The Letter from Five Years Ago

My sister brought the letter to me yesterday in the morning. I was very surprised, because that letter was from myself of five years ago. Then, I remembered I wrote for myself of 20 years old when I was a junior high school student and it is before few days when I graduate.

Then event and thought were written in the letter, so I read this letter and it brought me back old memories. It was funny, because I wrote about impudent things. However I have liked English since in those days so I wrote I’m glad that if myself of 20 years old to do about English. And I was glad because I study English in the university and it was realized. I read this letter, and I thought that I should more study about English, and I want to more well English.

I wasn’t able to imagine myself of 20 years old and I thought that after five years is still a long way off when I wrote the letter. However actually five years rolled on quickly. And I thought that 20 years old is an adult when I was a child, but I became 20 years old, I feel it isn’t adult all that. However I do that I want to do it and I want to lead a full life in the future.

The coming of age ceremony is going to take place on January 3 in Tamana. And it is held a class reunion of junior high school in same day, so I can see a lot of friends when I was junior high school student. Therefore I’m looking forward to seeing them.

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"Up"

I went to watch the movie theater with my mother and my sister yesterday. We watched the movie “Up”. I knew about the story, but I didn’t know how it was ending. However “Up” was very interesting and exciting to me.

First of all, “Partly Cloudy” of short film was very interesting. It was shown before “Up”. I didn’t know about this short film. This short film story is about a cloud and the friendship of the bird. I was moved this short film.

“Up” characters are Carl, Ellie, Russell, dog Dug, bird Kevin and so on. Carl and Ellie were the old cuple who liked adventure. And Ellie passes away, so Carl suspended from helium balloons to his house, and he went to the trip the house and all. Then, he take the various adventures.

I thought that Carl was cute grandfather, and characters are individual and cute. And Carl treasured his house, but he gave up it at the ending. I watched such scene, and I thought that it is important for us to give up treasure and take a step forward. I got courage from this movie. I was glad that I watched the movie “Up”.

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BR 2-10: Pinocchio

I have watched Pinocchio movie of Disney before, but I read this book, this book differs from I knew story. Therefore, this book is very interesting to me.

There were some different points in a movie and the book. First, When Geppeto runs after Pinocchio. Then, Gepetto was mistaken by the police, and he was arrested. Also, Pinocchio and cricket got along very well in the movie, but Pinocchio hit cricket with a hummer. I shocked such scene. And, Gepetto and Mr. Cherry were wearing a wig. It was surprised, but very funny. Besides, there were the points it were different, but I was able to enjoy because book and movie were different story each other.

However I thought that Gepetto was very kind, because he treat Pinocchio like his son. And he sold his only coat to buy Pinocchio a school book and some clothes. Because Pinocchio disappeared, Gepetto ran after him all the time. I read such scene, I though that Gepetto really loved Pinocchio.

I was surprised that I read this book, because this book different from I knew story and movie. It happened various adventures this book. However Pinocchio became a real boy at the last. Therefore I excited as I read this book.

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Collodi, C. (2004). Pinocchio. London: Usborne Publishing.

BR 2-09 : The Hunt for Gold

I read the book “The Hunt for Gold”. I have read this book’s series before. The book that I read before was very interesting, so I borrowed this book again. Wilma, Wilf, Biff and Chip went back in time, and they did adventure.

Wilf had chewing gum at all time. There were Wilma, Wilf, Biff and Chip in the bedroom. Suddenly, the magic key took them on adventure. They arrived at a river. There were a boy and a girl there. They looked for tiny bit of gold. Wilma, Wilf, Biff and Chip became got along very well with them. Their names are Luck and Alice. They looked for gold together. Then Luck’s father found big gold, so they ate chewing gum while they went to the town to sell the gold with a carriage. Then, robbers came over, and they looked for the gold everywhere, but it didn’t find, and they left there, because Wilf’s chewing gum stuck to a carriage, and saved the gold. And Wilma, Wilf, Biff and Chip went back home.

The children’s adventure is interesting, and I didn’t think helped with chewing gum, and unexpected, so it was exciting for me.

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Hunt, R. (1994). The Hunt for Gold. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

BR 2-08: Audrey Hepburn

I have liked Audrey Hepburn since before. It is “ Roman Holiday” that I looked her movie for the first time. Then, I became like her. I read this book, and I knew about Audrey Hepburn.

She was born in May 4, 1929 in Brussels Belgium. Her parents got a divorce, and she spent with her mother in Dutch her childhood, and she experienced the war and poor life. After the war, they moved to London, and she took the opportunity and she became the actor. After that, she appeared a lot of movies and stages. Especially “Roman Holiday” made Audrey world famous, and she received a lot of awards.

She experienced marriage and divorce two times, and she has borne two sons. She retired in Steven Spielberg’s “Always”. Afterward, she started to work for poor people. She visited in Africa, and she helped a lot of poor, hungry and sick children. On January 20, 1993, she died sixty-four in Switzerland.

This book is easy for me to understand English, so I knew about her life, her movies and so on. She was very beautiful and kind woman. Her life happened various things, for example, happy, sad, hard and so on. However she could do that she wanted to do it, so I thought that she was happy life. I read this book, I could know Audrey Hepburn, and I want to watch her movies “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”, “My Fair Lady” and the like.

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Rice, C. (2000). Audrey Hepburn. Edinburgh: Person Education Limited.

Essay 2-03b: My English Learning Story

I think that it is important for us to learn languages, because it is necessary for communication. We learn English as second language about six years in Japan. Therefore, the English is an immediate thing for us. Also, I came the university, and I’m a British and American English major, so it is a much more immediate thing for me. I'm going to write about how I have learned English through in the past, the present and the future.

I have been interested in English and foreign countries since I was a child. First of all, I have begun to be interested in English and foreign countries since I began to watch video drama from overseas. I especially liked and I watched video dramas are “Fullhouse” and “Sabrina, the Teenage Witch” when I was elementary school student. I looked forward to watching these video dramas every week then, and I began to I thought that I want to that I can understand and speak English. It is the sign for I was interested in English. Also, I was interested in foreign lives, so I became I want to go to overseas.

I started studying English when I was a junior high school student. I liked English class, and I enjoyed I have the classes with assistant language teacher. I learned American culture and various things from her. I began to listen western music as that time, so I was much more interested in foreign countries.

However I became a high school student, it was difficult for me to understand English. So I didn’t study English as much as in junior high school. But I began to like English again while I listen western music and watched foreign movie and so on, so I thought I should study English, and I wanted to I can understand English very well. Then, I took Society for Testing English Proficiencies. I took third level and semi-second level.

When I entered the university, I felt English classes are difficult again, because there are a lot of various classes about the English. At first, I have never written essay in English before, so it was difficult for me to write sentence in English. But I want to more study it, and I could write essay in English than before.

Now, I’m taking various classes about the English. For example, I study English language history, Britain and American culture and Britain and American literature. Then, I took TOEIC many times to level up an English skill. I will take it again in December. In addition, I taking teaching course, so I teach English in the teaching course. I realize that teaching English is very difficult. I have to ponder about how I teach English for students, so these are difference take English class. Therefore, I think that I want to increase more knowledge about English, culture and so on. Moreover, I increased the opportunity expose to English since I was a sophomore better than I was a freshman. For example, write the blog in English, paper in English. However I think that I should do more to level up English skill.

Above all, in the future I want to I can understand and speak English very well. I hope to visit various places around the world, and to come in contact with local people. I’m some interested in becoming English teacher, but I don't decide for I want to do the job yet for sure whether I’m up for it. I want to job in which I have to use English. I have a lot of I want to do in future. Predict I want to continue studying English for that reason.

I think that English is used in the future better than now all over the world. So it is important for us to we can use English. I want to do things in future come out while I write this essay through the past, the present and the future. However I realized that I lack the knowledge about word, grammar and so on. Therefore I want to give an English skill from now on.

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Officer Election Party

December 18

I joined the Youth Hostel club. Our club changed the generation since Takuma festival finished, so we sophomore became the top generation. And our club gave officer election party that day.

I was assistant account before, so I became accountant. Accountant and public relation had to various work, so we prepared and talked since before. We went shopping at the market the day before. Accountant had to do information desk, so my friend, my juniors and I did information desk. But a lot of people came there, so we were very busy there. However we could it going smoothly.

After that, we greeted other club. There are a lot of friends so I enjoyed it. And I talked my friends, my seniors and my juniors, so I was happy. The only first party took place in this time, so I couldn’t talk my friends, my seniors and my juniors than other party. But I was glad that I saw a lot of people. And I put up at my friend home, and we talked about our club, friends and so on all the time.

It was big event of our club for the first time, so we were nervous and we made a little mistake. However this party could go smoothly, so it finished evenly, and it was good. Also I think that it is important for us to prepare, talk again and again, and I hope that next party is going smoothly too.

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Party

December 5

I took the TOEIC at the university in the morning. I was busy that week, so I couldn’t study about TOEIC too much. I took the test after an interval of half a year. Therefore I felt difficult this test, and I regretted that I couldn’t study too much. I think that I should study more next time. I want to get a high score at TOEIC sometime.

I had a meeting of my club from afternoon. We talked about a new president. After finished, my friends, seniors, juniors and I went shopping for the party.

They came in my home, and we gave the fried bread ice party. First, the bazaar members had a nabe party. We ate a curry nabe, and it was delicious. After that, we played cards game, and the pair which lost at cards went to buy for coca cola at near vending machine. They their intention was to buy two coca cola, and they put the button then six Coca Cola came out of a vending machine. We were surprised very much. We played cards again, and we talked a lot of various things from then on.

Many friends and seniors came over at my home since became nearly at midnight. My senior, friend and I fried the fried bread ice for them, and we ate a lot of it. And we ate, drank and talked until morning.

It was happy and full for me to that day. I want to give the party with them again.

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Reading IV News Quiz 2

News Quize

1. A woman arrested for a fraud case concerned the men death case. What fraud was woman arrested for?
2. The Defense Minister appears to accept about the relocate plan. What is the plan?
3. The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry want to be tax exempt about the certain plan. What is the plan?
4. Who is the Osaka Governor of the intention to relocate the prefectural government’s main office?
5. What sightseeing spot works hard to invite a tourist?
6. Who is the former British Prime Minister that the first EU president to become the candidate?
7. Who is the pop singer plants tree in Malawi girls school?
8. Where is the country Sumitomo Life Insurance Co. will expand in?
9. Did the Japanese overseas tourist in September rose several percent than the same month last year?
10. Where is the Olympics site in 2016?

Answer
1. Marriage fraud (The Daily Yomiuri, October 28, p1)
2. Futenma plan (The Daily Yomiuri, October 28, p1)
3. The child-rearing allowance (The Daily Yomiuri, October 28, p1)
4. Toru Hashimoto (The Daily Yomiuri, October 28, p2)
5. Hot springs (The Daily Yomiuri, October 28, p4)
6. Tony Blair (The Daily Yomiuri, October 28, p7)
7. Madonna (The Daily Yomiuri, October 28, p7)
8. Vietnam (The Daily Yomiuri, October 28, p8)
9. 15 % (The Daily Yomiuri, October 28, p8)
10. Rio de Janeiro (The Daily Yomiuri, October 28, p22)

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BR 2-07: Beyond Strange Street

I read the book “Beyond Strange Street”. I was interested in this book’s story, and I think that this book’s characters are very cute.

Sam lay in bed, but she could hear loud, cross voices, so she couldn’t sleep. So she got out of the bet at night. She rode in an up lift, and pushed written as W.W. button. And the lift went up, and arrived at strange place.

Sam excited, but just a bit scared, and she wondered if she should go back. She met the strangest little creature at the time. His name is Obby. He is the strangest little creature, but very cute, and kind. They became getting along each other. And he helped Sam, and she could return real world. Sam promised Obby come again in here. And Sam’s adventure ended.

Obby is very strange, but cute. I interested in this book’s characters. Also, this story is enjoyable.

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Umansky, K. (2001). Beyond Strange Street. England: Literacy Land.