My feeling

Good evening

We finished our English class. I hope this class was effective in learning English for us.  For me, even though I can not speak very well and do not have large vocabulary, I tried to speak in the range of my level. I think my speaking ability developed compared with before. Before I was very shy when I speak in English. Because  i was always worried about grammatical errors and could not speak. During this class , I know that i did many grammatical mistakes. But I did not care and I could communicate you guys . For that reason I could develope my speaking ability and realized should not be ashamed. 
  And I would like to express my thanks to guys for taking this class. Because you guys' English level was good (especially Shino and Saya)  it was an encouragement and envy to me. 
At last, thank you very much teacher. Although it is true that I could not understand your speaking well and it was very fast for me(:p) , this class could be good practice. 
Thank you everyone.

My topic was Palmistry

Good evening.
I saw you guys' discussion topic and i will think about them.
But there is not only my topic. Although we finished it, i want to tell my topic was about palmistry for someone who was not last class.

see you tomorrow, our last English class

For the last lesson...

Good evening, how's going?
I understood you guys.
My topick is about a marriage.
When you get married, do you want to keep your job or quit?
Why?
It's the debate topic.
Let's think about it together.

Good night and see you guys tomorrow:)

Shino

report topic

hi! how are you?

first, im sorry about last week. i overslept...xo
tomorrow i absolutely get up early... sorry

by the way, i decided my report topic and i wanna you to consider about "Same sex marriage".
On july, i read the news that N.Y state received the low "Same sex marrige".
of course among you guys, may think that it is inadmissible... but why?
many problems may be happen about "Same sex marrige" and construction of society.
however only that, it is strange to arrest people who got married to same sex person.
what do you think about it?

sorry, i cant introduce about my topic.
see you next class!!

Aska

Hi, how are you doing?
I'm dying coz of exams...

By the way,I heard I have to make a topic to discuss, and give you guys some introduction first...
so I said I was gonna talk about a movie "twilight", but I've changed it.
My topic is about "only child".
I don't know if you guys have any sisters or brothers, but I'm only child.
I mean I don't have any sis or bro.
Generally, the image of only child is like lonly,pitier,selfish,non sociability....
There is no good image.
What do you think about it?
Do you wanna have one kid or more?
Is there no advantage for only child??

Let's talk about it on Tuesday.
See you soon.

Report topic

hi,
How was your test?
I did my best, but I wonder if my score is good;; Thursday morning, I have Chinese class test, so I'm very nervous...

By the way, about tomorrow's class, I'm going to talk about a pet. This is not difficult question, I think^^
If you have time, please think about a pet. If you have a pet, please tell me about him/she.

But, I'm writing a report now;; I wonder if I finish writing a report by English class>< I do my best!!

see you, tomorrow:)

Shino vol.2

I would like to talk about ａmarriage.
Would you like to get married or not?
why?
Would you like your partner to quit the job or not?

It'll be my turn tomorrow, right?
If you have time, please think about it.

cheers,

Hi, everyone.
Actually I'm not available on Thursday.
I already told Mr.Philips.
Sorry , I will do my report on the last class.
Good luck;)

Saya

p.s I may be gonna talk about a movie "Twilight".
Have you guys watched it ?
Even if not, no worry, I will try to explain the story!

Shino

hi guys, how are you?
I had a test in the morning.
I could't do very well do that it still makes me depressed.

By the way, how many people are ganna make the reports?
Please let me know.

I hope everyone had a good time today!

Remember, you can listen to all different kinds of podcasts any time you want to listen to English for practice. I played some of my favorites today, but there are many more you can listen to at your leisure.

Don't forget there are plenty of movies you can watch in my office, too. Here's a trailer for one:

Good evening:D

first, sorry I was absent from before class(8/30) because I came back to Aomori from Osaka in the morning and I reached my home at 10:00. So I couldnt go to English class in time.

I read your comments...I wanna practece listening English too, but I wanna try to talk something in English.

However we dont have any time to prepare anyting...so...do you have any ideas?
if there are nothing to do next class, I wanna listen to English :)


Aska

More listening?

OK, you want more listening practice. Listening to podcasts is harder than listening to movies, since you can't watch. If you didn't know that before Thursday you should have learned it in the last class. The question is whether we try more of that or something else. Your comments welcome. :-)

tomorrow

Hi, everyone.
I would like to watch another movie tomorrow too.
Watching the movies is a good way to practice for reading, listening and vocab.
We chose some movies in our first class, and actually the simpsons and Chicago which we have already watched were my choices!
(maybe you guys also choose the simpsons)
So I would like to watch other movies which you guys chose.

And, I think we should do something after watching a movie...I mean, not just watching a movie...but I don't have any ideas ^^;
We should speak more...no?

thanks.

Tomorrow's Class

Hi,

Do you prepare for tests?
I have a lot of assignments;;
I cant do;;

Tomorrow's English class, what should we do?
Last week, we watched Russian movie, we practiced reading skill.
Tomorrow is writing or listening or speaking practice?

Shino, you wanna watch another movie, right?
I agree to you!! I'd like to watch a movie, especially English movie with English subtitles because I wanna practice reading and listening practice more!!

How about you, everyone?

tomorrow

hi guys, how are you?
id like to watch a movie which we've chosen several weeks ago.
i don't mind what kind of movie we are ganna have it.
how about you?

Have not seen you for a long time

Good morning. I haven't seen you guys and teacher for a long time. How was your first summer vocation. I hope it was wonderful.
First I need to apologize for being absent last week's English class. Because I was not in Japan. In my summer vocation, I went to Mongolia after 2 years. It is been a long time.  Last two years, there were lots of changes in Mongolia and I realized many things.
I wanted to come back here before beginning of university . But there was no ticket of 20 and so I bought only ticket of 24.  Therefore,  I could not get English class. I am so sorry.

I heard that you guys watched movie last class. But I do not know  what we do next class. I am glad if you answer this.






.

Here's the trailer

Sorry to add this after you've seen the film, but I hope it's interesting.

the movie

hi guys, good morning!

last time, the movie was so interesting, and easier to understand english than the simpsons!
derus is so smart, and has so much knowledges.
his skills are needed for living in that kind of environment.
i guess he means so much to the captain.
anyway i expect rest of the movie today.

see you soon

DERSU UZALA

Good evening, everyone!!

On Tuesday, we watched a movie "DERSU UZALA". This was Russian movie. Actors spoke Russian, so I couldn't understand what they said;; But English subtitles was on, this was easy to understand for me. I could understand the story of this movie.

DERSU UZALA helped soldiers and Captain of them. Yesterday's last scene, Captain told DERSU to come with them, but he refused. This scene means that he is proud of being a hunter, and he want to live in a place where his family died, I think. It was very interesting!!

In tomorrow's class, we will watch the rest of the movie, right?
I'm looking forward to it^^

thanks, see you tomorrow!!

Movie

Good evening, how is going everyone?

I enjoyed the movie yesterday.
It was interesting for me that listening to other languages because there's few chances to hear them except English.
I've seen a movie "Salt" before.
In that movie, Angelina Jolie was speaking Russian language.
I like it too.

I didn't understand some words in that movie but I've already got them by using dictionary.
I look forward to watching it again tomorrow.

See ya soon.

Hi everyone

I'm sorry that I hadn't been hare for a long time.
Last class on Tuesday, it was a good opportunity to know what the blues is.
In fact, it was the first time to think about it for me.

Why I'm here today is that I don't know what we are going to do tomorrow.
I think we would have writng test or something.
It is also last class just before the summer break.
If you want to do something else, please tell us.
Have a good night,

Shino

Here's now to add trailers

or anything from YouTube, really.

Press "share" then "embed" then copy to code. Then paste it in your message, like this:



From the most romantic movie ever made.

Recommend movie

Good morning guys

i want to share my favorite movies. These movies are ''Ugly Betty'' and ''One tree hill''.  It is very interesting and amazing. I saw all season and episode. ''Ugly Betty'' has 4season 85episode, '' One tree hill'' has 8 season and each season has 22episode. it takes much time if you see until the final season. But it is very interesting so recommend them.

And here is a site link, there are many movies in this site, of course included these two movies.
http://www.sidereel.com/

i tried to share trailers of these movies, but there is error - [URL contains illegal characters ]? i don't know
'One tree hill' trailer is  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Nk-Tp5ZSPs
'Ugly Betty' trailer is  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IFgj1A6uMU

Have a good time and enjoy your weekend and Monday, yeah we have no class on Monday

Tomorrow ...

Good evening everyone.

I decided my report topic and it's about "Uti and Soto".
When I was young, my mother usually said "Uti is uti, soto is soto."
Japanese like to gather with Japanese and they(we) are reluctant to make a group with Yosomono(others).

This way of thinking is good but it leads to many problems, I think.

Thanks:)

Report topic

Good evening

My report topic is ''Japanese respectful language(honorifics 敬語)''.
A half year ago, I took a survey from foreigner students about their surprised things when they came in Japan. Most of students answered that  there were many honorifics and  Japanese respectful language was tiresome. And i think that too.
So i decided to write this topic.

To Saya...

See!
In fact, I was not sure about that.
I forgot what we were ganna research on our report...lol
I'm sorry, now I got it.

Shino

I guees...

Hi guys, how was this weekend?
I did nothing special as usual lol

Shino, Y mean that y will introduce one of "Japanese traditional stuff",right?
Well, that's a nice idea, but actually I meant debate about both bad and good sides about Japanese culture.
Anyway, that's fine!

I'm gonna write a report about ''Honne to(and) Tatemae''...maybe...
if i can...

have a good night


saya

Shino

Good evening;)
How was your weeked?
I had no part-time job this weeked, I enjoyed a party with my friends at Mr. Sawada's home yesterday and I slept allday:-)

I'm going to tell about tea ceremony and Japanese dance on my report.
How about you guys?

Actually....

I said i cant attend the class next Tuesday, but I was wrong!!!
I can attend the class next Tuesday, but I have to be abcent on Tuesday, 19th July.
Sorry, so I should write a report about Japanese culture by next Tuesday,right??



Saya

Shino

Ok, sounds good Shunsuke.
In my opinion, I'd like to discuss "First impression".
What is the first impression, how important it is for you guys, sth like that:)

Thanx,

Shino

Hi!!

Hi, how are you?

Shino, I think you are right. Tomorrow, we have to do discussion(debate??), maybe.
We had better decide a topic, but we have little time for preparing. So, an easy topic is good!!

For example, How about Communication??(what is good communication?, How to ice-breaking, How to communicate people who you meet first time...etc). But this is a little bit difficult topic...;;
Though I suggested, I don't reccomend...

So, do you have any other ideas?

Gd evening:)

Hi, how's going?
What are we ganna talk about tmr?
I mean we're going to have discussion tomorrow, right?
we have to decide the topic tonight...well, do I misunderstand?

I hope someone will reply for me;)

Shino

Hi, there^^

Hi guys, you had a good weekend, didn't you?


my opinion what we do after watching the Simpsons is debating about Japanese culture.
actually i just combined you guys' ideas...
coz we are gonna watch the Simpsons, the story is about visiting Japan.
we will know what foreigners think about Japan.
we will realize there are many both good and bad japanese culture or habits.
also,we may be able to get many opinions from Mr,Philips and Tsagaanaa:)

during the kind of debate, we should use new vocabs that we get them from the movie.
.....

that's my opinion:)


Saya

Good evening

Hi!
I forgot my password, I couldn't write article.
Now, I get new password. Be careful so as not to forget your password.

By the way... I think what we sould do next English class.
Watching Simpsons is good idea becouse we like Simpsons and animation can remind us easier what they do and what they say.
If we can't understand perfectly what they say, we can imagine them from scenes.
The result of watching and hearing , we can study vocabulary or idiom, I think.
I want to more increase my vocabulary...

And I think listening to news is good, Shunsuke. I wanna lisning to English, too.

Thanks:)

Aska

About Tomorrow's Class

Hi,

I don't have any ideas yet, but I think watching Simpsons is a good idea. I agree with Shino.
And, Tsagaanaa's idea(Talking about some topics) sounds good, but there is little time for preparing for the topic. So, if we do that, we should choose easy topic (introducing our hobbies, how was our weekend, ...etc).



...How about listening training??
That was done last class, but I don't think it was enough.
So, I want to do that again!!!!
If we do it, I'd like to listen to more News.

Do you have any ohter ideas????

Hi

Hi, how are you today?
Tsagaanaa, you had a good weekend!
That sounds really fun;)
I think I should spend my time outside more.

It's rainy, and I'm so cold today:(
I know some people get sick 'caz of the weather, and can't attend their classes.
Please take care of yourself, don't catch a cold;;

Well, I have thought of the next class, what we should do on Tuesday, but haven't come up with any ideas yet.
I think Tsagaanaa's idea is good:)

We'll watch the Simpsons first, and then talk about sth...
Well wait, if we do that, we should've decide the topic, and look over it, searching on the Internet or books to spread our knowledge out in advance.
Umm...oh, it maybe depends on the topic...:(

How about writing?
Mr. Philips said we've done well on the writing test on that day.

I also look forward to hearing from other people about the class.

Thanx,

Shino:)

New Monday

Good morning
How was your weekend ? (i believe it was awesome ;) )
For me, it was so fast  because Saturday was Wednesday class.
Yesterday, I went Totemachi to watch Yosakoi Tsugaru festival. This festival was very exciting and awesome. I really wanted dancing but i wore skirt lol ...so i couldn`t  - yeah it was my fault : ( (I should have worn trousers). By the way, last year I was member of Yosakoi circle (sakuru) Hirosaki university and i participated this festival.

Next, want to talk and discuss tomorrow English class
what shall we do ?
Is there anyone who wants to do someting tomorrow. We should decide it until today`s evening. But there is not any idea.
In my opining:
Let`s talk about what you want to know from others. Ex: what do you think about god? , Do you think we should speak in english like native speakers?, What do you think about refugees? 
It is not like debate, just know someones idea, but maybe depends on topic it will be like debate. Of course if you want to debate that time on that topic, Why not? :)  I think it is good for our speaking and listening.
So prepare your question and of course your idea.

how about it, what do you think? it is just my idea.
I`m looking forward your ideas.
I will check blog every hour.

Good Evening

Everyone wanna watch "Sympsons".
That's a good idea!!!

It is exciting!!!
So, I wanna change my opinion, too.
I'd like to watch "Sympsons"!!!!

I'm looking forward to tomorrow's class!!

Thank you.

Good evening

Hi!
It was hot, but now the wind is good. It's cool :D

By the way, I want to change my opinion, sorry.
Shimpsons!! I wanna watch it very much. I love Shimpsons family.

Why did they go to Japan...? It's so exciting to know what they did there from now!
Tsagaanaa, you'er right! Wonderful!!

Well... see you tomorrow's English class.

Aska

Good evening!

It's me, Shino.
I thought it's better if I write this here rather than writing Saya's.
I also know that movie which Saya's already mentioned.
I said I wanna have the another one, but I'd like to change my opinion.

"Simpsons in Japan", I wanna have this one.
As you know we didn't choose it, but why don't we try it this time?
I hope that'll be good for all you guys.

Thanx.
Shino:)

oops...

well,well...I know it's too late,but please let me introduce myself a little bit...


My name is Saya,and I am a native Tsugaru-ben speaker!!lol
However, usually,I try to hide my accecnt, so I believe nobody notices that I am from Hirosaki...lol

Um..I have nothing special to introduce about me...but I just love my cat, UK/US rock music, live, teddy bears,drinking,chatting, and English!

Let's go for drink before this term finishes if you guys like it...
but I'm not sure if I can ask you guys directly...///lol

Nice to meet you anyway, thanks.


Saya ;)

I finally got here...TT

Hi this is Saya, I finally got how to post my comments on here lol
I'm so sorry about it.

Anyway, I'd like to watch the Simpsoms that is a story when the Simpsons came to Japan.
It's chosen by nobody in our class, but I've been interested in it since professor Philips said about it!!
What do you guys think about it??



Saya ;)

I got it!

P.S.

Please click the title "What are we ganna watch?".
You'll go to the site which you can watch the related movies.
Thanx.

Shino

What are we ganna watch?

Hi, how was your weekend?
We'll decide the movie what we're going to watch next, right?

I'd like to have "Groundhog Day" on next Thursday.
I've attached the link which you can see the related videos.
(I've might been misunderstood, if so, I'm sorry for that. I'm not sure how I could attach the videos.)

I wanna tell you why I've chosen it but I'm so sleepy now;;
I'll do that sometime later before Thu.
Good night!

Shino

Trailer

Sorry i don't know how to add trailer.
But here is the trailer's URL
if you want to watch trailer, click here or copy and paste it.Sorry :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4iTjavIkbk

Tuesday lesson

Hi, everyone
On Tuesday, i want to watch "Constant gardener".
-----It tells the story of Justin Quayle, a British diplomat whose activist wife is murdered. Believing there is something behind the murder, he seeks to uncover the truth and finds an international conspiracy of corrupt bureaucracy and pharmaceutical money.The plot was based on a real life case in Kano, Nigeria. ------

It seems very interesting.

How about you guys, what movie do you want to watch on Tuesday?

Self introduction

Hello everyone
Finally I joined this blog.
Thank you teacher for sending me URL again.

Before introduce myself, I want to sorry for my
late self-introduction.
My name is Lkhagvadorj Tsagaansanaa. it's
very difficult to say and remember.
So you can call me Tsagaanaa.
It is my nickname.
Some people who heard of my name say that your
name was Sakana, right? (in Japanese it means fish).
Oh my god, my name is not fish.
Actually, my name is very beautiful, it means pure
mind and heart.
My father gave this name, thank you dad I love my
name.

I am from Mongolia. 2 years ago i came here, it is my
first foreign country.
My major in the university is international
politics, and student of Carpenter's seminar.
I am very interested
in guitar. So i bought one. but it is very difficult to learn.
I
am looking for someone who can teach me how to play guitar(for free
:P).
If one of you knows someone, please introduce to me

Lastly
, i hope my English skill will be good, so i will do my best.
Thank
all of you, let's do our best

Dream Prognosticator

Good evening everyone!
I was looking for the sites which you can look for the dream prognosticator, but I havn't found out them yet!
I'm sorry:(
If you're interested in it, I'll tell you the books which you'd probably understand them more.

・西郷信綱『古代人の夢』(平凡社選書、1972年)
・江口孝夫『夢で見る日本人』(文春新書、2001年)
・酒井紀美『夢語り・夢解きの中世』(朝日選書、2001年)
・酒井紀美『夢から探る中世』(角川選書、2005年)
・西郷弘『吉夢の献』(『国学院雑誌』67,7、1966年7月)

I'll let you know if I could find something on the Internet!

Hi everyone in English AⅢ class!

Hi, how's going there?
Are you guys making the report for tmr?
What are they?
I mean, can you tell me what kind of things you guys writing?
Thanx, see y soon!

Shino

Ready for the end of "Chicago"?

Here's the trailer:

How do you think it will end?

While you're thinking about that, consider the influence of Bob Fosse, native of Chicago, in writing the book the play is based on, not to mention inspiring the choreography. Choreography is listed as "miscellaneous crew" in the Internet Movie Database. That's probably unfair not only to Fosse, but to the whole genre of dance films. Before working in movies he was one of the most important choreographers on Broadway. His influence on American popular dance on both stage and screen is incalculable.

Notice the opening number in "Chicago"? "All that Jazz"? That's also the title of an earlier film written, directed, and (of course) choreographed by Bob Fosse. Many critics insisted it was autobiographical, but Fosse totally denied it. Was he just in denial? Woody Allen always said the same thing about his films to critics who made the same judgements. Judge for yourselves if you want to see another dance movie with even more Bob Fosse influence.

How did you like the Simpsons?

I get asked to show that movie in class a lot. It's one of my favorites, too. You can learn a lot of useful English from it, too, including current slang and even sometimes more technical vocabulary. It has even contributed some words to English, such as "Doh!" and "Meh." Well, maybe that's not so important for your vocabulary, but I know you learned some words watching it. Here's the Wikipedia article about the Simpsons.

Here's a clip from the TV show:

Hello!

Hi,My name is Asuka Watanabe. I'm from Kuroishi city in Aomori prefecture.It's near Hirakawa city. Kuroishi is famous for Kuroishi Yosare,Kokeshi and Hot spring resort. When you are free,please come to Kuroishi. I'll show you around the city by car.I love driving!

I'm a member of professor Carpenter Seminar,too.I'm interested in Spanish culture and Caribbean world. I want to increase knowlege about Spain and find the most interesting topic for me. And I want to improve my Spanish. I have studied it for three years. However Europian language is more difficult than English. I'm not good at studying English, but I like English when I study Spanish. Well...studying Spanish is fun and fresh for me. Spanish pronunciation is same as Japanese. If you have an interest in Spanish, vamos a estudiar Espannol conmigo!

In Hirosaki University, I'm a member of Sakura volunrteer club. I like to come in contact with people and to play with children.This weekend, I'm going to join in children's sport festival to help management.

Nice to meet you:D

Self Introduction!!

Hello, everyone!!
My name is Shunsuke Saito. I'm from Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture.
I belong to Professor Carpenter's seminar,and study International Politics. Now, I'm interested in FTA(Free Trade Agreement) of Asia. So, I'm studying it and looking for books about FTA. If you know good books about it, please tell me!!
My favorite thing is Bowling. I'm a bowler. I have played bowling for five years. Bowling is very interesting and exciting for me!! I love bowling!! If you want to take a good score,I'll teach you!!
Nice to meet you!!!!!!

Welcome to class!

Welcome to another English class. Feel free to communicate together on this blog. It also has useful links for learning English. There will be occasional assignments here, too, for you to give reports and provide links, graphics and even videos that will be useful for understanding what you've been doing in class.