I spy

"It is very strange job. Edgar is a spy.


Edgar is a spy. Today he meets a woman and takes much money. But he don't know what she looks like. She call and tell him that she has long black hair, wearing a green sweater, blue jeans and a gray hat.They promise meet bus stop. However he is at a wrong bus stop and finds a woman who very similar to a spy woman. He believe she is a spy. He not doubt and he loses this work and arrested. I think doubt to someone is wrong, but it is sometimes important things. 

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The tickets

"Oh no! Kerry doesn't want the tickets. She's a good friend."


Appearing character is Jimmy, Jenny and Kerry. Jimmy give jenny two tickets for her birthday. He hope Jenny go to the concert with her boyfriend. However her friend Kerry said she really want to go the concert and give her the ticket. Jenny want to go with boyfriend, so she said no. After that, Jenny fall the ticket and Kerry put it. Kerry think take this ticket in lunch time. In lunch time, Jimmy see that The tickets in Kerry's purse. He doubt her and think Kerry and Jenny is bad friend. But jenny come into lunch room and Kerry take the tickets to her. Then, Jimmy think they are good friend. 
I think that we should not doubt if we don't know about it well. 

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Shrek The Third A good king is hard to find

   "After used to feel like loser. But now he feels smart and strong. Maybe he is fit to be king, after all."

   I had never read and watched Shrek series. But Shrek is very famous story. Shrek doesn't want to do job, so he go and try to find new king. It is very hard work.  new king's name is Artie.When he find the king and return to kingdom, someone else taken over the kingdom. His name is Charming. Charming and villains want to fight with them, but Artie has a better idea.Finally, Artie and Shrek turn against them. After this event, Artie become strong.

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The Ugly Duckling

"From that day on, the once ugly duckling lived happily ever after. And he was always kind to all living things,  from peacocks to potato dugs."


This is very famous story and I had read this story in my childhood many times. 

The ugly duckling is bullied by all birds in the lake. However he grow up and beautiful swan. The ugly duckling is the swan's child. I think if you not good for all things and don't have confidence now, in the future, you may be success. Always we should have a confidence. In addition, I think people who bullied can very kind to all things because they know pain of bully.  I think I want to kind to all the people always. 

duckling: あひるの子

heron: サギ

peck: ついばむ

hatch: 卵をかえす

mean: (性格などが）卑劣な、意地の悪い

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The fisherman and his wife

“look at this hut! It isn’t very nice… but it’s our home”

   The fisher man and his wife are very poor. They live in the hut. One day the fisherman get magic fish, but he put it back the sea. His wife asked magic fist to same hopes for example, get little cottage, nice big house and finally get the world. However magic fish angry and they return to original hut. She gets something without any efforts. I think it is not good. People working hard and get happiness. The writer of this story wants to tell us it. Almost of people don’t know it is very happy live now. The fisher man and his wife remember it. I want to don’t forget it.

Hut: 小屋

Perhaps: ひょっとしたら、あるいは

Cottage: 小別荘、(小さい)一戸建住宅

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The Gingerbread Man

“I can run away from an old woman. I can run away from an old man. I can run away from a cow and a horse. So, I can run away from a fox.”

   Hero of this story is the Gingerbread man. I think he is very fool because he finally eaten. One day an old woman made the Gingerbread man. However he runs away from her, her husband, the cow and the horse because they want to try to eat him. He always says “You can’t catch me! I’m the gingerbread man.” On the way, he met the fox. At first, he also runs away from fox, but the fox said him “I can help you.” Then he eaten by the fox. He was cheated by the fox. I think he should not believe the fox. I want to try to not believe someone easily.

Shout: 叫ぶ、大声で言う

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Freddy Finds the Thief

   “I’m sorry, your majesty. Today my wife is cooking hamburgers. I must go home to her.”

   King Harold and Queen Mtilda live in the castle. Queen Matilta good at plays harp. However, one day, the harp was stolen. Queen Matilda is very sad. And King Harold says 500 gold pieces to the man who finds the thief.

And in the village, there is very poor couple. They don’t have enough food to eat for dinner. A husband would like to eat hamburger, but there are only potato and carrot. One day a husband knows 500 gold pieces to the man who finds the thief. Finally, he finds the thief and King and Queen invited him to dinner, but he refuses their invite. His wife waits him to make hamburger. I think it is very heartwarming story. I7m moved. They are good couple. I think in the future, if I get marry someone I want to marry with man like him. He is honest and not greedy. He is good man.

Harp: 竪琴

Cockerel: 若い雄鶏

Majesty: 陛下

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Monster in teh Box

   “This box is a mystery. What is in the box? Bobo says it is his friend. What friend?”

   Bobo is eight years old boy, but he is little for eight years. Some boys at school are bullies him. However, Bobo don’t scare because he has got white big box. It is mysterious box. The boys say open the box, but he says no. He knows it is dangerous. One boy kicks him and the box fall. In the box there is a pink, blue and yellow toy monster with eight legs, a tail and a truck. It is real monster. The boys scared and go away. It is real monster, but his best friend. In this society, there is a lot of bully. It is serious problem. Most of children who are bullied don’t have friend to help them. I think if they have friend like monster, they don’t suffer from bully.

 Dwarf: 魔力を持つ醜い小人

Trunk: 胴、胸部

Bully: いじめ

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The Mad Teacher

　　“A calm teacher is boring. But our teacher is a robot, and a robot teacher has buttons. And a mad teacher is fun!”

   Their teacher is Mr. Robson. He is a good teacher, but sometimes he is a bit boring. They are very sleepy. I understand their feeling. Some classes very boring and I’m very sleepy. I major teaching course, and if I become teacher I want to try to do not boring class. However, one day Mr. Robson is strange. Children think about why their teacher strange today. Then they found some buttons his back. One big button and three small buttons in there. There are calm, clever and raving mad buttons. They put the calm button once, but their teacher return boring teacher. They like mad teacher, so they put raving mad button. Their teacher is a robot! I think it is very interesting. Recently robot technology is developing. I guess in the future, we may see real robot teacher.

Mad: 発狂している、愚かな

Raving: 発狂した、素晴らしい、非常な

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Frog and Toad Together

　　　　　“We will run and catch it.” “No!” shouted Toad. “I cannot do that.” “Why not?”

asked Frog. “Beccause,” wailed Toad, “running after my list is not one of the things that I wrote on my list of things to do!”

           Frog and Toad Together is famous story written by Arnold Lobel. I learned about Frog and Toad story when I was a second year student.

             I think most interesting thing of their story is their thinking is not formal. For example, in the story of “A list”, the list blew high up into the air, but Toad didn’t run and catch it. Because running and catch the list is not one of the things that he wrote. I think it is very strange. One of the strange things is in a story of “cookies”. Toad made a lot of cookies. It was very delicious, so Toad and Frog couldn’t stop eating. First, they putted cookies in a box and tied some string. Finally, they gave cookies to bird. I think they only to putted up a little. I don’t come to mind their idea. They are very interesting.

String : 紐

Brave : 勇者、勇敢な

Beak : くちばし

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Mouse Soup

        “This soup will not taste good. It has no stories in it. Mouse soup must be mixed with soup to make it taste really good.

          I think this story is very terrible story because mouse caught by weasel and weasel going to make mouse soup. However this mouse is clever. Mouse tell weasel to four stories. Weasel believed these stories and did. When mouse caught by weasel, he was very calm and had a good behavior. Conversely, when weasel caught the mouse, he didn’t calm because he had a chance to eat something. Finally, he had a mistake. I think weasel should be calmer. I want to follow mouse’s example.

Weasel : イタチ

Chirped : チュンチュンと鳴く

Buzzing : ブンブン

Branches: 枝

Young Cam Jansen and the Missing Cookies

     But because of her grate memory, people started to call her “the camera.” Then the camera because just “Cam”……

              Cam has a special power. Cam always closes her eyes and says “click!” when she wants to remember something. I think if I were Cam, it is easy to remember English vocabulary or get good grade.  One day, cam and her friends Eric and Jason have a lunch, Jason lost his chocolate chip cookies. He doubted his classmate, but Cam guess criminal is his dog. Her power not only helps studying, but also presents her friends from having problem with classmate. It is grate power.

Drop:落とす

Follow:付き添う、従う

Burn:燃やす

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Little Red Riding Hood

   “ …and jumped back with surprise. The horse had turned into his wife-just like that!

She was pleased to see that being a horse hadn’t changed her to much…”

   I believe the exist of witches. In fact, long times ago, did witch-hunt in Europe and northern America. I think witches are very cool because they can do everything they want to. If they want to a horse for carry heavy bags, they change woman to horse in this book. If I have their power; I want to use it for more good way. For example help poor people.

Flame:炎

Cauldron:大釜

Silly:愚かな

Beg:頼む

Mutter:つぶやき

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Stories of Witches

“Little Red Riding Hood hummed a little tune, bent down to tie her shoelace, skipped along the path and stopped to smell the flowers….” 

This is very famous story. Most people had listened the title or the story. Most people had listened the title or the story. Of course I have read this story, but I forget some parts of the story. I think little red riding hood and bad wolf is alike. They become unhappy after they do bad manners. Little red riding hood promised with her mother that keep to path and don’t talk to wolves, but she talk to wolf, so she eat by wolf. On the other hand, wolf eat little red riding hood and his grandmother, so finally, he rattled the stone inside him. I think if we do bad manner, it’s all return ourselves.

Leap:飛ぶ、跳ねる

Shoelace:靴ひも

Snored:いびき

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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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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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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

    

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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