Dead Man's Money and Bonnie & Clyde

Dead Man's Money is a very entertaining but easy book in the Oxford Bookworms series, Starter level. It focuses on a gang of bank robbers in the 1930s, when the Great Depression hit America, and many people were very poor and turned to crime. You may have heard of the reallife gang Bonnie & Clyde. Anyway, please check out Dead Man's Money!

My summer vacation

In my summer vacation, I did several interesting things. But I'd like to talk about Sapporo. Although I went there on business, my evenings were free, so I went to the Shiroi Koibito factory and Oodori Park. Sapporo was much cooler than Kumamoto and a very pleasant city, so, even though my stay was very short, I had a great time.

My summer vacation

I had a pretty busy summer vacation. I guess the most enjoyable thing was my conference in Sapporo, because most days the sessions ended at 4 or 5 o'clock, so we had enough time to go out to restaurants or other places. I also got to see the Shiroi Koibito factory, which was very nice.

Scripts: The Fox and the Crow

Do you know Aesop's fables? One very famous fable is The Fox and the Crow. In this fable, a fox tricks a crow who has some cheese in her mouth into dropping the cheese, which the fox eats. The moral of the fable is: Don't be fooled by flattery.

My podcast: The Lion and the Mouse

The Lion and the Mouse is one of Aesop's Fables. I'm sure you've heard of it! The moral of the fable is: "Little friends can be good friends". Please listen!

The Lion and the Mouse script

One day, a mouse was caught by a lion. The lion was intending to eat the mouse, but the mouse persuaded the lion to let the mouse go. The following day, the mouse heard the lion crying out. She hurried to help him. He was trapped in a net. She bit the net and set him free.
The moral is: Little friends can be great friends.

Book review script

The twelve princesses in this story like to have fun. When their father finds out they've been sneaking off at night to go dancing, he's furious. But can he stop them?

     Every night, the King locked the tower door, so that the princesses couldn't sneak out. One day, the maid went to the princesses' room, and she noticed their shoes were lying in a wet pile on the floor. The shoes were worn out. When the king heard about the shoes, he was very angry. Then he had an idea. He decided that the first man to discover where his daughters went each night could marry them. Who can find the princesses' secret?


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