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.

[51 words]

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.

[46 words]

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!

[260 words]

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!

[252 words]

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!

[207 words]

Essays 2-06: Learning with Computers ~A Part of Life~

Hello everyone! Today I am going to talk about learning with computers. Now we are alive in a lot of computers, aren't you? Our life is surrounded by computers now! I think that computers are a part of our life any more. It is not too much to say "No computers No life". That is because we use computers for work, study, communicating with people, getting information, researching, watching movies, listening to music playing games preserving file or date and so on... So they are very necessary for human being. Computers have also a lot of functions such as MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. So I will talk about learning with computers.


To begin with, I am going to talk about communication through computers. Do you use computers to contact with people? We often use cellular phone to contact with people. However we are able to communicate with people through computers. No matter where we are, we can check E-mail. In other words, computers connect all over the world. We learn how to communicate with people through E-mail. I mastered how to attach file or pictures with E-mail. However there are some problems. It is that we cannot predict when answer will return. When we want answer soon, we get into trouble if an answer doesn't return. That is the way, some troubles will happen.


Next, it is about Internet. We can get a lot of information from Internet. If you have things you want to know, you are able to research by Internet. Internet provides us much information. And we also exchange new information, I think. Also probably almost all of students love to use "YouTube". It belongs to Internet and we are able to listen to music and watch movies. If you don't have TV, DVD, and CD component, we can listen and watch many programs with "YouTube" in Internet. There are variety programs such as kids TV show, animations, videos English animations, dramas and so on... I watch and listen another country' programs, so it is possible to get new information I have never known.


Finally, computers have convenient functions such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and so on... I often use MS Word when I write paper. I often began to use MS Word since I entered my university. So I learned how to write papers, how to operate soft with using MS Word soft. Besides, Excel is also necessary in our life. Especially it is necessary in office. We will learn how to write graph. In writing class, I practiced typing practice through typing tool and playing English typing games. These help us with typing rapidly. We learn a lot of things from many computer functions.


As a conclusion, computers are very useful and necessary for our life. Computers are a part of our life any more now in the world. As I said in this essay, computers have many tools and functions. So we will get some kinds of skills from computers. However computers have some problems such as computer virus, relation with E-mail and so on... So sometimes pay attention to computers! Especially, I want to master how to use computer more.


[529 words]

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.

[246 words]

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!

[230 words]

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.

[242 words]

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!

[325 words]

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!

[212 words]

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!

[250 words]

Essays 1-05: Now is to Be a Global Woman!!!~From the Beginning of My Mother Language to My Learning Languages for 19 Years~

I love to communicate with my friends or people!! Anyway, talking with my friends or people make me happy! Everyone likes to talk your friends or people too, I think. So, how have you been learning some languages until now? This time I am going to talk about my learning language history.

First of all, I will talk about my mother tongue, Japanese. When I was born, I heard a mother language, Japanese or mother's voice. Everybody thinks so too, you know. When I was born in 6 months, I began to utter sounds, "PAPA" and "PUPU". When I was 10 months, I began to walk and say "APPLE", "ORANGE" and so on. My mother said to me, "The words which you said for the first time were English words!" It was amazing for me! It seems that I love to sing songs.

Second is English. An encounter of English for the first time is when I was 4 years old. I was very little and shy girl. In my preschool, we had "Play Room" once a week. It was a class that foreigners, such as American, Canadian and Englishman, come to my preschool and talk, communicate and play with her or him in English. Also we sang English songs or read stories in English. All this time was spoken in English. However I didn't understand what she or he says. So I was really afraid of them. I always kept away them and hid behind my preschool teacher. I didn't like English and foreigner at that time.

One day, I saw one of my friends played with foreigner. I gazed at them and I wanted to join them too. It was "English conversation and expression dram class". One of my friends commuted this class, so I commuted it. And then, I gradually began to contact with foreigners. Since I joined this class, I spoke, sang songs, read stories in English. Also we made expression dram in English. I began to like English. Each of them played the role of character. In English expression concert I played the narrator and character of the story in English. But I was such a shy girl that I was very nervous every time. We performed four times a year. In this way, I encountered English and I was interested in English. I had been commuted this class until when I was junior high school 2nd student.

In my junior high school days, my favorite class was English after all. English was my best subject and I studied more. Especially I loved ALT's class, oral communication class. However not only conversation but also I began to study English. In other words these were English grammar, listening, reading and writing. The more I studied English, the more vocabulary increased. So I enjoyed memorizing English vocabulary or reading and writing. I remember that I reviewed English lesson every day.

In my high school days, at first I thought English grammar is sooooo difficult for me! I felt frustrated at that time. Also I lost confidence of my English skills for the first time. Buuuuut I couldn't give up studying English because I have been involved in English until then. This was a signal as studying more and more again.
Another prompt was an encounter of English teacher from 2nd year in high school. She was very cool and energetic woman. She was severe sometimes, but usually she was always very kind and smile. I was fascinated with her. To improve my English skills, I went to her desk and was corrected my writing, reading and grammar. I also was given her workbook every finished using my workbook. Moreover, I heard her English career and her way of improving skills. I was moved whenever I talked with her. Whenever I talked with her and took her class, the attachment to English became strong. Also I thought that I wanted to major in English in University.

In my university life, needless to say, I major in English. However I encountered new languages, Spanish and Korean. When I was a freshman, I learned Spanish. The reason why I took Spanish was because I heard Spanish was the second largest spoken language all over the world. I was interested in it because it has parts of similarity English. The Spanish pronunciation was attractive for me because of dissimilarity pronunciation. If I can take Spanish Ⅲand Ⅳclasses, I want to take these next year.
Now I struggle hard with Korean *hah* It is very special and difficult for me. It looks like sign or code. When I went to Korea, I really didn't understand and I felt I came to different world except for earth. But If I could understand this language, I would be very happy and nice, I thought. Unfamiliar as I am, it will take a long time to memorize its letters and rule. However I like questing things and I am curious! I believe that the day when I feel the moment of interesting will come soon. I want to master English, Spanish and Korean for my university life!

As a conclusion, to learn languages is very important for me and developed myself. There is present myself because there was an opportunity to learn a language. Because there was an encounter with a person and influenced, I have an aim now. Language is a tool to communicate with people, know different cultures. To understand other countries, I have to learn English as a communication tool. To be a global woman, first I have to know myself and Japan deeply. I keep learning anything by using languages.

[941words]