first speaking class September 28

I introduced myself in the speaking class. My name is Ann and I'm from Egypt. I'm chef and my hobby is wood working. I don't like high places.
I talked 7 people. Marie is from Brazil. Her hobby is judo and she hate to ski. Lucy is from England. And her hobby is bird watching. She hate smoking. Deniel is from Phiyph. She is scientist and she like to ski. Ayumi is from Italy and she is a bartender. Ronald is from South America and he is a jonarist. Sanae is from German and she is a computer hacker. Her hobby is computers. Yurie is from South East Asia and she is a pilot. Her hobby is gardening.
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the goose that laid the golden eggs

Tom and Elena lived in a small house. They grow vegetables and goose. They were poor but they were happy. One day, Tom found the gold egg when he collected eggs. After that he sold it and he got much money!! Next day, they got the gold egg again. They bought a big house and new clothes and so on. Tom and Elena became rich. They thought that they wanted many gold eggs. So Elena thought of the idea that they killed the goose! And she thought that they could get the all gold eggs. But they couldn't get the gold egg. They became poor again.
usborne first reading: level three
Mairi Mackinnon
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Androcles and the lion

Long time ago, there was a man called Androcles.

He was slave and he worked near the king. The day he ran away from king. He went to forest and he met a enormous lion. The lion's name was Lio. Lio hurt his leg and he helped Lio. They became to friend and lived with. One day, Androcles was caught a soldier and he was brought in arena. The soldier said him that he must fright with lion. When he fright, he afraid lion but the lion was Lio. They was friend so they didn't fright. the custom and King were surprise and they said brave.

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usborne first reading

androcles and the lion

retold by russell punter

summer vacation

I watched a Harry Potter with a friend of mine in theater after the exam. The movie is new movie and we was looking forward to watch. It was good! I want to watch it again.

I went to Oita with Ayako by car. We went to Beppu and Yufuin, Kijima. I became to like Yufuin because there were many cute shops. We stayed a small hotel. The room was small but it was clean and cute. So I was favorite there.

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Speech Contest

The YMCA's speech contest was held in Shimin library. I went to teach Japanese every on Wednesday in WMCA school. And I was invited teacher to the contest. So I went it with Rie. I have many friends there and my friend also enter it. Rie and I judged their with teacher! They spoke Japanese well and content was also good!! I think that I also study English hard!!
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Doutonbori September 12

The final day. We went to the Doutonbori by train. I rode the subway for the first time! There were many people and the station was very large than Kumamoto's station!

We took the pictures in Doutonbori! I watched the Kani-Douraku and Guriko and so on. There were tourist there. We ate the Okomoniyaki. The resutaurant's name is Kubou. The resutaurant is appeared so we went there. The Okonomiyaki was delicious! I wanted to eat a Kusiyaki but we couldn't find it. Then we watched the Owarai. I watched it the first time and it was funny! After that it was raining, so we went to airplane. And we bought the souvenirs. We rode the plane at 8 p.m. and we came home at 10p.m. I enjoyed this travel and I want to go Osaka!

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USJ September 11

The second day!!! We went to USJ at 10a.m. and we wanted to ride a Spider-Man so we ran there! I think that the Spider-Man is the most interesting!! Because it is 3D and a car move, there is fire and water!! We rode it two times!! We waited for riding it about 60 minutes!! So we were tired. We could ride almost ride!!
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Universal Stujios Japan September 10

I went to the USJ by plane with my friends! It was three days travel. We rode the plane at 9a.m. and we arrived at 10a.m. in Osaka. I rode in the plane for the long time so I was nervous!
After that we ate lunch in airport and we went to the hotel. There is the hotel near the USJ! We could go to USJ on foot about 2 minutes. In addition there are many shops around the hotel! We enjoyed shopping.
The night we watched a parade. It was very beautiful!! I took pictures! I enjoyed playing and watching parade but it was cold because I wore a short sleeves! I had a long sleeves only!

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the enormous turnip

A man had a seed. He put it in the garden and the seed grows. The day, the seed grown. It was a turnip. He thought that he wanted to eat the turnip. So he pulled it but it didn't move. He called the his wife and she pulled it with him. The turnip was very big so it didn't move. They called a girl and boy, dog, cat, mouse. They pulled it with. Then they could get it!! After that they ate the turnip.
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land of the dinosaurs

The children went to a land of the Dinosaurs through a door of the magic house. They took pictures and watched the eggs of dinosaurs. They climbed a enormous! Then they met a big dinosaurs! They ran away!! When they ran, the magic key began to glow and they could come home. The children wanted to watch the picture but there wasn't the film in the camera!!

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