Submergence

Wim Wenders
James McAvoy
Alicia Vikander

Today we watched the trailer for Submergence, a film that's now playing at Denkikan. It's a love story starring James McAvoy and Alicia Vikander. It's playing for one week only. Another film that's coming to Denkikan soon is the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. I saw it in Tokyo a few weeks ago. It's great!

Have you been watching any soccer recently? In the Premier League, teams that are usually very strong such as Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United, and Chelsea are not doing so well. People are excited that some of the weaker teams, such as Leicester and West Ham, may do well this year.

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Submergence

Submergence
Wim Wenders
James McAvoy
Alicia Vikander

Today we watched the trailer for Submergence, a movie starring James McAvoy and Alicia Vikander, and directed by Wim Wenders. James McAvoy plays an MI:6 and Alicia Vikander plays a marine biologist who usually works on a submarine. They both have dangerous jobs, and they both have to be away from home for a long time, but they fall in love. The trailer shows James McAvoy in Somalia. He is captured by terrorists.

From today, the Hummingbird Project has started playing. That stars Jesse Eisenberg. It looks very interesting.

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Writing IV: an outline

Hi everybody,

Here are some details regarding Writing IV.

Basically, there are three types of work:

1. Gofun ha Juubun: This is a kind of timed writing that we will do at the beginning of each class. Please be sure to come on time so that you can do the timed writing with everyone.
2. Reading and book reviews: Reading English regularly is probably the most important thing if you want to improve your writing. You should write 12 book reviews during the semester, basically one a week. When possible, I will give you time to write one in class. But most of the time it will be necessary to read a book and write a book review for homework. Very short books are fine, but if you have extra time I recommend reading something a bit longer and more difficult.
3. Essay-related work: There will be about three major topics during the semester. These will lead up to writing an essay, but we will do lots of activities before you have to write the essay, so that you can read, listen to, or talk about the topic, or do short writing tasks to prepare you for the essay.

Henry and Mudge and the Yellow Moon

The clicking got louder.
The shoes are coming! thought Henry.
He put his head in Mudge's neck.
Now the clicking was louder than ever.
"Mudge," Henry's mother said, "stop chattering."
Chattering?
Henry put his ear near Mudge's mouth.
And Mudge's teeth went CLICK-CLICK-
CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK.

Henry and Mudge and the Yellow Moon, like the other Henry and Mudge books, is a Ready-to-Read Level 2 book. It is a collection of three very short stories, all about the autumn. The three stories are Together in the Fall, Under the Yellow Moon, and Thanksgiving Guest. The above quotation is from the second story. Henry's mum likes reading ghost stories to the family at Halloween. Henry doesn't like them. But they are all surprised to find that Mudge is more scared than anyone!

Vocabulary

hold one's breath
graveyard
jack-o'-lantern
chipmunk

Rylant, C. (1987). Henry and Mudge and the yellow moon. New York, NY: Simon Spotlight.

Henry and Mudge under the Yellow Moon (Henry & Mudge) 著者 : Cynthia Rylant Simon Spotlight 発売日 : 1996-06-01 ブクログでレビューを見る»

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歴史と現代が調和するコンパクトCity”熊本市”を巡る

Today we watched a video about Kumamoto, made by some westerners based in Fukuoka (I think). They talked about how to get to Kumamoto from Fukuoka. They mentioned that Kumamoto is one of the biggest cities in Kyushu, and that it is easy to get around the city.

How was everyone's summer vacation? I didn't really have much real vacation, but I went on several business trips and had some free time in the evenings. I took some students to Aso for a week for an English camp. I also went to Tokyo twice for some meetings and a seminar.

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Henry and Mudge and the Careful Cousin

Henry felt around under his bed.
He pulled out a brown paper bag.
It had some dust balls on it and an old piece of hard gum stuck on it.
Henry pulled out a cookie and handed it to Annie.
She turned pink again.
Uh-oh, thought Henry.
This was going to be a very long visit.

Henry lives with his dog Mudge and his parents. One day, his cousin Annie comes to visit. Henry has never met her before, so he is a bit worried. When she arrives, he is even more worried, because she wears very elegant clothes and she doesn't like getting dirty. She doesn't like it when Mudge licks her, and she doesn't seem happy that Henry's room is so dirty.

But, as time goes by, she gets used to Henry and Mudge, and she is very good at doing the frisbee.

By the time she leaves, Henry and Mudge are sad to see her go.

Henry and Mudge and the Careful Cousin 著者 : Cynthia Rylant 発売日 : 1994 ブクログでレビューを見る»

歴史と現代が調和するコンパクトCity”熊本市”を巡る

Today we watched the beginning of a video about Kumamoto. The video is in English, and it's about 10 minutes long. We only watched about one minute or so. The two hosts are one man whose name I've forgotten and a woman called Nita. I think the man was probably Australian and the woman Finnish or Swedish. The video seemed to be from a series made by people based in Fukuoka who make videos about Kyushu. They told us how to get to Kumamoto from Fukuoka and they showed us Kumamoto Station, Shimotori arcade, and Suizenji. They wore a kimono to Suizenji. It looks rather interesting, so I look forward to watching the rest.
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