Theme

I work part-time as a private tutor. I teach math and English to junior high school students. My job is to help them to prepare for the high school entrance examination. At the moment, I have four students. I work Monday evenings, Saturday mornings, and Sunday afternoons.

Theme: my part-time job

I have a part-time job in a conveniencestore. I have been working there  for six months. The people I work with are very friendly. And my boss is not too strict.  So I have a lot of fun. I usually work two or three imes a week. The hourly pay is 800 yen. So I earn around 50,000 yen per month. I usually work in the evening and on weekends. But I also work some mornings during school vacations. Working in a convenience store is interesting. Because we can meet a lot of different people. I have learned a lot of things from my part-time job.

In a Dark, Dark Room

This book is composed of seven scary stories. Every strory is short, and funny. 
I like “the green ribbon” in this book. So let me introduce it. 

A girl named Jenny is a main character in this story. She is like all other girls except for one thing. She always wares a green ribbon around her neck. 

A friend Alfred asked her 

“why do you wear a green ribbon all the time?”

She never told the truth. 

When they grew up and got married. Years passed. Jenny became very sick. Alfred asked her that question again. 

She said 

“now I can tell you about the green ribbon. 

Alfred untied the ribbon, her head fell off. 

Reference 

Alvin Schwartz, (1984). I can read! In a Dark, Dark Room. 

The Magic Barber

In Crossways, everybody wears a large hat. Everybody has long hair.

One day, there is a loud noise and a small boy appeared. The back of the small boy was a donkey. On the donkey, the man is sitting.

The man is a magic barber and he changed everyone’s hair. No one wears hat anymore.

However next day, everyone was disappointed because they lost their hair. Everyone got angry.

What was happened?Where is his hair?

Then the small boy appeared to sell hat. Everyone in the town bought the hat.

Everyone is happy.

Reference

John Milne. (1989). The Magic Barber. Macmillan Readers.

Don’t look now !

In England. John and Laura are on holiday in Venice. Their daughter, Christina is dead and they need time to forget, time to live again and be happy.
One day, they met two old girls. One of the girl said the other girl can see your daughter. Laura was very surprised. And also the sisters said you should go out from Venice.

They managed to goout. Gradually john came to see red shadow.

At firrst, he worried about his wife, but in fact he is the most strange people.
References

Reference

Daphne du Maurier, Don’t look now. Penguin Readers level 3.

A chance of lifetime

Helen Davies is a girl. Her boyfriend, Tom said to her ” I have to go Australia with my company for job. 

After that , she realized two things. One is Tom didn’t want to see her. Second is he wasn’t in love wit’s her. She was so shocked. 

Her friends cheered her, but she couldn’t be fine. So her friend recommended her to do new job. 

And also, she was recommended to travel overseas. 

Guradually, she started to recover herself.  Through these experiences, some changes occur. 

A Picture to Remenber

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One day, Cristina, a woman who is working at a museum had an important new job. She was felling good. It was warm day, so she wanted to feel the warm air on her face. She never wore a helmet because she liked the feeling of the wind.  The city center was so terrible, so she began to slow down. And she stopped and looked into the car next to her. There are two men who had guns…. She felt afraid, and tried to start her bike. But she couldn’t. Suddenly a taxi hit the back of her bike.

Two hours later Cristina was lying in bed in hospital and her parents were waiting outside of her room with a policeman. Everyone asked her what happened then. However she couldn’t remember anything.

One day, she felt afraid with a picture of poppies. It was the turning point that she became to remember the truth of the accident….

After the accident, some terrible thing happened arround her…

Could she remember the truth….?

Sarah scott-Malden, (1999). A picture to remember. Cambridge University press.

APOLLO 13

In this book, the detail of Apollo 13 is written. Stories was composed of small chapters. There are 18 chapters. 

Today I introduce you to the story I was so moved. 

It is Chapter 9 Monday, April 13, 23:00. 

In the space, astronauts had problem. 

It is the explosion of small tank of O2. 

“Can we get the astronauts home?”

“How long can they live in the lunar module?”

“Will the engine on command module    work again?”

Keanu was the reader in the space. 

He suddenly proposed his idea. 

It is the change of plan. They were going to the face of moon at first. But, Kranz change the plan. 

Using the water, power, and oxygen in lunar module , they were tried to go home. 

It was so thrilled. But they returned at moon. 

“This is the only possible way. “

The cause of problem was the lack of only one clincher. 

Reader’s idea and quick correspondence was so important, I think. 

Reference

William Broyles, Jr. & Al Reiner, and John sales. (1999) Apollo 13. Penguin readers level 2. 

Audrey Hepburn

I think everybody know Audrey Hepburn. She is famous for beautiful actress. 

Even now she is the best icon of actress. 

But she had never spent happy days.  

Why…..?

When I was 8 years old, I watched “Roman holiday”. It was then I knew her. She is so beautiful. 

She loved music from her chilhhood. So she wanted to be dancer. 

However she was so tall, her dance teacher told her you couldn’t become famous dancer. 

She lost her dream then. 

And her parents had some problems. They divorced when she was young. 

And the town she lived was so dangerous because of war. So she had to left her town right now. 

Many bat things happened around her. 

“Why are we leaving?” Audry asked. 

“There’s going to be a war. Her mother told her. “We are going to Holland. You’ll be safe there. “

Of course she was not rich. But her mother paid the money of dance lesson for her daughter’s dream. 

So Audry did her best. 

The all life of famous actress is not happy     .  So Audry supported many people who were in trouble after her actress life. 

I think people can help somebody who were in trouble because you experienced same trouble before. 

Reference
Chris Rice (2000) Audry Hepburn Penguin Readers level 2.

Anne green of grables

Maybe Japanese students can’t imagine the detail of this book. 

But “Akage no Ann” every Japanese students knows. 

I read this book with many emotion. 

This book is composed of 11 chapters. 

Today I introduce you to one chapter I loved. 

It is chapter 7. 

The reason why I choose this chapter …

I was so moved!!! So I wanna spread this story.  (・ω・)ノ✨

Chapter 7 is mainly the story of Anne ‘s hope. 

Anne hoped to held a party with her friends for a long time. 

One day, Ann was allowed to held a party. 

But there are many rules. Even though the situation was, Ann was so happy. 

Ann enjoyed drinking with her friend.  

However Ann mistook the drink her friend had to strawberry alcohol. 

So her friend felt bat….

Ann got chewed out by her home owner.

Ann felt so lonely…

However one kind person appeared !!

Ann was helped by her. 

“You shouldn’t say such thing…”