2007年11月7日水曜日

2007年11月2日金曜日

[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/

2007年10月26日金曜日

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


2007年10月24日水曜日

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.

2007年10月12日金曜日

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

2007年10月5日金曜日

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.

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.