Hi, ladies!!
Current news:
The government has decided to give the People’s Honor Award to Mitsuko Mori, the actress who last week marked her 2000th performance in the play “Horoki”, Chief Cabinet Secretary Kawamura said Monday. Mori, 89, is popular with audiences of all ages. In addition to playing the lead in “Horoki”, which is based on the autobiography of Fumiko Hayashi, Mori has starred in many TV dramas, including “Jikan Desuyo”.
Kawamura said at a press conference: “She has given hope to the public and enriched their lives. Her achievement is a great milestone and a record that no one else has or will reach.”
…We should be proud of her great performance. Is she really 89 years old?! I want to know the secret of her health and liveliness.
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Hi ladies,
I have just caught up with the advance of the blog. I have been away from it for almost two weeks because of being occupied in entertaining my mother and preparing the lecture of May 17th.
Cherry, you are a great guardian to hold the fort sometimes alone, that is to say, to keep writing. I am really impressed with your progress in writing English in various fields. I think you are a living evidence for Plum’s method of improving writing English; efforts to continue to write every day works.
Alice, Cherry and Cosmos, thank you very much for expressing your opinions regarding my last proposal on teatime donation. They are very supportive.
During GW holidays, My husband and I drove to Yatsugatake and Tateshina highlands with my mother. She lives in Otsu City in Shiga Pref. with my younger sister’s family. Although she is 84 years old, thanks to her good health, she can still enjoy making cloisonné enamel pictures and composing haiku poems. We thought it would be good refreshment for her to feel early spring atmosphere in the mountain areas where the remaining snow and cherry blossoms could be seen at a time. Fortunately enough, fair weather welcomed us during the trip. She sometimes took memos down in her pocketbook. The highlight of the trip was visiting three Kitazawa Museums in Kiyosato and Suwa. The museum is famous for its excellent glass collection of Emile Galle, Rene Lalique, and Daum (an art glass company in France). I’m sure she liked their exhibitions.
My mother stayed with us for three days after we returned home. Frankly speaking, being a companion with her made me tired because she is slightly hard of hearing and walks faster than I. You can imagine the problem that I had during the trip. Well, I could not work with PC because she constantly muttered to herself, may be complaining about her long widowed life, in front of me. I could neither ignore it nor refute it.
It is getting late. I should stop now. Good night, ladies.
Hi, ladies!!!
It has been fairly windy today, hasn’t it?
But the wind has been rather balmy and pleasant (so, it’s OK), although it has been quite noisy around my house.
One of my students at the university library is a Japanese language teacher, and according to her, she teaches Japanese using English, since most of her students could understand English.
One of her students is a pregnant Frenchwoman who she said asked her to take her maternity clinic on a regular base and interpret for her what her doctor said. (My student remarked that she would like to improve her English as quickly as possible so as just to be helpful and supportive for her French student. How thoughtful she is!!! I was tremendously impressed by her story.)
She is a lovely lady in her late 30s, but unfortunately she is, at the moment, in the beginners’ class, though she is not really a beginner, because she cannot come to the one for intermediate level students due to her teaching duty. (She was in the intermediate class last year.)
What she thought about in terms of solving the problem of keeping up her English competency appears to be writing an English email to me regularly, asking me to correct her English mistakes each time.
I don’t mind correcting her English mistakes, since I’ve bought an English grammar mistake correction program. I just cut and paste her writing into the program and later make some minor changes to it.
Here is a new quiz for you and me, my precious friends. Have fun.
Civilian casualties in Sri Lanka
11 May 2009
Report
(1) UN's spokesman here, Gordon Weiss, told the BBC that more than 100 children died during what he called (2) large-scale killing of civilians over the weekend. He said the UN had 'warned against (3) bloodbath scenario' and the weekend's events showed that 'that bloodbath has become (4) reality'.
A doctor working in the war zone said on Sunday that the bodies of 378 people had been registered at his hospital and that many other corpses were lying outside. He said (5) heavy arms appeared to have been fired from government-run territory into (6) mainly civilian area under Tamil Tiger rebel control. But the government said (7) Tigers had done (8) firing. The issue of civilian casualties is highly sensitive here and the state-owned Daily News on Monday makes no mention of the incident at all.
In New York the British Foreign Secretary David Miliband is to co-sponsor informal discussions with ministers and charities on (9) island's humanitarian situation. The Sri Lankan government is dismissive of calls from him and other diplomats for (10) ceasefire in the north. It says it's about to defeat the rebels permanently and that (10) ceasefire would not help civilians.
Charles Haviland, BBC News, Colombo
Answers:
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Hi, ladies!!!
It has been fairly windy today, hasn’t it?
But the wind has been rather balmy and pleasant (so, it’s OK), although it has been quite noisy around my house.
One of my students at the university library is a Japanese language teacher, and according to her, she teaches Japanese using English, since most of her students could understand English.
One of her students is a pregnant Frenchwoman who she said asked her to take her maternity clinic on a regular base and interpret for her what her doctor said. (My student remarked that she would like to improve her English as quickly as possible so as just to be helpful and supportive for her French student. How thoughtful she is!!! I was tremendously impressed by her story.)
She is a lovely lady in her late 30s, but unfortunately she is, at the moment, in the beginners’ class, though she is not really a beginner, because she cannot come to the one for intermediate level students due to her teaching duty. (She was in the intermediate class last year.)
What she thought about in terms of solving the problem of keeping up her English competency appears to be writing an English email to me regularly, asking me to correct her English mistakes each time.
I don’t mind correcting her English mistakes, since I’ve bought an English grammar mistake correction program. I just cut and paste her writing into the program and later make some minor changes to it.
Here is a new quiz for you and me, my precious friends. Have fun.
Civilian casualties in Sri Lanka
11 May 2009
Report
(1) UN's spokesman here, Gordon Weiss, told the BBC that more than 100 children died during what he called (2) large-scale killing of civilians over the weekend. He said the UN had 'warned against (3) bloodbath scenario' and the weekend's events showed that 'that bloodbath has become (4) reality'.
A doctor working in the war zone said on Sunday that the bodies of 378 people had been registered at his hospital and that many other corpses were lying outside. He said (5) heavy arms appeared to have been fired from government-run territory into (6) mainly civilian area under Tamil Tiger rebel control. But the government said (7) Tigers had done (8) firing. The issue of civilian casualties is highly sensitive here and the state-owned Daily News on Monday makes no mention of the incident at all.
In New York the British Foreign Secretary David Miliband is to co-sponsor informal discussions with ministers and charities on (9) island's humanitarian situation. The Sri Lankan government is dismissive of calls from him and other diplomats for (10) ceasefire in the north. It says it's about to defeat the rebels permanently and that (10) ceasefire would not help civilians.
Charles Haviland, BBC News, Colombo
Answers:
1. The
2. the
3. the
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6. a
7. the
8. the
9. the
10. a
Hi, ladies!!!
It has been fairly windy today, hasn’t it?
But the wind has been rather balmy and pleasant (so, it’s OK), although it has been quite noisy around my house.
One of my students at the university library is a Japanese language teacher, and according to her, she teaches Japanese using English, since most of her students could understand English.
One of her students is a pregnant Frenchwoman who she said asked her to take her maternity clinic on a regular base and interpret for her what her doctor said. (My student remarked that she would like to improve her English as quickly as possible so as just to be helpful and supportive for her French student. How thoughtful she is!!! I was tremendously impressed by her story.)
She is a lovely lady in her late 30s, but unfortunately she is, at the moment, in the beginners’ class, though she is not really a beginner, because she cannot come to the one for intermediate level students due to her teaching duty. (She was in the intermediate class last year.)
What she thought about in terms of solving the problem of keeping up her English competency appears to be writing an English email to me regularly, asking me to correct her English mistakes each time.
I don’t mind correcting her English mistakes, since I’ve bought an English grammar mistake correction program. I just cut and paste her writing into the program and later make some minor changes to it.
Here is a new quiz for you and me, my precious friends. Have fun.
Civilian casualties in Sri Lanka
11 May 2009
Report
(1) UN's spokesman here, Gordon Weiss, told the BBC that more than 100 children died during what he called (2) large-scale killing of civilians over the weekend. He said the UN had 'warned against (3) bloodbath scenario' and the weekend's events showed that 'that bloodbath has become (4) reality'.
A doctor working in the war zone said on Sunday that the bodies of 378 people had been registered at his hospital and that many other corpses were lying outside. He said (5) heavy arms appeared to have been fired from government-run territory into (6) mainly civilian area under Tamil Tiger rebel control. But the government said (7) Tigers had done (8) firing. The issue of civilian casualties is highly sensitive here and the state-owned Daily News on Monday makes no mention of the incident at all.
In New York the British Foreign Secretary David Miliband is to co-sponsor informal discussions with ministers and charities on (9) island's humanitarian situation. The Sri Lankan government is dismissive of calls from him and other diplomats for (10) ceasefire in the north. It says it's about to defeat the rebels permanently and that (10) ceasefire would not help civilians.
Charles Haviland, BBC News, Colombo
Answers:
1. The
2. the
3. the
4. a
5. ---
6. a
7. the
8. the
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