Today we watched a trailer for The Lone Ranger, the new Johnny Depp movie. I believe it's coming to Japan in August. It looks pretty exciting so I'll try to get hold of an advance ticket at a convenience store soon. The trailer we watched was trailer 3, which is very different from the one that plays at the cinema. |
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Suddenly the woman shouts at Alissa. "You aren't going to read here," she shouts. "You're going to cook and clean and wash."… Alissa is very unhappy. She cries every night.
Faye waits for the next bus. She waits and waits. There is no bus. "Where's the bus?" thinks Faye. Faye does not see a car. The car goes into the water. Now she is very, very wet.
At the palace, the nightingale sang and sang. The king loved the music so much that he cried. "I will buy you a fancy cage so you can sing for me always," he said.
So he did.
By and by, a present came from the king of Japan. Inside was a toy nightingale. It was made of gold and covered with jewels.
Today we saw the trailer for Compulsion, a movie starring Heather Graham and Carrie-Anne Moss (of The Matrix fame). It seems to be a story about someone (played by Heather Graham) who has a food compulsion and needs someone to enjoy eating what she has cooked. When Heather Graham's neighbour, played by Carrie-Anne Moss, disappears, a police officer, played by Joe Mantegna, gets involved. It looks pretty interesting, but I don't know when it will come to Japan. In any case, it's good to see these two actresses again.
"Two elves have been making the shoes!" said the shoemaker.
"Did you see their tattered clothes? Let's make them some new ones to say thank you," said his wife.
All day, the shoemaker and his wife worked and worked. She made two tiny outfits. He made two tiny pairs of shoes.
Henry suddenly felt nervous. So many relatives! What would they say? Would they be nice? Would they be friendly? Would they understand dog drool? Henry and Mudge got out of the car. Henry felt very shy.
In this way, a long, rainy, boring weekend changes into an exciting one where Henry hardly has time to eat. Do they manage to make a castle, and what does it look like? What does Mudge do while they are making the castle? Find out the answers to all these questions and more, in Henry and Mudge and the Long Weekend! This is the eleventh book of the adventures of Henry and Mudge. Look for the others!
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"Tell us where he is!" they shouted. The children were frightened, but they didn't say anything.
The soldiers looked everywhere, but they couldn't find Edmund's father. One of the soldiers found a sword.
"His sword is here," he said, "so he must be here somewhere."
Soon, big lorries and bulldozers came to the village. Nobody wanted the motorway. Everyone wanted to stop it, but the bulldozers began to dig.
Gran looked at the bulldozers.
"The motorway will spoil the countryside," she said. "Now we won't be able to walk in the woods and go on picnics."
What's in your head, in your head,The last weekend of the Premier League is over. The top 3 and the 3 relegation spots had already been decided, so the most important match were the matches with Tottenham and Arsenal. Both teams won, so Arsenal, the team that were leading before the weekend, gets the 4th spot. That means they have a chance of playing in the Champions League next year, and Tottenham will miss out again.
Zombi, zombie, zombie - e - e - e
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I like listening to music .My favorite kinds of music are progressive rock ,J-Pop ,and modern koto music .
I especially like Western music. For example, U2 and Oasis.Please write your corrected version in the comments!
"Who will help me plant the wheat?" "Not I," said the cat. "Not I," said the duck. "Not I," said the rat."…"Who will help me eat the bread?" said the little red hen. The cat, the duck and the rat jumped up.…"I'll eat the bread."
The Little Red Hen is an old folktale, probably from Russia. It points out that many people are unwilling to work, but they want to share in the benefits of others' hard work.All of a sudden, the puppets stopped acting and stared into the crowd. "Another puppet!" they cried. "Come up and join us." Pinocchio was dragged on stage and surrounded by puppets. They chattered about this and that and completely forgot their show… Then a scary man stormed onto the stage and everyone fell silent…He grabbed the puppets and marched them off.
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Action director Ching Siu-Tung helms this fantasy film based on an old Chinese legend about an herbalist who falls in love with a thousand-year-old White Snake disguised as a woman. Jet Li stars as a sorcerer who discovers her true identity and battles to save the man's soul.
Everyone has heard of Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge. Everyone has seen films from Hollywood. But what else do we know about California? This book looks at the cities and the mountains, at the sea and the deserts…California is a book in the Factfiles subseries of Oxford Bookworms. As you may know, Factfiles is a nonfiction subseries. Many of the books are about places, and some about social problems such as the environment. Many of the books about places are about countries, but this one is about America's most populous state. Like many of the books, California has nine chapters: The Golden State; The Gold Rush; San Francisco; Parks; Highway 1; Los Angeles; The Desert; San Diego; and California. Some consist of two pages, as with the Stage 1 books, others of four pages. The first and last chapters (The Golden State and California) consist of only one page each. The last chapter has a nice large map of California, and photos are included on every page. The book ends with two pages of exercises and a glossary.
London—two thousand years of history. From the Romans and King Henry the Eighth to the city of today and tomorrow—and from St Paul's Cathedral and Buckingham Palace to Petticoat Lane and Ronnie Scott's Jazz club.London is a book in the Factfiles series. Factfiles, as you may know, is a sub-series of Oxford Bookworms. London is a Stage 1 book.
The Romans came to England in AD43. They built houses and other buildings and made a town next to the River Thames.This was followed five hundred years later by a Danish invasion, but
King Alfred was king of England then. He got the Danes to leave London and his men built the town again.
