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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Reference

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

BR 2-06: The Call of the Wolf

 When I meet someone new first time, I feel nervous and I regard them as a bad person or good person with just first impression. I know this is not good way to communicate with people but this is kind of instinct I think.

In this book, as title shows, a wolf was featured. The wolf was being afraid of by people and some people spread a rumour that the wolf is dangerous and people should stay away from it. This was totally lie and it was suffering to live.

One day, a man who was brave went to the place where the wolf lived.

 Unless people live in a society, people may experience first impression. Sometimes they regard other people as someone they imagine and are regard by other people like they do.

This book remind readers that people shouldn't regard someone or something with fast impression.

Please check it out at KGU library.

(153 words)

Reference

Reilly, Carmel, & Miesen, Christina (2007). The Call of the Wolf. Thomson Learning Australia

BR 2-05 Bertha

When people buy something they have to share to use with other people, they have to make a decision considering all of people's opinion. I think  most of times people make such a decision, some of people give up their opinions.

When my family members wanted to buy a TV set, we argued for a long time, because we had opinions each other and tried to carry on them.
Finally, my father got angry and my mother ordered it on the internet hiding it from us. After getting it, we were pleased that the TV set we got was nice.

In this book, a family was featured and they tried to buy a car all of them like.
 It was exactly hard for them to decide which one was best for them, but they consider eagerly.
Finally.... I can't tell the next. Please read this book.
I think you can enjoy the story.

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Reference

Mitchell, Julie, & Chambers, Mal (2007). Bertha. Thomson Learning Australia.

BR 2-04: Super Fit

When people are in from elementary school to high school, I'm sure they have some days when they don't want to go there. Even if they go there, they refuse to take classes. When I didn't want to go to school, I ignored what my parents said for a long time. When they gave up making me go to school, I could sleep in my bed all day. When they didn't gave up and I gave up, I had to go to school and then I didn't want to take classes. I just liked to eat lunch though. After arriving at school, I had to apologize for having been late and I could go to the class my classmates were. I didn't like the procedure. During classes, I wanted to sleep and felt bored very much. Most of teachers in my school were very strict to me. I was kept eye out on. Every time  something bad happened, I was asked that I did them. That's why I tried to skip classes many times and I couldn't catch up with school study. 

In this book, a boy is featured in. I feel sorry for him. If you are attracted why I feel sorry for him, please read this book. This book is very easy.

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Reference

Millett, Peter, & Chambers, Mal (2007). Super Fit Thomson Learning Australia.

BR 2-03: SECRET AGENT

This book is so interesting. As this title shows, main character in this book is a secret agent. Before he became, he had trained a lot. Because he is a secret agent, he had to carry his missions hiding from public world. One day, he received some useful and special tools from a researcher who supports him with latest tools. After he received the tools, interesting story started. When I was a child, I watched many science-fiction movies. Then I though that I would become people featured in the movies Now I'm not such people,but even now I hope I come to be such people in the future. I am studying English and I will get many pieces of information on how to become them in English.

I recommend that people read this book. I think many people enjoy this book and feel nostalgic. The older we gets, the more we tend to concentrate on something real like studying our major. We should  

 have a break sometime. I'm sure that this book gives you a comfortable time with simple English.

(181 words)

Reference

Reilly, Carmel, &Vonda, Pestana (2007). SECRET AGENT. Thomson Learning Australia.

BR 2-02: SCARY MOVIE

I read this book because I like something scary. After reading this book, I thought this book was interesting. Although the title of this book is not related to the core of this book's story, this book makes me think how readers attract when people choose books. When people want to read books, I think , people choose them by seeing the title of books. If someone wants to read scary book , they choose books by seeing the title with the word,scary, or scary words. This book, scary movie, is unpredictable story.If I were main character of this book, I would do same act as her. I want to tell about the story of this book now, but please read this book by yourselves. This book is written in easy English and very short. I think it takes 5 minutes or 10 minutes to read this book. It's easy. Please try it.

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Reference

Millet, Peter, & Edwards, Anthea (2007). SCARY MOVIE. Thomson Learning Australia.

BR 1-13: Poor Old Mum!

This book has encouraged me to communicate with my parents more friendly. If my parents appear in front of people to show something or compete something with others' parents, I feel embarrassed. After having read this book, my mind has changed a little,and I've decided not to think so. This book is so attractive for you that once you start to read it, you can't stop it,

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reference: Written and Illustrayed by Roderick Hunt Alex Brychta 1992 OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 

BR 1-12: The Camcorder

As this title shows, this story is related to a camcorder. Usually. camcorders are used for good memories. Sometimes they record something strange like a ghost. It is scary isn't it? I don't want to know such a record with a big TV screen. This interests you.

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reference: Written and Illustrayed by Roderick Hunt Alex Brychta 1992 OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

BR 1-11: The Fabulous Story of Fashion

I don't know the reason why people started to wear clothes,but I understood by reading this book. The book cover is colorful and funny. It was very impressive for me,so I picked up and read.

Long time ago, people started to wear clothes in chilly areas. As you probably guess , ancient people also feel cool when it is cool,so they bothered about the cool environment. I think that the more people are faced with, the more they try to do something new to survive. That's why, one day a man chased an animal,and he thought that the animal seem not chilly.This is the beginning of wearing cloth. People made clothes with fur.

An example I explained is the story of chilly area all year round. In comparison to it, I think people in warm area were later to start to wear clothes because they didn't need to wear them,but they started to wear them to protect skin of people from sunshine. Most probable reason why they started to do so was that they wanted to make themselves cool.

After some histories elapsed, many histories about fashion had been made. "Fashion" is a common word for the present people,but it was absolutely special word for ancient people.

Meaning of fashion is usually related to clothes,accessories or something. They started to wear clothes to stay alive.Fashion was beyond minimum of their clothes. They had became able to enjoy choosing clothes because of develop of clothes industry.They chose material of clothes,color of clothes, tool to attractive themselves. When I have ever watched a TV program in which ancient people tried to wear tight clothes hard. They din't only try to enjoy wearing clothing but also they wanted attract people.To do so,they have to make them look beautiful. In my opinion their life styles were so hard that I may not able to overcome.

Finally,now all of the people around the world wear clothes. Some of the people try not to wear to call for a problem environment. They have been traveling around the world with naked riding a horse even now. Although their activity seems to be just very stupid,if people didn't start to wear clothes,their activity may be regarded as normal activity because no one wear them. I think that development of clothes are good and beneficial for us,but there are many problems to do so ,for example,it costs a lot of money, it is possible to destroy natural environment. 

By reading this book, you can get information you have never heard. It will interest you.I want you to read this book. It's in library.

reference Lesley Sims 2006 The Fabulous Story of Fashion

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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

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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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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