【DME】今日の学び_20110514

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Bloggerも回復したところで、ちょっとだけ。Lesson125の途中から最後まで。

・What kind of people can’t usually take care of themselves?
  - The kind of people who can’t usually take care of themselvese are little children, sick people and very old people.

・Who takes care of children if parents want to go out?
  - A babysitter takes care of children if parents want to go out.

・Give me example of things which must be done with great care.
  - Littele babies must be held with great care.
  - Washing up glasses must be done with great care.

・What words can we use when we say goodbye to a friend?
  - We can use the the words ‘Take care!’ when we say goodby to a friend.

【DME】今日の学び_20110513

English Method

ん？blogger メンテナンス？

Lesson124のはじめからLesson125の途中まで。

・What should you do if you smell gas leaking out of a pipe?
  - If you smell gas leaking out of a pipe, you should open the window.

・What should you do if your car leaks oil like a sieve?
  - If my car leaks oil like a sive, I should immediately call my mechanic.

・What will soon happen if you don’t repair the roof immediately it starts leaking?
  - If you don’t repair the roof immediately it starts leaking, it will soon leak a sieve.

・Who’s the most terrible driver you know?
  - My mom is the most terrible driver I know.

・What’s the most terrible news you heard last week?
  - The most terrible news I heard last week was about the flood of Missisippi River.

・Where in the world are the weather conditions the most awful?
  - The weather conditions are the most awful in the North and South Poles.

・Who was the first person to reach the South Pole?
  - Roald Amundsen was the first person to reach the South Pole in 1911.

・Is it a horrible feeling when our friend lies to us?
  - Yes,it’s a horrible feeling when our friend lies to us.

・What had you better do if you don’t want to get lost in a foreign country?
  - If you don’t want to get lost in a foreign country, you had better take a guidebook with you.

・What may happen when you get seriously injured?
  - When you get seriously injured, you may bleed to death.

・How did they use to hunt animals in the old time?
  - They used to hunt animals with bows and arrows in the old times.

・Did animals always die immediately when shot with an arrow?
  - No, animals didn’t always die immediately when shot with an arrow, but sometimes they bled to death.

・If you lost your job, how would you try to organise job-hunting?
  - If I lost my jon, I’d try to organise job-hunting by sendeing e-mails to different companies and looking over advertisements in newspaper.

【DME】今日の学び_20110512

English Method

気づけば、TOEICまでもーちょい！がつがつやろう。

Lesson124のはじめから途中まで！

・Where in the world you like to settle forever?
  - I’d like to settele forever on the coast of an ocean.

・How do you settle your nerves after a very tiring day?
  - I settle my nerves after a very tiring day by relaxing.

・What’s the best thing to do in order to stir children’s imagination?
  - The best thing to do in order to stir children’s imagination is to read books to them.

・How do usually settle your bills: by money transfer, in cash, or by cheque?
  - I usually settle my bills by money transfer.

・If people sometimes can’t settle a problem themselves, where do they go to settle?
  - If people sometimes can’t settle a problem themselvs, they go to court to settle it.

・When do people in your country gather together?
  - People in my country gather together on national holidays or on New Year’s Eve.

・Are most people in this country opposed to their government?
  - Yes, most people in this country are opposed to their government.
  - Because they don’t believe what politicians said.

・What have you achieve today?
  - I’ve achieve a lot today. I got a new contract for my company today.

・Can we achieve anything by punishing children?
  - Yes, we can achieve something by punishing children.
  - We can teach them how to behave properly.

・Who controls Microsoft?
  - Bill Gates controls Microsoft.

・What do you use to control your TV?
  - I use a remote control to control my TV.

・When can it be difficult to control one’s feelings?
  - It can be difficult to control one’s feelings when something very unpleasant happens to us or when somebody we know well dies.

・Which countries were under Russian control forty years ago?
  - Poland, East Germany, and Romania were under Russian control forty years ago.

・What would you do if hardly anyone came to your wedding party?
  - If hardly anyone came to my wedding party, I’d be really sad.

・What’s the different between: ‘He works hard’ and ‘He hardly works’?
  - ‘He works hard’ means that he works a lot and ‘He hardly works’ means that he almost never works.

・What do you do with the heating in your car when it gets warmer outside?
  - I turn the heating lower in my car when it gets warmer outside.

・His recommendation was strong.
  - He recommended the film very strongly.

・He is a careful cleaner.
  - He cleans the flat carefuly.

・What’s the freedom of the press?
  - The freedom of the press is the freedom to write anything they want and to express any opinion they want.

・Which part of the media has the most influence on people?
  - The press and television are the parts of the media that have the most influence on people.

・Do governments want to control the media?
  - Yes, government want to control the media.
  - Because if they control the media, they can have influence on people.

・What may sometimes happen if certain information is leaked to the media?
  - A scandal may sometimes break if certain information is leaked to the media.

【DME】今日の学び_20110509

English Method

連休明け！ということで、New Teacherで元気よく。

Lesson122の途中からLesson123の途中まで。

・What’s the singular of scissors?
  - Scissors have no singular. They’re always plural.

・What’s the plural of coffee?
  - Coffee has no plural. It’s always singular.

・Can we count water?
  - No, we can’t count water. Because it’s a liquid.
  - But we can count bottles of water.

・Can we count bread?
  - No, we can’t count bread. Because it’s a substance.

・What can we use if we want to count furniture?
  - We can use ‘a piece’ / ‘pieces’ if we want to count furniture.

・Why do we say ‘the police are’ and not ‘the police is’?
  - We say ‘the police are’ and not ‘the police is’ because the noun ‘police’ is always plural.

・Why do you think a theater audience may sometimes feel fed up?
  - A theater audience may sometimes feel fed up when the actors don’t act well.

・During a stay in a hotel what do they usually ask people to do with the towels?
  - During a stay in a hotel they usually ask people to put dirty towels on the floor and hang clean towels on a hook.

・What can we hang on a hanger and on a hook?
  - We can hang clothes on a hanger and towels on a hook.

・What did they do with murderers in the old times?
  - In the old times they usually hanged murderes in public.

・What are the verb forms of ‘hang’?
  - The verb form of ‘hang’ are ‘hang, hung, hung’ or ‘hang, hanged, hanged’.

・If someone rings you up but don’t want to have a conversation, what do you do?
  - If someone rings me up but I don’t want to have a conversation, I hang up.

・What can you ask people to do if you want them to wait for you?
  - I can ask people to hang on if I want them to wait for me.

・What do you do with your mobile phone when it rings on a bus?
  - When my mobile phone rings on a bus, I switch it off.

・When a person’s name rings a bell, does it mean that you remember the person well?
  - When a person’s name rings a bell, it doesn’t mean that I remember the person well.

・What do some people do with their clothes when they come home tired?
  - Some people lay their clothes just anywhere when they come home tired.

・Why do builders have to be very careful when they lay a gas pipe below the surface of a road?
  - Builders have to be very careful when they lay a gas pipe below the surface of a road because gas may explode if the pipe gets broken.

・When do birds usually lay their eggs?
  - Birds usually lay their eggs in spring.

・When we lay the table, what do we put on it?
  - When we lay the table, we put forks, knives, spoons and plates on it.

・Give me a sentence with one by one.
  - When he cooks, he put seasoning into the pot one by one.

・What things often seem to happen one after another?
  - Bills often seem to come in one after another at the end of each month.

・Do some people prefer to live in the suburbs?
  - Yes, soem people prefer to live in the suburbs.

・Why are flats and houses more expensive in the city center then in the suburbs?
  - Flats and houses are more expensive in the city center because it takes less time to get to work or school if you live in the city center than in the suburbs.

・Why do some people living in the suburbs want to return to the city center?
  - Some people living in the suburbs want to return to the city center because they’re tired of traffic jams.

・Why must students pay attention during the lesson?
  - Students must pay attention during the lesson, because otherwise they won’t learn much.

・How can teacher punish students who are not attending?
  - A teacher can punish students who are not attending by giving them more homework.

・When you enter a shop, do you like it when they attend to you immediately or do you like to have time to look around.
- When I enter a shop, I like it when they don’t attend to me immediately but I have some time to look around.

・What do we use to express a general ability in the past?
  - We use ‘could’ to express a general ability in the past.

・Do we use ‘could’ to express the meaning og ‘to manage’?
  - No, we don’t use ‘could’ to express the meaning of ‘to manage’, but we use ‘was able to’.

・What can we use when the sentence is in the negative?
  - We can use both ‘couldn’t’ and ‘wasn’t able to’ when the sentence in the negative.

・Could you speak English well when you were seven?
  - No, I couldn’t speak English well when I was seven.
  - This sentence expresses a general ability in the past.

・What was the fastest you were able to run the 100 meters?
  - The fastest I was able to run the 100 meters was 30 secounds.
  - It express a particular action in the past.

【DME】今日の学び_20110508

English Method

ゴールデンウィークも最終日。

Lesson122のはじめから、途中まで。

・Give me a sentence with ‘as a matter of fact’.
  - No, he didn’t call. As a matter of fact, he didn’t even send e-mail.

・Someone claims you were quite sad when he last saw you at the party.
  - No, I wasn’t sad. As a matter of fact, I really enjoyed the party.

・Susan wants to know if you had a good time on holiday last week.
  - No, I didn’t. As a matter of fact, it rained all the time and we had to stay inside.

・If a pigheaded person says something wrong, is it easy for them to take it back?
  - No, if a pigheaded person says something wrong, it isn’t easy for them to take it back.

・What could you do if you bought clothes that didn’t fit you?
  - If I bought clothes that didn’t fit me, I could take them back to the shop.

・What happenes if someone breaks the traffic rules and the police catch them?
  - If someone breaks the traffic rules and the police catch them, they must pay a fine.

・What’s the rule in English grammar that you’re always forgetting?
  - The rule in English grammer that I’m always forgetting is the use of pronouns.

・What’s the weather forcast for the next three days?
  - The weather forcast for the next three days is heat and light winds.

・what do you do if you can’t stand the heat in summer?
  - If I can’t stand the heat in summer, I take a cold shower and drink beer.

・What do people often keep hidden from others?
  - People often keep their bad habits or person things hidden from others.

・What does ‘I have nothing to hide’ mean?
  - ‘I have nothing to hide’ means that I can tell you everithing because I’ve done nothing wrong or dishonest.

・Where can you hide valuable things?
  - You can hide valuable things in a safe.

・What’s hide-and-seek?
  - Hide-and-seek is a game in which one child tries to find others that hide.

・Where do people go when they seek justice?
  - People go to a court of law when they seek justice.

・When it rains, do people usually seek for somewhere to hide?
  - Yes, when it rains, people usually seek for somewhere to hide.

・What are the verb form of ‘seek’?
  - The verb forms of ‘seek’ are ‘seek, sought, sought’.

【DME】今日の学び_20110505

English Method

すっかりスローペースになってしまったDME。

うーん、ま、いいか。Lesson121の途中から途中まで。

・Why do people usually go broke?
  - People usually go broke if they spend more than earn.

・Have any small shops in your neigbourhood gone broke?
  - Yes, some small shops in my neighbourhood have gone broke.
  - Because a large supermarket has opened in my neighbourhood.

・Who’s one of the best known conquerours in history?
  - Napoleon’s one of the best known conquerors in history.

・By whom was Napoleon defeated in the battle of Waterloo?
  - Napoleon was defeated by Wellington in the battle of Waterloo.

・Which political party suffered defeat in the last election in your country?
  - Democlatic Party suffered defeat in the last election in my country.

・What’s the best way to conquer a woman’s heart?
  - The best way to conquer a woman’s heart is to invite her for dinner.
  - The best way to conquer a man’s heart is to cook him dinner.

・Has your country ever been conquered in history?
  - No, my country has never been conquered in history.

・Do you know a politician of whom you could say that he has really conquered the people’s hearts?
  - No, I don’t know a politician of whom I could say that he has really conquered the people’s hearts.

・Who has the fiercest conqueror in history?
  - Genghis Khan was the fiercest conqueror in history.

・Why do some people keep fierce dogs at home?
  - Some people keep firece dogs at home to protect themselves.

・How long did the Eoman empire last?
  - The Roman empire lasted about 1,200 years.

・When and by whom was the last empire defeated?
  - The empire was defeated around 500 AD by fierce nations from the east.

・Why do you think empires don’t last forever?
  - I think empires don’t last forever because they are too large to be governed properly.

・Who owns the biggest business empire in the world?
  - Bill Gates owns the biggest business empire in the world.

・Why does wood float on water?
  - Wood floats on water because it’s light.

・Does metal float on water?
  - No, metal doesn’t float on water but it sinks.

・Do you ever stop to watch clouds floating accross the sky?
  - Yes, I sometimes stop to watch clouds floating across the sky.

・What may happen if you stay on the seashore at high tide?
  - If you stay on the seashore at high tide, you may get wet or even drown, if you can’t swim well.

・What’s the best time to look for shells on the seashore: high tide or low tide?
  - The best time to look for shells on the seashore is low tide.

・Does the future of the world look bright?
  - Yes, the future of the world looks bright.

・Do you always try to look on the bright side of things?
  - Yes, I always try to look on the bright side of things.

・What colours do you usually choose for your clothes?
  - I usually choose bright colours for my clothes.

・Is factory work dull?
  - Yes, factory work’s quite dull.

・Are soap operas dull?
  - Yes, soap operas are dull.

・Who, in your opinion, is the brightest politician in your country?
  - I think Shintaro Ishihara is the brightest politician in my country.
  - Because his speech is always strong.

・Who, in your opinion, is the dullest politician in your country?
  - I think Naoto Kan is the dullest politician in my country.
  - Because we can’t understand his policy.

【雑感】4月の振り返りと5月の行動予定

4月の振り返りと5月の行動予定

色々あって、45度くらい、人生の方向性が変わった日々。

ちょっと落ち着いたところで、これからの行動計画を考えてみよう。

【今の現状】

・TOEIC：いま、685点。
・調剤薬局事務士：勉強始める。レセプトむずいー！
・FP:AFPの資格ゲット！
・DME：Stage8
・健康：何もしてない。。コアリズムのみ。
・英語：リアルな英語を身につけたい…。友達つくり。
・Volunteer：釜石。釜石。釜石。
・国際結婚：問題山積み。6月から、がっつり勉強。

【5月にやること】

・TOEIC：29日（日）、試験！目指せ、720点！
・調剤薬局事務士：28日（土）、試験！目指せ、合格！！
・DME：あせらず、じっくり。Stage8でもよしとする。
・健康：アメリカ的食事が続いたあとは、運動で。
・英語：彼の周りからの人と友達になる。リアル英会話したい…。
・Volunteer：チャリティー●●に参加！
・国際結婚：うーん、どこからいこうか。

今週末といえば、Mother’s Day。

母親が疎開してきたが、はて、さて、これからどうしたものか…。

復興までの道のりは、長く、険しい。