Hi, ladies!!
I appreciate your great efforts to hold the talk show yesterday, Plum.
I also thank you, Sunflower, Fumiko-san (sorry, I forgot your Blog name), Cosmos, Alice, and all members.
I had a very exciting experience on the show as a Japanese guest, and figured out what Plum told me before, there was a lot to learn. Before the show start, I got nervous with a large audience. But during the warming up time, I was feeling relaxed and inspired by a lot of vigorous talking with Sunflower and two other participants, who showed me a positive attitude toward English.
The lecture presented by Mr. Blower was actually interesting and productive even for a beginner like me. I’d like to listen to him about other issues.
Last night, I was so relieved but mentally exhausted that went to bed at ten o’clock…! Now, I’m full of life. So, let’s start another challenge! See you next.
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Hello, ladies!
Yesterday was Sunday, but very special Sunday for our group. Above all, I was very glad to see so many attendants enjoying communication in English in Tunagaretto. Mr. Blower is a very nice man who speaks friendly and sociably. His step fathers experience was very fun and entertained us. It is very difficult to make up an ideal medical system, which gives everyone satisfaction, especially society is becoming gray. Unemployed persons can take a free treatment in Engrand, it sound nice. I’ve heard that welfare recipients in America can live more peacefully than lower middle class people, too, because they needn’t pay tax and are given everything that they need to live.
I am afraid that younger people become to long for homeless people.
Thank you for reading my rambling talk. See you again, ladies. Bye!
Hi Cherry and friends,
Yesterday I had a great time with you attended the Talk Show at Tunagaretto and I appreciate Plum who had planned and organized this show for us. I also want to say thank you to all of you who worked hard to make this show fruitful and meaningful. I felt time went by so quickly. I wanted to learn more from Mr. Blower who talked and answered very friendly and kindly. After the Talk Show, I went to have tea at with Mr. Blower, Plum and some of our members and very enjoyable time. He looked satisfied and relaxed with us at the restaurant. I hope he will have another lecture for us someday.
I went to Plum’s house this afternoon to discuss my first essay writing. I sent my essay to her to be checked last week. My essay is not enough to say to be a research essay yet, rather far away from a research essay. Plum kindly explain how important to argue in the essay with critical perspective not just to praise or admire someone and her achievements for the next eassy. This time I will finish this oneW without critical perspective and send it to Beb-sensei and try to rewrite again. I will try to do my best, anyway. Thank you so much, Plum, for the important and valuable advice.
Hi, ladies!!!
I am very pleased to hear that all of you enjoyed the Talk Show. It was fun to listen to Luke. His jokes were very simple, which is good, and quite understandable, weren’t they? I laughed a lot and so did you.
We have learned a lot from him about the National Health Service and school system in the UK, which is excellent and wonderful. I like learning and I am sure so do you.
Now, it’s time to learn how to use and not to use articles (sorry about mentioning this). But actually it is fun to learn about articles. Believe me. There are some systematic and methodical rules in the usage of articles. Let’s find them out.
The article is from the BBC website and the answers are listed below.
Swiss 'gigolo' admits blackmail
A Swiss man has pleaded guilty to seducing several rich women in order to swindle them out of millions of dollars, at (1) trial in Munich, Germany.
Helg Sgarbi - nicknamed by (2) media as the Swiss Gigolo - faces up to 10 years in prison for fraud and extortion.
His most prominent victim was Susanne Klatten, (3) heiress of the German car manufacturer BMW.
Sgarbi told (4) court he deeply regretted his actions and apologised to his victims.
(5) Prosecutors say Mrs Klatten, (6) married business tycoon who owns (7) 12.5% stake in BMW, gave Helg Sgarbi nearly $9m, but went to the police after he tried to blackmail her.
(8) Reclusive 46-year-old mother-of-three said he secretly videoed them having sex in a Munich hotel and threatened to make the tape public if he did not receive another $18m.
The BBC's Steve Rosenberg in Munich says there has been a huge amount of media attention on (9) trial, which is being described as one of the most remarkable and sensational in (10) German judicial history.
Answers:
1. a: first mention and unspecified.
2. the: specified, meaning the German media.
3. the: specified by the following “of…”.
4. the: the court, meaning the judges.
5. ---: in general, so zero article with countable noun.
6. a: not specified by the following “who…”.
7. a: first mention and unspecified.
8. the: already mentioned and so specified.
9. the: already mentioned and so specified.
10. ---: uncountable noun, so zero article.
Hi, ladies!!!
It’s Tuesday, March 10, 2009 today. The sky was blue but it was a bit windy during the day. Probably it’s still windy, since I can hear the wind.
I am very pleased to hear that some of you enjoyed the quizzes I made and listed in my messages.
This is a new one I made from a piece of news about biotechnology. What do you think about this piece of news?
The web article is from BBC English Learning, and the answers are listed below.
Obama to fund stem cell research
9 March 2009
For eight years American scientists have been banned by (1) law from using taxpayers’ money to assist in work on most embryonic stem cell lines. (2) Result, according to many scientists, has been (3) reduction in the effectiveness of their research.
Embryonic stem cells can morph into any cell in the body, and they might one day assist in curing (4) chronic conditions such as diabetes, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. But their use involves the destruction of embryos, typically those left over from (5) fertility treatment.
America's religious conservatives are deeply upset. One called the Obama announcement, ‘a slap in (6) face to Americans who believe in the dignity of all human life’. The Republican Party is also opposing (7) move, which is yet another bold step away from the policies and ideology of the Bush years, in which (8) religious faith often trumped (9) scientific advice. That approach, Mister Obama will make clear today, is now (10) history.
Justin Webb, BBC News, Washington
Answers:
1. ---: in general, so zero article with uncountable noun.
2. The: specifying in this context.
3. a: first mention and unspecified.
4. ---: in general, so zero article with countable noun.
5. ---: in general, so zero article with uncountable noun.
6. the: “a slap in the face”, meaning a serious insult.
7. the: specifying in this context.
8. ---: in general, so zero article with uncountable noun.
9. ---: in general, so zero article with uncountable noun.
10. ---: in general, so zero article with uncountable noun.
Dear Cherry and friends,
Hello. It was a bit windy today while the sky looked bluer than last week.
I enjoyed the systematic, earnest, and strict English composition seminar that you offered us at TCLC this morning, Plum. As you insisted, all we need to cling is not to you but to dictionaries, references, and the Internet.
When I was at home, I found a new book containing essays written by ordinary people. My mother bound the book in her writing class today. This class is held at the NHK culture center once a month. Since the teacher is popular, students have been increasing and there are more than 20 students in the class now. So each student is allowed to write only a few pages to be included in a book that is compiled at the end of a 6 month course.
For the latest version, Mother, who has been attending this class for some years, wrote about an answering machine she used a long time ago. Our business started literally as a papa and mama shop when I was a child so if both parents were out they would miss calls from customers. To avoid it, they bought an answering machine which was as big as a fax machine currently available. It was way bigger than a mobile phone usually functioning as an answering machine these days.
Hearing her first recorded message, "I am not at home now. Please leave your message," my uncle thought that my mother became insane at last. A woman left a message which said irritatingly, "... I don't know how to deal with this. I don't like this," and hung up the phone. People were not familiar with such a wicked machine.
Prior to writing about the machine, Mother called a phone company to find out details about both old answering machines and recent ones. It seems she enjoys checking facts and writing essays.
Tomorrow afternoon I'm going to attend a lecture delivered by Dr. Kathryn Gleadle. I'm looking forward to listening to her.
See you tomorrow.
Good night.
Hi Cherry and friends,
It was fine and warm today and seemed that spring is just around the corner. But I have been suffering from hay fever especially in the morning and evening. I keep sneezing and my eyes are itchy as many people are complaining.
Today I’d like to introduce some interesting parts of the poem “Youth” by Samuel Ullman (1840-1924), born in Germany and immigrated with his family to America at the age of eleven.
Youth is not a time of years; it is a state of mind;
…Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the sole.
Isn’t it nice? This poem was in his poetry book published at his own expense to celebrate his eighty years olds birthday. I was encouraged by this poem and kept this part in my mind.
It’s time to go to bed. Good dream, my precious friends.
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