2010年1月28日木曜日

Voice Recording "Dracula"

I guess everyone knows "Dracula", this is a little scary novel, but it is interesting story.
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Voice Recording "A FAREWELL TO ARMS"

This is the one of famouse novel. This is a story of war and love affair. Please click here.

2010年1月27日水曜日

Uncle Tom's cabin voice recording

This is one of my favorite novel, this novel is written about slaves in USA.

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Book Review (12) DEAD MAN'S ISLAND

When I saw this title, I was afraid, because this title was DEAD MAN'S ISLAND. I thought this was scary story, it was not scary story, I was impressed at this story. This hero is Carol Sanders. She was born in England, now she has living in Hong Kong for seven years.
One day when she was seventeen, an aeroplane from Sydney crashed into the sea, the father was on the plane. Her father was dead. At the time of the plane crash, she was a student at college. But she had to leave the college for drugs.
Her mother and she decided to go back to England. One day they found a job in the newspaper. This job was for secretary on an island in Scotland. They called the company, then they promised to meet Mrs Ross. She was about thirty years old. They took a job interview with her. Her mother got a job, the next day theywent to Scotland. They got on the boat to go to the island, the boatman was Tony. A woman was waitingthem inside the house, she is Mrs Duncan,Tony's mother, she was the housekeeper. They met Mrs Ross's husband. He had a moustache, short dark hair, and he wore glasses. She began to work in the garden and her mother also began to work as a secretary.
One day she found a room in the house, she has never seen the room before. She was interested in the room. She tried to go in the room. Greta Ross looked at her. She was very angry with it. One day she went into the room. Her hands were sharking. In the room there are strange thing, colored shirts, suits, guitars, posters and photographs on the walls. These pictures are Jake Rosso's. She found Mr Ross is Jake Rosso. Mr Rosso was in the room, he said to her that he is Rosso Jake, and he talked a secret. The other people on this island are his family. His real n ame is James Duncan. Mr and Mrs Duncan are his father and mother. Tony is his younger brother. Dan and Stella Parks are his mother's sister and her husband. In the past he got drunk and crashed cars. One night he was driving a car with drunk and he hit a young girl. She died. He didn't talk a police. And he planed something. He put on something in the car and he pushed his car over a cliff and burned it. Everybody thought he has died. He changed his name and his wife also changed her name. Then he bought this island. And he came there to forget his past. He is dead man. After I finished this story, I found every thing. Why he lives in the island. And why he looks so sad every time, why he is afraid of taking picture. ( 482 words )

2010年1月23日土曜日

Book Review ( 11 ) MATTY DOOLIN

This is the story that a young boy is looking the his job he really want a job. The hero is Matty Doolin, who is fifteen years old. He has some friends, who are Willie and Joe at school. I had to leave school, then he had to choose his job. His father want him to work in ship-building like him, but he didn't want to do that, he wanted to work with animals. But he couldn't talk to his parents. One day when he came back home, his mother got angry a lot, because his dog, Nelson tried to eat his hat and his father's shoe. He had a bad feeling about this thing and that his parents couldn't agree with his camping, then he decided to leave a home all day. The day he was found that his dog, Nelson died with car accident. He was very sad, he couldn't go to school for two days. Next day when he came back home, he found full of coming things. On Saturday they went to a farm. At the station they met Mr Walsh, he is a farmer. They went to farm. There are three families. Mr Walsh, his wife and their daughter, Jessica. They put tents up on the farm. It was different from town's life. Matty liked it very much, but the boys didn't like it. Even Mr Walsh ask to go town with him, Matty didn't go there. One day he ask to take them to the town, of course Matty didn't go. Besides he work with Mrs Walsh to care of their animals at farm. One day she had to go away with her brother. Her daughter got angry somethnig, so she left at home, she went into the mountain. He went to find her, because storm was coming to this way. He couldn't find her, there are mist around there. Even he couldn't find back to road the home. The dog, Betty found her, then he could find her. The dog was hurt, she couldn't walk any more. They had no choice to just stay there. It was very heavy rain. On two o'clock help came there. He woke up on bed at farm. His father and mother came to see him. And she suggested him to work here. Of course, he said, yes. It is difficult to find job we want to do. Specially we were young. At first he was supposed to work at ship-building, but he didn't like it. I think we should that we want to do, even it was hard to work, if we like it. I found he really likes dog. He could find a job he wants to do. ( 452 words )

English Conversation School !

Last Thursday I went to English Conversation School. There are three student in class. One of students got atopy this week. As usual we talked about this week's topics. I could talk with English a lot, because there are three students.

2010年1月21日木曜日

English Conversation School

I went to English Conversation School yesterday. There were five students there. We were talking about JAL. I think this is the biggest news in Japan yesterday. As usual we were talking some news last week. And we used a textbook, it was quiet warm yesterday. It was about sixteen degrees in Kumamoto.