Blog#15 challenge to major league baseball

Ryota Yamada

Hello!  I like baseball.So I often hear some news about baseball. Especially, I am interested in baseball players who challenge major league baseball(MLB).

At present、12 players are playing MLB. And,from this season, 5 players newly callenge MLB. Do you know Yu Darvish ? He is the best pitcher in japan. Look at this movie.

I believe that he succeed in America. I want to succeed like him. Please pay attention to him!

Right side of this picture is saeko , his former wife. I wish they good luck!

Blog#15: The consumption tax rate

Manami Hiramoto

Hello everyone! How are you?

Recently, I am worry about a consumption tax. I heard that Mr. Noda decided to increase consumption tax rate. At present, the consumption tax rate is 5 percent, but then it would be raised in stages to 10 percent by 2015. That is, twice burden than now!

We go shopping almost every day. We buy a lot of stuff. For example, foods, drinks, clothes, books, daily necessities… and so on. At first we must feel a heavy burden if the consumption tax rate is raised to 10percent in practice.

However I think it is necessary to increase taxes. It is true that the National Treasury doesn’t have enough funds to adopt many policies. Especially, it is important to prepare the funds for the disaster areas of the Tohoku Earthquake to recover and rebuild. Then, if we demand high-level social security in our future, we have to accept paying large taxes.

How do you think about it?

Blog#15: POPOPOPON!

Yuki Morita

   Hello! Do you enjoy your winter vacation?
I talk about my favorite TV commercial today. This is the commercial.

I think everyone knows it! This is the public commercial, named "Magic of Greeting (あいさつの魔法。) " by AC JAPAN. I think you often watched it after the Tohoku Earthquake, but it was made in 2010. After the Tohoku Earthquake, many private corporations refrained from broadcasting their TV commercials, so AC JAPAN broadcasted the commercial.
   The commercial tells the importance of greeting. A little boy has his name, " John Taro Hello". He always smiles. Many characters seem very fun. The phrase 'POPOPOPON' has very strong impression. Once we hear the phrase, we can't forget it! It expresses the pleasure of greeting and making friends.
   When I watch the commercial, I always remember the time when the Tohoku Earthquake occured. I live in Saitama, but I felt a big quake at that time. I watched many shocking news on TV, experienced the scheduled power outage, and lived with worry every day. However, I watched the commercial many times, and I was encouraged. I want to remember the importance of greeting even if we have a terrible situation.  The commercial has a power to encourage many people, I think.

Blog#15 News!

Monday2 Yuto Yamazaki

   Yesterday, A Jordanian was arrested to sell fake goods of NIKE which was famous sports maker near the stadium played the soccer game.
   The game was the final of Toyota World Cup. Barcelona and Santos took part in the game.
   Everytime, I watch the Toyota World Cup on TV at home because I like to watch many nice plays of super players! I'm excited! But, I'm angry at the news. He insults soccer! I want people to watch the sport games purely!

The movie is the game. Messi is very very super player!!!

Blog#14 My favorite CM

Monday 2 Ryota Yamada
Hello everyone ! I will introduce my favorite CM  to you.

The CM I'll introduce is "zyumangoku manzyu"(十万石饅頭).
"zyumangoku manzyu"(十万石饅頭) is very famous as a delicious sweet of japanese .  (But I have never eaten.)
 But the TV cm is more famous than itself.  Whenever I watch Saitama TV ,  this CM is broadcasted. So people in Saitama pref , maybe everyone, know this CM. At first , watch this CM ,please.

 After watching this CM、I felt that this CM is very easy to understand because of the word "umai , umasugiru!"(うまい、うますぎる！) I might have watched this CM over 1500 times since I was about 10 years old. 
 But, people don't live in Saitama can't watch this CM. It makes me feel sad. So I want you to watch more CM broardcasting in Saitama pref , if possible!

And I have never eaten it , so I want to eat it once . This is the my aim of 2012. Please eat  "zyumangoku manzyu"(十万石饅頭) you too. please teach me your favorite local CM ,if any.

Thank you for reading!

no hokou lesson 12/21

Dear Class,

There will be no hokou lessons on 12/21 as I said. Please have a good holiday and if you have a chance to watch the movie "White Christmas," which was my plan, please do!

See you on January 16th. That will be our last class. We will have an exam in January during exam period. I am now thinking of having a speaking test. I will give you the details on the 16th after we have 3 film presentations. Presentation groups - please bring the DVDs to class and your handouts and notes. Let us enjoy the last class together to the full.

Best wishes,

Ms. MacGregor

Blog#14 My favorite cm

Yuto Yamazaki
  
   Hello! I want to introduce about my favorite cm, today. This cm is made from BRIDGESTONE where my father works every days to earn money for my family. The company makes many things, for example, tires of cars and bikes, bicycles and golf balls, tennis balls.
   There are two people in this cm. A man's name is Tomoya Nagase who is belongs to TOKIO which is famous musician's group. A woman's name is Satomi Isihara who is famous actress and very cute.This cm introduce about wonderful of the tires made there. Actually, The car put at my house wears the tires. My father loves these tires. If I get a car license, I want to drive my car with these tires!