Learning with computers

I am going to talk about learning with computers. I think that learning with computers is good thing, because there are a lot of good points of it. Learning with computers is very convenience for me. Also many people probably think so too. Now, I am going to talk about the good points of learning with computers.

I can get a lot of information that I want easily when I use computers. Most of the computers have search function. So I can get many kinds of information through the Internet. It is very useful for me when I write reports and do assignments. I can acquire knowledge when I use computers.

We can do mail and chat through the Internet. These are very useful tools. We can communicate with other people easily when we use these tools. If we use Internet, we can communicate with people who live far from each other easily. It is very important to communicate with other people so computers are very useful.

There are a lot of useful tools in the computers. In the reading class, we do power words. Do you know it? It is a tool to learn vocabulary. We can learn a large vocabulary through the tool. We can enjoy learning vocabulary when we use the tool. Also we can challenge other tools.

Millions of computers worldwide connect to Internet. So we can connect with people who live all over the world. We can connect with people when we are in our house. Also we can send mails, photos, movies and so on through the Internet. We can connect with other people through the Internet easily.

Learning with computer is very convenient for me, because there are computers everywhere for example KGU, library, home and so on. We can use computers any time. We can get high quality information through the Internet. Learning with computers has many good points. So I want to use computers more often.

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A little known aspect of Kumamoto

I chose the Kusunoki Summer Festival for a little known aspect of Kumamoto. Do you know it? This is a local summer festival. Probably, people who live in near the Kusunoki area know the festival. However, I think that other people do not know it. So I am going to introduce it.

This is a local summer festival. It takes place in Kusunoki central park in August every year. A lot of people who live in near the Kusunoki area go to the festival. Kusunoki central park is near the Kusunoki junior high school. So a lot of the students go to the festival too.

In the festival, there are many kinds of performances for example, karaoke, the Bon dancing, performance by brass band and so on. Various people enjoy doing karaoke and dancing. I belonged to the brass band club when I was in the first year in junior high school. So we played several tunes in the summer festival. It became one of my important memories of my junior high school days.

One of the good points of this festival is that we can meet a lot of local friends. Each of us go to different schools and work for different places. We hardly meet daily life. So this summer festival is good chance for us to meet. We are all looking forward to the festival.

There are a lot of festivals in Kumamoto, but I think the Kusunoki Summer Festival is one of the good festivals of Kumamoto. The festival is not so popular. However, there are a lot of interesting events. You will be able to enjoy it. If you have never gone to the festival, I would like you to go to the festival.

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community of my part-time work mates

I work for a cake shop. The name of the cake shop is Takarabune. Do you know it? I have worked for one and half years. So I am going to write about the community of my part-time work mates.

There are seven part-timers in our shop. Of course, we are all different age. There are housewife, university students, part-time worker and so on. I am almost with my friends who are the same age as me when I am in my university. So I think that it is very good experience for me to work with older and junior. I can hear about their various opinions. These are all benefit me. Also I can learn a lot of thing from them.

By the way, we can talk many things with each other. We often talk about our part-time job, because we have a lot of things to do. So we think the easiest way to do our jobs. Also we talk other things with each other for example, work, friends, love, future and so on. When I am worried, they always give me good advises. I appreciate it.

We sometimes hang out together. We like drinking so we often go drinking. My part-time work mates are all talkative and funny people. So I like drinking with them very much. Also drinking with them is one of my many pleasures.

A Christmas season will come soon so we are very busy recently. However, I cooperate with them in to do our work. If I did not work for the cake shop, I may have not met them. I think it was a casual meeting because we are different age, different hometown and different school. Lastly, I like them very much.

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MR 2-01: Mrs. Doubtfire

I watched “Mrs.Doubtfire”. This is a comedy movie, but I think it is not only comedy movie but also humanism movie. There are some themes in this movie for example love, family, human nature, bond, children and so on. I think love and family are more important than the other themes. So I am going to write about these themes.

I thought that this story is very interesting and humor when I watched it for the first time. Daniel Hillard who is a main character of this story has a sense of humor. I laughed when I watched his behavior. He was disguised in woman’s clothes. At first sight, his behavior seems crazy. However this story also taught me importance of family and love. Daniel divorced his wife and he had a light to meet his children only once a week. He loves his children so he tried to meet them more often. Also his children love him. Although they are family but they cannot live together. However, he is bound to his children by ties of family. There is a feeling of hospitality in this movie.

I think love is one of the themes of this story. Daniel did not find a steady job. On the other hand, his wife is a career woman. They live a life without talking but they have affection each other. They may considerate of each other even if they got divorced.

I think “Family” is another one of the most important themes of this story. Daniel’s wife divorced him. They have two daughters and a son, but they cannot live together in the future. There are a lot of shapes of family for example a fatherless family, a motherless family, a family that does not have a blood relative and so on. They may have some problems, but they are tightly bound together by family ties. Daniel always loves his children and always thinking them. He did not get along with his wife, but he loves his wife. The massage that I got from this movie about this theme is importance of family. I live with my father, mother, and a younger brother. I thought it is a common shape of family before, but now, I think that I am happy because we can live together. In the movie, Mrs.Doubtfire works in Hillard’s house as a housekeeper. When Mrs. Doubtfire was in the house, his children and his ex-wife looked so happy. Also he was happy too.

This movie made a deep impression on me. When I finished watching this movie, I think it is a heart-warming story. I felt various feelings such as interest, heartrending sorrow and so on. I like Daniel’s sense of humor very much. He often set me laughing with his humor. Also he taught me many important things. I found that ties of family bind family even if they cannot live together. I enjoyed watching this movie very much. After finished watching this movie, I think that I have to take care of my family.

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My favorite place

I have a lot of favorite places. However the most favorite place is my room, because it is the most comfortable place for me. I spend long time in my room, so I tried to make my room easy to live. There are a lot of my favorite points of my room. So I am going to introduce my room now.

There are a lot of things in my room. First, I am going to introduce my furniture. There are one bed, two bookshelves, and one desk in my room. My grandmother bought the bed for me when I entered junior high school. I like the bed, because it is a very comfortable bed. Next, I introduce other things. There are a lot of stuffed animals in my room. I like Rirakkuma. It is a character of bear. It is very cute. It softens my heart. Also there are a lot of clothes. Clothes soon collect on my closet, because I can’t throw my old clothes away and I like shopping. There are many other things that I like in my room.

My room is a very comfortable place for me. On the one hand I can spend by myself when I don’t want to talk with other people. In the situation, atmosphere of my room are very quiet and mild. I like the atmosphere, because I can be lost in thoughts. Also I need not attentive to other people. On the other hand I sometimes invite my friends in my room. In the situation, atmosphere of my room are very noisy and busy. I also like the atmosphere, because I can omit to think worries and so on. Also I can have a nice time.

My house is located on near my alma mater. The high school is about a ten minutes walk from my house. So I can look my alma mater from porch of my room. I liked my high school very, very much. I remember my high school days when I hear voice of student who do club activity.

I do various activities in my room when I have a free time for example listening music, watching DVDs, sleeping, reading magazines, calling on my friends and so on. I like to watch movies so I often watch DVDs in my room. Also I like to call on my friends so I often call on my friends a long time. The hours go quickly when I do these activities. I can kill hours in my room easily when I have a free time.

Would you understand about my room a bit? I like my room very much as I stated before. However, I want to fit up my room as more comfortable place. So please give me some advices. Thank you for reading.

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Rewrite SR 2-01: Wikitravel

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I like to travel and I am interested in traveling the whole world. So I am going to introduce “Wikitravel”. This site is doing a project. This site is made up of information that wikitraveler offer the site. Everyone can participate in editing the site. Also we can examine for information that we want. It is a very useful site.

This site has a project. The project is to make a travel guidebook that is free, perfect and a world scale. The guidebook is made by wikitraveler who live in all over the world. If we use this site, we can get a lot of up-to-date information about any countries for example, lodging, traffic, food, tourist attraction, and so on. Also we can make our own guidebooks.

This is a site that is made by everyone. We can write articles, edit the articles and exhibit photos and images to make the travel guidebook that covers all over the world. If you want to write something on this site, first, you click a tag of "edit". Then a textbox is displayed. You just write in the textbox. We can exchange information about travel with a lot of people. Of course we can edit articles that someone wrote. We can share information with many people.

If I want to get some information about Kumamoto city, first, search the Wikitravel for Kumamoto city. Then the page of Kumamoto city is indicated. There is a lot of information for example outline, climate, how to arrive, how to move, tourist attraction, play guide, shopping spot, traditional foods, hotels and so on. Tourist attractions of Kumamoto city are Kumamoto castle, Kato shrine, Suizenji Park, Honmyou temple, Takahashi Inari shrine and so on. Shopping spot of Kumamoto city are Tsuruya department store, Kumamoto Hanshin, PARCO, Kamitori, Shimotori and so on. Traditional foods of Kumamoto city are horse meat, mustard lotus root, Ikinari dumpling, Korea candy, Kumamoto Chinese noodle, Taipiien, Akazake and so on. Play guide of Kumamoto city are Kumamoto bicycle race, Kumamoto city modern art museum and so on.

Wikitravel is a very useful site as I introduce. If you travel, please use this site. You will probably get some useful information that you want. Of course people who do not travel can enjoy browsing this site on the Internet because there is a lot of information in this site. Also there are a lot of pictures of various kinds of place so we can enjoy browsing this site. If you like travel and interested in it, please check the site and my first site review is here.

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Self Introduction

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My personal language learning history.

I am going to introduce my personal language learning history. My mother tongue is Japanese, but I have learned English since I was a junior high school student. Also, I have learned German since I entered KGU. I am in the Department of Britain and America at KGU. I learn English to communicate with other people, and to employment.

My mother tongue is Japanese. I started to utter words before I became one year old. I was taught a lot of words from my parents, grand parents, relatives and so on. Also, my mother read picture books for me every night. So, I could learn words. By the way, I have learned English since I was a junior high school student. I like English very much since then. So, I learned English harder than the other subjects. I went to cram school. The cram school’s teacher went to University in America. I often heard about her experiences in America. In the cram school, I learned listening, grammar, writing, and reading. When I was in the first year of university, I learned German. It was very difficult for me. So, I was not good at German.

I think that listening, writing, reading and speaking are all important to progress with my English, but it is the most important thing for me to memorize English words. The way to learn English words is by repetition. I usually use power words to memorize English words. If I knew the meaning of words, I can understand rough content of a passage. So, I think learning English words is the most important thing to progress with my English.

I am in the Department of Britain and America at KGU. I learn English to employment. I want to be a grand staff. So, I have to learn English. When I was in the second year of high school, I got an examination of English’s second grade. Also, I took a TOEIC course during summer vacation last year, and I took a TOEIC test. I want to get high score of TOEIC test, so I have to study English much harder than now. Also, I learn English to communicate with other people. If I could speak English, I can talk with a lot of people include foreign people.

I want to progress with my English. So, I have to learn English much harder. I am going to learn English with the aim of getting TOEIC score over 700 this year. Also, it is important to learn Japanese. I want to become a person who can speak good Japanese. So, I have to learn both English and Japanese. I am going to continue learning both Japanese and English.

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MR 1-02: Armageddon

I am going to introduce one of my favorite movies. The movie is Armageddon. It is the most impressive movie that I have ever watched. I have watched the movie again and again until now. I am going to write the movie’s story roughly.

A space shuttle cut off the news in the space. Also meteors hit East seaside without any warning. This natural disaster was a sign of thing that happens from now on... At the same time, Dan who is NASA’s general commandant heard news. He was surprised to hear the news. The news was that a plant was approaching the earth. The planet is as big as Texas!!! It means the fall of the mankind. Dan gathered ideas to collision between the earth and the planet. He adopted an idea. The idea is that implant nuclear bomb into the planet. Then, Harry’s name went up. Harry is professional of mining.

A messenger of the Secretary of Defense arrived at an oil mining facility. Harry and Grace had to go to the Johnson space center. Dan told them the idea, and Harry decided to do the project. He set down a condition. It is that to company with his partners. The members are Chick, Rockhound, Dorilarmax, Bear, Oscar, Nunam and A.J.

They received training of astronaut. At last, the space shuttles were launched. They could land on the planet barely, but the operations of mining did not run according to plan. Then the machine to mining broke, and there were hardly rest time. They were pushed for time, so they were impatient about it. Lastly, Harry saved the earth from fall. Also he protected A.J., because A.J. is his daughter’s boyfriend. Harry and some of his partner dead. The others could return to the earth.

This is the story of Armageddon. People probably almost watched the movie. Armageddon is a famous movie not only in Japan, but also in many countries. This movie was nominated for Academy Award in four sections. Also this movie received a prize of Grammy award.

I watched this movie many times, but I am not tired of this movie. One of my favorite scenes is the last scene. When I watched this movie, I always cry at the scene. I think the character’s mind, and the character’s minds moved me to tears. If you have never watched this movie, I’d love for you to watch it!!! Also please check this webpage→http://www.simpson-bruckheimer.com/armageddon/

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My university life

I am going to introduce my university life. I am enjoying my university life very much. Each and every class that I take is very interesting for me. After class is over, I have a part-time job. When I have a free time after school, I often hang out with my friends. So my university life has been full.

The classes that I take are very interesting. I was interested in English and different cultures during my high school days. I had a forte for English and I studied English harder. So I decided to enter the Department of Britain and America at KGU. In the classes, I can learn English and different cultures more deeply than when I was a high school student. I sometime feel hard because I have to do some assignments. However, I feel pleasure when I found new findings. So I like the classes.

I have a part-time job at a cake shop. The shop’s name is Takarabune. Sometime, my friends say that its name looks like a bar’s name. I think so too. I work almost three times a week. After class is over, I go to the shop as soon as possible. When I just began the part-time job, I have to memorize a lot of things for example, the prices of cakes, the names of cakes, how to use register and so on. It was very hard for me. So I wanted to leave the part-time job before. However, I am accustomed to the job and the shop’s members are getting along very nicely with each other. We sometimes go drinking together. We are the different ages, but we can talk with various things. I like my coworkers very much.

When I have no part-time job, I often hang out with my friends. I like to go shopping, karaoke center and drinking. I can reduce stress to go shopping. Especially, I like to buy clothes. So I sometime spend too much money for clothes. I can also reduce stress to go karaoke center. My karaoke specialties are Ayumi Hamasaki’s songs. Also, I like to go drinking, because I like alcoholic drink. I go drinking with my same high school friends and my coworkers. We enjoy talking many things, because we cannot meet so often. I like to hang out with my friends for a change of air.

I enjoy my university life. I have a lot of things to do. If I had too much free time, I would feel boredom. So it is convenience for me to have many things to do. I feel a sense of fulfillment every day. Until I graduate from KGU, I want to study more harder than now to realize my dream.

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MR 1-01:SHREK

I have not watched "Shrek" before. So I did not know the story of this movie. I did not like animation too much before. But I was very interested in this movie.





The main character of this story is Shrek. Shrek is a green monster. People who live in the country are frightened of Shrek because he has a stern face. He is not in communication with people. He ia a lonely parson. One day, he meet Donkey. He is very talkative and trys to make friends with Shrek. They make a trip to save Fiona. Fiona is a beautiful princess. She is locked in a castle. A dragon guards the castle from people who try to rescue Fiona. Shrek and Donkey fight with dragon. Also they rescue Fiona.The king of the country is going to get married her. But She has a secret. In the night, she changes green monster. The king notices the secret and he cancels marriage. Then, Shrek makes a proposal to Fiona. They celebrate a marriage on a large scale.





I was profoundly impressed. Shrek has no friend before he meets Donkey. At first, Shrek dislikes Donkey. But they become best friends through the trip. Shrek has a complex about his appearance. So he does not judge a person by his or her. Shrek and Fiona have ugly face but they find a true love. I learned many things from this story. I want to watch "Shrek2" and "Shrek3".

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A letter to a host family

Hello, nice to meet you. My name is Saori N. Saori is my first name. Please call me Saori.

I am a university student now at KGU in kumamoto, Japan. My major is English.

I am very interested in foreign countries. I was looking forward to meet you. My hobby is to go shopping. I often go shopping with my friends. I also like to watch soccer games on TV. I liked soccer when I was child because my father played soccer then. He played soccer very well but I can not play soccer.

There are four people in my family. My father, my mother, my younger brother and me. My mother is a nurse. She likes children and she is very kind. She makes our lunch every day. My brother is a high school student. He is 18 years old. He belongs to a basketball club. He likes basketball very much. He practices it every day. I am friendly with him. We talk about school, love, TV program and so on. But he and I have sometime quarrel.

My favorite music group is Exile. Exile is a very famous group in Japan. There are two vocalists and five performers. I want you to listen to their songs.

I want to know about your country. I think there are many differences between Japan and your country. Please tell me your country's etiquette and rules. And I want to be good friends with you. I am looking forward to meet you.

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