Circle Games

8.Do you prefer reading several short stories or one longer one? Why/why not

I prefer to read one longer story because I cannot remember so many characters. On several stories there are so many characters and they are named in English. It is very difficult for me to remember all characters. After reading it is not very good to do a worksheet. I have to do a worksheet! I like a story wanted to read next line earlier as a sort of mystery story.

Hajime

Beat the Heat with an ice-cold Beer!

That's right! It's that time of year again, and we've decided to celebrate with an ice-cold beer in the Matsumoto Castle Beer Garden. Please join us!!

When? 18 July (Sat)
What time? 5pm - 8pm

Please wear a summer yukata if you have one as we want to celebrate in style ;)

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Tana

PS. Please let us know if you can come so we can book a big enough table!!
XX

Luna Bookworms' Club

We are pleased to announce that Luna will now be facilitating a book club for young learners. This project has been initiated by the students themselves and is completely under their own management. The idea is that students can share with others the books that they have enjoyed. Anyone can join. Just bring along a book or two that you have read and enjoyed (and don't want to keep), and come and see what other students have brought. You can then borrow a book for as long as it takes to read it, then bring it back and take another one!

The best thing about this system is that students can choose what they want to read and at what pace, so there is no pressure. Reading for its own sake is motivation enough. Its time to relax, rather than study, time to let their imaginations go, discover new worlds... The terrain of the imagination is rich and in many cases a good book will stimulate a persons own creative impulses. This system provides the freedom to run with an idea and see where it leads to.

Books also come recommended by others so students don't have to worry about sifting through many books which might not be what they're looking for.

I hope our young learners will enjoy the journeys and adventures that these books lead them on, come to enjoy the pursuit of knowledge and acquire a long lasting affection for reading.

Sincerely,

Tana

My Little kitten - order the story

These students have reached a high enough level of English and maturity to start doing multi-level tasks such as this one, and it's a lot of fun. We started with me telling the story and showing the pictures. I elicited the information from the students , so really they told the story to themselves! Then we read the story strips together and matched them to the pictures. After that I gave each student a picture card and they had to memorize the associated sentence. Students then had to work together in order to retell the story in the correct sequence.

This type of activity is great because students have to work together to get the desired outcome. It also incorporates reading skills which is so important for children this age. I would like to see this class do a performance for their parents. Perhaps we can add in some actions next time, with students taking turns to do the actions and being the narrator. What do you think? Come on!!! It will be fun!!!!!!!

Dinner, Movie and Rugby

A Big, Big THANK YOU to all our students and friends who came to our Dinner, Movie and Rugby night. It was a tremendous amount of fun! and I must congratulate you all on bringing such delicious snacks - we really had a feast :)

See you at the next one!!

Tana

Seven Stories of Mystery and Horror

I read Seven Stories of Mystery and Horror. This book has seven short stories. I was interesting THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM and THE GOLD BUG. Other stories wasn't interesting for me. I can't understand a capper of their stories.

After Reading 5: Which was your favourite story? Why did you like it the best?Write four reasons why you liked the story.

My favourite story was THE GOLD BUG

because this story was a pirate story. I like a pirate story.

And because this story's heroine get much money.

And because this is hunting for treasure story.

And because this was not feel me fear. I don't like horror story.

Unquiet Graves

This is a horror story.

Frankie, Regan, Tom and Jack, - these girls and boys are members of their school's archeology club. They were in an archeological site on their half term holiday.

An archeologist Leo told them Eleanor's a sad story. After that, Flankie has met many strange things. She was possessed by something evil.

This evil was a ghost of Eleanor's lover, Todd. He lead Frankie, then made understand her the truth of Eleanor's death. These lovers has been unhappy two hundred years, but these two lovers were dead finally at peace, by a help of Frankie. 

However, it was a bit boring story for me.

Junji

The Phantom airman

This story is difficult understanding for me because it mixed the story of past and the story of present in the novel, although the story is interesting.
The four kids investigates various thing related to the phantom airman.They are brave and curious.
There are a lot of the story of past in the story. Their experience of the past are taken hints to solve for this story's mystery. They got many hints of the past and solves mystery at the present.
I think the Glen of the phantom airman was complaining to the present people about traitor is too bad.
I regretted having my low knowledge of English about grammar, word and so on. I don't understand easily.I hope to become understandable a man.

The Mark of Zorro

I read the book "The mark of Zorro". This story is very interesting. I had heard name of Zorro, but it was first time to read Zorro's story.
After Reading:No.9
Have you seen a film about Zorro? No! I haven't seen film about Zorro.
Write a review of this book:
Zorro wear a long dark cloak around his body and a black mask. He is very strong man!
He fight for right(?) and helps weak and poor people.
This story's town is "California".
The Governor of California and his soldiers do bad thing for people. Whenever theirs crime were found, Zorro punished for evildoer.
Zorro is one of the richest families member. He usually lives normal.
But when he finds a bad thing, he change Zorro. He hope peaceful town.

I want to read, if there is a sequel this book.
Noriko

The Canterville ghost and Other Stories

There are three stories.

The first is the story of the Canterville ghost. The Otis family bought the residence of Canterville that the ghost lived. This family didn't fear the ghost at all though the ghost tried to frighten the family. On the contrary, the family tried to frighten the ghost.

The first half of the story was interesting in the comedy though this story was a horror story judging from the title and the picture of the cover. In the latter half of the story, the sad past of the ghost knows and moved to tears. I think impression was large in the gap because the first half part was a comedy.

The image of the American who saw from the British found out and they were interesting.

The other two stories were strange and interesting, too.