May 28, 2014

Essay 1-02b: Combined Draft Essays about Uni. Life


In university, they have many friends and they spend time in university together. For example, they are eating lunch, study at the library, and go to class together. 

There are a variety of useful facilities at KGU. Diligent students here come to building No.14 and go to the 4th floor. Then they use the computers.  

They use the computers to learn something, finish their reports, or just kill time for free! There is a receptionist's office by the elevators and the students who want to borrow something come there. They have the website and this is the link to it. http://www.ecc.kumagaku.ac.jp/ Students whom major in English and are sophomores often borrow headsets to listen to and speak English because they have a lot of hard assignments. It usually runs from 9 a.m. to 9:50 p.m., opening times on weekdays and from 9 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. on Saturdays. Unfortunately, it is closed on Sunday. There are a lot of Windows computers and some Mac computers. Of course, students in KGU can print out some documents and borrow laptop computers. 

Recently, East Asian cafe has started on 2nd floor on building No.14. There are a lot of drinks and sweets, and the students can study calmly there! Though many of the students may haven’t been there yet, they should go there once. There are a lot of menus. For example, coffee, tea, juice, cake and so on. There supply to them fair trade products. There runs from 10 a.m. to 14:30 p.m. They can study a lot at building No. 14. 

This year, English Department students have a lot of homework. They always do EnglishCentral at home. Their family may think strange because they always speak to the computer. That is speaking class' homework, but they also have listening, writing and reading class' homework, too. They must blogging, typing, listening, listening and write dictation every week. Compare with last year, they have more homework, but it is good for growing English skill. Actually, some students think their own English is getting better than last year. But there are some students who still not good at speaking English. When they want to say something in English though, they need a little time to translate to English in their brain. They'll study more to improve this in university. They may want to try more study with their friends and teachers. 

They have to take four English classes. On Monday, they have reading and speaking class. Teacher of reading class is Mr. K. They study grammar, and world news. Last class, they studied about conjunction. For example, how to use “and”. They often use this word when they are writing any sentence, so this class is very important for them. The homework of this class is to read English newspaper, and to find titles that are matched with five themes. It is very difficult, because there are a lot of titles. Also, there has a lot of words which is they do not know. They use them a dictionary, and compare with them to match with theme. 

The other class is speaking class. Teacher of speaking is Mr. T. Last class, they asked their classmates, many things. For example, “Did you go to restaurant recently?” “Do you have your cell phone?” “Have you watched any cinema recently?” Then, they could find about other students. Next, this class, they are going to examine about part-time job. They asked one hundred students in KGU, and they have to presentation about this result. They have to think about a lot of questions for students. It is very difficult to ask questions for one hundred students, but they will do their best. On Tuesday, they have a listening class. Teacher of listening is Mr. W. They study British English in this class. They think that British English is more difficult than American English. These accents are very different, so it is hard for them to listen to them. On Wednesday, they have Writing class. Teacher of writing is Mr. B. This class’s homework is Book review, Blog, and Typing. They do them every week. Writing English is difficult, but they can write the long English sentence better than last year. They think that they want to write more long English sentences.



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May 25, 2014

5/22-24 Trip for concert


I went to Korea last weekend. I decided to go last Tuesday, and I left Japan two days later. The purpose of this trip was to go EXO concert. I really wanted to go when this concert has announced, but I thought it is difficult to get ticket, so I gave up to go first. But fortunately, I got ticket last Wednesday, so I decided to go in a hurry. This time was the third time to go to Korea alone. My friend lives in Korea, so I always stayed at her house. I’m Japanese though, people are kind me. For example, they try to talk me with their few Japanese. So I feel to communication with foreigner is fun.
In the second day, I went to concert. The concert was held at Olympic Park. EXO is the most popular group in Korea now, so there were many people. The ticket of this concert had sold out from release in 1.47 seconds. My seat was standing D area, so I could saw EXO in very close. But there were about 900 people in one area, so there was very crowded. I couldn’t deep breathe in the latter of the concert may be because of thin oxygen. EXO has seriously trouble now because of withdraw a member, but other 11 members did their best to fill a blank. I was really moved for it. I was really satisfied with the concert, but I was very tired. About 9 hours I couldn’t sit and my body was hurt.
The last day, I backed to Japan and my family came to Fukuoka Airport to pick up me and we enjoyed shopping in Fukuoka.
I felt very busy and tired, but it was enrich weekend ever.
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May 21, 2014

Essay 1-02a: The students having a lot of homework and friends who graduated from same high school

There are many students from G. High School and about 40 students in same grade, so they spend times in university together. For example, they eating lunch, study at library, and go to classes together. Though many of them were not friends since high school, so they became friend after they entered in KGU. Time didn't pass so much after they became friend though they are close. For example, they hang out together, watch movie, go to dinner, and so on. This is strange but they may feel they are the member.

Conversely, they have few friends who graduated from other high school because they are always together and they are same department. But one of them thinks that there is not necessity to have many friends. She thinks only really friends are needed. Because she wants to study and she doesn't want to waste times.

This year, English Department students have a lot of homework. They always do EnglishCentral at home. Their family may think strange because they always speaks to computer. That is speaking class' homework, but they also have listening, writing and reading class' homework, too. They must blogging, typing, listening, listening and write dictation every week. Compare with last year, they have more homework, but it is good for growing English skill. Actually, some students think their own English is getting better than last year. But there are some students who still not good at speaking. When they want to tell something in English though, they need little time for translate to English in their brain. They'll study more to improve this in university. They may want to try more study with their friends and teachers.
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BR 1-04: The Dinosaurs next door (Castor, 2002)



"A-a-a-tishoooo!"(p.22).


Mr. Puff, an inventor, living next to Sam invents many things. One day Sam went to see his new project. Mr. Puff showed four eggs, but there weren’t just eggs. There were dinosaur eggs! One of an egg bumped in the basket and baby dinosaur was out. After that, another eggs bumped too and babies out. They were very small at the time, but they grew in great speed. By the fifth day, Mr. Puff worried and he felt fierce. Sam recommended him to invent something to stop their growing. After few moments, he invented a silver box and it was the machine which can change creature size.

They could three dinosaurs made small, but one dinosaur was tough. Accidentally, Mr. Puff and Sam got changed their size, but Mr. Puff’s cat helped them. After that, all of dinosaurs were caught and stayed small.

Reference
Castor, Harriet.(2002). The Dinosaurs next door.
London, England: Usborne Publishing
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May 16, 2014

University Life

I have many friends from same high school in this university because I graduated from G. High School. In this university, there are about 40 students from G. High School in same grade, so we spend times in university together. For example, we eating lunch, study at library, and go to classes together. Though many of these friends were not friends since high school, so we became friend after we entered in this university. When I was in high school, I’d never talked with the friends who always together in university. Time didn’t pass so much after we became friend though we are close. For example, we hang out together, watch movie, go to dinner, and so on. This is strange but I may feel we are the member.

Conversely, there are few friends who graduated from other high school because we are always together and we are same department. Another reason is I’m not belonging to club activity. I want more friends in different department but I need only really friends. Because I want to study and I don’t want to waste times.


This year, we have a lot of homework. I always do EnglishCentral at home. My family may think I'm strange because I always speak to computer. That is speaking class' homework, but we also have listening, writing and reading class' homework, too. We must do blogging, typing, listening and write dictation every week. Compare with last year, we have more homework, but it is good for growing English skill. Actually, I think my English is getting better than last year. But still I’m not good at speaking. When I want to tell something in English though, I need little time for translate to English in my brain. I’ll study to improve this in this school. I want to try more study with my friends and teachers.


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May 14, 2014

University Life

I'm not belonging to any club activity, so I have less friends than other students. But I have many friends from same high school because I graduated from Gakufu High School. I always spend times with these friends, go to classes, eating lunch, and studying together. This year I taking less classes than last year, so I have afford time this year.

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My cousin

Last Sunday, I went to Kita High School’s sports festival. My cousin, third grade in that school, acted as subhead in the group and did a dance performance. It was wonderful and everyone is so cool! I have a single reflex camera, so I took many pictures of him. I felt their youthful and I envied that. I want to back my high school days.


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Typing: W6 How I study English


I’ve been study English since when I was three years old. At first, I only remember alphabet. Next, I read sentences. Now I always listen English Music and I sing them. Then, I can naturally remember lyrics and grammar. I’m setting my iPhone language in English. Sometimes I read English books and I always not try to study. I always keep in my mind that studying naturally. Though I want to study not only writing and reading English. I want to speak English fluently. Though I’ve learned English conversation for seven or eight years, I can’t accustom to my life.

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