The Enormous Turnip

" They ate turnip soup for lunch... turnip soup for supper...and turnip soup for breakfast... every day for a month. "Next year I'm growing carrots," said the farmer."


One morning, Farmer found big turnip leaves. He couldn't tug it and his wife, son, the dog, the cat and the bird helped him. At last, the turnip popped out of the ground. He was very happy. However his family should ate turnip every day for a month, so farmer wanted to grow carrots next year. If I get a lot of something I want to get, I become happy once at least. But I bore it someday. It is better do in moderation. 


tug: 強く引くこと
puffing: 息せききって
panting: 息切れして
pop: 飛び出す

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The amazing spider-man 2

I had never seen amazing spider-man, but I saw it at TV last fly day. It is so excited me. Especially, peter parker's heart that he want to help people is moved me. I want to watch Amazing Spider-man 2. Andy Garfield, Emma Stone and Jamie Foxx visited Japan for

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speaking homework

　Maki and I were make "cherrpe". It is combination of cherry and grape. Good point is so sweet. Bad point is it has a lot of seed. The color is dark red. I think it would taste like a lychee. It is a little expensive because difficult to growth. It has a weak skin. It is good to dried.  It looks like strange. Upper half is shape of the grape, but lower half is shape of cherry. All fruits are same taste.

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A little princess

“We’ll be rich beyond my wildest dreams….”

 

   A young girl’s name is Sara Crew. She is very rich and very kind. When she was poor suddenly, she continued to have kindness like princess. I think she is very strong girl. Sara could make friend because she has kindness. My image of rich person is bossy, malicious and poor heart. Sara has rich heart, so finally she could be happy. The reason why I like this story, after read it, I feel good. I think I can’t be rich like her, but I want to have rich heart.  A long time ago, I had read this book. Then I didn’t understand mean of this book, but now I understand what a wonderful woman she is.

 

 

Wildest dream:途方もない夢

Scoff:あざ笑う

Blazing:赤々と燃えている

Brave:勇敢な

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 2005 Usborne Publishing Ltd

Ali Baba and the forty Thieves

…””Open, Sesame!” cried their leader and a hole appeared in the rock….”

 

Long ago in Persia, there lived two brothers. Kasim was a rich merchant, but Ali Baba was a poor woodcutter. One day. Ali Baba saw the men stopped at a cliff, “open sesame” cried the hole appeared in the rock. After they rode away, he tried to the magic word. He got a lot of gold in the rock. He knew they are thieves. Kasim went there, but he founded by thieves and killed them. Thieves found Ali Baba’s house, but thanks to Kasim’s loyal servant Morgiana, all thieves died and Ali Baba gets happy.

When I was a preschooler, I was reading this story well. Then I only thought Ali Baba is a lucky man. However, I think not only Kasim, but also Ali Baba do bat thing that stole treasure, why Ali Baba became happy?  I think it is unfair. Compared with childfood, my opinion has changed.

 

Cave:洞窟
Tailor:仕立て屋
Crept:creepの過去形、ゆっくり動く
Sway:ゆすぶる
Twirl:くるくるまわ

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Bedroom

This is the lamp of grandmother's bedroom.

This is oshiire.

This is fusuma.
This is the door of bedroom.

This is futon.

This is my parents' bedroom.
The floor is tatami.

Kitchen

This is rice scoop.
It's called "syamoji" in japanese.

This is rice bowl and chopstick.

This is tableware dryer.



This is furikake, laver and instant noodles.
We eat rice with furikake or laver.
Instant noodle is easy to cook and delicious.
I keep them about in kitchen.

This is rice cooker.

I have only to wash the rice and set it.

Blended

Today, we watched the tralier for a movie with Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler. I think it was called Memorial DAy weekend. It starts with a date bitween Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler. The date is humiliating for Drew Barrymore, because she eats some food that is too hot. She wants to drink some beer

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Henry and Mudge and the best Day of All

       "The family ate and ate and ate."...

   On the first day of May, Henry woke up early because it is his birthday. His father took a lot of pictures. His mother fixed his favorite breakfast pancakes with strawberries. Henry had invited his friend for a birthday party. In the backyard his parents had fixed games such as ringtoss, go-fishing and potato-sack race. Finally it was time for the pinata. His father tied a cloth over his eyes. On the fourth swing the pinata cracked open.Out of suckers and bubble gum and traffy and hundreds of little crackers.Everyone was happy and Mudge most of all. After the party they rested.


sticky: べとべとする
sniff: くんくん嗅ぐ
bubble-gum: 風船ガム　

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The story of Chocolate

"Once upon a time, the world had no chocolate." ...


        A thousand years ago, only a few people drank it and nobody ate it. The first chocolate drinkers were harmers who lived by the rainforest. The rainforest was a jungle and it was small cocoa tree. Monkeys liked to break pods open and suck out the sweet. Then they spat out the bitter beans. But farmer noticed delicious smell from a pile of rotting beans. They let the beans rot, dry, roasted, paste and stirred in water and spices. It’s very bitter, but they liked it. Poorer people only dream about chocolate. In 1847, In Holland, Coenraad Van Houten invented a press that separated chocolate paste into brown cocoa powder and yellow cocoa butter. An English chocolate maker noticed use cocoa butter to make solid chocolate. He invented the world’s first chocolate bar. In Switzerland, one candle maker fell in love with a chocolate maker’s daughter and started make it. He tried to adding milk and make creamy chocolate in1883. For years, eating chocolate was only made in solid bar. But an American maker, thought boring. He made them look more exciting. In 1912, an American candy maker stirred peanuts, caramel and marshmallows into glossy, melted chocolate. Today, we can get delicious chocolate. When farmers first caught a whiff of rotting cocoa beans, they knew they had found something exciting, but they had no idea how popular chocolate would become.
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whiff: 香り
stuff:詰める
stir:攪拌する

    

I and my family

This is me. I'm 19 years old.

This is my younger brother. He is 16 years old. 
He is technical college student.

This is my parents. My father is 56 years old. He is car maintenance man.
My mother is 50 years old. She is housewife now, but before she marry,
she was hutririonist.

This is my grandparents. Grandfather is 83
years old and grandmother is 76 years old.



This is my youngest brother. He is the third of junior high school.

My house and apartment

 This is the house that I live in now.
I live in here since last year.

This is the garden my parents' house.



This is the entrance of my parents' house.

 

This is my parents' house. I had lived in here for 18years.

This is the entrance of my room.



Henry and mudge and wild wind

…"And watch out for scorpions."…

As the title suggests, Henry and Mudge and the wild wind is one of the books in the Henry and Mudge series.Henry and Mudge were playing outside, but suddenly the wind blew so hard. Henry said "Must be a thunderstorm coming," Storm come, Mudge do strange things. He walk around table, sit in the bathroom aloneor put his head between the couch cushions.

scorpion:さそり
flap:ひらひらする
inch:すこしずつ

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self-intro

I'm Nodoka. I'm nineteen years old. I'm from Amakusa city. I'm working at convenience store seven-eleven. The reason why I working, I have a dream. This summer I go to America at   kaigaikensyu. It

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placement essay

Dear host family

 Hello! I’m Nodoka. I’m nineteen years old. First, want to tell you about myself. I am a sophomore. I like sports very much and I especially like baseball. When I was a high school student, I belonged to the softball club. I’m enjoyed play it. However, I don’t play it now. My university has a softball club, but it is very high level for me, so I didn’t belong it. If I have a chance to play, I want to enjoy it. I have many favorite foods. Such as hashed rice, soba, octopus fritters, okonomiyaki and others. The foods I don’t like are shellfish, crab, shrimp, miso, raw fish and chocolate. Next, I want to introduce about my hometown Amakusa city. Amakusa city belongs to Kumamoto prefecture. It is surrounded by seas, so you can eat flesh seafoods and see a wild dolphin. I have seen one before. Amakusa city is famous for chicken. It called “Amakusa the great” this chicken is bigger than other chickens. In addition, Amakusa has a strange story about a big octopus. When I go to your home, I want to tell you about it. Please look forward it. Finally I want to ask you some questions. What is climate of your place? Warm? Cold? Is there much rain? Is there a person in your family or your neighbors, who is my generation? I want to make friends with them. Is there a professional baseball ground near your house? If there is one, will you take me to see them? I want to watch a baseball game. Can you understand me? I’m not good at speaking English, but I want to talk with you a lot. Thank you for reading. I’m looking forward to see you.

                                                  From nodoka