The Spider and the Beehive

His belly had become too big!
"Help! Get me out!" he cried. (P12)

This story is the spider and the human's friendship.
The kind boy searched the somethings for the spider, but the spider was greed.
So, the spider was in the bad.

I think the spider was greed and in the bad is no surprises.
Greed anything is not good.
I think the spider need to be kind, I thought.


VOCABULARY
・greed:強欲、貪欲、食い意地を張っている
・beehive:ハチの巣、ミツバチの巣箱

The Spider and the Beehive (Folk & Fairy Tale Easy Readers) 著者 : Kama Einhorn Scholastic 発売日 : 2006-01-01 ブクログでレビューを見る»

Writing report week

I had some report to submission.
So, I always do the work for the report.
I had three report to submit, I do three same time.

But, this week's Sunday is free, I could do the all work finish.

And also I saw the movie on TV last Friday.
"Summer Wars" I like this movie very much, and this movie was first no cut version on TV.
So, I was really excited.
It was interesting.
In short, last week is really happy for me.

SCHOLASTIC Folk ＆ Fairy Tale EASY READERS

I like the series of SCHOLASTIC best.
Because this series have a cute characters.
And also the pictures are so cute, too.
Almost all the stories are the happy ending.
So, everyone easy to read this book, I think.
When you want to have a break, try to read it.

From here, I introduce the book of this series.
First book is " The Nightingale ".

"No, keep the toy bird," said the nightingale. (P16)

This story is the bird and human's friendship story.
It will make your heart warm.
Second book is "The City Mouse and the Country Mouse".

"No ,matter where I roam, there is no place like home," he said. (P16)

This story's main character is a Mouse.
Two mice find a important thing, it may helpful for you, too.
Third book is "The Elves and the Shoemaker".

When the shoemaker woke up, the leather had already been tirned into a fancy pair of shoes!
"Wow! I will sell these at the market," he said. (P5)

This story is famous in Japan.
So, this story easy to read for you who never have read book written in English.
Forth book is "Goldilocks and the Three Bears".

"What a nice home!" she cried. (P3)

This story is really cute! I like the bear which is character of this book.
The picture is also cute.
Finally, Fifth book is "Stone Soup".

Everyone ate a big bowl.
"This is delicious!" they all said. (P14)

This is the happy story.
When you read this book, you will be happy.

I introduce only five books here but this series book is a lot.
Let's try to read this series books!

The Nightingale (Folk & Fairy Tale Easy Readers) 著者 : Violet Findley Scholastic 発売日 : 2006-01-01 ブクログでレビューを見る»

Folk & Fairy Tale Easy Readers: Stone Soup (English Edition) 著者 : Scholastic Teaching Resources Scholastic Teaching Resources 発売日 : 2006-03-01 ブクログでレビューを見る»

Folk & Fairy Tale Easy Readers: The Elves And The Shoemaker (English Edition) 著者 : Scholastic Teaching Resources 発売日 : 2006-03-01 ブクログでレビューを見る»

Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Folk & Fairy Tale Easy Readers) 著者 : a retelling by Violet Findley Scholastic 発売日 : 2006-01-01 ブクログでレビューを見る»

Folk & Fairy Tale Easy Readers: The City Mouse And The Country Mouse (English Edition) 著者 : Scholastic Teaching Resources 発売日 : 2006-03-01 ブクログでレビューを見る»

Do I Tell?

”Wait.Please listen," says Ji-Sung.
"I'm sorry."
"Not now," says the police officer.
"We'll ask your parents to come to the police station. You can tell us about it then."
"Oh no," thinks Ji-Sung.
"What do I do, now?" (P24)

This is the bad luck man's story.

He was not to do bad things, but his friends with him do something bad, so he was thought do bad things, too.

The man is indecisiveness.

I also have like this aspect.

He couldn't turn down to his friend's bad call.

And last, he was arrested by the police officer.

I think we need courage to turn down bad things.


VOCABULARY
・seat:椅子、腰掛

・garbage can:ゴミ入れ、ごみ箱

Do I Tell? (Foundations Reading Library, Level 4) 著者 : Rob Waring Heinle & Heinle Pub 発売日 : 2006-06-13 ブクログでレビューを見る»

The City Mouse And The Country Mouse

”No matter where I roam, there is no place like home," he said. (P16)

This is the story of city mouse and country mouse.

They are friends and they are live far away.

One day they meet in the city, and the country mouse go to the city.

The city has a lot of fear.

Big cats and a lot of people try to kill them.

It's very frighten things for country mouse.

I think so, too.

Because the fear is death.

I want to live in the country after reading this story.

VOCABULARY

・roam:歩き回る、放浪する

・tippy:ひっくり返りやすい、不安定な

Folk & Fairy Tale Easy Readers: The City Mouse And The Country Mouse (English Edition) 著者 : Scholastic Teaching Resources 発売日 : 2006-03-01 ブクログでレビューを見る»

The Kidnappers

The magic spun Kipper and his toys round and round.
"Oh help," shouted Kipper.
"I feel different. This magic is different." (P5)

I think this story is the bear magic.

First the main character changed bear.

It's amazing and little terrible, I feel.

But in this story the boy thought happy to be bear.

I want to be like him; positive.

This story's key is the bad bear's appeared.

They are strong and bad.

But they had courage and win the game.

It's mystery story and fun.

Let's read it!

VOCABULARY

・Teddy Bears:テディーベア、クマのぬいぐるみ

・autograph:自署、署名、サイン

Oxford Reading Tree: Stage 8: Storybooks: the Kidnappers 著者 : Roderick Hunt Oxford University Press 発売日 : 2008-01-10 ブクログでレビューを見る»

Rain, Rain, Rain!

”Oh no! It is now 8:49," she thinks.
She runs to school. She's very cold and very wet.
A boy and girl are looking at Faye.
"Why is she running?" they think. (P14)

This is the making mistake story.

The girl is mistake the school day. The day she is running is not a school day, but she thought today is the school day, so, she is running.

And also the day she ran is rainy.

It's bad and bad.

I had a same experience in my childhood.

So, I can know how she think.

She thinks manage to get school on time, I thought.

It's so bad and disappointing thing.

Let's careful.

VOCABULARY

・to get dressed:着替える、おしゃれする

・holiday:休日、祝日

Rain! Rain! Rain! (Foundations Reading Library, Level 1) 著者 : Rob Waring Heinle & Heinle Pub 発売日 : 2006-02-09 ブクログでレビューを見る»

Goodbye, Hello!

"Hello, I'm Alex."
she smiles and says, "I'm Jenny. Hello!" (P16)

I can't say it is good story, or not.

Because the main character of this story was shopping but he didn't help his sister and not pay attention for everything around him and look at Jenny.

It's not good behavior in the public.

He was obstacle.

This story is the meeting story.

But not good, I thought.

VOCABULARY

・cart:カート、手押し車

・snowboard:スノーボード

Goodbye, Hello (Foundations Reading Library Level 1) 著者 : Rob Waring Heinle & Heinle Pub 発売日 : 2006-02-09 ブクログでレビューを見る»

Busy week

Last week, I had a lot of homework and prepared some class.

Semester's finish is nearing me now.
I do something to study for １semester's test.
It's my first test after I came this university.
I try to do my best.

I went to "bikkuridonki-" to eat lunch with my family.
The meat is delicious. And my family went to Mr. Max that is a shop.
It was fun. Next time to come there, I bring my dog with me.
Because Mr. Max can bring pet into the shop.
I am glad to hear that.

Green Island

Then she took a photograph.
"We're going to be in the newspaper," said William.
"We are going to be famous." (P31)

This story is the wonderful adventure.
The group of exploration looked out the evil group of shedding oil in the sea.
First, the child of the exploration group, they are frighten about evil group.
But, finally they join hands and fight off the evil team.

The courage of children are wonderful and last they are in the newspaper.
It's good story when you need courage to do.
Let's read it!


VOCABULARY
・otter:カワウソ、ラッコ、オットセイ
・drum:太鼓、ドラム缶

Oxford Reading Tree: Level 9: Stories: Green Island 著者 : Roderick Hunt Oxford University Press, USA 発売日 : 2011-01-01 ブクログでレビューを見る»

The Litter Queen

After finishing their food, Chip and William looked for the litter bin, but it was full.
Chip threw his litter on the ground.
"You shouldn't do that," said Biff.
"What can we do?" said William.
"The litter bin is full." (P13)

This story have a point of view that we need to care.
It's the problem of the litter.
Litter causes many bad  problems. And not only litters but also we dirty earth.
Litters can reuse when we do appropriate action.
But a lot of people don't do. Because they think that I who one of the person live in the earth throw litters one time, it's not big matter.
However all of people think like that, it's a big matter.
We should think I am a member of the world and take responsibility every thing.

This is the chance to think my deed one more time.
Let's read it.

VOCABULARY
・pretty:かわいい、ひどい、厄介な
・spoil:台無しにする、損なう、悪くする
・horrible:恐ろしい、身の毛もよだつ、ひどく不愉快な

Oxford Reading Tree: Stage 9: Storybooks: the Litter Queen 著者 : Roderick Hunt Oxford University Press 発売日 : 2008-01-10 ブクログでレビューを見る»

Quick Thinking

Two police officers come to the park.
"Thank you, thank you very much," says a police officer.
Tyler tells him about Faye, David and Daniela, too.
"That is quick thinking!" he says. (P16)

This story is the team play of arrest robber.

The day of the sea, friend's of the John and Tyler in near them.

Suddenly, the robber picked up the bag of old woman and ran away.

Tyler was seeing it.

So, she called her friends.

There were a lot of her friends in the way of robber's escape.

This furious speed feel fantastic.

Let's read it when you feel uncomfortable.

VOCABULARY
・drop:落ちる、落下する、低下する

・cart:カート、手押し車、荷馬車

Quick Thinking (Foundations Reading Library, Level 3) 著者 : Rob Waring Heinle & Heinle Pub 発売日 : 2006-04-07 ブクログでレビューを見る»

The Bear's Mouth

"I can't fight a bear, Gemma!" says Ryan.
"I'm not going in! No way!"
"He's right. But we should help David," says Kerry.
"Let's call Mr.Woods, or the police."
There is another loud sound.
"Oh no, the bear's fighting David!" says Kerry. (P23)

This story is the game of searching flag and get prize.

It's fan game, if they don't get greedy.

But one greedy team are not communication with the team.

So, they broke friendships.

Then one of the teams is in the hole and sound frighten bear's voice.

They are not friends now, but it's the time to help.

So, they decided to help him.

It's the friendship's story and interesting.

Let's read it!

VOCABULARY

・climb:よじ登る、抜け出す、這い出す

・hill:丘、小山、坂

The Bear's Mouth (Foundations Reading Library, Level 5) 著者 : Rob Waring Heinle & Heinle Pub 発売日 : 2006-07-04 ブクログでレビューを見る»

Think Daniela!

Daniela is very angry with herself.
"Why do I always do the wrong things?" she thinks.
"I can never do things the right way." She walks away. She starts to cry. (P18)

This story is that the little mistake caused some trouble.

In this story Daniela is scolded from her friends.

But I don't think she is bad.

Because she thought friend's life every time.

So, I want to be the person who can determine the friend's real thought.

VOCABULARY
・smell:匂い、鼻で感じる匂い

Think Daniela! (Foundations Reading Library, Level 5) 著者 : Rob Waring Heinle & Heinle Pub 発売日 : 2006-07-04 ブクログでレビューを見る»

The Big Test

Mr. Harris says, "Steve and Ryan, please come to my room now. I want to speak to you."
"Yes, mr. harris," they say.
"What is this about?" asks Steve.
"Wait and see," says Mr. Harris.
Ryan and Steve go with Mr.Harris to his room. (P22)

This is bad doing they do.

They took a peek to the answer of the school test.

We shouldn't do like this.

It's really bad deed.

Doing this make us lose faith, lose friends, and lose graduation chance, maybe.

We study hard rather than do stupid thing.

VOCABULARY
・school nurse:保健室の先生

・transmitter:送信機、伝送機

The Big Test (Foundations Reading Library, Level 5) 著者 : Rob Waring Heinle & Heinle Pub 発売日 : 2006-01-05 ブクログでレビューを見る»

Sarah's Surprise

"Ji-Sung! Ji-Sung! Come here!" she says.
Ji-Sung comes to Sarah. "Are you okay?" he asks.
Sarah tells Ji-Sung about the man.
"Oh, no," says Ji-Sung. (P11)

This story is the illusion of Sarah.

If I were Sarah, I will do the same mistake.

Her mistake happened by the following situation.

One day, the man came into the shop.

And he saying nothing and eat the apple of the shop.

And go out the shop not to pay the bill.

It's robber, almost all people would think.

Actually the man is owner of this shop.

Judge prematurely is a bad thing.

VOCABULARY
・cookies:クッキー、薄くて丸い甘いお菓子

Sarah's Surprise (Foundations Reading Library, Level 1) 著者 : Rob Waring Heinle & Heinle Pub 発売日 : 2006-02-09 ブクログでレビューを見る»

The Tickets!

Jimmy says, "But you're not a good friend!"
Jimmy is thinking about Jenny's ticket. (P14)

This story's key is illusion of Jimmy.

He thought Kerry steal Jenny's tickets.

However, actually, she didn't steal it but she pick it up from the floor.

So, she didn't do bad thing, on the contrary she do kind things.

I thought Jimmy need to more think about her doing.

Decide prematurely won't do things.

VOCABULARY
・purse:女性用ハンドバッグ、小銭入れ

・lunchroom:軽食堂

The Tickets! (Foundations Reading Library, Level 1) 著者 : Rob Waring Heinle & Heinle Pub 発売日 : 2006-01-05 ブクログでレビューを見る»

Kung Fu Kid

Scott is sitting on the floor. He doesn't want to fight Adib now.
He says, "Ouch! My leg. I can't fight now. I'm hurt."
Everybody is surprised. They know he is not hurt. (P15)

This story is the bullying the week people by the strong people.

It's badness doing, so I don't like this person.

But, this story has a hero.

His name is Adib! He come from another place recently.

So, nobody knows he is really strong.

Bullys were doing hazing to Adib. But Adib is strong.

He didn't lose.

I think badness doing is always return to person who do badness.

VOCABULARY
・bow:頭を下げる、お辞儀をする、会釈をする

・kick:蹴る、蹴り飛ばす

Kung Fu Kid (Foundations Reading Library, Level 3) 著者 : Rob Waring Heinle & Heinle Pub 発売日 : 2006-04-07 ブクログでレビューを見る»

Trouble at Sea

”What? What's happening?" shouted Jim.
"What are the dolphins doing? What's wrong with the dolphins?" (P28)

This is the story of bad men.

They were dumping oils in the sea.

It's the worst thing to do. I get little angry.

But, there kind people in the sea to swim.

They saw that the men did, really irritated like me.

At last they arrested them with police.

I like happy ending, so I like this book.

VOCABULARY

・barrel:樽、ひとたる分の容器

・dolphin:イルカ、シイラ

Trouble at Sea (Foundations Reading Library, Level 6) 著者 : Rob Waring Heinle & Heinle Pub 発売日 : 2006-08-04 ブクログでレビューを見る»

Quiz Night

"What? It's the next question? Oh no!" he says.
"I can't win now!" (P13)

This story is quiz cup in the university.

The main character of this story is Ji-Sung.

He is clever and honest person, so he want to win through the front door.

But, one of his friend told him the answer of the last quiz.

Ji-Sung was angry and he knew the answer but he didn't answered.

I think he is nice person, but he was too angry to his friend.

I want to be a broad-minded person.

VOCABULARY

・band:バンド、楽団、一団

・capital:首都、州都、中心地

Quiz Night (Foundations Reading Library, Level 3) 著者 : Rob Waring Heinle & Heinle Pub 発売日 : 2006-04-06 ブクログでレビューを見る»

Bad Dog? Good Dog!

"Dingo! Bad dog." says Yoon-Hee. (P13)

This is the story of bad dog, I thought first.

However, the dog had a reason to stall the meat.

But, on the road he made a infliction, so I think he is little bad.

I think the dog's thought was good.

So, I can't completely say the dog was bad.

Let's read and think about he was really bad, or not.


VOCABULARY
・puppies:子犬、青二才、若者

・gate:入口、門、扉、ゲート

Bad Dog? Good Dog! (Foundations Reading Library, Level 1) 著者 : Rob Waring Heinle & Heinle Pub 発売日 : 2006-02-09 ブクログでレビューを見る»

The Three Little Pigs

Once upon a time, there lived three little pigs.(P2)

This is a famous story in Japan, too.
This story is called " sanbikinokobuta" in Japanese.
The book I read when I was a child was that the wolf is burned by the three pigs, because the wolf tried to eat the three pigs.
But this story is not using fire but stew.
It's really cute than I thought.
This is the cautionary tale I think, so we should pick up on this story as long as possible.


VOCABULARY
・cozy:居心地のいい場所、くつろげる場所
・straw:わら、麦わら、ストロー
・huff:怒る、不機嫌になる、息を吹く
・puff:息をプッと吹くこと、一吹きすること
・stick:細枝、小枝、薪
・brick:れんが、ブロック
・chimney:煙突、ほや

Folk & Fairy Tale Easy Readers: The Three Little Pigs (English Edition) 著者 : Scholastic Teaching Resources Scholastic Teaching Resources 発売日 : 2006-03-01 ブクログでレビューを見る»

The first part time job

Last Thursday, I worked hard.
Because the day was my first part time job day in juku.
Juku is called "private school" in English.

I was really excited because I want to do it before.
First, I came in the class, I was little nervous. I had a little worry.
But, there were a lot of kind teachers, and made me relax.
I felt really really relieved.

The work contents is teaching children English and doing sub work like folding papers of advertisement.
It was not difficult for me to fold some papers.
But teaching something for children is difficult for me.
I want to try to do it hard.

RAINFORESTS

Are we going to destroy all the rainforests of the world?
Perhaps one day you will travel to a rainforest country; but will you see the wonderful plants and animals of the rainforest?（P19)

This book is about global warming and rainforests cutting issues.
We use woods and something useful inventions, but this comfort life have sacrifice.
The people who live in rainforest are working cheaper salary and cutting trees and destroying the rainforests.
It's vicious circle.

Rainforests are important because more than half the species of plants and animals of the Earth live in the rainforests.
And also the people of the rainforests have always used plants to make medicines.
Many new mwdicines are waiting in the rainforests. If we destroy the forest, we shall never find them.

A lot of animals also live in the rainforests.
Many animals are in danger of extinction because we are destroying the rainforests.
I think we need to think about this problem seriously.

VOCABULARY
・katydid:キリギリス
・lemur:キツネザル、ワオキツネザル、キツネザル科の霊長類の総称
・hummingbird:ハチドリ

Rainforests (Oxford Bookworms Factfiles) 著者 : Rowena Akinyemi Oxford Univ Pr 発売日 : 1996-05-21 ブクログでレビューを見る»

Watching tennis game

Last weekend, I made a report for the week after next.
I have a much time to make it, but this week I have a lot of task.
So, I do this report then.

That contents is difficult to summarize.
So, I read foundation of report and search how do I do.
This book said first, we need read all of sentences what you want to summarize, then find mainly contents and summarize.
It was helping me.

Afternoon, I went to "undo-koen" where my brother play tennis game.
The day is rainy but the game was held.
He win third times but in the end game, he lose so he couldn't go next game.
This was his last game in junior high school, but he said it was fun.
He lose last game but I thought it was good experience.

No, You Can't !

"This is so great!" he thought.
Suddenly, Anthony's mother came. She saw Anthony on the motorbike.
"Oh no! He's on the motorbike," she thought. "I must stop him. He'll have an accident."
"Anthony!" she shouted. She ran to stop Anthony.

Anthony is a boy who like a motorbike very much.
But his mother don't like his hobby. Because she thought it's danger for her son.
But Anthony's grandfather is also like a motorbike. And he took him in the bike festival. His mother say not to go, but they go and Anthony ride a bike at last.

I think this mother is too worry about her son.
And this way of her think make him more interested in the bike.
I can understand her worry, but in her son's point of view, it's bother to live his life.
But I became mother, I may do same way.

VOCABULARY
・accident: 不幸な出来事、災難、事故
・garage: ガレージ、車庫、自動車修理工場

No, You Can't! (Foundations Reading Library: Level 6) 著者 : Rob Waring Heinle & Heinle Pub 発売日 : 2006-12-06 ブクログでレビューを見る»