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