World News B February 8th, 2008: Final class!

1. What did you learn in this class this semester?

I learned in this class, how to blog that summary of the key points, we should use some color to make read easier and put the URL of the quoted article or picture on blog, how to exploit blogs, and how to collect information with internet to write my opinions or answers.

2. Make sure all your blog entries are up to date. Your blogs show me what you learned this semester.

I liked World News class. I learned to consider about articles which I collected before I put it on my blog and how to put together my thoughts over lot of materials in this semester. I thought that we can get many kind of articles on each incident but it is difficult to find out correct information so have to consider about these which information do I need is.

1. did you answer all the questions?
Yes, I did.
2. did you spell-check your work before uploading?
Yes, I did.
3. did you add links, and your own opinion?
Yes, I did.
4. do you have a title (the date)?
Yes, I did.

6. Read your classmates’ blogs.

2. Blog about them on your blog.
Read my friend’s blog and I remembered that learned not only reading and writing but also Old English and Christmas in this semester.
3. Read some of the news items listed in my delicious links.
Japan opens 'tallest lift tower'. Japan's Mitsubishi Electric Corporation structured the 173m-high (567ft) structure is called Solae and has opened what it says is the world's tallest elevator testing tower.
The company says it will use the tower to conduct research into high-speed elevators to serve the next generation of super-tall buildings.
The news; http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7169772.stm

It is not a amusement park but I want to experience the 173m-high and Toshiba Elevator and Building Systems that have a top speed of 17m/s that is recognized as the fastest in the world. But I become scary if think about the Schindler Elevator affair.

February 1st, 2008

1. Watch the Powerpoint presentation. Write a summary of the key points on your blog.
Summary of the key points are correct sentence, we should use some color to make read easier but not too much and put the URL of the quoted article or picture on blog.

2. What is the purpose, objective, of a newspaper company?
Visual is important for Television company. But newspaper company subject and occurrence of news, it is based on journalism. We can read newspaper anytime, everywhere.

3. What is the purpose, objective, of a television company?
Television company purpose and objective is that inform news with animation, live broadcast and VTR. Television can inform news flash at once. And television provide entertainment.

4. What is the purpose, objective of Yahoo! or Google?
Yahoo provides a wide array of internet services that cater to most online activities. Yahoo offers diversified services it provides vertical search services such as Yahoo! Image, Yahoo! Video,Yahoo! News, and Yahoo! Shopping Search. Yahoo provides internet communication services such as Yahoo mail. Yahoo introduced its Internet search system.

5. The purpose of all the above is to make money. That is the purpose of all these businesses. How do they make money? By getting as many readers or viewers (”eyeballs”) as possible. If their purpose is to get as many readers or viewers or “eyeballs” as possible, then what kind of news will they publish? Give 2 or 3 examples.
These use actors, news that gossips, politics and restaurant information and so on, lot of kind of entertainment to get eyeballs, and let viewers use money. And they get money to put advertisement of company in home-pages.


6. Find a news article in English that interests you, and write about it on your blog. Write a summary of the article, then your thoughts about it, and any interesting English words or expressions or grammar you learned from reading this.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/05/britney.spears.ap/index.html#cnnSTCVideo

I think she was a biggest star but lost her personal zone by paparazzi or funs. And now, standing up some nasty things that her action. She seems like has a medical problem and has a complicated legal problem. I hope she get better soon.

The news; The order against Sam Lutfi was based on a lengthy declaration from Spears' mother, Lynne, who says Spears met the 33-year-old in October 2007 and "essentially moved into Britney's home and has purported to take control of her life, home and finances". Spears was barred from contact with her children after she refused last month to relinquish them to representatives of Federline after a court-sanctioned visit.

Interesting words which I learned are relinquishre, presentative and custody.

7. Read your classmates’ blogs and comment on them on your own blog.
http://mintonton.blogspot.com/2008/02/world-news-b-february-1st-2008.html

Living in “All- chocolate room” is like a dream story and I would like to live there, but it is waste a lot of chocolates.

January 25th 2008

(1) Look at this photo and answer the questions

1. Where was this photo taken?
This photo was taken Iraq

2.When was it taken?
This photo was taken Wednesday, April 9, 2003

3.What does the caption say under the photo?
Huge statue of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was destroyed, that is meaning free from Saddam's rule.

4.Translate the caption into Japanese
Caption is “midasi” in Japanese

5.“Crowds cheer” = how many people, do you think
I think over 1991 people's crowds cheer

(2) Now look at this photo taken at the same place and same time, and answer the questions.

1.How many people were in the square, do you think?
I think about 300 peoples were in the square.

2.Do you think “crowds cheer” is accurate?
I can not say "yes" or "no".

3What do you think of the first picture now?
I thought see first picture, the square was very crowded but second photo is not much crowded.

4Why did CNN use the first picture, do you think?
CNN use the first picture because because made us to think every Iraq citizen hate Saddam Hussein and U.S soldieor accomplished good things.

5.What do you think after seeing these two photos?
First photo is look square was crowded with people but second photo was taken far from square and surrounding was not crowded. Both pictures are same place but gave us completely different image .I thought news is dependent on picture.



(3) Is it important for newspapers to tell the truth, or is it ok for newspaper to lie sometimes? Give reasons for your answer.

We have to know the truth to make good country. Newspaper must not tell a lie to people because it has huge influential. And Journalism has to watch big power like government, politician and police to people live freely and peaceful..

(4) How can you check if some item of news is true or not? (Give at least two different ways).

Examine myself. And read another newspaper and think which is truth or not.

(6) What do you think now, after reading your classmates’ blogs? Write your thoughts on your blog.
Everyone inconsiderate that image is controlled by picture’s angle on newspaper, and we learned picture had different images each angles.

January 18th, 2008

１.How many Muslims live in Britain?


591,000 Muslims live there.



2. How many Hindus live in Britain?



500, 000 Hindus lives in Britain.



4.New York is one of the most modern city but it is onderful and that still built some classical building.

I read a news : 2 women die once a day by violence in Guatemala. Guatemala is dominated by drugs and gang and women lives there with fear. The women set up soccer team to escape the fear and protect their human rights. Supervision planed to shoot the soccer team’s documentary and he got permission that shooting the documentary from the gangs.
During the film shooting he stayed Guatemala to make with some friends. This film changed women’ life to be good, they are gradually becoming live freely. The county problem is not AIDS, the big was violence.

January 11th, 2008

http://abe-mo-web.hp.infoseek.co.jp/daibutsu.jpg
Tell us about your New Year. Add a picture.
How did you spend your New Year?

1. I ate oseti and went to toudai-ji in Nara park to pray can live happily this year.
There were many people who celebrate of the New Year and a lot of Yatai I enjoyed them.

Hogmanay is the name for New Year in which country?

Scotland
In which city is the New Year’s Day parade held? Can you find a photo of this year’s parade?

JRR Tolkien’ birthday. He wrote The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion
Whose birthday is on January 3rd, and what famous book did he write?

Guru Gobind Singh‘ｓ birthday.
Whose birthday is on January 5th? Why is this person’s birthday in a British calendar?

Birth of Elvis Presley, he is famous as asinger.
Whose birthday is today (January 8th)? What is he famous for?

The Islamic New Year begins on the day Prophet Muhammad left Mecca to travel to Medina in 622 CE. It is the first day of the month of Muharram.
What is Al Hijra and why is it on a British calendar?

Robert Scott and his party reached the South Pole
Who reached the South Pole in 1912 on January 17th?

Birth of AA Milne, she wrote Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner.
Whose birthday is on January 18th? What famous book did he write?

Sir Winston Churchill died on this day in 1965. He famous as a a British politician.
Who died on January 24th, 1965? What is he famous for
What do you think about this calendar?

I think it is interesting becaue we can learn memorial day and histrical person everyday .
Find an interesting news article and blog it.

Separated twins married and had to break up
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080111/tuk-uk-britain-twins-fa6b408_2.html
Twins who were separated at birth and raised by different families met later and married but were forced to break up when they discovered their true identities, a peer said on Friday.

5.Visit some of your classmates’ blogs and either leave a comment, or write a comment on your blog.

MARINKO MARINKO
I ate tosikosisoba too. It is good thing that spend a time with family on new years day.

December 21, 2007

Find a Christmas photo and put it on your blog.

☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆Christmas photo☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
Santa's sleigh broke down !! Santa's images broke down!! 　　　　　　　　　　
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　↓
http://www.flickr.com/photos/negrokan/1376201049/
☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
Christmas photo.

What is a nativity play?
A Nativity play or Christmas pageant is play which recounts the story of the Nativity of Jesus. It is usually performed at Christmas, the feast of the Nativity
What is a Christmas carol?
A Christmas carol is a carol (song or hymn) whose lyrics are on the theme of Christmas, or the winter season in general. They are traditionally sung in the period before Christmas.

What is a pantomime?
A pantomime is a traditional British Christmas play it is an important part of Christmas festivities. In pantomimes the male roles are often played by women and female roles by men. This makes the audience laugh more.
Pantomimes traditionally start on Boxing Day and run for two or three months in theatres around the country.
What are mince pies? A photo of one
Mince pies are an essential part of Christmas. They are small pies, usually between 2 and 3 inches in diameter (5-7.5 centimetres), filled with mincemeat The filling is a mixture of raisins, sultanas, apricots, glace cherries, candied citrus peel, apples, various types of nuts and mixed spices typically nutmeg and cinnamon.
Mince pies should traditionally have a star on top, to represent the Christmas Star which some believe led the shepherds and Magi to the baby Jesus in Bethlehem.
Mince pies became a regular part of Christmas celebrations as early as the 16th century. At that time, they contained quite a bit of shredded meat in addition to the usual melange of dried fruits.

Photo of a Christmas pudding.

Photo of a Christmas cake.

What are Brussels sprouts? Photo of some.

The Brussels sprout is a cultivar group of Wild Cabbage cultivated for its small (typically 2.5 - 4cm, 1 - 1.5 inches diameter) leafy green heads, which resemble miniature cabbages. The name stems from the original place of cultivation, not because of the vegetable's popularity in Brussels.

Visit your classmates’ blogs and see their Christmas card. Which is the best? Vote on your blog.

I like http://kuromi-mickey.blogspot.com/ 's photo, https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Qv5cMG3KuxpLaiEAcpPKo7hNbMlnUEn1q2b4PrqZKlIaDUgpdvCj94GFpBBtSLAnVxisTzUaF9hdMNCCP9F3C6MqxCJCkUmUSWKPI4qful-NtpxP0nhbFduyows8P573dxrONWrNBXgp/s1600-h/280px-Buchedenoel.jpg because it is looks like real wood which made of cake.

Lonely Canadian shocked to get $85,000 phone bill
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/071213/tecnology/tech_phonebill_col/tecnology/tech_phonebill_colnews.yahoo.com/s/reuters/071213/tecnology/tech_phonebill_col

I watched a movie "I AM LEGEND". It was fun fun fun ! and exciting !

http://iamlegend.warnerbros.com/

December 14th 2007

Amnesty International's log


1.http://my-loversinger-pusim.blogspot.com/
文が短文ずつで読みやすかった。

3. Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights for all.Our supporters are outraged by human rights abuses but inspired by hope for a better world - so we work to improve human rights through campaigning and international solidarity.We have more than 2.2 million members and subscribers in more than 150 countries and regions and we coordinate this support to act for justice on a wide range of issues.
4.
(1). Two news articles about Ikhtio Khamroev ; in English
http://www.protectionline.org/Ikhtior-Khamroev-acts-of-violence,5634.html
and in Japanese
http://blhrri.org/kokusai/sos/sos_3903.html
(2).Uzbekistan map ;
http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/travel/dg/maps/7c/750x750_uzbekistan_m.gif
(3). I can not decide yes or no, because I do not know detail about the article, which is not shoun many.
1. The news involved with NGO, UZBEKISTAN police and civic group so it is complicated, difficult to get some informatins about this.

2.Because, the articlee is about human rights, it is important for us but not interwsting for reader.

4. Ikhtior Khamroev was arrested in unconstitutional, after that was beaten and injured in prison. Amnesty International tried to save him. And Bakhtior Khamroev thanked Amnesty International members for theirsupport.

5. I didn't know the blog of another Japanese person in the US. Masa is a Japanese and lived in Nara so I had alittle affinity with her. Idid not know that American people usually take 4 days is thanksgiving it is sounds fun. I would like to go to San Francisco.

December,7th, 2007

Image:The Golden Compass

Image:Beowolfposter

Old English

Oxford map1
(1). Beowulf
The cast is Ray Winstone (Beowulf), Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, Angelina Jolie (Grendel' mother) and so on.
Story, in the age of heroes the mightiest warror of them all, Beowulf. After distroing the overpowering demon Gerngel, he incurs the undying wrath of the beast's ruthlessly seductive mother, who will use any means possible to ensure revenge. The ensuind epic battle resonates throughout the age, immortalizing the name of Beowulf.
Unkile anything you will see this year, Beowulf represent a decade long quest for New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman.
This film is Real D, Doldy Digital 3d and IMAX 3D "Beowulf" .
Crew who made "300" and "Road of the Ling".

(2).THE GOLDEN COMPASS
A young student, Lyra Belaqua (Dakota Blue Richards), begins a mighty journey to save the universe after learning that a valuable microscopic particle is under attack. Based on the first book in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy.
Director is Chris Weitz, Robert Shaye
Writer is Chris Weitz, Tobias Emmerich, Paul Weitz
2.
The Golden Compass http://www.goldencompassmovie.com/
Beowulf http://www.beowulfmovie.com/

3

1. Beowulf is Ray Winstine
2.This movie is based on Old English poem.
3. Old English was spoken Anglo-Saxson at now England and southern Scotland in between the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century?

4. photo ; http://www.rado.sk/old_english/
5.You can listen to Old English; http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=4L7VTH8ii_8

6. First battle: Grendel. Second battle: Grendel's mother. [edit] Third battle: The dragon.
In the poem, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, battles three antagonists: Grendel, who is attacking the Danish mead hall called Heorot and its inhabitants; Grendel's mother; and, later in life after returning to Geatland (modern southern Sweden) and becoming a king, an unnamed dragon. He is mortally wounded in the final battle, and after his death he is buried in a barrow in Geatland by his retainers.

7. After the final battle against the dragon, Beowulf receives fatal wounds and dies.

8.The director isGraham Baker. I like " THE OMEN ".

9.Ray Winstin

10. The Golden Compass is a fantasy film based upon Northern Lights

11. Philip Pullman's trilogy . His Dark Materials
12.Dakota Blue Richards as Lyra Belacqua, Nicole Kidman as Marisa Coulter,Daniel Craig as Lord Asriel, and Ian McKellen as the voice of Iorek Byrnison and so on.
Story; The story concerns Lyra, an orphan living in a fantastical parallel universe in which the dogmatic dictatorship of the Magisterium threatens to dominate the world. When Lyra's friend is kidnapped, she travels to the far North in an attempt to rescue him and rejoin her uncle

13. it is shown first line.

14.

The Bodleian Library
The Clarendon Building (often used as a set for film and television)
The Radcliffe Camera (one of several institutions named after John Radcliffe)
The Sheldonian Theatre
The Oxford University Press

15.　Chris Weitz 　MR.AND MRS. SMITH

16.Dakota Blue Richards

（1）NICOLE KIDMAN　"Others "

17. Several key themes of the novels, such as the the rejection of religion and the abuse of power in a fictionalized Catholic Church, were diluted in the adaptation.

.

November 16th, 2007

3. What is November 11th called in Britain?

Armistice Day and was renamed Remembrance Day.

(1) Who lays a wreath?

The Queen lays the first wreath .

(2)Where?

At the Cenotaph.

(3)Why?

Because to remember all those men and women who were killed during the two World Wars and other conflicts.

(4). How many years is it since the end of World war one?

This year Remembrance Sunday fell exactly 89 years after the ending of World War I, Armistice Day.

(5). What is the red flower?

Poppy

(6). Why is this red flower used on November 11th?
On 11th November 1918, to signal the end of World War One. After end of the war, there was complete advastation and everything disappeared. Where once there were homes and farms there was now a sea of mud - a grave for the dead where man still lived and fough. Only one other living things survived. It was poppy. Then John McCrea scribbled down the poem "In Flanders Fields". It was the poppy things. The poem published. And the poppy became a popular symbol for soldier who dead in battle.

4. What happened on November 6th in London?

.State Opening of ParliamentOn the day of the Opening, the Queen travels from Buckingham Palace to the Houses of Parliament in the Stage Coach . Once the Queen arrives at Parliament the union flag is lowered and replaced by the royal standard. One of London’s most timeless ceremonies, dating back 700 years is the ceremony of the keys which takes place at the Tower of London.

5. What happened on November 10th in London?

The Lord Mayor’s procession winds through nearly 800 years of London’s history, marching unscathed through everything .The modern procession is over three miles long – 1.3 miles longer It is London’s grandest firework display at 5 o’clock from a barge moored in the Thames between Blackfriars and Waterloo bridges.

(6)What is the Mayor’s name?
Mayor's name is David Lewis.

In the middle of the First World War, he was caught by enemy and escaped fortunately. By accident He hid in a farm where woman who will be his wife in the future lived. After the war, they married. I thought is casual meeting is wonderful like a romance and love story.

[1 ]
1. Who was killed, where, when, and how?
Kenji Nagai was killed by the fatal shooting in Burma. Friday, 28 September 2007.

2. Why is this news important for many people around the world?
Japanese embassy doctors have confirmed that he was killed by a bullet to the chest by police cross-fire. Nagai was journalist. At the time he was shooting video so a government soldier shooted the journalist at close range to hide the truth incident what a government soldier did.

[2]
1. How many people marched in central Burma?
More than 100 monks.

2. What kind of people marched?
Monk.

3. When and where did they march?
In central Burma, Wednesday, 31 October 2007.

4. What happened in that same city on September 6th, 2007? nesday, 31 October 2007
More than 100 monks have marched in central Burma, the first time they have returned to the streets since last month's bloody crackdown on protests.
Reports that soldiers had beaten up monks there on 6 September gave momentum to protests that began on 19 August over fuel price rises. Monks said "Our demands are for lower commodity prices, national reconciliation and immediate release of [pro-democracy leader] Aung San Suu Kyi and all the political prisoners."
And The junta began its crackdown on protests on 26 September .

5. How do we know this march took place? The article gives two sources of information. What are they?
The Witnesses. One monk who was on the march.

6. Does this news item on the BBC website make the marchers more safe or less safe?
More safe.

7. What does “bloody crackdown” mean?
Action that is taken in order to deal more strictly witha ploblem with a lot of killing and injuries.

8. What does “nationwide pro-democracy protests” mean?
Showing a strong complint that national fvorable toward a gsystem of government.

9. What does “forcibly recruiting children” mean?
Children who are become soldier by force.

10.Who told the BBC that the Burma military are forcibly recruiting children? Do you believe it?

United Nations envoy Ibrahim

11. The BBC also asked the Burma government about this. What did the Burma government say? Do you believe them?
Why did the BBC ask Human Rights Watch AND the Burma
I do think this sort of economic and political frustration that is within the population will manifest itself again in the coming months."

12. I don't think so.
[3]
The Internet connection in Myanmar was cut Friday, limiting the free flow of information the nation's citizens were sharing with the world depicting the violent crackdown on monks and other peaceful demonstrators.

1. Why did the Burma government do this, do you think?
I don't now the Brama's country but I think that the Burama's action was not the best solution. This matter was become more complicated.

[4]
1. What is November 5th called in Britain?
Bonfire Night

2.3 Why? (What is the historical reason?) What do people do on this day?
in the form of both private and civic events. They involve fireworks displays and the buIn the United Kingdom, celebrations take place in towns and villages across the country ilding of bonfires on which "guys" are burnt (although this is more rare nowadays). These "guys" are traditionally effigies of Guy Fawkes, the most famous of the Gunpowder Plot conspirators, although the night is celebrated in York (Fawkes hometown) some there do not burn his effigy, most notably those from his old school.[1] Before the fifth, children traditionally use the "guys" request a "penny for the guy" in order to raise funds with which to buy fireworks.
In the United Kingdom, there are several foods that are traditionally consumed on Guy Fawkes Night:
black treacle goods such as bonfire toffee[2] and parkin,[3]
toffee apples[4][5]
baked potatoes, which are wrapped in foil and cooked in the bonfire or its embers[6][7]
black peas with vinegar[8]

4. http://www.flickr.com/photos/matsomuffi/439909665/

October ２６th、2007 ☆

2. Look at question #11. Choose your 3 favourites
　　1. one million yen in the lotterry
　　2. Junk food is less calorie and more healthy, I can eat more junk food.
　　3. Wears is more cheaply, and I will buy more wears.

3. 20 minutes language practice (listening, vocabulary, grammar, etc)

　vocabulary
　http://iteslj.org/v/j/ck-ej4480-001.html

　listening,
　http://www.go4english.com/eia/read.php?unitid=1370&pageid=2592&pagenum=1
　http://www.go4english.com/ffk/read.php?unitid=1431&pageid=2684&pagenum=1

4. Find a news item in English. Blog it. 45 minutes.

Fire chief: 25,000-acre blaze was seｔ
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/25/fire.arson/index.html
　trailer 　ひきずる　　　　　　　rapidly　　　　　急速
　arson　　　　　　　　　放火　　　　　　　　　deliberately 　　わざと、故意に
　temperature　　　　気温　　　　　　　　　　arsonist　　　　　放火犯
　investigator　　　　　調査　　　　　　　　　indicating 　　　　指す
　excessive 　　　　　　行き過ぎた
　bail 　　　　　　　　　　保釈金
　accused 　　　　　　　告発
　motive　　　　　　　　動機
　emergency 　　　　　緊急事態

Britney Spears avoids hit-and-run trial
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/25/britney.spears.ap/index.html
　misdemeanor　　飛行を犯す
　plea 　　　　　　　祈り。訴え
　previously 　　　以前に、あらかじめ
　paparazzi 　　　　パパラッチ
　 temporary 　　　一時の
　 probation 　　　　検定

6. All your work for ONE World News class should be in ONE blog entry.
7. Your blog entry title should be “World News B 2007 + date” e.g. “World News B 2007 October 19th.”
8. Go to your blog and read any comments you may have. If you have comments, answer them.

9. On your blog write your answer to this question: “Our World News Blogs are all completely public. What do you think about this? Do you prefer some privacy, or is it ok to be completely public?”
ブログの公開にはプライバシーは必要だ。　なざなら、自分のブログに自分の写真などを掲載している場合、誰もがそれを閲覧できたら自分の情報などを悪用される危険性があるからだ。　しかし、自分が自分のブログをどんな人にでも見てほしいと思うのならプライバシーは必要ない。　だから、ブログのプライバシーは内容によって必要性がかわる。

10. Practice English vocabulary online for 15 minutes (e.g. try some of these sites: http://del.icio.us/sheffner/vocabulary+worldnewsab

11. What news would make you happy to read today? Write 3 imaginary headlines

1 http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20071024-00000065-mai-soci

2.http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20071024-00000066-jij-soci

3. http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?c=c_int

12. My theme is health.

1. Kids use yoga to learn mythology, fight pre-test jitters

2. http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/diet.fitness/10/08/hm.kids.yoga/index.html

3.In addition to incorporating yoga into lesson plans, it's being used in physical education classes throughout the day. PE teacher Katie Bashor says it helps instill discipline. "If you say you're going to do yoga with the kids, they just immediately start focusing." In, Georgia.

4. My comments
1. why did you find it interesting?
Because it is unusual to practice yoga by the class of the physical education.

2. I think we could know that can get rid of stress of children in yoga. 　
It is important for child that fix the breathing, and to relax.

I want school campus to be bigger. A dining room in particular.
My hometown has many restaurants and bar. These are cause of noise. Roads are dirty by the drunk customers. So I hope my home town to be clean.

Japanese dose not treasure traditional structures. Some Japanese scrawl graffiti on traditional structures. When I visited Byoudouin I was feel bad with the graffiti. So I hope Japanese stop scrawling



1. What is the title and URL of the news item?

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20071012a8.html



2. Is this news item interesting to you?
Yes it is.

3. Who (what sort of person) would be most interested in reading this news item?

Japanese and Sumo fans would be nost interested in this news.



4. Why?

They want to know about the cause of Tokitaizan deth and the after Japan Sumo Association and Tokitukazebeya's action.



5. Does this news item give you any useful information?

Yes it does.



6. What is the useful information?
I could know that Sumo wrestler do hard work and see invisible point of Japannese Sumo.



7. Could you use this information to improve your life or the life of your family, or your friends or people in the world?
No I could not. But Icould chaged my image about Japanese smo.

8. How?
Smo is Japanese traditional thing but there were terible things on practice.

9.Find a news item that is connected with your chosen theme, and write about it on your blog (use MS Word’s spellcheck and grammar check first).

http://www.okinawatimes.co.jp/day/200710181300_05.html

Octorber 5th, 2007

1. What do you like about your school?
My favorite points about my chool are I can study comfortably and meet my freinds.

2. What do you not like about your school?
A school building is small. A dining room in particular.

3. What do you like about your hometown?
My hometown has many kinds of supermarket and department store, movie theater and restaurant so Fuse is very easy to live.

4. What do you not like about your hometown?
There are many restaurants and car so air is bad and evrytime noisy even midnight.

5. What do you like about Japan and Japanese people?
Japanese people likes new things and good at devise new things. And Japanese do not have much concern with whatever own history. And Japanese food is very nice.

6. What do you not like about Japan and Japanese people?
Recently Japanese musics are imitation of America.

7. Visit http://del.icio.us/sheffner/worldnewsaband play with some of the links

8. Write about what you did for #7 on your blog. What did you learn and study today? Which websites did you visit? Which one(s) did you like/dislike? Why? Any comments or questions?

NHK online.
I like NHK online articles are short so easy to read .

9. Visit your classmates’ blogs. (Contact me if your blog is not on this list). Leave a comment if you want to.

♪★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.

• 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