Marco Polo and the Silk Road

No5. Choose a famous traveller or explorer that you are interested in.

A explorer I am interested in is 鄭和(Zhèng Hé). He was a general of China in 15th century. He was a great captain of a convoy and traveled to a lot of place. Officially he is supposed to have traveled up to west coast of southern Africa, but recently a British man published a theory that he discovered America continent and traveled around the world, in 1421, about seventy years earlier than Columbus's.

He is not famous and his achievements are not appreciated properly in history, but he was one of greatest explorer.

Florida - postcard from Keigo

Hi Jim-sensei,

I'm in Florida on business trip.It's sunny & warm.

I'm jealous that a lot of people (especially young people) are coming here on vacation, beacuse it's spring break now.

I wish I had free time to go to the beach. By the way, there was a lucky thing. I saw space shuttle launching. It was 130 miles away, but clearly.

Keigo

Double Cross

Hi, homework season has started again!!

First of all, I'd like to give you a kind of tips. As you know, audio CD is attached to the book, this time. So I tried listening to the CD while reading the book. I found that was very comfortable and very helpful for me to read the book faster. I'd recommend you do it.

[Q(2)] Think about Monika. What kind of clothes does she wear? What music and films does she like? Where does she go on holiday? What are her favourite foods?

I imagine she is slim and good figure woman. She usually wears suits with tight skirt and white shirt while working, and wears slim jeans and sweater or jacket in her private time.

She listens to classics to calm down her mind. Her favourite movie is adventure movies and, of course, spy movie like "James Bond" or "Mission impossible".

In her holiday, she goes shopping to buy a stylish clothes as well as most of women like, and has a break at tasteful cafe. She has a sweet tooth.