Lyrics with a list

Madness - Our House

Father wears his Sunday best
Mother's tired she needs a rest
The kids are playing up downstairs
Sister's sighing in her sleep
Brother's got a date to keep
He can't hang around


When we talk about a list in English, the topics are expressed with declining intonations except for the last topic, and the last topic is expressed with rising intonation.

Love Dialogue using phrasal verbs

Man: Coming up next Saturday my mother is going to see us because I set her up to see you.


Woman: Really? Oh, I have to finish up cleaning our messy rooms. I'll have been burned out, when she comes.

Man: When we moved in this flat, it had been very clean. But it is too difficult maintaining our room neat and tidy because we're both so busy with our works.

Woman: Yes right. Anyway now I'm worried if I can get along with your mother.

Man: She might like you. She told me that I was old enough to settle down. Actually it's based on our old tradition that we should get married with someone who live together for a few years and moreover to get her taken care of  his mother.   

Woman: Disgusting.

Bog body : National Museum of Ireland

Choose an item or exhibit that really interests you.
What is the exibit?
An exhibition of Iron Age bog bodies including Clonycavan Man, Old Croghan man


When it was made?
In the Iron age


Why/How is it significant in terms of culture and history?
To investigate the ancient time, life and ritual

Where is it from?

Oldcroghan, Co. Offaly and Clonycavan, Co. Meath

Does the item have a purpose/function?

To be human sacrifice to the gods for the harvest.

To be killed as a rejected ruler for sovereignty and kingship.

There could be some theories.

Why did you select this exhibit?

 At first glance I felt scared of that.

They were so beautiful and mysterious.

I was especially inspired by the hand of Old Croghan Man.

It was unbelievable the body remained in such a naturally preserved condition.

Acidic, non-oxygen and cold temperature would be important for preservation.

This perfect situation made the bog body. it is so amazing.

After I had been staring at it, I felt like falling in love with them.

I wonderd to myself: "What was going on?"

Does the exhibit represent information about a particular culture at a particular time?

We might know about the ritual and culture in the Iron Age.

How I really got to Dublin

The Commitments - Try a Little Tenderness

After graduating from university, I had been working as a narrator, as voice-over talent and as an MC or  Master of Ceremonies speaking in front of the people who come to parties, wedding ceremonies, concerts, and so on. Sometimes I have to speak in English at some international parties or concerts. So I've been taking private English conversation lessons  for two years to improve English skills. But usually I have only been listening to my teacher's worries or troubles in his life.  I was aware that it would be more important for me to speak a lot and so that I started to search for language schools. I didn't want to speak Japanese while studying abroad. America, Canada, London, Australia: In which country were there the fewest Japanese? That would be Ireland! But this was not the only reason. I also loved the movie "The Commitments", this is my image of Dublin. My longed-for place. Guinness country! How lovely! So I decided to go to Dublin, Ireland.

5 Achievement

1 Interenet

I can’t live without it.

Thanks to the internet, I can get the information which restaurant is the best and something like that. It is easy to communicate with people from the other countries. I can travel the places I don’t know at all. If there is no interenet, I wouldn’t travel alone.

2 Digital camera

Thanks to the camera, I can save my pleasant memories. And thanks to the digital camera, I can save huge amount of pictures without hesitation to pay for the films and to stock the paper pictures.

3 Momofuku Ando

He invented the instant ramen and cup noodle.

Thanks to him, we can have nice meals instantly.

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5 To be here

This is the greatest achievement for me. To study abroad is a valuable experience. I can study English with intelligent students and great teachers.

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Keep on blocking it!

Valentine's day

Imagine

Imagine the woods,
Without a tree,
Imagine the rivers,
Without the sea,
Imagine yourself,
Without me,
Imagine how lost,
I would be.

- Pete Shilling -  



Man loves little and often: Woman much and rarely.

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.


    * Love is not finding someone to live with, It's finding someone you can't live without. - Rafael Ortiz
    * You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss. - Daniel Heinsius
    * If music be the food of love, play on. - Shakespeare
    * It's never too late to fall in love. - Sandy Wilson
    * To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. - Karen Sunde
    * Where there is love, there is life - Mahatma Gandhi
    * If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand. - Unknown
    * There is no remedy for love but to love more. - Thoreau
    * Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever. - Unknown
    * If love is great, and there are no greater things, then what I feel for you must be the greatest. - Unknown
    * Where there is great love, there are always miracles. - Willa Cather

New words

microwave (noun and verb) = nuke(US)
 → nuke a tater

Mishaps : How to get lost on the planet Earth

I was riding on a train to Obidos from Lisbon in Portugal when I noticed there nothing around me a empty field. I had passed a few stations but I didn't see anyone. I thought these stations had been built for the people living in some Shangri-La under the ground. I didn't see anyone at Obidos station after getting off. While reading the popular Japanese traveler's guidebook "How to walk on the Planet Earth", I was walking along the path as the guidebook had said.  I was walking for a while and found the wall of a castle and also a notice on the door of the wall which read "No Entry.  This exit is currently closed in preparation for Christmas" As I found some construction workers there, I asked them "Where can I get inside the city?" But no one could speak English at all. I didn't know what to do. I was so depressed because I had to spend 8 hours on the return train and I would be frozen to death. When I was at a loss, an officer of the city who could speak English happened to come and took me inside the wall. I had finally arrived there! The officer smiled, "Everyone else comes here by bus".
After I had found a lot of tourists in the city coming there by bus, I realized the guidebook's title should have been "How to get lost on the Planet Earth"

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