Summary-Sr.2-Sep.13th

Write a summary of the magazine article in three sentences.

 Use the subjects presented.

This article is about how television makes people believe that the world is more dangerous than it is and how people react to it.

When people see TV news programs that show and overstate violent crimes, people tend to believe that there is more crime than really is.

And then they become more afraid than necessary, less interactive with others and less healthy.

(62 words)

Vocabulary for fear-Sr.2-Sep.13th

Vocabulary of fears; fear, frighten, scare, terrify, horrify

fear (verb) to be frightened of somebody, something or doing something: to fear death

      (noun) the bad feeling for danger or bad thing: a fear of dark/height/flying, fear of losing a job, fear for the future

frighten (verb) to make somebody feel afraid: Sorry, I didn’t mean to frighten you.

  - frightened (adj) afraid, feeling fear: a frightened dog, Don’t be frightened.

  - frightening (adj) making you feel afraid: a frightening experience, It’s frightening to think~

scare (verb) to frighten somebody: The dog scared me. Don’t be scared. scarecrow

     (noun) a situation people are frightened about something: a bomb scare, a scare tactics

  - scared (adj) frightened of something, afraid: I’m scared of heights. He was scared to death.

  - scary (adj) frightening: a scary movie/story/moment

afraid (adj) feeling fear, frightened, worried about: Don’t be afraid of sb/sth/–ing/to do. There’s nothing to be afraid of. I’m afraid of snakes. I’m afraid of going out alone/to go out alone.

terrify (verb) to make sb feel very frightened: I was terrified of the spider.

  - terrifying (adj) : a terrifying experience.

horrify (verb) to make sb feel very shocked or frightened: I was horrified

  - horrifying (adj) : a horrifying experience/story

Note: sb = somebody         sth = something

Review Junior-3L September 11

Write in English.
Amiir は夏休みについて話します。彼は両親が望んだためお父さんの会社でインターンをしました。Paは初めてのqeej の発表会を行いました。彼女は自分の楽器を持ってきていて、クラスメートの前で演奏するようです。

Review-Jr.3E-Sep.11th

1. 友達に欺かれることはとても辛いです。(so much)

2. 私の親は(単数)昨夜夕食後、私に外出させてくれませんでした。

Review Junior-3L September 7th

Write in English.
今日は新学期の一日目です。今年度は高校最後の年なので、みんな意義のあるものにしたいと思っています。サラはミシシッピ川をボートで登り友達と話したことを楽しんだと言っています。ホセの番では、彼は野球の奨学金に申し込んでいると言っています。

Review-Jr.3E-Sep.7th

1. 上手に英語を話したければ、話す練習を沢山して自信をつけることだ。

     (A good English speaker, become confident)

2. 教室では携帯電話の使用は禁止されています（許されていません）

Conditionals-Sr.2-Sep.6th

1. What do you usually do if you forgot to bring the textbook to the class?

2. What do you think you will do if you find a wallet on the ground on your way home?

3. What would you do if you won a ￥1,000,000 lottery?

4. What would you have done if you had had no class today?

5. What do you think you might/would have done if you had woken up at 9:00 this morning?

Writing-Sr.2-Sep.6th

Write about Your Life

Make a timeline with major events from your life. 

Use the questions below to help you with ideas.

1. When and where were you born?

2. Where did you grow?

3. What schools did you go to?

4. What did you study or do?

5. What are your hobbies and interests? 

     When did you develop these interests?

6. What is your life like now? 

     What do you do?

Write a paragraph about your life.

☆ Try These!: Then, After ~, Soon after ~, After that, Before ~, As soon as, When ~

Review Junior-3L September 4th

(1) 私たちは次の授業前にこれらの練習問題をしておくよう言われました。
(2) 私は日曜日にボランティア(volunteer work) に加わらないかと頼まれました。
(3) インフルエンザのたくさんの症例が世界中から報告されてきています。
Many cases of the flu
(4) 教室では携帯電話の使用は禁止されています。（携帯電話を使用することは許されていません）
You aren’t
(5) 食料や水は無駄にされるべきではありません。

Writing-Jr.3E-Sep.4th

What do you think is important to you in your last year of junior high school?

Write your answer in five to eight sentences. 

Review-Jr.3E-Sep.4th

1. あなたの計画は野心的ですね。

  それはやるべきことが沢山あるようですね。（sound）

2. 私は日曜日のボランティア作業に加わらないかと頼まれました。

3. 食料や水は無駄にされるべきではありません。

he,she, or they-Sr.2-Sep.2nd

☆ He or she’ versus ‘they’     from Oxford Living Dictionaries

It’s often important to use language which implicitly or explicitly includes both men and women, making no distinction between the genders. This can be tricky when it comes to pronouns. In English, a person's gender is explicit in the third person singular pronouns (i.e., he, she, his, hers, etc.). There are no personal pronouns that can refer to someone (as opposed to something) without identifying whether that person is male or female. So, what should you do in sentences such as these?

If your child is thinking about a gap year,                       can get good advice from this website.

 A researcher has to be completely objective in                    findings.

[1] You can use the wording ‘he or she’, ‘his or her’, etc.:

If your child is thinking about a gap year, he or she can get good advice from this website.

A researcher has to be completely objective in his or her findings.

This can work well, as long as you don’t have to keep repeating ‘he or she’, ‘his or her’, etc. throughout a piece of writing.

[2] You can make the relevant noun plural, rewording the sentence as necessary:

If your children are thinking about a gap year, they can get good advice from this website.

Researchers have to be completely objective in their findings.

This approach can be a good solution, but it won’t always be possible.

[3] You can use the plural pronouns ‘they’, ‘them’, ‘their’ etc., despite the fact that, technically, they are referring back to a singular noun:

If your child is thinking about a gap year, they can get good advice from this website.

A researcher has to be completely objective in their findings.