2007年7月27日金曜日

♪★July ,27th♪★

1.How many blog posts have you written this semester?
I have witten 16 blog posts this semester.

2. Which news item that you wrote about was the most surprising?
I think this is a national emergency. I did not know Aboriginy is such a bad native Australian.      Prime Minister John Howard was responding to a report that found sexual abuse of children to be rampant in indigenous communities in the Northern Territory. The report said the abuse was fueled by endemic alcohol abuse, unemployment, poverty and other factors causing a breakdown in traditional society.

3. Which news item that you wrote about was the strangest or the most interesting?
About Tanabata festivals are held in many country. The most famous Tanabata festival is held in Sendai. A Tanabata festival is also held in SaoPaulo, Brazil around the first weekend of July.
This is the most interesting things for me.

4.What do you want to focus on next semester?
I want to focus on to read a novel next semester. So Ihave to learn 9000 words.

2007年7月20日金曜日

  • Flash Quizzes for English Study は動詞、形容詞、接続詞などをレベル別で学ぶことができる。
  • Spelling differences between American and British Englishは、アメリカ英語とイギリス英語の違いがわかりやすく表で示されていてわかりやすい。
  • English-Japanese Vocabulary Quizzesは、動物、色、スポーツなどの名称が日本語と共に表されるので単語を覚えやすい。
  • Self-Study English Vocabulary Quizzesは、ブランド名などさまざまな単語をわかりやすい文章のクイズでわかりやすかった。  例) ...a cola beverage?   Coke
①Novels D 9000
②Spoken English B 7000
③Children's movies A 6000
④Newspapers C 8000

♪ My Summer Vacation Plan ♪

I have 2 plans to enjoy summer vacation. First, I am going to go to Okinawa. And I want to swim in sea and eat Okinawa' foods. Next, I am going to go to Nagasima Land with my friends. There are many attractions so we will enjoy at there. It is going to be good trip.
I want to travel to foreign country but don't have enough money to do it.

2007年7月13日金曜日

7月13日

Most students in this class have these 2 objectives for World News A:

1.to read news in English quickly and smoothly
5000 words.
2.to find news in English quickly and smoothly
5000words.
For these, what will you need? Answer the questions on your blog.

1)to read news in English quickly and smoothly

1.vocabulary (how much?)
5000 wods .
2.background knowledge - how/where will you find this?
ウィキペディアや本人のウェブサイトなど。
2)to find news in English quickly and smoothly

1.search engines (which ones do you use? Which is the best?)
Yhoo.
2.RSS (do you use RSS? If so, how?)
RRSSは、ニュースブログなど各種のウェブサイトの更新情報を簡単にまとめ、配信するための幾つかの文書フォーマットの総称である。SSの取得・購読にはRSSリーダー(フィードリーダーとも)と呼ばれるソフトウェアを使う。また、RSSを作成・追加するためのソフトウェアもあるが、比較的シンプルなXML形式なので手作業でも可能である。

Learning vocabulary   July 12th, 2007

1. あいり~らいふhttp://reggaelife.blogspot.com/

 短い文章で七夕のことが分かりやすく書かれていた。
織姫と彦星が何のことなのか、天の川などの分かりにくい語句の説明や写真があって分かりやすかった

2. Smilehttp://donald-minnie-minnie.blogspot.com/

 日本のことだけじゃなくて外国の七夕の行事についての説明と、七夕の伝説、現在の祭りに関する写真もあって分かりやすかった。 

 ①も②もウィキペディアを使っていたので、日本語でも英語でも調べることができた。
だから、英語による説明文を見ながら日本文で確かめることもできたので英語の長文読解に役立ったと思う。

2007年7月6日金曜日

☆A Tanabata Festival☆

The festival is usually held on July, and celebrates the meeting of Orihime and Hikoboshi .The Milky Way, a river made from stars that crosses the sky, separates these lovers, and they are allowed to meet only once a year. This special day is the seventh day of the seventh lunar month of the unisolar calendar.
The festival spread to the general public by the early Edo period, became mixed with various Obon traditions, and developed into the modern Tanabata festival.
In present-day Japan, people generally celebrate this day by writing wishes, sometimes in the form of poetry, on tanzaku, small pieces of paper, and hanging them on bamboo, sometimes with other decorations.
This is a traditional Tanabata song:
Sasa no ha sara-sara (笹の葉 さらさら) Nokiba ni yureru (軒端にゆれる  ) Ohoshi-sama kira-kira (お星様 キラキラ) Kin Gin sunago (金銀砂ご    )
Tanabata festivals are held in many places in Japan. The most famous Tanabata festival is held in Sendai. A Tanabata festival is also held in SaoPaulo, Brazil around the first weekend of July.
I thought a Tanabata festival is only Jananese custom, but many another countrise have a custom like A Tanabata festival.