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Assignment on May 31st

TASK: Select an article you are interested in, read it, and report it.

5 Million Left Homeless by Chinese Quake

UN's Ban Regrets Burma's Continuing Detention of Aung San Suu Kyi

Japan grows its own hip-hop

In pictures: Japan's food crisis

You will have to print out the pages you have read, add to them your comments written in English, and submit them.

Good luck!

Many thanks for the blog-making project

Hi members,

I have already read all your blogs. I am very thankful for your efforts and now very happy to see your wonderful blog contents. Very well done, I believe.

I hope this task of making a blog in English will be useful for your English skills to be upgraded. I would like you to keep making your own blog in English.

After finishing this project, I will give you some suggestions to learn English:

1) Don't be afraid of making mistakes. The point is what you want to say.
2) Read and listen to a lot more English, and you will be able to make your English better.
3) Study something else through English but don't study English.

Good luck!

Sasa

Assignment for Current English Class on 17th January

Task descriptions: You will make your blog on the following theme.

'Children'

Based on the theme, you will have to make your own blog page in 50 minutes.

Assignment for Advanced English Class on 17th January

Descriptions: Read a news article.

Procedures:

1. See the following website at REUTERS.
2. Please look at the front page and check the head.
3. Then copy the title on your answer sheet and read the article.
4. Please answer the following questions about the article:
1) What is the main idea of the article? Please answer in Japanese.
2) What is the most interesting point to you regarding the article? Please answer in English.
3) What do you think about the article? Please show your opinion on it, using at least 100 English words.
4) What are the details in the article? Please pick out as many facts as you can see and describe in Japanese.

Time: 50 minutes.

Be happy!

Hello all,

Did you enjoy your university life in 2007? I think you have had many wonderful or terrbile experiences so far. However, I hope you will be happy and cheerful in 2008. That is because you have your beautiful future. Be happy and be cheerful!

I am trying to always enjoy my life. I am still not young so I am sometimes suffering from back or leg pain. I can't move my body so smoothly like I was young and strong. I often have stiff shoulder and neck. These days I am worried about metabolic syndrome because of too much eating and drinking without enough exercise. However, my metal part is still young, so I am very interested in many new things, such as computers, music, arts, and world pop culture. These things will make me happy.

I will show you part of my interests:

1. Travel

I would like to visit many places which are unknown or uninteresting to most people, such as downtown in Tokyo. Or I want to meet many common young people all over the world.

2. Sports

I like skiing and swimming, so I would like to enjoying skiing in the European Alps or Rocky mountains in North America. Also I would like to go to Tahiti to stay in the house on the sea, enjoying swimming in the sea.

3. Gambling

I would like to go to Las Vegas to play games for gambling, if I had much money.


4. Miscellaneous curiosity

Anyway, I have good curiosity always. I want to do new things, but I don't like to meet danger.

Finally I want to say it again. You should be happy and enjoy your life. Youth is very precious. If you lose it, you will easily understand how important youth is. Many people haven't realized it. However, just playing or wasting time is not fun. It is often important to make efforts or try to do something eagerly. You can enjoy it and be happy.

So I do hope you will be happy this year and try to do your best.

Happy News

Cheers!
Sasa

Let's tackle world poverty for our peaceful life!

May children be happy!



Are you living happily? Are you enjoying your life? However, there are many people who are suffering from poverty, diseases, and conflicts. I wish everybody, especially children, would live a peaceful life. In this bog, I will show you one idea of how to tackle poverty.

Tackle poverty first.

First I think we should consider why poverty still exists. Iqbal Quadir talks about 'The power of the mobile phone to end poverty.' Please discuss his talks.

Why does poverty still exist despite decades of development aid? In this talk, Iqbal Quadir explains why "aid does damages: because it empowers authorities instead of people," and advocates a new approach to development from below, "by the people for the people." His own experience as a child in Bangladesh and later a banker in New York brought him to realize that "connectivity is productivity" -- and that a simple cell phone has enormous power. Now his telecom company, GrameenPhone, offers service to most of rural Bangladesh, creating new opportunities by connecting villages to the world

Iqbal Quadir

Though the poverty issues are complicated, we can do something, I believe.

One at a time

We should try to solve poverty all over the world. One at a time is the best policy, I think. Don't waste food or things, and natural resources will be preserved. If so, global atmosphere may be improved. And if you have opportunities, you should help poor people by donating or volunteering. Poverty is one of the big problems for our peaceful life. Let's tackle it one at a time.

I wish for a peaceful world! Happy holidays!

Cheers,
Sasa

Happy Christmas!

Hello.

Are you writing a Christmas card? Many people write a Christmas card also in Japan. I am not a Christian, but sometimes have got Christmas card from my friends. Christmas cards are like our New Year Cards. However, they are working a little bit different.

Many families are showing Christmas cards that they have got in the living room with other Christmas ornaments. Here I will show you some Christmas card phrases, which are quoted from the following website: http://www.making-greeting-cards.com/christian-christmas-cards-verses.html

Sample phrases:

1. May your heart and home be filled with the true spirit of Christmas - JESUS!

2. May God fill your life with love, joy and peace this Holiday Season and throughout the New Year.

3. May the wonder of that first Christmas be with you always!

4. Count your blessings, count them one by one. Count your blessings, see what God has done! Merry Christmas!

5. May His Love and Presence fill you to overflowing and bring you a most Joyous Christmas.

6. God bless you at Christmas and always.

7. Wishing You His Fullest Blessings This Christmas Season.

8. This Christmas may you know Him more fully through the love and grace He so richly bestows.

9. May His love surround you at Christmastime and always

10. May Jesus always be your joy, your hope, your song. And may this Christmas and each day of the new year be directed by His guiding hand of love!

11. May the Song of the Angels of Glory to God And Peace to His people on earth Be ever more true in your home, in your heart And throughout the land of your birth.

12.We pray you'll discover many beautiful new reasons to praise God during this holy season.

13. God gave His greatest gift to usOn that first Christmas Day And may the wonder of it Always guide and light your way... MERRY CHRISTMAS

14. A Christmas wish that Christ's great love, His grace and goodness, too, May fill your heart And bless you now and all the whole year through.

15. They brought Him goldand frankincense and myrrh, these Magi from the East,Now let us offer Him our hearts,a gift of love on this great feast.A BLESSED CHRISTMAS!

Happy Christmas



I wish you a Happy Christmas.

Sasa