BR2-20: Information Technology

Computers are everywhere - in our homes, our schools, our shops, offices and hospitals. We use the every day, but what do we know about them? Where did they begin, and and when? What is Moore's Law, and how do you pass the Turning Test? What can Deep Blue do, and how did Nolan Bushnell begin with 500 dollars and end can find the answers to all these questions - and much more.

Information Technology is a book in the Factfiles subseries of Oxford Bookworms. As you may know, Factfiles is a nonfiction subseries. Many of the books are about computers, and some about technology.

The language in general is fairly simple, but the impression is that it's noticeably more challenging than stage 1 books. Most of the vocabulary is fairy simple, but there are many proper nouns. This is unavoidable in a book introducing a place, but may give an impression of difficulty to some students, Picking page 20 at random, the numbers of words in each sentence are as follows: 17, 14, 8, 30, 20, 10, 10. These figures give a mean of 15.6. One noticeable difference from Stage 1 books is the absence of very short sentences of fewer than 10 words, which may slow down reading speed a little.

The chapter that appealed to me the most was Chapter 11: 'I love you' (and other viruses). There is a story about computer viruses. The viruses are difficult to stop; they can damage millions of computers in a very short time. (254/8173 words)

Information Technology (Oxford Bookworms ELT)

Paul Davies

Oxford Univ Pr (Sd)

発売日：2002-11-07

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wedding ceremony

On November 23rd, my brother's wedding ceremony was held. I got up around 9 O'clock, and my mother came to my house around 10 O'clock. We had to wear Nomesode and Furisode, so we went to the New Sky Hotel to wear them. My brother so nerves. I was really looking forward to the day! We are very good brothers. I saw my mother's younger brother and his wife. They live in Osaka, so I have never seen them for a long time. My sister-in-low was very beautiful and she was nerves, too. She wore Uchikake and two dresses. One is a White wedding dress, it is very beautiful. If I get married, I want to wear it. My mother and grandparents were crying when my brother and his wife came up in the wedding hole. (137/7883 words)

BR2-19: Scotland

Oxford Bookworms Factfiles is a sub-series in the Oxford Bookworms series. It is devoted to nonfiction, and most of the books are about countries or famous cities or environmental problems. 

The book I read today is Scotland. Generally, the book is quite easy to read. There are few embedded clauses, and the sentences are simple in structure. The average sentence length is about 7 words. There are some much longer sentences, but most of those are lists or have easy-to-understand clauses such as "because" clauses. The vocabulary is quite simple, with few unknown words that learners will need to look up in the dictionary. But the books do have quite a lot of information and the number of words is fairly large. Thus, these books are recommend for learners who are aiming to progress beyond very short and simple books such Usborne First Reading or Oxford Reading tree. 

The book consists of ten chapters: This is Scotland, Scotland today, Scotland's past, Edinburgh, Glasgow, The Highlands, The Islands, Traditional Scotland, Eating and drinking, and Scotland tomorrow.

Chapter 2, Scotland today, there are more than five million people in scotland. Scottish people are called Scots, but not Scotch. Scots people are British, because Scotland is part of Britain, but don't call them English! The scots and the English are deferent.

Overall, the book was very interesting for me and it gave me a lot of knowledge and interested about Scotland. I want to know about Scotland more and more.  The book has many words, so it is more useful for me to learn English than easier books like Foundation Reader. I try to read the book had many words.  (277/7746 words)

Factfiles: Scotland: 400 Headwords (Oxford Bookworms ELT)

Steve Flinders

Oxford University Press

発売日：1998-11-05

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weekend

I  held birthday party on Friday. So I went to go downtown after finishing my classes. November 8th was birthday that my older coworker of part-time job. I thanks to his kindness every time, so I wanted him to be surprised and delightful! So I kept secret to separate birthday present and cake. But, of course, the other members knew it. The party was surprise party!! When I reserved a restaurant, I ask a shopper to separate birthday cake. I always do it to have birthday parties. Each of the other members and I took birthday present. I bought a red tie for him.  (106/7469 words)

TH: my favorite color

I am going to tell you about my favorite color. My favorite colors are red, purple and black. I have many black items. For example, clothes, shoes, bags, my computer and more. I think the black clothes can be nice with every item. I often buy black clothes in many shops.  As black is my favorite singer's color too. So I manicured black nail polish with my nail. Black is very cool. The red items can give a good accent. So I like my red muffler. I bought it last winter because I loved it at first sight. But I use it many times so the red muffler is getting older. I have to buy new one. Purple is my favorite big-name brand's color. The brand is ANNA SUI. I like ANNA SUI since I was a high school student. (143/7363 words)

TH: my favorite TV/ movie star

I like Hiro Mizushima very much. Do you know him?  He is an actor and writer. He is one of the famous actor a few years ago but he got married Ayaka, a singer, I sometimes see him on TV now. Recently he practically appears on TV. He wrote 'KAGERO' and he got a prize. I have two photo books of him. He lived in Switzerland when he was a child. So he can speak English very well. You can see on the movie he is speaking English. The movie title is 'BECK.' BECK was shown in 2010. I went to the theater to see it with my friend. My friend, Arisa, likes Takeru Sato and Osamu Mukai. They are in the movie too. The movie about a music band. It was nice movie. And I think Hiro's English is good. If you have a time, please watch it! (150/7220 words)

BR2-18: Blue Fins

It's hot. The Sun is shining. Men, women and children are in the sea. Everybody is happy. The lifeguard watches the sea. He looks at the people swimming. Suddenly he shouts loudly. 'Shark! Quick! Get out of the water!'
 

I read 'Blue Fins.'
Jen and her friends go to the beach because it is the weekend. Her boyfriend, Rick, is happy to buy a new surfboard. They enjoy swimming and surfing. Jen is going to look at the fish underwater. She can look many fish in the sea. After that, she finds the dolphin. The dolphin is rounded by net and the dolphin cannot breaks it so she cannot move. Jen helps the dolphin. She pulls the net from the dolphin and the dolphin can be out of the net. The dolphin swims up and up. The dolphin is very beautiful. Jen tells Rick about it. Next day there are many people on the beach too. But suddenly the lifeguard shouts loudly 'Shark! Quick! Get out of the water!' The people get out of the water in a flurry. The shark is swimming quickly and comes towards Rick because Jen and Rick are swimming a long way from the beach. The shark is fifteen metres away! Jen can see the shark's sharp, white teeth. But suddenly the beautiful blue dolphin comes out! The dolphin hits the shark and the shark swims away. The dolphin shows repayment of a kindness for Jen.  (241/7070 words)

Blue Fins: Starter (Macmillan Readers)

Sarah Axten

Macmillan Education

発売日：2005-04-27

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BR2-17: ANIMAL HOSPITAL

When animals are sick or hurt, they go to the animal hospital. They vet always has a lot to do. Medicine is given, and some animals even have operations. A lot happens at the animal hospital.
 

I read "Animal Hospital" written by Carmel Reilly. The story about working at the animal hospital. Work starts at 6.30 a.m. when the day nurse arrives. The day nurse checks three things, temperature, pulse and breathing. Then, she takes all the animal one by one, to have a good look at them. The day nurse also checks to see if the animal look happy and if they are eating well. Then, she gives the animals their medicine and cleans their cages. At 8.00 a.m. the veteran arrives at the animal hospital. There are many sick animals and sometimes the animals hit by a car, hurt by another animal and eating something that is not good, like poison. So the vet thinks about what to do with them next. Some of animals need a drip, more medicine or even an operation. When animals are better, they go to another part of the hospital where they can rest before going home. At 4.30 p.m. the day nurse goes home, at the same time, another nurse arrives to care for the animals in to the night. This nurse stays until midnight. Before she goes home, she checks that all the animals are safe and have everything they need for the night.

Reilly, Carmel (2007). Animal hospital, Thomson Nelson (249/6829 words)

BR2-16: A Night Out

Rudy and Raf walked into the school dance. There were lots of kids inside. But no one was dancing.
 

I read "A Night Out. " It is a story about the school dance. On Friday night, the school dance is held. Raf and Rudy go to the school hall. There are kid in big group and kids in little group. Some of them are laughing the others are shouting over the music. Some are eating and drinking but no one is dancing. Rudy wants to dance and she grabs Raf's hand. She takes him out into the middle of the room. Raf doesn' want to dance because nobody is dancing. He doesn't want to be laughted by other kids. But Rudy says "Don't think about them!" She wants to be fun with Raf. Ruf is afraid that he will be alone if he is dancing with Rudy. Rudy says "You won't be alone! I'll be with you." After that Rudy starts dancing and she doesn't look at other kids. She is fun. Raf is starts dancing and he is fun, too. The others look at Rudy and Raf. All the kids are coming over to dance with them. They are all having fun. No one looking at Raf.

Reilly, Carmel (2006). A Night Out, Thomson Nelson (216/6580 words)

BR2-15: Dangerous Journey

Four men are trapped in the forest. Heavy rain has turned the tracks into mud. The bridge across the river is broken. 

The men looked at the broken bridge and the rushing water. 

Pedro spoke first: 'How can we get back to base now?'

There are four men in this story. Manuel, Leon, Joe and Pedro are in the story. Leon is the boss of them. He is angry with Joe and Pedro because they are too late before they leave in the truck. Joe is always making troubles. He is a younger than Loen and he is clever, so he wants to be a boss. Later, Joe and Pedro are back. Joe is smiling when he is back. It makes Loen more angry. Joe and Pedro are hunting in the forest for two days. Hunting is not Joe's work, and they haven't time for hunting. The action makes Loen angry more and more. Loen says "the rain will start soon and then there will be mud everywhere." So they start to leave there. They go back satisfactorily at first. But the rain starts soon. Then, their car is stopped by the mud. Their wheel are turing round and round in the mud. After that, their can get away from the mud one way or another. But then a trouble is happened. A large branch fly up from under a wheel and it hits Leon's arm. Leon is hurt.
They are face a next trouble. The bridge crossed over the river is broken, so they can't across the river. We decide across the river to swim. But Loen is hurt. So Pedro back to the hill near the river to call to rescue. Few times later, a helicopter is coming and Loen is taken to the hospital. Manuel, Joe and Pedro are in the hospital too. Loen wakes up slowly. They are rescued! They are think they want to see the water! They are laughing each other.

Cox, Alwyn (1976). Dangerous Journey, Macmillan readers (332/6364 words)

scripts 2-2:The Ink Drinker

This week, I would like to talk about a book called The Ink Drinker. It is very strange story. I think it has ever happened in real world. A boy is in the story. He finds a vampire. The vampire can't drink blood, he drinks the ink of the books. The boy follows the vampire's action. Finally, he is absorbed doing it. (63/6032 words)

MP2-7: The Ink Drinker

What's a boy to do when he hates to read and he's stuck in his father's book store over vacation? Spy on costumers, that's what! The adventure begins when the boy spot a strange-looking customer shuffling through the shelves. The man isn't browsing --- he's sucking up the ink of every printed word with a straw! Scared but curious, the boy follows the weird, pale fellow to a cemetery --- where the boy ends up developing a taste for something much more filling than blood...

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weekend

I  met my older brother on Saturday and Sunday, he came from Amakusa on that day. I met my sister-in-low on Sunday too. Because they had to buy anything for the party after their wedding ceremony. He has a wedding ceremony on 23rd November. I am going to wear Furisode on the day. They had a last meeting of wedding. The wedding ceremony's meeting is long, so we ate dinner too late. I thought the wedding ceremony is difficult and we had a spend much money and more time. I am worry about wedding. I think I must to spend money to get married someone;))) I will meet them Thursday. I will see to take pictures of them before the wedding. My mother will come and see it too. My sister-in-low is too nice and kind person, so my mother and I like her very much. My family is looking forward to go their wedding. (156/5969 words)

Now----

Now, I am in New Sky Hotel with my bro and sister-in-low. They have a last meeting of their wedding ceremony. It is held two years later. It is really fun. I want to get to marry as soon as possible!wwww I don't have a person who get married meTT I want to get married Hiroomi Tosaka. He is a member of Sandaime J Soul Brothers.www (66/5813 words)

TH: my favorite motto

My favorite motto is After Rain, Comes Sunshine. We have a similar word in Japanese I knew the word when I was a junior high school student. If I make mistakes, I remember the word. I don't think bad thing deeper. I try to do new thing soon. I think it is important to put myself into a mode of positive soon. We have to let go of negative judgements because the negative judgements make me bad and I get more and more concerned about things. It can't get things work out well. So we have to think about many things at ease. If we make a mistakes, we have only to do trying it again and again. I think it is key to growth. Not need to fear failure. I don't forget my motto and I challenge every things. (143/5747 words)

Good video^^

When I was doing English Central, I watched it. The video is nice! Please check it out! (17/5604 words)

BR2-14: The Leopard and the Lighthouse

One day a leopard swims across the sea to Sindi. He is hungry and he is looking for food. He runs into an old kighthouse. The people of Sindi do not want the leopard in their lighthouse. But what can they do? How can they catch the leopard?

I read "The  Leopard and the Lighthouse. " An old lighthouse in Sindi. There is a village near the lighthouse. The lighthouse is empty. Sometimes children from the village play in the lighthouse. Sindi is five meters from the mainland of Africa. A lot of animals live there. One day a leopard comes from the mainland. The leopard is very hungry, so he goes around the village to search anything to eat. Men throw stones, children cry. Some of the stone hit the leopard and he runs away. He is into the old lighthouse because the people are coming. The leopard has been there for three days and nights. The people decide to kill the leopard. The head man of Sindi is called Mohammed. He decide to get married he beautiful daughter Tanza if anyone kills leopard. Finally Saida can get to marry Tanza and they have three children. (198/5587 words)

*LEOPARD & LIGHTHOUSE PGRN ES (Penguin Readers (Graded Readers))

Anne Collins

Penguin

発売日：1998-11-02

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holiday

I did many things while the school festival. I am not a member of circle, so I have 5 days for holiday. First, I went back to my house of Taragi from Tuesday to Thursday. I met my best friend at the convenience store. I was lucky to see her. Her name is Rui. We have met the first time that we were kindergarten students, so I have known about her. But I am too busy to see her these years. I want to see her again in this winter. I played with my 4 dogs in my house. They are so cute<3 I like playing them. If I call their names, they run to me! It is really cute! (121/5389 words)

TH: my favorite place I've been

I like the best Okinawa all of I have been the places. I went to Okinawa when I was an elementary school student. I went there with students from elementary schools, junior high school, high school and adults of inside the prefecture. I remembered seeing my group members for the first time. I stayed Okinawa for five days. I visited Shuri castle. I like castle so I have visited Kumamoto castle many times. I want to visit Osaka castle someday. Next I like Osaka. I visited Osaka when I was a child, five years old (maybe), so to tell the truth, I regret that I didn't remember doing things there. But I remembered going an aquarium and a typhoon came while I stayed in Osaka. My favorite umbrella was broken by it. My uncle and aunt live in Osaka, so I want to see them in Winter or Spring vacation if I have enough money and time. (158/5268 words)

BR2-13: The Big Dipper

If they are, chances are you'll be a able to spot the Big Dipper. The Big Dipper is one of the easiest constellations to recognize and this Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science book will help young stargazers find it, and it's companion, the Little Dipper. And once you've begun to learn about the constellations,well, the sky's the limit!

 

I read "The Big Dipper." It is a story about stars and constellations. I don't know about stars and constellations, so the book gives me knowledge of one. My home town, Taragi, is a good place to see the stars. I want to see the stars used this way. There are many unknown things. For example, there are the names of the seven stars in the Big Dipper, Alkaid, Mizar, Alioth, Magrez, Phecda, Dubhe, Merak.  They point to Polaris, the North star and The North star is a very important star. Sailors and other travelers use it to help them find their way. And the Big Dipper looks like a big bear. I want more information about them.

M. Branley, Franklyn (1991).The Big Dipper, Let's-read-and-find-out Science badge (182/5110 words)

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now

Now, I am talking with my friend on skype after I finished working my part-time job. My friend is playing the video game over talking. I have eaten dinner yet, but my friend is eating foods so I am hungry and I want to eat something. But I have to be a loss in weight and it is too late to eat anything. So I have patience. I am going to go eating Yakiniku with my friends from high school in tomorrow evening. I am looking forward to see them. Good night~^^ (92/4928 words)