2008年1月18日金曜日

POPSTAR 感想

I think that the performance of everyone was very good. We may enjoy it and make a memory. Thank you so much.

2008年1月15日火曜日

2008.1.15

Talking About Japan
I did copying, free writing and conversation in English. At first, I hated conversation in English. Because, I was confused about it. But now, I like to talk in English more or less.

Writing Ⅰ
I studied English with a computer. I researched something with wiki. I made my blog. I knew culture of world. For example, Christmas in England and so on.


Listening Ⅰ
I watched many movies in English and everyone play some boart games. We practice POPSTAR.

2008年1月8日火曜日

2008.1.8


I spend a new year with my friends. So, we ate the buckwheat noodles eaten on New Year’s Eve to see the old year out. We slept and went home. We ate Osechi(=御節) and Zouni(=雑煮) in my home. These are Japanese food. Zouni is like miso soup. Rice cake and taro-potato are in it. My mother cooks using white-miso. Osechi is like lunch box. There are Kazunoko(=数の子), Gomame(=ごまめ) and fish and so on. These have meaning. For example, Kazunoko have a lot of children.



1.Hogmanay is the name for New Year in which country?
Britain
2.In which city is the New Year's Day parade held? Can you find a photo of this year's parade?
London
3.Whose birthday is on January 3rd, and what famous book did he write?
JRR Tolkien  Lord of the Rings
4.Whose birthday is on January 5th? Why is this person's birthday in a British calendar?
  Guru Gobind Singh 
 This day marks the birth of the tenth and final Sikh prophet-teacher in 1666 C.E.
5.Whose birthday is today (January 8th)? What is he famous for?
  Elvis Presley Singer
6.What is Al Hijra and why is it on a British calendar?
He protected Muslim people.
7.Who reached the South Pole in 1912 on January 17th?
  Robert Scott
8.Whose birthday is on January 18th? What famous book did he write?
  AA Milne Winnie The Pooh
9.Who died on January 24th, 1965? What is he famous for (write ONE thing)
Sir Winston Churchill 
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.
10.What do you think about this calendar?
I think that there are a lot of occurrences.

2007年12月11日火曜日

About Christmas

What is a nativity play?
Christmas is celebrated on the 25th of December in England, with a Christmas dinner for the whole family.

What is a Christmas carol?
We have special songs which we sing during the Christmas season. The songs are known as carols and they are about Jesus and the time when he was born. They were written for a special purpose, often to accompany performances of religious dramas dating from medieval times.

Write on your blog about 5 things you learned about Christmas in the UK. (Write in MS Word first, then copy to your blog.)
1 Poinsettias are traditional Christmas plants.
2 A traditional Christmas dinner includes roast turkey, brussels sprouts, roast potatoes, cranberry sauce, rich nutty stuffing, tiny sausages wrapped in bacon and lashings of hot gravy.
3 The Christmas trees, during the Victorian times, were decorated with candles to remind children of the stars in the sky at the time of the birth of Jesus.
4 Christmas Eve (December 24) is traditionally the day for decorating churches and homes. It marks the beginning of the period formally known as Christmas-tide.
5 People around the world send Christmas Cards to their friends and family.

2007年12月4日火曜日

“Beowulf”is a movie,starring Ray Winstone,Anthony Hopkins,Angelina Jolie. It is baseed on an Old English heroic epic poem of anonymous authorship. Its creation dates to between the 8th and the 11th century.
In the poem, Beowulf is a hero of the Geats. He is mortally wounded in the final battle, and after his death he is buried in a barrow in Geatland by his retainers.

“The Golden Compass”is the first volume in the children's fantasy series movie,starring Dakota Blue Richards,Nicole Kidman.It story is about Northern Lights is the first novel in the His Dark Materials trilogy, written by the British novelist Philip Pullman and published in 1995.

The superficial resemblance of protagonist Lyra Belacqua's alethiometer (depicted on the book's cover) to a large compass caused the North American publishers of Northern Lights to retitle the book The Golden Compass. In fact, The Golden Compasses was an early proposal for the name of the trilogy (instead of His Dark Materials), taken from Milton's Paradise Lost, where it refers to the drawing instrument, rather than the navigation instrument.

Northern Lights won the Carnegie Medal for children's fiction in the UK in 1995, and in 2007 it was selected by judges of the Carnegie Medal as one of the ten most important children's novels of the past 70 years. In recent times, however, there has been some controversy about the book's message regarding religion.

2007年11月20日火曜日

An oversea drama


The thing which I want to watch most now The OC.It’s an overseas drama. I watched season 1.I often went to borrow DVD. Now I can rent season 2 but there was not all it.

2007年11月13日火曜日

November

a) Which Japanese singer sang this song?
Ayaka Hirahara
b)How old is she?
24 years old
c) What and where is she studying now?
She is studying in the Faculty of Jazz majoring in saxophone at Senzoku Gakuen College of Music.
d) Her song "Jupiter" is based on which piece of classical music?
the "Jupiter" section of The Planets Suite by Gustav Holst.
e) When was this piece of music first performed and who was the conductor?
October 10, 1920
f) "Jupiter" is one part of this music. How many parts are there all together, and what are the names of the other parts?
There are seven.
Mars,Venus,Mercury,Jupiter,Saturn,Uranus,Neptune.
g) Who wrote the original classical music piece?
Gustav Holst
h) When and where was he born?
In 1874 at 4 Clarence Road.
i) Where did he study music?
Cheltenham Grammar School for Boys.
j) When did he die?
25 May1934
k) Write your comment about these pieces of music.
It is difficult.


a) When was this story published in Britain?.
1964
b) Who wrote the story?
Roald Dahl
c) When and where was he born, and when did he die?
At 32 Fairwater Road in 1916, 23 November 1990.
d) Which country were his parents from?
Norway