SCOTLAND

How much do you really know about this country of exciting cities, beautiful islands and wonderful mountains?
Recently, I am interested in SCOTLAND because of United Kingdom affaires, so I lent this book. If you are interested in this, you should lend this book. And you will know more about SCOTLAND.

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The JApan Times はじめての人のTOEFL TEST

I recommend this book to people who study TOEFL for the first time. This book's good points are an explanation and a Practice Test. An explanation is polite for me. It's important to practice this workbook over and over again. Iwill look for a new TOEFL Text Book like this.

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音読でたたきこむTOEFL test 英文法

This book is a exercise book of TOEFL test with CD. The good point of this book is to learn with listening to CD. So, you can remember the grammar with listening. If you want to lend, you should go to 11 building and 2 floors.

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BR 2-18: CORDUROY Writes a Letter

I read this book the last time.

I am going to talk about this story briefly...

The main characters in this book are Lisa, her mother, and a bear Corduroy. One day, Lisa thought that cookies don't have enough sprinkles. So her mother suggested her to write a letter for the bakery. Lisa tried to write a letter but she left her room. However Corduroy thought that I can write a letter, so Corduroy wrote a letter and he mailed it in post. The next Saturday Lisa had cookies with more sprinkles. That night, Lisa and her mother went to the theater to watch a movie, but they discovered the lights were out. However she felt sleepy, so she could not write a letter. Corduroy wrote a letter in exchange for her. Also Corduroy posted it. Next time, the lights are turned on. Lisa and her mother noticed it. Finally Lisa wrote a letter for the radio station to request the song "Teddy Bear Bop". After few weeks, they could listen to their favorite song, so they were very happy.

I felt that Corduroy was very kind. Lisa and her mother would be helped, thanks to Corduroy. I thought that "Corduroy" is cloth when we often are able to see in winter. I wonder that bear stand for cloth in winter. So I want to search for that origin. This story was very good for me because it was excited in the continuation. I finished reading this story. You can try it! Please read it.

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BR 2-17: ARTHUR LOST in the MUSEUM

I am going to talk about this story. This situation is at ELWOOD MUSEUM.

The story...

The main character is Arthur. One day, Arther's class went to the museum. Everyone entered the museum and Arthur raised hand to quest. Actually, he wanted to go to boy's room, but he was still turned down to be answer. After that he was told where the boy's room, Arthur ran down the hall. He went into the first door. It is dark there. He opened the door, but there is American Indians' room. It was in an exhibition. His friends were all laughing at him in the wall! After that he is also at the Pilgrims' first Thanksgiving exhibition. Finally, he found the boy's rest room! After finishing that, he arrived at his friends. His teacher said, "Where were you? It was so long!" He said, "I was making history."

I think that it was his maze in the museum. He is very interesting. Also he may be popular with his class. He has a nice character, I think. Also it contained humor, so a lot of readers are able to enjoy reading. I have never been to museum such as a large maze museum, so I want to go to a large museum, and explore them. If you know some museum, tell me where.

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BR 2-16: Beef Stew

I am going to talk about "Beef Stew". If you are, how image do you hit on?

The Story...

The main characters of this story are Nicky and his mother. One day Nicky's mother has made a lot of beef stew, so he was able to invite friends to eat beef stew. However he asked his friend Alec to come to eat it, Alec had to go to the dentist. So he is not able to go. After that he asked Carla, but she could not go because she did not like beef stew. Then he spoke to Mr. Blake, but he planned to go to eat out. He also tried to ask Officer Gabel, but she could not because she had the birthday party that night. Since he was turned down from everyone, he was very depressed on his way to home. However he saw a postman, Mr. Cone. He handed Nicky a post card from his grandmother. So he invited his grandmother to his house for dinner. Nickey, his mother and his grandmother had a very good time that night.

I thought that this book was written about how to make beef stew. However that was not at all. Actually, I had a question why the title of his book is "Beef Stew". In addition that, I wanted to know how to make beef stew. If I was able to know how to make it, I would have a good idea. The pictures on this book were very cute!

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BR 2-15: SHAWN and KEEPER and the Birthday Party

I like this story. It is about a boy and his dog.
I am going to introduce this book briefly.

The story...
These main characters are a boy, Shawn and a dog, Keeper. They are very good family and also friends. They were born on the same day. So they grew up together. One day, Shawn was going to be six. And so was Keeper. They were looking forward to coming the day. They chose a cake and pinata for the birthday party. Next day was their birthday party. His father and mother prepared for the party. His mother baked their birthday cake, and father decorated party's room. Moreover his friends came to his house to celebrate his birthday. They brought a lot of presents for him. However, when they began to eat dinner, his mother said "The cake is gone!" Everyone also looked for the cake. However, the cake was not found. Shawn thought that Keeper had already eaten all of it, so he hid anywhere. So when he looked for Keeper, he shouted! Suddenly, his dad carried the cake, so it was surprise! He had added Keeper's name on the cake. Shawn and Keeper were very happy and enjoyed the party.

I felt that Shawn and Keeper were very good family and friends. He is loved by their dad, mom and his many friends. When I am a parent, I want to give the party for my children, I think.

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BR 2-14: BONES

Good evening everyone! Today I am going to talk about "Bones". This book is written about bones of our bodies. How much do you know about your bones?

Our bones are active to walk, jump, bend our knees and so on. Anyway we move, our bones are helping to go out. By the way, do you think how many bones we have in our bodies? Actually, we have 206 bones in our bodies. Our bones are hidden under our skin. We are able to feel how they form or shape. When we were born, our bones also small. The smallest bones are inside our ears. As our bones grow up, we also grow up. In the opposite, do you know the biggest bones? The biggest bones are in our legs. Our hearts are protected by flat bones in the middle of our chests. Our ribs protect our lungs and other squishy parts. In head, we have skull. It covers brain like a helmet. Inside of skull, the brain is existing. Today, a skull and crossbones means danger or poison. These are very dangerous, I think!
Bones are hard and strong, but we break them by accidents. However our bones can get well, so our bodies are very mystery.
Some animals do not have bones. If we have no bones, we will not be able to catch, run, stretch, grab and so on. Bones are necessary for us to act.

I can understand the words in my body, so it is very convenient book, I think. You can try it soon!

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BR 2-13: Watch Your Step, Mr. Rabbit!

Hello everyone! A winter vacation had already begun! How do you enjoy a winter vacation? How was your Christmas? I also enjoyed winter vacation!

Today I am going to talk about "Watch your Step!" This book is very very very easy to read. So I will tell the story briefly...

In the town, there was a Mr.Rabbit. He was walking the street with reading news paper. So he didn't look at his feet. After that he stuck in the street. There was a new road for construction work, so he can't go outside from new road. Everyone there tried to help him. They tried to push him out, but they can't. Next, they pull him out by truck, but he can't go out. Moreover they tried to blow him out, but no! Neither did he squirt out. Finally, people scooped him out by machine. He could do well! However he kept walking with reading news paper. So people followed him. When he arrived at near the sea, one police said "Watch your step, Mr. Rabbit!"

I think that Mr. Rabbit never learn a lesson. Usually people will learn a lesson soon. However, this character is very nice, so it is interesting a little bit. In addition that, pictures of this book are very pretty! So we can enjoy reading!

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BR 2-12: THE BIG DIPPER

I read this book "THE BIG DIPPER". Do you know it? If you go outside, you will be able to see a lot of stars in a dark night. What do you think "the big dipper"? I have never come up with. So I am going to talk about "the Big Dipper".

We look at a lot of stars in summer and in winter. However they are not always the same. We can see some of them in summer, but others are seen in winter. However, there are some stars that we can see both summer and winter. It is the Big Dipper. To look for it, we can use compass. If the Big Dipper is found, a compass points to the north. Moreover, we can see different kinds of the Big Dipper.

The Big Dipper consists of seven stars; Alkaid, Mizar, Alioth, Megrez, Phecda, Merak and Dubhe. Merak and Dubhe are called the pointer stars. They indicate Polaris, the North Star.

There is also a Little Dipper. It also consists of seven stars. We are able to see a Little Dipper and the Big Dipper at the same time.

The Big Dipper was imagined part of a big bear long time ago by people. They called it Ursa Major. Ursa means bear, and major means big. Also the Little Dipper was part of a little bear. minor means little, so they called it Ursa Minor.

If you imagine that, you will be able to find shapes of them. Let's find them!

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BR 2-11: FIREFLIES IN THE NIGHT

Hello everyone! Today I am going to introduce the book "FIREFLIES IN THE NIGHT". This book is written about fireflies. I knew the word "Firefly" for the first time. I could learn what I have not known this time. Anyway, do you often see fireflies? If so, where do you see? I seldom see them recently.

A style of this book is an experience of a girl.
It seems that when fireflies rest, they fold their hard front wings on top of their soft back wings. Young fireflies do not have wings. They live in the ground for a year or two. After that their wings grow, they live above grounds or trees.
It seems that fireflies help people. For example, if people walk around the dark jungle paths, fireflies help them because they send out light. Another one is relate to medical. Once upon a time in Cuba, a doctor used a firefly lamp in his operating room. I was very surprised!

I think that any other creature in the world help people to live. It is so nice circulation. This series of this book tells us a lot of information and knowledge, so you can try it! You will be able to get new ideas!

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BR 2-10: What Is the World Made Of?

Hello everyone! I read this book. This book is written about a lot of matters of world. Usually I don't often think about what the World is made of, so this title was interesting for me. I am going to introduce this story now.

Do you know three matters on earth? It can be solid, liquid, or gas. All matter, everything on earth, is either solid, liquid, or gas. Some solids are hard, but others are soft. All solid hold their shapes unless we do something to change them. If a lot of toys are liquid or gas, we don't play them. Suppose to you want to drink soon. If water is hard as a block, you cannot drink soon. When we take a bath, water freeze, and we could not take a bath. So, that solid, liquid, and gas are divided is very important for our life and play an important tole.

I think this book tells us how to explain a lot of process on earth in English. Also we are able to learn many words such as small bubble, water vapor, ice cube and so on... It makes use of any scene. Moreover it is very easy to read. I am going to look for other stories from now.

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BR 2-09: Why I sneeze, shiver, Hiccup, and YAWN

I read this book. This book was written about reflex actions. Why do we sneeze? Why do we shiver? Why do we hiccup? Why do we yawn? This book solves out these questions. I thought that reflexes are wonderful for me. I had been thought why these reflexes happen. This book tells detail of it.

Our nervous system is made of two parts. One part is nervous. The other is spinal cord. All reflexes work through your nervous system. When we hiccup, we say "HIC!". To begin with this process, a nerves sends a message to your spinal cord, next an air goes in and your throat closes, so we say "HIC!". In order to stop it, a drink of water may make the hiccups go away. When we sneeze, we say "KA-CHOO!" Why? First, dirt goes in mouth or nose, after that brain gets massage and sends it to spinal cord. Spinal cord gets message and sends it to diaphragm and belly muscles. Then muscles contract. Air is forced out of lungs and into nose and mouth, so we sneeze! Shivering and yawning also reflexes. A yawn begins when lungs have too little oxygen in them. With more oxygen in your lungs, you feels a little less sleep.

We have dozens of different reflexes. I have never thought why these reflexes happen, because these phenomenon are usual things. However our body has wonderful system, I think. I want to know about our body systems more.

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BR 2-08: Down Comes The RAIN

Hello! How's it going everyone?

Today, I am going to talk about "Rain". Do you know the mechanism which falls down rain? Maybe you would study when you are junior high school days. However this book explains how to make rain, why wet clothes dry, and so on easily. So I am sure that you will review the air mechanism again and learn how to express it in English.

When wet clothes hang on the clothesline, the water in them evaporates. So we get dry clothes. This process is caused from sun. Sun is necessary for our life, I think. Almost all of the water vapor in the air comes from rivers, lakes, and oceans. The water changes from a liquid to a gas. Let's think about another situation! In winter, sometimes you are able to see your breath if it is cold. That is because the water vapor includes. All living thing can see this phenomenon. From this book, I am able to know how much air mechanism is an important and necessary for us. It is very useful for our life.

That is way this book tells us a lot of things or information. Perhaps you will get information that you have not known. Moreover the pictures in this book are very pretty good and funny, so you are able to read easily, you know. Please read it!

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BR 2-07: Ant Cities

I read this book which is written about ants. How much do you know about ants? Actually I don't know so much about ants. I think that ants are very tiny and move fast. They are good at escaping anywhere.

I am going to talk about content in this story.

Ants are always moving. They are very active. To make their nest, they are always moving. In a nest, there are miles of tunnels and hundreds of rooms. In the rooms of the nest, worker ants do many different kinds of work. For example, some ants bring food from outside into a nest and crack the seeds. Then the ants chew the seeds to get the juices. Other workers store seeds. Moreover ants lays eggs and grow these.

In the nest, there is a Queen ant. The queen is bigger than the other ants. Anyway ants work very well.

This book describes the nest, kind of ants, how to make something.

I think that each of ants have their own work. You think ants cities are very wonderful, isn't it?*haha* There are over 10000 kinds of ants in the world such as Formica ants, Cornfield ants, Carpenter ants, Thief ants, Leaf cutting ants, and Army ants. Maybe that ants work harder than human, I think. To be honest, I don't like ants because the groups of ants are very strangely and not so good. However, I am able to know about ants.

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BR 2-06: The PLANETS in Our SOLAR SYSTEM

I read science book this time too. I want to overcome this series.
Now I am going to talk about the planets in our solar system. How do you understand about our planet? Can you answer the names of some of the planets? I am sure that maybe you know all of them. How far is it from Earth to the sun? Is it only the Earth that we can live? So these questions are solved completely by reading this book.

We live on a planet. Our planet is called Earth. In our solar system, the nine planets exist. These are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. We need a telescope to see Neptune and Pluto.
Asteroids are big chunks of rock. It goes around the sun. Comets are collections of ice, gas, and dust. Meteoroids are bits of rock and metal. A shooting star is a meteoroid.
Earth is a middle-sized planet. Mercury, Venus, Mars and Pluto are smaller than Earth. Pluto is the smallest planet all of the nine planets. However, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are larger than Earth. Jupiter is the biggest of all the planets. Over 1000 Earths could fit inside Jupiter.
We people can't live on Mercury or Venus. We would burn up. Contrary to the former, we can't live on Neptune or Pluto, because we would freeze. Jupiter and Saturn are very cold. The planet that we can live on is only Earth!!!

I think that Earth is a precious planet for us to live. I can't believe that Earth disappears. I can enjoy and study our solar system with reading this book. The good points of this book are two. First is that there are many pictures and diagram, so we can image easily. Second is that we can know the words about our solar system. Is it like a kind of TOEFL test isn't it??? So I recommend you to read it!

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BR 2-05: How Mountains are made

I read this book. This book is a science book. I read this series. This series has many science books, so I intend to read it from now. This series convince me, so I can study science by reading this book. And this book clear up what we have questions. I will talk about this story briefly.

This book "How Mountains are made" is written about process of being made mountains. It is a kind of geography. I have studied geography when I was high school days, so I can review a content now in English. The way how to make mountains relate with Plate, Magma, Rocky Mantle, and so on. Mountains have four types. These are Folded, Dome, Fault-Block and Volcanic. Moreover, present mountains relate with sea.

By the way, Mt. Everest is a younger mountain, and it is still being pushed up higher. Millions of years from now, there will not be mountains. It will be like a desert.

I think that it is good chance to learn a lot of science in English. And it is written in easy English, so everyone can understand this content and you can enjoy it! A lot of pictures in this book are pretty and this book includes many pictures. So try it!

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BR 2-04: The Moon seems to Change

I read this book "The Moon Seems to Change". It is a science book. Do you know this series? I found this kind this time. Maybe we had studied science until high school days. When I found this book, I was very interested in it and I began to want to read it, so I chose it. Also I wanted to know how to explain changing moon in English.

Do you know that the moon seems to change? The moon goes around the Earth. It takes about four weeks to go around and we can only see parts of the moon. Anyway, there are six patterns of the moon. Can you say the name in each of them? The moon changes... New, Crescent, First Quarter, Full, Third Quarter and Crescent. I was surprised to know names of "First Quarter" and "Third Quarter". These are questionable for me why both of them are not "half".

By the way, do you know that we can do own experiment to show the phrases of the moon? We can do it easily. Please read and try it.

I think that it is very useful for us to read, because we can review the science. Moreover we are able to recall the knowledge of science. There are many pictures in this book, so we can understand words, process and content easily. This science book reminds me of junior high school days, because I studied this content in my junior high school. Please try this book!

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BR 2-03: Christmas carol

I read this book"Christmas carol". Do you know this story? This work is famous for Charles John Huffam Dickens's work. I have never his works, but I began to be interested in his works when I read this book. So I am going to introduce this story from now.

A main character is a merchant called Scrooge. He is a person who was spending the days when are completely unrelated to warmth or the love of the human heart. He was setting up the office in London. He employed Bob at that time. Since he continued in dealing with making money only, he was disliked from the merchants of the trading partner or neighbors. One day evening, Scrooge was visited departed soul of the late Marley.
To escape from his miserable ending, and to change from his way of life to his new life, three spirits appear before him from now on.

It is very fantasy and impossible story, I think. However I like this story because we can image the story easily. Also this story changes a main character from bad character to good character. So this story tells us what important something. Maybe it will be kind heart...

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BR 2-02: Jane Eyre

I read this book before this summer vacation. When I took an English literature introduction for first semester, I found this book. I heard the name of writer, Charlotte Bronte. He is famous for writing stories all over the world. I have never heard the name of this person and looked at him, so I was interested in reading his works.

Today I am going to talk about his story, Jane Eyre.
Once upon a time, there was a girl. Her name was Jane Eyre. Her parents had died from illness. So she was brought up by being abuse from her aunt and aunt's children. One day she was sent to an educational center and she encounter many people. They were very kind. After that she was employed as a tutor. She was proposed from the present head of the family, but it turned to be that he had a wife. So she left there. Next she also came across John. He intended to go to India with her. But she noticed that she heard voice of someone from somewhere, so she refused it. It was Rochester. He was sick ill, so she looked after him and they finally got married.

I think that she spent the eventful life for everything. However it is good to live a substantial life. When she was a little, she would be painful, I think. If I was the place of her, I would not be able to stand. Nobody knows whether life what happens.
It is very famous for an English literature, so I want you to read it!


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