2009年4月30日木曜日

"HARRY and the Lady next door"




howl(遠吠えする、わーわー泣く) : The baby was howling.
wag(振る) : The dog wagged its tail with pleasure.
moo(“モー”と鳴く)
note(鳴き声、音) : a low note from the guiter
own(~を所有する) : Who owns this house?
shriek(悲鳴をあげる) : shriek in delight
dock(波止場)




This story is that 'HARRY', a white dog with black spots, tries to stop the lady next door singing.
When she sang, anybody put them hands them ears.
She sing very well, but her singing voice is really loud.


Harry took some cows and they mooed.
Harry took the band and they played.
Harry took some frogs and they jumped on her.

But his tries had no effect on her.
One day, she won the singing contest and got prize which can study music in abroad for a long time.
It was made him happy!!!


After read this ...
There are various neighbors in society.
If i were him, I would do as his did.
But I am fortunate to have never trouble with neighbors.

"Little Bear's Visit"


jig(ジグ、英国・アイルランドの踊り)  
paw(哺乳動物の手・足、人の手): Wash your dirty paws!!
cub(子供): a bear cub
robin(ヨーロッパコマドリ)
if you wanna know about "robin", you click this http://tsuyukibird.hustle.ne.jp/AmericanRobin.htm
nest(巣穴): make a nest
peek(そっと覗く ): She peeked at the audience from behind the cartain.
chuckle(くすくす笑う): She chuckled at the memory.
scamp(いたずらっ子)



This story is that Little Bear visit his grandfather and grandmather.
He likes to look ther things like pictures, toys ...something like that.
He likes to eat cake and cookies that grandmother mede.
He likes to listen to the story that they tell him.
In this book, they tell two stories, his mother bear'childfood and goblin.

After reading...
This little bear is soooooo cute.
I like this story.
I like to visit my grandfather and grandmother house, too.
and they tell me aboout my parents childhood or the past.

2009年4月28日火曜日

"The magic school bus-inside the human body-"


intestine(腸) :the small intestine, the large intestine
blood vessel(血管) : the rupture of a blood vessel
chamber(心室)
circulation(循環) : circulation of the blood(= Blood goes round and round)


This book is easy to understand the human body in English.
Because of using simply English that chldren speak, It is easy to read.

This story that some class go on class trip.
But this class trip is strange.
Ms.Frizzle, a teacher is in charge of this class, is strange.
Students learn with traveling around the human body.

2009年4月16日木曜日

"How To Learn English"

overemphasized(~を過度に強調する)
curious(好奇心が強い)
determine(~することを決心する)
definition(定義)
equivalent(同価値)
conversely(逆に)
identical(同一の)
achieve(成し遂げる)

This essey is written about points of learning English.
At the first, it is important to get used to English.
This mean that we don't study grammer at first but we have to be familier with English.
Next, we need to read many books which are not difficult but easy!!

Finally, when we memorizing English we don't memorize "a word" but "a sentence".

After I read this, I thought I have to chage the way of my lerning English.