BR 1-16: The Laughing Princess

Kipper knows how to make the princess laugh.

One day Chip read a new book that is written about a princess who couldn't laught. He hit on an interesting idea. He told Biff to make him laugh. She made funny face and put on a funny wig, but he couldn't laugh. And Kipper tried it. He had some joke teeth, so he showed Chip, and he laughed and laughed. The magic key began to glow. The children were in a village and saw a notice that is written about a princess who couldn't laugh. First, they had to make the king of village laugh. Kipper showed the teeth and the king laugh. And they decided to show the princess the teeth. The princess laughed and laughed. They could make the princess laugh.

Hunt, R & Brychta, A. (2003). The Laughing Princess. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (144/6878)

May. 30. 2012

It was the anniversary of the founding yesterday. I went to the park where is Ninomaru to play sports with my classmate. We bought a tool of the badminton at 100yen shop. We went to the park on food, so when we arrived at the park we were very tired. We spread a seat under the tree and took a rest. After we took a rest a little, we played badminton and volleyball. Ayumi was a captain of badminton's team when she was a high school student, so she was good at badminton. We were tired immediately, so we sat on the seat and enjoyed talking. Girls like talking!!! We sweated a lot by playing sports. So we went to downtown and ate icecream. It was very delicious. Iori had to go to her part-time job, so we went to home. We had a great time!!!!!! (147)

BR 1-15: The Shiny Key

The children get the blame when some jewellery is stolen.

I will introduce this story. One day, Chip lost the magic key. Nadim wanted a magic adventure, so he helped Chip to look. They looked in the armchair and then, they found lots of things. They found the magic key, but it was stuck to a toffee. Nadim cleaned it and he made it very shiny. The shiny magic key began to glow. The magic took them into a new adventure. They were in a wood. And they found a shiny ring. They thought that somebody must have dropped it. Then, the soldiers saw the ring. They thotwght that the children stolen the ring, so grabbed the children. The soldiers took them to the prince, and said that the children are thieves. And they saw the shiny magic key, thoght that the children must have locked some stolen things away. Then, a magpie flew down and took the mgagic key. The magpie is flew to the woods. Everyone ran after the magpie. The magpie flew to a tree. Everyone looked in the nest that was full of shiny things. The soldiers understanded that the children were not thieves. Everyone was pleased. The prince gave the children a medal.

Hunt, R & Brychta, A. (2003). The Shiny Key. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (219)

Much Ado about Nothing

Much Ado about Nothing is called Karasawagi in Japanese. This story is a comedy by William Shakespeare. And this movie was shown in 1993. Movie starring Kenneth Branagh and Richard Briers and directed by Kenneth Branagh. Running time is 111 minutes. (42)

Shakespeare in Love

Shakespeare is a 1998. Movie starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes, and directed by John Madden.(17)

My favorite movie(s)

My favorite movie is HannahMontana. The movie was based on Hannah Montana which is a drama on Disneychannel. The movie stars Miley Cyrus. I love Miley Cyrus. I want to be her!!!The movie story is that Hannah Montana is most famous singer in the world, butshe is also Miley Stewart. Miley usually go to school as other people and goshopping as other people. But everyone doesn't know that she is Hannah Montanawho is famous singer. Her father said to her that she should choose one whichis Hannah or Miley. Finally she chose "Miley Stewart". She could get normal life a (107)

Foreign Countries

I have been to England, Bali,Korea, and Hong Kong. I want to talk about England. I went to England forstudying English 5 years ago. I went to Harrow school and stayed at thedormitory in 2 weeks and stayed at host family's home in 3 weeks. England'stown was very beautiful. I took many pictures. I went to Big Ben, Tower ofLondon, London Eye, Oxford, and so on. It was great for my life. Actually Idon't like studying English before I went to England, but I really likestudying English when I backed to Japan. I made many friends who are from manycountries at school. I could (112)

Midnight Run

I  read Japanese Wikipedia. Midnight Run was shown in 1988. Movie starring Robert De Niro and CharlesGrodin, and directed by Martin Brest. The cost was $30 million.  (29)

Movies vocabulary

director (n.) The Dark Knight Rises is Christopher Nolan.
direct (v.) Dark Shadows was directed by Tim Burton.
star (n.) Johnny Depp is the star of Edward Scissorhands.
star (vi.) Johnny Depp started in Ed Wood, Dead Man, and Donnie Brasco.
star (vt.) Dark Shadows stars Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins, Michelle Pfeiffer as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, Helena Bonham Carter as Dr. Julia Hoffman, and Eva Green as Angelique Bouchard.
cost (v.) Inception cost $160 million to make.
earn/make (v.) Inception earned/made more than $825 million at the box office.
tell the story of (v.) Pirates of the Caribbean tells the story of a pirate called Jack Sparrow who has many adventures at sea. (108)

Our memorable day' date

May, 24 was our memorable day. I and my boy friend went to Aso by his car. He is nice driver. We listened music and talked in the car. First, we bought some foods, climbed mountain and ate there. We ate rice ball, chicken, and so on. But It was cloudy, so we were sad. And we went to Yamada' farm. We ate soft cream. It was very delicious. It was different to school' soft cream. And we bought milk at there. There are many animals like cow and pig in the farm.  These were bad smell, but we took a picture them. And we came back to his house. We were very tired, so we slept. At evening, We went to downtown for dinner. My parents manage Izakaya, so we went to there. We ate salad of seafoods, cheese, and swimming pig that is (146)

MR 1-2: Dark Shadow

Dark Shadows is a 2012 American comedy horror film based on the 1966–1971 gothic horror soap opera of the same name. The film is directed by Tim Burton and stars Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins. This movie released on May 10, 2012.

In 1752, Collins family went over from Liverpool to North America. Their son, Barnabas, grows up to be a wealthy playboy in the town. He breaks the heart of one of their servants, who is a witch. After Barnabas rejects her, she kills his parents in revenge and curses his family. (92)

BR 1-14: Kipper and the Giant

Kipper wants to meet a giant, but who is the giant?

Kipper was watching a Tv programme called "The Angry Giant". He liked it. The angry giant lived in a castle near a village. Everyone didn't like him. When the giant was cross he stamped his feet and the house shook. Kipper picked up the magic key and it began to glow. The magic took Kipper to the gate of the giant's castle. He decided to go to the village. He came ro the village but it was tiny. Kipper was a giant. Everyone thought that Kipper is the angry giant, so they threw things at him anf yelled. Kipper began to cry. They said that perhaps he is a little boy but he looks like a giant for them. He helped the villagers to mend their house. He put back the broken roofs. Everyone liked Kipper. Then, the giant came back. He was very angry when he saw Kipper in the village. He ran towards the village. He fell over the stone. Everyone were frightened but Kipper went to help the giant. And Kipper said to the giant that stop being angry and the people will like him. So the giant stopped being angry.

Hunt, R & Brychta, A. (2003). Kipper and the Giant. Oxfordw: Oxford University Press.  (217)

MR 1-1: BRAVE

This movie will release on 21, July. From Disney and Pixar, a new tale joins thelore when the courageous Merida confronts tradition and challenges destiny tochange her fate. I think that Pixar animation was "The world of the boy" like Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Monsters, INC, and so on. Pixar had been using male for the leading role. This movie is first time to using female for the leading role.

A princess who loves freedom often quarreledwith her mother who respects a tradition. One day, when Merida arrived at awitch of the forest, she said to the witch “Please change my fate.” But it isforbidden to human use forest’s magic. When the witch advocated an incantation,the kingdom was taken dreadful magic. Can Merida save her family and thekingdom??(129)

My other classes

I take the classes that becoming Japaneseteacher like. Actually, I don’t intend to become it, but I am interested theclass, so I decided to take the classes. I take linguistic and phonetics. Ithink that Japanese language is very deep. I had been using Japanese since Iwas born, but there are a lot of things not to know yet. I could realize that correctlyJapanese pronunciation, Japanese grammar, and so on. Before I study aboutJapanese, I thought that Japanese is very simply and whoever want to understandJapanese can understand. But I think that learning Japanese is hard for foreignerswho study Japanese. I want to learn English, but I am Japanese, so I shouldlearn Japanese. And learning Japanese for teaching foreigner is good for me. (130)

BR 1-13: SHREK THE THIRD

With the king gone, the kingdom of Far Far Away needs a new king. Is Shrek next in line for the throne?

I love this story. I watched the movies that are Shrek 1, Shrek 2, Shrek 3 and Shrek 4. I will introduce this story. Shrek is a big, green ogre. He used to live alone in a swap, but he married Fiona, so she talked him into going to the big city. He doesn't like the big city much. He like his swamp than the city. He might have to stay and become king. Fiona knows that he doesn't want to be king. And Donkey is Shrek's best friend. He goes everywhere with Shrek. Shrek and Donkey go on the boat trip to looking for Arthur Pendragon with Puss who is their friend and he is very brave. Arthur is called Arthur can become the next king instead of Shrek, so Shrek want to looking for him. But there's just one problem. Arthur doesn't want the job that becoming the king. And Nasty Prince Charming dreams of being king. He must get rid of Shrek if he wants to rule the kingdom. He need s help from some bad guys. They head for the castle. And Charming throws Fiona and her friends in a cell with Queen Lillian. But the queen uses her head to knock a hole in the wall. And the princesses are free. But Charming has captured Shrek, but Arthur arrives just in time to save the day. Arthur will be a great king. And Shrek and Fiona can go home to their swap. (279)

Shrek the Third: Friends and Foes (I Can Read Book 2)

Catherine Hapka

HarperCollins

発売日：2007-04-03

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Komenokura

Saturday, I went to eating yakiniku with my part-time job's member. Actually we had to work at 12. So after we worked, went to eating yakiniku. I know that eating at night is bad for health, but we decided to go to eating yakiniku once a month. I like my part-time job. I work at Izakaya. I had been working there since last summer. My part-time job's member are very kind for me. So I always enjoy working. We enjoyed talking, eating, and drinking. We had a great time. But I went to bed at 4, so I couldn't wake up early sunday. We will go to eating yakiniku next month!! I am looking forward to going there. (118)

BR 1-12: Land of the Dinosaurs

The children are making dinosaur models when the magic begins again.

When the children made the model of dinosaurs, they were through the door of the magic house. The magic took them to the land of the dinosaurs. They didn't want to meet a dinosaurs. They found a footprint that was a dinosaur's giant footprint. Biff took a photograph of the giant footprint for taking this photo to school. Wilf ran on and climbed a hill. But it was not the hill. It was a dinosaur. They were frightened. Biff took a photograph of the dinosaur. The dinosaur was coming to them, so they began to run away. But Wilma's other shoe came off in the mud. Then suddenly the magic key began to glow. The magic took them to Biff's bedroom. Biff took some pictures, so she wanted to see others. But her father didn't put a film in the camera. (164)

Hunt, R & Brychta, A. (2003). Land of the Dinosaurs. Oxfordw: Oxford University Press.

Myself

Hello. My name is Miley. I'm 26 years old. I am from France and live in Paris. There is Champs-Élysées in my town. It is one of the most famous streets and one of the most expensive strips of real estate in the world. My job is TV announcer. I am in charge of a news program that is most popular news in France. I am very famous announcer. I appear for a news program everyday, so I have to go to bed at9 and get up at 3 everyday. Some people feel sorry for me, but I really really like my job, so I don't think that my life style is hard. And my hobby is boating. My job is over of the morning, so I often go boating on a river. But I also go boating on a lake. I won the championship at a boat race 5 years ago. I dislike dieting. I like eating, because French dishes are very good. I like cheeses and wine. But I appear for TV every morning. So I must not overeat myself. I intend to marry next month. My fiance is nice guy. His name is Charles. Do you know him?? He is a  famous actor. We sometimes met at TV station. Everyone knows us, so we are famous couple!!!! I want to have 2 children who are girl and boy. I want to know your self. Please talk to me!!(243)

BR 1-11: The Outing

The school trip is nearly spoilt by the rain, but Nadim has an idea.

One day, a bus can to the school and the children climbed in. They would go to zoo as school trip. When they got to the zoo it began to rain. They climbed out of the bus and bought the ticket. The children wanted to see some animals like elephants, lions and crocodiles. They hoped the rain stop. But it rained and rained. It didn't stop raining, so animals were fed up. The children had to climb back on the bus. Then Nadim said to teacher that we can go to the museum. So they went to the museum. They could see dinosaurs. They enjoyed taking picture, watching some pictures, and buying dinosaurs goods. The next day, the childlen went to chip's room and began to make the dinosaurs model. Then the magic key began to glow. Magic adventure started. (164)

Hunt, R & Brychta, A. (2003). The Outing. Oxfordw: Oxford University Press.

How I study English

I am not good at English. ButI like English, so I decided to study English at university when I was highschool student. Everyone study English for using books, but I learn fromAmerican drama or TV. I really like American dramas. First I always watchEnglish language and Japanese caption, and second, I watch English language andEnglish caption. I can learn English pronunciation and expression from them.And I write English at Facebook or Twitter. My English may wrong. But I don’tcare that. I write as I like. I want to speak and write English fluently. (94)

Pigish

I will introduce the piggish. It is a combinationof a pig and a gold fish. It looks like a gold fish, so we can breed pigish atour house’s water tank. But we should clean the water tank every day. It is badpoint. But we can eat iy whenever we want to eat pork. Pigish is pork, so wecatch it from water tank. It is very delicious. I recommend that attachmayonnaise on pigish. (77)

BR 1-10: Robin Hood

A visit to the pantomime leads to an adventure with Robin Hood.

One day, Biff and Wilma went to the pantomime with Wilma's mum and Anneena who is their friend. The pantomime was about Robin Hood. Robin Hood was a good man. He lived in a wood with his men. Everyone likes Robin Hood and they gave a cheer every time he came in. There was a bad man called the Sheriff. Nobody liked the Sheriff. He wanted to catch Robin Hood and lock him up. The next day, children sang a song about Robin Hood. Then, suddenly the magic key began to glow. It began to start adventure time. The magic took them to a wood where Robin Hood lived. They could see Robin with some of his men. Robin Hood saw the children. When they sat by the fire and sang the song, Kipper looked inside a big black pot. Nobody saw the Sheriff coming and the Sheriff's men san in. They  grabbed Robin Hood and put a rope round him. They put them all into a cart. But kipper  hid in the big black pot. He thought that I must help them!!! The Sheriff's casle was far away, so they took them to a village. And Kipper went up to the man. He gave the Sheriff's man a sweet and he locked the man in and took away his key. He rescued them only himself. Robin Hood and children went to a new part of the woods. Suddenly the magic key began to glow. Robin Hood said to them "Good bye" "Thanks". The children liked Robin Hood.

Hunt, R & Brychta, A. (2003). Robin Hood. Oxfordw: Oxford University Press. (283)

BR 1-9: Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Then, quick as a wink, she ran out the door.

One morning, a family of three bears decided to go for a walk. By and by, a girl named Goldilocks saw their house, opened the door and went inside. When she entered in the kitchen, she found three bowls of porridge. She tried the big bowl that is father bear's, but it was too hot. And she tried the middle bowl that is mother bear's, but it was too cold. Finally, she tried the little bowl that is baby father's, it was just right. She ate it up. When she entered in the living room, she found three chairs. She tried the big one that is father bear's, so it was too hard. And she tried the middle one that is mother bear's. It was too soft. Finally, she tried the little chair. It was just right, but when she sat down, the chair broke. When she entered in the bedroom, she found three beds. She tried two bed, and she tried the little bed. It was just right, so she went to sleep. By and by, the bears came back to their house to have breakfast. They realized that someone has been eating their porridge. And they found the broken chair. They realized that someone sat down. In the end, they found someone who is sleeping on the bed. Goldilocks screamed. And she ran out the door and three bears never saw that rude girl again. (256)

Findley, V. (2006). Goldilocks and the Three Bears. New York: Scholastic.

Mother's Day

Yesterday was Mother's Day. My mother is very serious person. She is owner of restrain and bar. She is hard worker, so I always worry about her. I have two part-time jobs, and she works every night, so I can't see her. I send some flowers last mother's day. This year, I decided to buy some presents for her. I went to downtown for founding some presents. I realized that she buy Sensu every summer. So I bought Sensu for her. And I bought iphone's accessory. She has iphone, but it wasn't wear nothing. Her iphone was normal. But her iphone is pretty by the accessory that was given now. I can't see my mother everyday, but I think that the time when I can see her is very important for us. She works as homeworker every morning, and works as owner every night, so i (147)

BR 1-8: The Go-Kart race

Everyone makes a go-kart, but who wins the Go-Kart Race?

Wilma and Biff saw a notice that was about a go-kart race. They told mom about it. She went to the shed and found a go-kart, but it was very old and broken. And they told dad about the old go-kart. He told them that can make a new one. They helped her dad. Mom painted the go-kart. Biff thought that it looks brilliant. Mom took the children to a park where was a good place to try new one. Then they found Anneena. She had a go-kart too. Wilma and Anneena had a race. When they had a race, her go-kart rashed into a bush and Wilma crashed into Anneena. Their go-kart was broken. The moms and dads made one go-kart of two. They put the front of Anneena’s go-kart on the back of Wilma’s. The children liked the new go-kart. Wveryone was excited when it was the day of the race. Everyone wanted to drive, but Anneena drove. In the end, she couldn’t win. Two go-karts went faster. She was upset. But their go-kart did win a prize as the best looking go-kart. They were glad. (210)

Hunt, R & Brychta, A. (2003). The Go-Kart race. Oxfordw: Oxford University Press.

Food / Eating habits

My eating habits are irregularity. Because I want to sleep than eating supper every morning, I always buy a lunch at the convenience store, and I work almost day as part time job, so I sometimes don't eat dinner. So I have put on a lot of weight since I enter this college. And I live with my familey, so my mother always cooks dishes for us, but I always eat dishes with my friends or my boyfriend outside. Recently I don't eat at my home. I think that I should improve my eating habits. Eating habits are very important for us. Eating is the central of life. And wrong eating (113)

BR 1-7: Dad's Grand Plan

Its holiday time and Dad has a great idea.Will it work?

Everyone was excited, because it washoliday time. Also Floppy that is dog was excited and was running round. Momsaid that dad has a Grand Plan. Children didn’t know about Grand Plan. Theypacked bag and rode a car. And they had forgotten Floppy. Floppy was sad. Theyhad to go back for him. At last they got to the holiday cottage. When theyentered in there, they were surprised. Because there was soot everywhere. Itwas very duty. There is a black bird in the room. Cleaning up soot was Dad’sGrand Plan.
Hunt, R & Brychta, A. (2003). Dad’sGrand Plan. Oxfordw: Oxford University Press. (120)

Golden Week

There was not free time in this year's Golden Week. I have two part time jobs that are wedding hotel and Izakaya. I worked every day during golden week. Working is very hard for me, but I like working. My seniors are very kind for me in working place. I will go to America this summer, so I should save money until this summer. My parents paid all money for going to America. I decided to saving money myself. But I went to dinner with my boyfriend. I couldn't meet him during golden week, so I was happy when I met him. I like Yakitori, so we went to eating Yakitori. If I had free time in golden week, I wanted to go shopping, watch movies, go to zoo, and go anywhere. So I think that I will enjoy next year's golden week. And I think that this(148)

May. 03. 2012

I went to Iori's house with Eiko and Ruka. They are my classmates. Iori lives by herself. Her house is always clean. We went to pizza store and supermarket, and bought some food and sweets. We are not 20 years old, so we can't drink alcohol. We watched a movie that is Paradise Kiss. I wanted to watch the movie, so I was glad. The starring is Osamu Mukai. Everyone says that he is cool. But I don't know. Eiko likes him, so she said that he is so cool. We were eating pizza and sweets when we were watching the movie.  And Misaki came there. Actually Misaki came with us, but we didn't know whether she would come. We enjoyed talking about school, friends and love. I forgot that go over the time during I was talking with my friends. And we came home at 12. We had a good time. (152)

Golden Week Plan

I didn't have a Golden Week plan, because I had to work and get money. I will go to America this summer, so my parents paid the cost. I thought that I will go to there for myself, so I should pay the cost. I have to work harder until this summer, and I have to save money. Also I have to study harder. But I have one Golden Week plan. I went to Iori's house with girls of Eibei. We enjoyed talking about school, friends and so on, watching movie, and eating pizza. We (97)

BR 1-6: In the Garden

The chirdren are playing in the garden when the magic begins.

Kipper picked up the magic key in Chip's room. The key began to glow. When Kipper ran outside and looked for Biff and Chip, Biff and Chip were playing with Wilf and Wilma in the sandpit. The magic began to work, ane they got smaller and smaller. They were in the grass and everything looked big. They came out of the grass like jungle. They came to a mountain and began to climb. The top looked like a desert. They walked over the desert. Everyone felt hot. They found strawberries and ate them. It began to rain. When they ran to flowerpot, the magic key began to glow. The magic was over. Next day, dad looked at his strawberries and thought that bugs ate them.

Hunt, R & Brychta, A. (2003). In the Garden. Oxford: Oxford UniversityPress. (146)

BR 1-5: A Fright in the Night

Biff and Chip love staying in Gran's old house, but what do they see in the night?

Biff and Chip went to stay with Gran. Theywent to stay for a week. Gran took Biff and Chip for a walk. They wanted topick blackberries. And they made the blackberry jam. Gran’s house was very old.It had a big fireplace. They sat by the fire. Gran made some toast and Biffwanted to try the new jam. “Do you have ghosts?” he asked. Gran laughed. Thenight, Biff and Chip couldn’t sleep. They heard a noise. It came from outside.They thought that it is a ghost, but it was an owl. They looked outside. Theysaw a ghost. They ran to Gran’s room, but Gran was not in bed. The ghost thatthey thought was Gran!!!!! “I don’t have ghosts, but I do have two littlemonsters!” Gran laughed and so did Biff and Chip.

Hunt, R & Brychta, A. (2003). A Fright in the Night. Oxford: Oxford UniversityPress. (160)