, I used to be told off by parents and told to be honest with this story.

In my opinion, being honest is easy and nice. When I do something wrong or making people angry, I am always honest. If I was not honest and said a lie again and again to protect myself, I would be told off more and more.

In this story, there are mainly three characters. They have typical characteristic each other. After reading the story, I thought I didn't want to be one of them,who were the worst person in the story.

This story remind me of importance of honesty. You should read it.

(151 words)

Reference

Reilly, Carmel, & Wallace-Mitchell, Jane (2007). Mercury and the Woodcutter. Thomson Learning Australia

Essays 2-03a: Language learning histories

When I was a junior high school student, most of Japanese people started to study English when they were junior high school students , while I didn't study any of the subjects during the time of life. Fortunately, I had an opportunity to be interested in English, which was to communicate with ALT(Assistant Language Teacher ). I met three of the ALTs in the junior high school. The fast ALT was so strict during classes that I couldn't think that English was fun. The second teacher was almost the same as the first teacher. The final teacher was totally different from others,who came from Scottland and she was beautiful. I wanted to communicate with her. Unfortunately, a combination of my shyness and lack of my English ability made me not be able to talk to her. I was so irritated with myself. I had to graduate from the junior high school.

After graduating there, I worked at a supermarket for the almost all of  high school life. One day, I was working there as usual and feeling tired. I looked around and saw a beautiful woman, who was the ALT in the junior high school. I talked to her and she looked that she didn't remember me and was annoyed with my terrible English skill especially speaking skill. I was so shocked that she looked that,but I was happy to have been able to see her again.

Because I knew that I could see her some time at my work place, I was pushed to study English. I asked some of the English teacher in my high school. They were kind to me. One of them suggest me that I should use a English grammar textbook. I didn't understand the contents of the book fast time because I hadn't even known how to use be verb before I started to study English eagerly when I was second year hugh school student. The more I read the text book, the more interested in reading I was. After studying English for some months, I tried to talk to her and I could talk to her a little. It made me study English more.

Because she was an ALT of the junior high school, she had to go back to her country. When I noticed that, I was so shocked that I tried to write a letter to her. As a result, I didn't write a letter and even say good bye. Sometimes I look back the meory and the teacher. I want to see her if she is alive.

I have continued to study English for almost 4 years since 2008. I didn't know what was suitable for my English abilities and I studied English with a textbook explaining difficult examinations. Even now, it may be difficult for me to understand. I got information about EIKEN(an English examination which is a kind of famous examination in Japan and is often used for criteia of entrance of high school in Japan and forign countries) when I was third year student in high school. One of teachers told me to take EIKEN pre-2nd but I wanted to try higher level, EIKEN 2nd and I did. Unfortunately, I failed to pass it two times. I passed EIKEN pre-1st some weeks ago and I am studying English for EIKEN 1st now.

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Essay prep

Free writing

I have ever learnt English by talking 0to many people in English. It was hard for me to talk in English when I try do it fast. When I was a first year student of KGU, I had never talked to foreigners in English and I couldn't communicate with them smoothly.

After studying an English textbook named 'grammar in use', which is famous for Japanese international students who go to America, Canada and Australia, I could have confidence, It encouraged me to talk to people in English. I tried to talk to an English teacher. He talked to me slowly and when I had trouble with part of what he said, he helped me understand it explaining about with easy English. The more I talked to him, the more I came to feel like talking to many people.

One day, I noticed that I didn't have enough vocabulary to talk enjoyably. That's why I started to build up vocabularies. I wanted to get many words efficiently and unforgettably. I looked for ways to do it. I asked some of professors in English department. One of them suggested me that I do it remembering route of English words. Because history of English language is related to France and Latin, many words in English come from these languages. She gave me a pile of paper which were printed from internet. I didn't know anything about the contents on the paper and what i should do with the paper. I gave up building vocabulary with the paper soon.


After studying English for TOEIC for almost a year, I wanted to study English for another thing and enrich my vocabulary and get abundant

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