All About Desert Life 🦎

A desert is a dry place that has less than 25 centimeters of rain every year. Some deserts have no rain for months or years. Some deserts have sand, but others have stones or rocks. Some deserts are in thr mountains.(p.4)

Deserts are very dry places, but plants can still grow there. Desert plants collect and use water in special ways. The plants have strange looks compared to other normal plants. There are about 1,200 different types of plant in the Sahara Desert. I didn't know Dsert plants but cactus until reading this book, so I was surprised st this number.

All about desert life

Julie Penn

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010

 

All about Ocean Life 🐠

A lot of Earth is covered by saltwater oceans. The oceans are home to many tyoes of life, from the smallest plants to the biggest whales. (p.3)

This book's content is mainly about mammals live in the oceans. I got interested in Coral Reeds and small fish called cleaner wrasse, so I'm writing a little bit about them.Corals are small animals that make hard covers around themselves. Rhe covers are many different shapes and colors. Coral reefs are places where lots of corals live togetger. Cleaner wrasse work hard on coral reefs. They eat the little plants and animals that live on big fish. Big fish don't eat the cleaner wrasse. They open their mouths so the wrasse can clean inside.

All about ocean life
 Rachel Bladon

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010

Incredible Earth

Did you know that there are mountains and valleys under the ocean? Some of these mountains are bigger than the biggest mountains on land. In the deepest parts of the ocean, the water is 10 kilometers deep.(p.6)

If you read this book, you can know incredible places on Earth and how they were made. The most impressive thing in this book was Pammukkale Cliffs, Turkey(The picture). These white cliffs look like they are made of ice, but they are really made of rock. Hot water came out of the ground and poured down the mountain. Then minerals in the water made these incredible cliffs.

I was surprised to know that these were created by nature not human. I want to visit this place once in my life.

Incredible earth

Richard Northcott

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010

🍓Fruit🍓

Fruit is good for your heart, eyes, and skin. Fruit is good for your body. It can stop you getting sick. Fruit helps you to walk, run play,learn, and grow.



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This book introduces new fruit plants, fruit and animals, and how to eat fruit with color picrures. I have never eaten lychees and dragon fruit which appear in this book and I can't image what taste they are. I want to try them someday...

Fruit

Louise Spilsbury

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013

In The Sky

Go outside and look up. What can you see? You can see the sky. The sky is above you. Look at the sky. Is it day or night? What can you see in the sky?

In this book, you can learn about stars, planets, moon and space.  The things in this book are basic, so it was easy to understand. What I thought interesting was about  stars, accordoing to this book, old stars don't live for ever, but there are new stars, too. There are millions of stars in the sky, so that was understandable.

                                                                                                                       Research Matters


In the Sky

Kamini Khanduri

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012

Territory

Territories can be small, like the armrest between two chairs. Or they can be far larger, the size of a country or even a planet. Each territory brings the same question: Whose is it?(p.6)


Edison Red

People want to own things. Borders, fences, minerals, treaties and tombs are used to separate things or places. In this book, some examples are taken, such as the Moon and the bottom of the world.
They are interesting for me, because I have never thought that who owns the Moon?

Mark your territory

Brian Sargent

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014

The Olympic Games

About 2,800 years ago in Olympia, Ancient Greece, there was a race in a field near the river Alpheus. The athletes ran about 200 metres, and a man called Coroebus, from the Greek city of Elis, won. A crowd of 40,000 people shouted his name and gave him flowers. Coroebus was one of the first Olympic champions. (p.3)

 

 

There are many stories about how the Olympic Games started, and we do not know which ones are true. In or before 776 BCE, the Olympic Games began at Olympia, and happened every four years after that. The athletes came from many cities in modern Greek, Italy, Turkey, and Africa, and later from cities in Armenia, Egypt, and Spain. At that time, there were many wars in Greece, but because of athletes needed to travel to Olympia for the Games, everyone stopped fighting for a month before they started. From this episode, we can see how important event Olympics were at that time. 

  

     The earliest Olympic Games were only one day long, and were built around ceremonies for Zeus – the most important Greek got. There was only one sports event – a race of about 200 metres called the stade. Later, the Olympic Games were three, and then five, days long. There were new races as well. There was even a shouting event – the winner was the person with the loudest voice. I thought if this event was still held, it would be interesting and I wondered how to decide the winner of this event. I guess it is difficult to decide the winner.

 

      At these early Olympics, winning athletes were given olive branches, and champions wore these on their heads at the winners’ ceremony. Ancient Olympic champions did not win medals, like today’s winners, but they became famous in their cities, and people game presents like money or houses. The Olympics today is pretty different from the first modern Games in Athens. Women could not compete before in Olympics, but today there are women athletes in most events and teams. There is also called Paralympic Games, for people with disabilities.

 

     There are places, where flourished with the Olympics, such as, Stratford, east London. It was not a very interesting place, and had lots of dirty old factories and buildings. The British decided to change Stratford into an amazing new center of the Games. An Olympic village was built, too, with 16,000 beds for athletes and trainers. It had cinemas, gyms, a swimming pool, and places to meet friends and eat. Considering these things, being host of the Olympics has huge effects on the country.

The Olympic Games
Alex Raynham
Oxford University Press, 2016

Traffic jams 🚗 🚗 🚗

Today, we have a big problem: Traffic. There are too many cars in cities and sometimes outside cities, too.(p.6)

     According to this book, Traffic jams isn't a new problem.  Before cars, people used vehicles with horses. There were a lot of them, and they made a lot of noise. A famous English writer, Samuel pepys, wrote about London traffic jams 350years ago.

Traffic jams : the road ahead

Simon Beaver

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014

Lost ～the mystery of Amelia Earhart～

Airplanes and flying were　very new things in the early 1900s. There weren't many pilots, and there were even fewer women pilots! Then one day, Amelia Earhart came along: a woman and a pilot!(p.6)

Somewhere over the Pacific Ocean, Amelia was talking to the ship with radio, but then the radio stops working and then,  nobody can contact with her.  A few years later, a person found the bones of

a woman on an island and bottles. What had happen to Amelis actually was in doubt even now.

Lost : the mystery of Amelia Earhart

Kenna Bourke

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014

Integrated Skills Nov,８

about California






     When you stand on the Golden Gate Bridge and look east across San Francisco Bay, you can see an island. It is very small, but everybody knows its name, Alcatraz. Every year, more than 1.4 million visitors visit this place.




     Alcatraz island first became an imprtant prison in 1907. At this time, it was only a prison for soldiers. Then,in the 1930s, the U.S. government needed a place for the most dangerous people in the country-people from wild cities like Cicago or New York. They thought nobody would be able to escape from the island of Alcatraz.

Tragedy on the slopes ⛷

Despite the safety measures taken during the Games, tragedies do occur.(p.25)


















I read a book which is written about relatively dangerous sports to play.

Such as, caving , mountain biking, speed skiing and powerboat racing. Personally, I don't want to play dangerous sports, but there are many people who enjoy dangerous sports.

In this book, a story about a man who play Skiing is introduced.

Tragedy on the slopes

Karmel Schreyer

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014

Around Japan in three days 🗾

Japan's music, art, and buildings are very different from those in other countries.(p.7)

I read a book which is written about Japan from foreigners' perspective.

I didn't know that Japan's culture is unieque until reading this book. Such as, bullet trains, manga, hot spring and eating raw fishes. Even though, I an Japanese, I can learn about Japan from this book.

Around Japan in three days

Simon Beaver

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014

The importance of sleep

We spend about one third of our time sleeping - That's about 122 days a year!(p.6)

I read a book about sleeping and here is what I thought interesting.

Too little sleep can be bad for your health:

• It can make you fat. Often, when people sleepless, they eat more. And they eat bad things, like cake and potato chips.
• It can make you sad and depressed.
• It can give you headaches.
• It can make you sick and make your life shorter.

According to this books, it is important that going to sleep and waking up at the same time every day.

Do not disturb : the importance of sleep

Genevieve Kocienda

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014

College WritingⅡa Metaphor

      The metaphor which I thought interesting was "My family is like a Kingdom".  I like this
metaphor, because it means that there is difference of the power of right among family members. According to her (the person who said it) explanation, her mother is the position of  King and herself is a prince, because she is selsish. I have never felt she is a selfish person, so I was surprised to hear that. I think my family is like oxygen for me, because I can't live well without them. I know there is various style of family, so I'm curious about other  people's opinion. I wanted to listen more metaphors of family.

College WritingⅡa Essay 1 rewrite

Name Ohno Rika

Student number 　1712012

Date October 16, 2018

Essay #1

     My life started in Oita. Where has a lot of nature and my parents’ house is surrounded by trees and flowers as well. I love them, because I felt comfortable just walking around there. I spent 18 years in Oita. I realized what I experienced during the 18 years is very little, because I can’t come up with anything special that changed my life. After I graduated from a high school, I moved to Kumamoto and it was the biggest event which affects my life so far. If I compare the moving to the process of the journey, it would be the start. Now that I think about the time in Oita, it was just a walk. Moving to Kumamoto was going out of my comfort zone, so I feel sometimes lonely sometimes and afraid of others. However, I think having this kind of feeling is a chance for growing up. By overcoming it, I believe that I would be able to grow up as a person.

   

 I feel that I have not experienced as much as other people, because of my timidity. That’s why, from now on, I want to challenge something which I have never tried before. Such as, traveling some foreign countries and talking with various people to learn different ways of thinking.

I don’t desire anything special but, I want to have a stable life in the future. Having a large garden for growing flowers, vegetables and fruits is my ideal figure of life. Because I like nature, I want to live being surrounded by them.

    

What I can do during my college life is studying and learning what I like more deeply, so I would like to work on my assignments which I have for the future.

👻FIVE GHOST STORIES👻

     I read "FIVE GHOST STORIES". This book includes five short stories and each contents mentions about unusual happenings. Let me introduce a little bit about the story of this book.

" Not on the passenger List"
This story is literally about a passenger who doesn't on the list. Some people see him and his face is a little bit strange. His mouth is really small and his face is like a picture. He doesn't harm  people, just appearing in front of people. No one knows his purpose.

I  felt he was not scary but ominous.

by Viola Huggins ; illustrations by Scoular Anderson.

London : Collins, 1980.

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The Locked Room

In Septemberof the year 1811, a little boy arrived at the door of Aswarby Hall in the middle of Lincolnshire. He rang the bell and looked around him at the tall,square eighteenth-century house(p.1).






This book has 9 horror stories. A tree full of enormous spiders; curtains like a dead man's hair with no eyes and boy with no heart...


I'm ok with this kind of stories but, if you are not good at horror, this book is not suitable.


































The locked room and other horror stories  

M.R. James ; retold by Louise Greenwood and Carolyn Jones

New ed

Harlow : Pearson Education, 1999

Wild Country

The woman in the red dress was holding some large yellow flowers to her face. Behind her, there were lots more flowers-big flowers, small

flowers, flowers of every possible colour.(p.1)

Tess and Grant are tour leaders for a group walking holiday in France. But they don't get on well-at least at the start.

Grant enjoys looking down on her and Tess can't deal with it, however

she tries to get on with him...

  Wild Country

Margaret Johnson

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008

Staying Together

'Are we really eating here, Hiroshi?'
Ikuko stopped by the door of the expensive Tokyo reataurant, looking unsure. Hiroshi smiled as he held the door open for her.
'Of course. It's your birthday. Everything's arranged'(p.1)

This story was so long for me but this was interesting . I like love story so if you so, I strongly recommend this book.

Japanese presented in this book, this helped me to be interested in this book. Ekuko(japanese) goes to England to study, promising to return to Japan to get married. But in Birmingham, Ikuko not only discovers another way of life but also a great deal about herself.

Staying Together

Judith Wilson

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001

But was it Murder?

Detective Inspector Rod Eliot was watching the rain running down his office window. He looked at his watch.6.30. Time to leave the mountain of papers on his desk and go to The Queen's Head pub across the road.(P.1)

AlexForley had everything good looks, money, a beautiful house in London, an attractive girlfriend and a close group of friends. But now he is dead and Detective Inspecter Rod Eliot wants the answer.

Is this a murder?  if so, who was a murder?

People who like detective story will be curious about the end of story.

                                                                                                                   

But was it Murder?

Jania Barrell

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000

Go, Lovely Rose and other story

'But who is she with?' said Mr Carteret.
'A young man. She met him on the aeroplane,' Mrs Carteret said.
'Now go to sleep.' 
Outside the bedroom window the moon was shining brightly.(P.1)



A warm summer night. The moon shines down on the quiet houses and gardens. Everyone is asleep. Everyone except the man in pyjams and slippers, standing on the wet grass at the end of his garden, watching and waiting...
I thought this book's cover was beautiful and attractive.

This book has three short stories.







Go, Lovely Rose and other stories

H.E. Bates ; retold by Rosemary Border

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000

STAR ZOO

Nothing ever happens on just Like Home-that's the name of the planet I live on. I get bored!
But tonight was Remembering Night and that's exciting. There's the big fire where everybody must put on something that they love and watch it burn. Then there's the dancing round the fire.(p.1)




In the far distant future, Hummingbird is a girl of sixteen who lives somewhere in the Galaxy, on a planet called just like Home.
She has never seen any living animal or bird at all.

In this book, The Earth has already burned out long long time ago.


THE STAR ZOO

Harry Gilbert

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000

The Year Of Sharing

'Let me just shake hands and say goodbye, Richard.'

'Dad, you said you wouldn't come.'

' I'm sorry your mother couldn't come. She had to meet some very important people from over the world to talk about animals in danger. It was very important business. She wanted to come and say goodbye to you but...'(p.4)

Richard lives in a small village, people who live there must live alone in the forest with the wild animals for 

1 year when they become 12 years old.

A goodbye party is held for them and they leave for the forest to learn how to survive...

The Year Of Sharing
Harry Gilbert

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000

The Enchanted April🌺

  

   It was a cold afternoon in February. The streets of London were wet and dirty. Mrs Wilkins was standing at the window of her club.  Her clothes were dull and old-fashioned. Mrs Wilkins looked down at the crowded street. It was raining again.

Four  women answer an advertisement in The Times newspaper. They leave cold, rainy Lomdon and go on holiday to

San Salvatore-an Italian castle by the sea. They are bored with their daily lives, but visiting castle changes them. They leave their husbands, their friends and their unhapiness behind in England.(where they live)

In Italy, they find enchantment, hapiness and love.

The Enchanted April

Elizabeth Von Arnim ； retold by Margaret Tarner ； illustrated by Tracey Joanne Ramsdale

Oxford : Heinemann International

                                                                                            

the case of the lonely lady

Nancy Robert was born in 1943. Her father worked in an import/export company in Bombay in India. Nancy had no brothers or sisters and she was always a lonely girl.(P.6)

     Nancy Robert was forty-six when her father died and Nancy was left alone in the world. Then she met Henry Jones and his sister. Nancy and Jone got married, so she thought she would never be lonely again.

A few weeks later, she gradually realizes her husband is strange, but it was too late...

I felt fear in characters actions in this book.

The case of the lonely lady

John Milne ； illustrated by Christopher Price

Oxford : Heinemann International

The Black Cat🐈

The main character in this story is called Salahadin. He is an inspector in the Egyptian police. His job is to protect Egyptian antiquities. An antiquity is something which is very old.

This story starts with a man's death. Main character tris to find the suspect and at the same time, he looks for a antiquity called " The Black  Cat" which is really invaluable one. He faces a lot of problem ,but break through with difficulty.




I recommend this book to people who like mystery or something kind of like that.






















The Black Cat

John Milne ; [illustrated by Peter Edwards]

Oxford : Macmillan Heinemann ELT, 2007, c2005

Love by Design

Tom sometimesdrew pictures of the people who came into the library. One day a girl came into the library because  it was raining. While she stood near the door Tom tried to draw her. Suddenly she turned round and saw him.(p.7)

Tom hates working in the library. He wants to be an artist and photographer. But he failed his exams. So he can't go to art college. One day a beautiful girl walks in the library and Tom falls in love.

I recommend this book to people who like love story. I like this book's last.

Love by design

Kieran McGovern

Oxford : Macmillan Heinemann ELT, 2005

The Secret Garden🌹

'There's nothing wrong with your back!' She said at last. 'Nothing at all! It's as straight as mine! Only Colin knew how important those crossly spoken, childish words were.(p44)

Little Mary Lennox is a bad-tempered, disagreeable child.

When her parents die in India, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle in a big,lonely, old house.

There is nothing to do all day except walk in the gardens, and she found the key which was the key to the secret garden...

I found this book was interesting so I want to recommend this to everyone!

The secret garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Harmondsworth : Puffin, 1951

The Adventure of TOM SAWYER🍂

    

    There is a time in every boy's life when he wants to go and dig for treasure. And that time cme for Tom.(P.25)

Tom Sawyer does not like school.He does not like work, and he never wants to get out of bed in the morning. But he likes having adventures with his friends. And he has a lot of adventure. One night, he and his friend Huck Finn go to the graveyard to look for ghost, but what they saw was...

 

I recommend this book to people who want to feel excitment through books.

The adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain ; Simplified by W.J.Hoggett ; Introduction and questions by Rowena Akinyemi

Harlow : Longman, c1993

Who,Sir？ Me,sir?

     It was Sam Sylvester, a teacher at Hawkwood school, who started the trouble. Just along the road from Hawkwood there was another school called Greycoats.

Sam is a teacher who wants his class to have ambition, and to do great things in life. So he enters them for a sporting competition against the rich students of Greycoats school...

I like this kind of teachers so I enjoyed reading this book! This book has several pictures, you can understand the situation easily. I recommend this book to people who like school stories.

'Who, sir? Me, sir?'

K.M. Peyton ; retold by Diane Mowat ; illustrated by Kate Simpson

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000

THE PIANO

''Sir Anthony Evans Plays Liszt.'' The  words above the door of the theatre were a metre high. On the wall there was a big picture of Sir Anthony at the piano. (p1)
                                                                                                              

This book is about a boy who bacame a famous pianist. When he became thirteen, he needed to leave school and work for his family because his family was poor. However his life changed after he left school and started working...
 This book was so interesting among books written in English I have read ever. I want to recommend this book to everyone.
























The piano

Rosemary Border

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1989