11/30/12

BR Stories of Santa

Chapter 1  The elf and the toymaker
But next batch looked stranger... and stranger... and stranger... until...
The toymaker began churning out hundreds oflittle Alfie dolls. Santa tried to turn in off, but it just kept going.

Chapter 2 The fake Santa
They stormed through the snow and soon caught up. The thief jumpd off his sleigh and ran down a narrow alley.

Chaoter 3 Santa's day off
Elves flooded into the room. "How kind," smiled Santa. "Our pleasure,Santa," said Paddy. "You've shown us that kindness is what Christmas is all about.

Stories of Santa is in series one of Usborne Young Reading . This book is made from Chapter 1, 2, 3. These story is Christmas days of Santa. Chapter 1 is a story befor Chritmas. Santa makes presents for children with his team of tiny elves. They were hard at work.Alfie is one of elves. He had the most oring job in the factory, so he often fell aslee.So, Santa was angry. Once, Alfie climbed on top of  magicalmachine, and he lost his balance and fell in! Nobody find him, and the toymaker began to move. A short time later,The toymaker began churning out hundreds f little Alfie dolls. The year, instead of presents that childeren wanted received Alfies doll... but itswere populer toy ever! Chapter 2 is a story of the day of Christmas. The bad fake Santa appeared, but he is no match for real Santa. Chapter 3 is Santa's day off. The elves give small presents for Santa because he is worked as well as he can.  I think these story  are very good story. I believed him too when I was Child. Santa is a dream for every children forever... 283

11/26/12

Recicling

Recycling is a book in the Oxford Bookworms series. It's in the Factfiles sub-series, the nonfiction counterpart of the Oxford Bookworms Library. It's stage 3 books.

The book is divided into thirteen chapters. Each chapter consists of two facing pages, with the exceptions of Chapter 1, which is an introductory chapter of only one page and Chapter 2 of three pages. The thirteen chapters are: TA throw-away world; Dumping or disposal; Using things sensibly; Dump it - or recycle it?; Preventing pollution; From old to new; Nothing lasts for ever; Recycling paper - and saving trees; Recycling plastics - problems and possibilities; From rags to riches; Energy from rubbish?; Recycling at home; and The Green family. These thirteen chapters are followed by a map and, as with other Factfiles books, some exercises and glossary. 

The language, as one would expect with a Stage 3 book, is quite simple, the only difficult feature being the large number of peoper nouns, unavoidable in a book introducing recicling. Sentences tend to be quite shote and simple . For example, the 7 sentences on page 2 have the following lengths (number of words): 10, 13,15, 6, 15, 19, 3, 5, 12, 4, 10, 17, 14, 11, 11, 18, 15, 4, 12, 11, 26, 9, 8, 15, 10, 8, 18, 12 and 18. 12.03 words per sentence. 221

11/19/12

CAKIFORNIA

California is a book in the Oxford Bookworms series. It's in the Factfiles sub-series, the nonfiction counterpart of the Oxford Bookworms Library. It's Stage 2 books. The book is divided into nine chapters: The Golden State, The Gold Rush, San Francisco, Parks, Highway 1, Los Angeles, The Desert, San Diego, California...

The book as a whole has 19 pages, and each chapter comprises about 2 pages. The sentences are quite easy, with about  10-20 words a sentence. Most sentences are simple in structure, with few or no embedded clauses. The vocabulary is also quite simple, with few words that typical learners will need to look up in a dictionary.

The chapters that appealed to me the most are Chapter 4: Parks and Chapter 7: The Desert.  The bulk of this review will be devoted to these two chapters.

California has many natural places to go sightseeing. California is the home of some of the oldest and biggest trees in the world. There are Yosemite National Park, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks or Lake Tahoe. Humboldt Redwoods State Park is a twenty million year-old forest. Lake Tahoe is 35 kilometres long and 19 kilometres across. We can play water sports there and can ski in the winter. I like skiing, so I want to go to the place like this place for skiing. East of Los Angeles is the Mojave Desert. It begins in  Antelope Valley where , between March and May, you can see hundreds of California poppies. It is very beautiful place!! 254

The Smallest Cow


Last Sunday

Yesterday, I went to Fumika's house with Aya, Sena, Yuma, Shohei and Kosei. I drive new car, and I pick Sena, Aya and Yuma. Her house is a newly built house, so it is very clean and big!! Her father loves machenes, so there are big TV like a movie theater and big sofa.    57

The Smallest Cow in the World


This time I'd like to talk about The Smallest Cow in the World. The hero of this story is a boy, Marvin Gates. His family had 97 cows. He loved one of them,called rosie, but his father had to sell her. After she was sold, Marvin cried, cried and cried. One day, he said that he found Rosie but Nobody could see her. He looked happy.

My favorite comedian

My favorite comedian is Naomi Watanabe. She is a very popular person in Japan. She is 25 years old. She is very fat but she is quick is her movements. She is very qute! She make people laugh by talking off a celebrity. At first, she mimic Beyoncé who is singer. Naomi isn't like her but it is very funny. She is very good at singing and dancing. Not only that, Her moving is very funny!! I love her dance! When I watched her for the first time, I was very surprised her moving. She appear on many TV program or comedy lives now. For example, "Waratte Iitomo!" or "Pikaru no Teiri" etc... She is very young but she is dignified. My brother is 25 years old, but I don't think that they are same years old. I want to watch her live someday. 144