Report of the discussion 6

Topic: Do residents have to separate their trash?

・Supporters
Kazutaro: He works at the waste treatment center. He must to separate huge trash every day.
Richard: He is a professor of Kyoto university.

・Opponents
Yutaro: He is a college student.  He lives by himself.
Kozue: She has two children.
Akio: He is a top of Hamburger shop. His shop produce a lot of trash every day.

Supporter's opinion:
・Staffs at the waste treatment center have to separate huge trash every day, and that is very hard. Residents should separate themselves or pay a fee.

・There is a possibility of dioxin generation.

Opponent's opinion:
・The way to separate is complex and residents can't understand.

・It is expensive to buy the trash bag.

・Residents don't have enough recycling days. So trash collect at house or shop.

The out come of the discussion
The waste treatment center produce a manual of separating trash and provide special dust box for separating to citizens.

The center collect trash which shop produce, and the shop separate.

My opinion:
I though opponent's opinions were just selfishness. People should separate their trash by them selves.

How effective I thought the discussion
I thought  the moderate git their opinion effectivery, so I could understant easily.

Report of the discussion 4

Topic: The city is famous for illuminations. But some people proposed they should save electricity and stop illuminations. So they discussed what to do.

People who agree with stopping illuminations:
Tomomi: She is 42 years old. She came from East Japan.
Sayako: She is a college student. She is a volunteer staff at East Japan.

People who disagree with stopping illuminations:
John: He is a designer of illuminations.
Manami: She runs a restaurant which is famous for beautiful illumination. Many people come to her restaurant to see the illumination.

Tomomi and Sayako's opinion:
・There were serious an electric power shortage in East Japan so they should save electricity.
・Heating systems are important for people's health and it is difficult to cut them. But it is easy to cut electricity of illumination.

John and Manami's opinion:
・If they stopped illumination, customers would not come to Manami's restaurant and Jhon would lose his job.

The out come of the discussion:
They decided to reduce the period they decorate illumination for a week.

My opinion:
They should not stop illumination. They should collect money from people who come to see illumination and send the money to East Japan.

How effective I though the discussion was and how it could have been better:
I though they should limit themselves to a consideration of saving electricity

Report of discussion 3

Topic: Build amusement park

Introduction of panelists
Opponents
・Jiro: He is a farmer,50years old. He grows vegetables in his farm.
・Kazuo:He is a farmer,45years old. He breeds many cows and pigs.
Supporters
・Eiji: He is a tour conductor.
・Haruhiko: He is a village mayor.

Important points raised in the direction
・If they build an amusement park, some farmers will lose their farms.
・Farmers have run  their farms for long time, so they can't look for a new job.
・Building a amusement park brings new jobs for people who can't have a job. 
・Many people will visit their village if a amusement park is build.n

The outcome of the discussion
・They will make a new brand of their cows and other food.
・They will build a plant and animal park.

My opinion
I think it is the best way to build an amusement park which people can experience farming. I think farmers don't have to lose their job if they do so.

How effective I though the discussion was and how it could have been better.
I thought their moderator got their ideas in shape very well. I could understand easily. But I though they should give a concrete example about the financial problem they proposed.

Report of discussion 2

Topic:Exterminate bird or not
Panelists
*Yoshiyuki: He is opposed to exterminate.He likes bird watching.
 *Kiku: She is opposed to exterminate too. She loves birds.
*Yuri: She is for exterminating. She has two sons.
*Etsuko: She is for exterminating too. She is a farmer.

Supporter's opinion
*The song of birds is very noisy, so many people can't sleep.
*Droppings are very insanitary and soil city.
*Birds bring virus.
*Birds eat vegetables which made in farm.

Opponent's opinion
*Birds come the city because human destroyed their dwellings. In other hand, birds problems are caused by human. So human should not kill them.
*We should use a machine which drive birds without killing.

The outcome of the discussion
 *Residents clean droppings.
*Yoshiyuki and his friends collects eggs.
*The city catch few birds.

My opinion
I thing it is no use catching birds. We can't reduce the number of bird without kill them.

How effective I though the discussion was and how it could have neen better.
I tought their each opinions and situations were clearly, so I could understand easily. I think they should speak more loud voice.

Report of discussion

Topip: Parking

Introduction of panelists
・Momoko : She is a shop assistant.
・Keiko : She is 18 years old. She often go to city by her bike.
・Lisa :  She is a high school student. She goes to her school by her bicycle.
・Miki : I couldn't listen.
・Yoshiko: I couldn't listen.

Important points raised in the discussion
・Keiko, Yoshiko, and Miki demanded that the parking should be changed a free parking area. But Momoko siad that people who works at the parking would lose their salary .

My Opinion
I don't think city has to build a free parking area. It needs alot of money to manage a parking. I think it is impossible to build a free parking.

The outcome of the discussion
I couldn't understand. They didn't draw a conclusion clearly.

How effective I though the discussion and how it could have been  better.
They should speak more loudly voice. Also, I couldn't understand what they wanted to discuss clearly.They should show their subject clearly.

Unit13 : Career/ Choice

Our group: Yuki, Yuho,Kotomi.

Yuki and Yuho talked about their goals and future.Yuki said that  she wanted to become flight attendant.So, she studies English hard now. Also, she said that she wanted to get good husband and become a nice wife too.
I think Yuki should speak more loud.

Yuho said that she wanted to become a interpproter. She said it was difficult to get enought money after become a interpproter soon. So, she said she had to work various company and add to her experience. I think she should talk about interpproter's work more details.

Kotomi talked about her strenghs and weaknesses. She said her strenghts were positive and friendly. She always thinks good things, and talks with other new people. Those strengths are good for her dream, which become a teacher. Her weakness is lazy. She sometimes thinks she doesn't want to study. She studies with her friends and she can do her best.

And my idea:
The most important condition of job is good benefits. I want to continue my job id I get married and have childen. So, the company has a good child-care leave system is very important.

BR12 : Stories of Witches

                                                             "Mix them and make a stew!"  (P13)

I learned about witch-hunt in the Middle Age at class. The contents were bloody and cruel. Teacher said that about 140,000 inocent people were killed. In other hand, this story is very fan and innocent. Witches appears in this book play tricks and trouble people. They steals milk from a farmer, changes a women into a horse. I think they are very cute and interesting charactors.

Rawson, Christopher : Stories of Witches, (2007). Usborne. London

Numbers

7 is the number of people in my family. And 2 is the number of dogs I have now. 7300 is the number of days I live since I was borne. 5is the number of times I have been to Tokyo Disney resort and Universal studio. 19 is the number of times I traveled with my family.

BR1-11 : Sleeping Beauty

"Only  a kiss from your true love will break the sleep."(p24)

I had thought that this story was written by Brothers Grimm. The first time I knew this story is when I saw a movie produced by Dsney. There are three fairies in the film. After that, I read another book, and there were twelve good fairies and an evil fairy in the story.The King invited twelve fairies because there were twelve gold dishes. Also, the animal which told the queen that she was going to have a baby was a crayfish. I think differences like those are interesting.


Knighton, Kate, (2006). Sleepimg Beauty. Usbone: London.

BR1-10 : Snow White and the Seven Dwarf

                                                        "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of us all?" (p.7) 

I had seen "Snow White and the Seven Dwarf", a movie made by Disney many times when I was a child. The movie was one of the my favorite movies. But, I thought Snow White was fool because she was almost killed three times by her stepmother in parallel ways. She has just the devil's own luck. Also, I was very surprised when I read the original story written by brother of Grimm. The Queen who tried to kill Snow White is her real mother, and she is killed by Snow White at last. I don' t think Snow White is graceful amd gentle women now.

Brothers Grimm. (2005).Snow White and the Seven Dwarf. London: Usborne.

Couples-006

A man and a women are sitting on a sofa. The women cuddle up to the man, and the man is putting his right arm around her soulder. The man is sitting the sofa with his legs crpssed. The women has shoulder-length blond hair. She wears a white T-shirt a gray jacket over the T-shirt. I don't know she weras a skirt or a pants. The man has short brown hair. His hair isswept-back. He wears a shirt in vertical stripes and a brack jacket over his shirt. Also, he wears a jeans. The man is smailing but the woman is not. But she looks feel relax.

BR1-09 : Dracula

                                 "My revenge has just begun- and time is on my side!" (P50)

I love stories of vampire. I have read or seen various movies and comicbooks about vampire. For example, "Draculia", "Van Helsing", and "Interview eith Vampire".　I supecially like " Duracula" which Gary Oldman prayed the leading part. Dracura that Oldman performs is very cool and sexy. But, I don't think Dracura that written in the original story is very cool. So, I was little disappointed when I read the original at first. Though the original was interesting too.
"My revenge has just begun- and time is on my side!" (P50)

Storker, Bram (2009) . USBORN :  London

Unit 5: PLAGIARISM

We talked about succsess. Our member were Yuki, Ayamasa, Mai, Sakurako, and Shino.

Sakurako and Yuki had same idea. They said that success was that people felt happy.  If somemone got a lot of money or good job, he or she would not be succesful unles he felt happy. They emphasized that people needed family, friends, or lovers more than money to feel mental happy and sucsessful. I think they should show some examples of success whithout money.

Ayamasa told about his own success. He said the success he thought was to do what he wanted to. He wants to enjoy his campus life now, and to work at an airline in the future. He said these were his success. I think he should speak more loudly.

Shino said  we should got success with observing the rules. We should ovserve each rules even if that is inconvenience for us. I think she should speal more smoothly.

Mai had similar idea to Shino's. Also, she said we should obtain our goal with effort by ourselves. She said the competition is hard for us but it also brings good effections to us.

I agree with Shino and Mai's opinion. I think we should not do wrong an injustice to get success. Also, I think it is not right to hide other people's injustice.

BR1-o8 : The Phantom of the Opera.

"You!" Christine gasped, spinning around. "My angel of music!" (p45)

I have seen a musical of "The Phantom of the Opera" , and the movie prodeuced by Joel Schumacher. I thought this is very beautiful and sad story. Also, I thought this story looks like " The Bells of Notre Dame." Both Qusimodo and Phantom are deformed children. They are disliked by everybody because of their looks, and they don't know mother's love. Phantom has never been kissed by others, even his own mother. I wanted him to be happy with Christine.




Leroux Gaston. (2008). The Phantom of the Opera. London : Usborne.

BR1-07 : Alice Through The Looking-Glass

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" Who did dream it? It must have been me or the Red King."(p.63)

This story is a continuation of " Alice's Adventure in Wonderland".Sentences are more complex and difficult than " Alice's Adventure in Wonderland", but I think this one is more interesting. In the Looking- Grass, the ground is look like a chessboard, and Alice advances toward last mass to become the queen. I got a chess set after reading this book. Also, many unique characters are written in this story. I like "the White Queen" the best. In " Alice in Wonderland", the movie directed by  Tim Burton, the White Queen is a very beautiful and intelligent women. In other hund, the White Queen is a nervy women. But I like both.

Carroll, L. (2009). Alice Through The Looking-Glass. London : Usborne.

BR1-06 : The Swan Princess

"Oh Jasper,# cried Eliza, "you've still got a swan's wing!" (p.62)

This story was may favorite when I was a child.The point that I like about this book is Eliza, the heroin of this story is devoted to her family. She makes shirts of nettles to save her 12 brothers, who changed swan. By making shirts, her fingers are covered in blisters, but she doesn't mind. Also, She won't stop making shirts although she is suspected of being which and almost executed for her brothers. And her brothers love Eliza very　much. This story makes reader's hart happy.

Anderson Hans. (2005).The Swan Princess/ London : Usborne.

FRIENDS OR LOVER? : group3

We talked about  that women and men can be the best friend. Our members were Kazuyo, Hitomi, Chie, Natumi, and Atsuko.

Kazuyo, Mai, and Hitomi said that men had a lot of different parts and ideas from women, so women and men could sport each other. Also, they said that we didn't need the love to do that.   I think they should give a concrete example which men has a lot of different parts and ideas from women.

Chie said that it is different that be fascinated by someone to human. Human doesn't love whoever the opposite sex.

Natumi told us the story which she experienced in fact. When she was a high school student, her male friend was declared his love for her. She though the boy as the friend, so she declined. But after that, they could be good friends. She said that women and men could be the best friend but it was very difficult. I think she should speak not only her experience but also other general opinions.

I agree to Chie's opinion the best. I think we don't love other person because of the other sex. We can love only one people. So, I think that women and men can be the best friend.

My collections

Two months ago, I found capsule  toys of Alice in Wonderland at the shop near my house. I tried many times whenever i went to the shop to shopping, and I could have a complete collection at last! I want to make a shelf to display them.





BR1- 05 : Beauty and the Beast

                                                         "You can't die! Please, Beast. I love you!(page57)'

I love "Beauty and the Beast", the movie made by Disney. I have seen the musical by "Shiki", the theatrical company two times. But the original is little different from Disney's movie. I hadn't known that the heroine had two sisters. And she pities for Beast's loneliness and decides to stay with him. Her two sisters are both ill-natured and greedy. I think older brothers or sisters which appears on the children's story are always like them, and younger brothers or sisters are kind and unselfish. For example, "A Golden Goose"or "The three Pigs" .Why the youngest children always good people?

Stowell Louie, (1756) . America : Usborne

My treature

My treasure is a photo of my dog, Harry. My grandfather took a picture of Harry and he gave it to me at that time.

Harry was killed in a traffic accident four years ago. He was the first dog that I ever had. I had wanted to have a dog since I was a little childe. When I was a junior high school student, I asked my mother if she would give me a dog if I was one of the top 10. And when I was second grader, I could come in 6th for a test. My parents were glad and they bought me a beagle to keep my promise. Harry was little big for a puppy which was sold at a shop because nobody had bought him. If we didn’t buy the puppy, it would be killed. My father used to tell Harry that he was a very lucky dog.

Harry was a very naughty dog. He frequently broke out from his house, and run without a leash in the rice field which was behind my house. Each time, we had to go to catch him. One day, Harry broke out from his cage. I looked for him, but he was not anywhere. Even at the night, he didn’t come home. And next day, we found that Harry was killed in traffic accident. I cried all night. Harry was a naughty dog, but he was the best dog for us. The body was cremated and buried at the cemetery for pet with his collar and favorite toys. His cage was taken away too. I was very sad that all the trace which showed that Harry was with us had been erased passed off. I regretted that I had not took pictures of Harry. When I was crying, my grandfather gave me a picture, with Harry in it picture. He took it while I was going to school before Harry was killed. Harry was playing with joy in the picture. Even today, the photo reminds me of the happy memory with Harry.

BR1-04 : Romeo and Juliet

"It's you I love. If only you weren't a Montague!"(p18)

I studied about Shakespeare and " Romeo and Juliet" at Murazato teacher's class.  I haven't read this book, so I tried to read this book. I was very surprised that Juliet was only 13 years old. Also, I was surprised that Romeo and Juliet got married although they had met few times. I can't believe that they said that they love each other deeply. At last, Romeo died by drinking poison. The other side, Juliet died by plunging Romeo's dagger into her hart.  I thought Romeo was unmanly and Juliet was more manly than Romeo.

Shakespeare, (2006). Romeo and Juliet. London: Usborne.

Friends

Now, my best friend goes to Hiroshima university. She is little taller than I, and she has big eyes. Her habit is playing the clarinet. She is good at math. Also, she is very kind. She used to teach me math. We met when we were high school students.  We belonged to the brass band club. A memorable experience with her is to play clarinet together at the contest. I and she played main melody.


Makiko's best friend has long and brown hair. She is tall. Her habit is fingering her hair. Also, she likes eating and sleeping. She is neat, kind, and a hard worker. Makiko and she met at this university. their memorable experience is going to hot spring.

My favorite song

This song is my favorite song, "Lange of Love". This song is not sung by the person. The voice of this song is electronic sound. This song was made with the computer soft, "Vocaloid".Vocaloid is one of computer softs which YAMAHA CORPORATION sells. The soft is coded the voice whose real existence and sounds of various instrument. Using this soft, although laymans can compose their original song easily. Today, a lot of people conpose and release their songs on video site, like YouTube.  I love beautiful melody and bittersweet words.Please try to listen one time.

Cosmetic Surgery: group 4

We talked about the cosmetic surgery. Our member are Sakurako, Mai, Saori, Shino.

  Sakurako talked about two demerits of cosmetic surgery. First demerit is that getting cosmetic surgery needs a lot of money. Second demerit is that few Japanese people accept cosmetic surgery. She told that the person who got cosmetic surgery might be segregated. I though that she should talk about the prejudice of cosmetic surgery more closely.

  Mai talked about merits of cosmetic surgery. She said that people would be confident in themselves if they got cosmetic surgery. Also, she said that aspiration of fat will make people healthy. I haven't thought that idea. So her opinions was new.

Saori talked about dangers of cosmetic surgery. orthopedic surgery is not guaranteed by medical insurance. She talked about a woman who got cosmetic surgery  and the operate was failed. I thought her presentation was very impactive because of the real story.

Shino said that cosmetic surgery may broke the relationship between our family. Cosmetic surgery changes our face which resembles our parents. That  brokes the relationship between our family.

I think that we should not get cosmetic surgery easily. Today, cosmetic surgery became more cheaper and being not complex, and many people get operation easy. To be sure, cosmetic surgery bring many merits to people. But we should not forget that there are many dangerous or demerits too.

BR1-03 : Rumpelstiltskin

"Perhaps," said the Queen , after a long pause,"perhaps, your name is Rumpelstiltskin?" (p,46)

I read this story when I was an elementary student. At that time,  I thought this was an irrational story.  The heroine of this story was made an unreasonable demand by the king because of his father's lie. And , she almost got half killed. I have become an adult and I read those stories afresh, I think the Grimm Fairy Tales has many barbarous stories although that is faily tales for children.For example, Cinderella's two sister's-in-low cut their toes to get into the shose.I want to read another story, "Red Riding Hood", Cinderella", Rapunzel".

The Brothers Grimm, (2006), Usborne
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My favorite animal

I have loved dogs since I was a child. I have two dogs at my family home. Now, I live by myself, so I'm lonely without them. One dog's name is Kai. It was a abandoned dog when it was a puppy. My mother found it and  brought it home. The other's name is Lion.  It had bee kept by another owner. The owner brought it my house two years ago because he become being not able to keep it. If we didn't take them , they would be killed. Today, tens of thousands of dogs and cats are killed every day due due to selfish owners. I think they don't have the right to keep animals. I hope that the number of animals which are killed decreases.

BRI-02: Alice in Wonderland




The Hatter stared at Alice. "Why is a raven like a writing desk?"(P45)

I have loved this story since I was a child. But it is little difficult to read original book for me because there are a lot of puns and nursery songs.This book is written for small children and I could read easily.Some characters and scenes are omitted to make the story easyier, but I think sharms of this story isn't hurted.  I specially like Chesirecat. It is very interesting and cute.Also, I like the scene which Alice attends mad teaparty and talks wiht Mad Hatter and March Hare.







Lewis Carroll ( 2006), Alice in Wonderland:Usborne
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Difference of humor between Japan and America

At " Language and Culuture", Mr Lavin's class, I learned about difference of humor between Japan and America. We watched "MIDNIGHT RUN" , and listend Amerucan jokes in practice with some script. American jokes are characterized by sarcasm and echoing. For example, on one scene, Walsh (Robert De Niro) says, "I've known you all of 2minutes and already I don't like you." Next, Duke(Charles Grodin) says,"Gee, that's too bad, I really like you." This is one of the sarcasm. Japanese don't say such sarcasm  as this. Also, I learned about difference of comedy. Japanese “manzai” is composed of “tukkomi” and “boke”. Generally, “boke” says absurd things and “tukkomi” points out them. But this style doesn’t catch the public fancy in America. America is composed of various races, so there is not “common sense” in America. For this reason, Japanese style of comedies aren’t accepted by American people.

Ishibashi: 1 essay

Dear host family,

Hi! My name is Atsuko Ishibahi. Thank you for accepting me as a host family! I’m a sophomore at university. I study English language and literature there. I’m very interested in British literature. I want to go the graduate school and study British literature in the future. I have liked reading books since I was a child. I especially like “Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland”, “ The Chronicles of Narnla”, and “Harry Potter”. Various British lifestyles are written in those books. Also, “Alice” has a lot of puns and nursery songs which peculiar to England. I want to study British literature and culture bring my stay. Please tell me about the nursery songs you know! I like British traditional buildings such as Big Ben and the British museum too. I want to see various spots with you.

I belong to the aikido club at my school now. Do you know aikido? This is one of the traditional martial arts like karate and judo in Japan. And my grandfather is teacher of kendo. So I practiced kendo for three years when I was child too. If you are interested in them, please ask me. I’m going to teach you! They are very interesting sports.

I have some question to ready for this trip. Could you send answer by e-mail? First, what kind of clothes should I bring? It is hard to tell that England is cooler than Japan in summer. Should I bring heavy clothes? Second, please tell me Japanese foods which you want to try to eat. I like cooking. I live alone now, so I learn many recipes. I’m especially good at Japanese foods. I want to cook for you. I going to practice cooking before go to England and make delicious dishes for you! Third, I want to present something Japanese things. Do you have a request?

 I’m looking forward to see you in this summer. Good by!

Inteview about family

Name:Kisato
Relative: Her cousin
Kisato's cousin is 26 years old. He is very tall. He bleonged to football club when he was college student. He works at JR now. He is very intelligent.


Name:Kimika
Relative:Her mother
Kimika's mother is 40 years old. She is small. She has red hear. She is charming and fany.

BRI-01:The Revealing Story of Underwear

Even men forced themselves into tight corsets,desperate to squeeze a few inches off their waistline.  (p.30)

Now, I'm interested in clothes of 19century, so I tried to read this book.This story is about history of underwear. Olden underwears and their material are very interesting and unique. For example, to give shape to skirts, women used peticoat under their dress. They were made of metal, and they looks like bell, drum, and cone.When women rustked down the street, ppeticoat made annoying sound! And I was very surprised that even men got on corsets.I had tough that only women got on corsets. History of clothes is very interesting.

Daynes Kate (2006) The Revealing Story of Underwear:Usborne.
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Nice to meet you!

Hi! I'm Brack rabbit.  I 'm a freshman of Kumamoto prefectural university. I major English. I like reading book and my favirite book is "ALICE'S ADVENTURE IN WOUNDERLAND".