My family

My family are 4 persons. My father’s name is Teruaki. He is 46 years old. He is an official servant. He likes Star Wars. A small figure of Darth Vader is put in his room. My mother’s name is Yukari. She is 51 years old. She works part-time. She likes to read books. Her favorite author is Keigo Higashino and Shion Miura. My sister’s name is Saho. She is 22 years old. She has been job-hunting now. She is good at cleaning. We have a dog. His name is Volk. He is 7 years old. He is very cute. He likes going for a walk and taking a bath.

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My favorite sweets

I love sweets. I like to eat sweets. I like the sweets better than Japanese sweets. When I was an elementary student, I went to popularly-priced candy store many times with my friends. We often bought five yen chocolate, Umaibou and Japanese soda. Especially, I liked five yen chocolate. When I went to a school trip, I had many five yen chocolates for snack. So I like Japanese soda too. I went to Kurokawa hot springs with my club’s members in February last year. We walked around in hot springs town. There was a store which sells Japanese soda. We bought it and drank it. It taste was very good.

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My favorite anime -Tamako Market-

I often watch the animation. The animation’s name is Tamako Market. This story is about shopping arcade.
The heroine name is Tamako. She is a high school students. Tamako’s family open the rice cake shop in Usagiyama shopping arcade. Tamako has a close relationship with shopping arcade’s people. One day, she stops at flower shop on its way to home, she meets a bird. The bird can speak. The bird’s name is Dera Mochimazzui. Dera comes from southern country. He served royal family. He comes Usagiyama shopping arcade because he finds a candidate prince’s wife. Please watch this animation once.

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My favorite place I've been

My favorite place is Tokyo Disney Resort. I love Disney. My family loves Disney too. We have been to TDR several time. Tokyo Disneyland is Kingdom of Dream and Magic. I think that TDL is a place like a dream. My favorite attraction of TDL is Star Tours. This attraction was made based on Star Wars. Guests gets in a spacecraft and can enjoy a space trip. R2-D2 and C-3PO operate the spacecraft. It is very exciting! Tokyo Disney Sea is Sea of Adventure and Imagination. My favorite attraction of TDS is Venetian Gondola. Guests ride on gondola and can enjoy scenery like the rows of houses of Europe. Guests can also see the Prometheus volcano of TDS’s symbol nearby on the way. I want to go to TDR again.

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May 17th

I went to Higashimachi junior high school and Touryou high school with my mother, sister and aunt. My aunt named Yuuko is a younger sister of my mother named Yukari. Yuuko has two sons named Syuuhei and Shion. Syuuhei is a high school student. Shion is a junior high school student. Today is their sports days. So we went to each school.

Shion is a third-year junior high school student. He belonged to red team. He is a manager of tennis club. So he played an active part in a relay of competition between clubs.

Syuuhei is a third-year high school student. He belonged to blue team. It is tradition to do gymnastic formation and mass game by all the students in Toryou high school. Of course, he took part in that too. He was very cool! Their math game is beautiful.

I enjoyed their sports day.

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My favorite food

My favorite food is noodles. I like ramen, udon and pasta, but I don’t like soba. My father, Teruaki likes noodles too. We like ramen of tonkotsu. We go to a ramen restaurant named Hakuryuu when we are back to his hometown. Hakuryuu’s ramen is very popular and famous. I like sweets too. My mother, Yukari works at hospital of university. She is a secretary of doctor. The doctor buy sweets for me whenever he go on overseas business trip. I ate chocolates and cookies got from him yesterday. They made in Belgium. The taste were very good. I’m going to write a letter of gratitude to him.

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Essay 1-02 My treasure

My treasure is my albums and pictures. I have many albums and pictures because my father likes taking pictures. I and my family moved to my grandmother's house last week. When I was picking one for the move, I found a lot of albums. Those were the albums with pictures of my childhood time has filed. I also found a lot of pictures which have not been filed in albums yet. When I found them, I was very happy.

After that, I found many pictures in my baggage too. There was a picture taken with my grandfather and cousins in those. My grandfather's job is a farmer. He was mainly growing oranges and persimmons. But he was also making other crops as his hobby. I was surprised when I knew that my grandfather was making peaches, watermelons and mushrooms as his hobby. So my cousins and I helped to pick oranges in winter and helped to pick choice persimmons in autumn when I was an elementary school student. We always went out from morning and worked by the field all the while until the evening. I remember that I ate a box lunch my grandmother made at noon and frolicked. I found many pictures of that time and felt dearly because my grandfather has passed away so the reasone we gather to help has disappeared. I liked the taste of his oranges. It is never possible to eat his orange any more, but I thought I would like to pick oranges with my cousins again.

Now, my grandmother is growing vegetables in a small field in the back of her house. She growing onions, eggplants, cucumbers and lemons. When I helped to pick lemons, I found a tree of cherry blossom. The tree is my grandfather's. I decide to take care of that tree.

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BR 1-03 Sara Says No!

What am I going to do? I need a miracle. (p.13)

 The story is about Mister Fruit and his daughter, Sara. He sells some fruits at the market. Sara helps him. Mister Fruit is polite and friendly. Everybody likes him and Sara. A schoolboy asks for one kilo of apples. Mister Fruit put some apples on the scales. The scales show one kilo and one hundred grams. He takes one apple away. Now the scales show nine hundred grams. But Mister Fruit says, “One kilo of apples! One dollar!” He takes one dollar from the schoolboy. Sara sees everything. It is evening.
Sara and her father fights about job. Sara don't want to work for her father. He says you must help me. Sara pray to happen miracle. Next day her father touch fruits and fruits goes bad. He calls Sara and Sara touch fruits but fruits not goes bad. Mister Fruit is Miss Fruit.

I like the book and Sara is good. Sara is very kind.


Whitney, Norman. (2005). Sara says no!. Oxford: Macmillan Heinemann ELT,

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BR 1-02 Blue Fins

It is a dolphin! It is the beautiful, blue dolphin. (p.14)

The story is about a dolphin. Jen and her friend’s Rick come to beach. Rick is surfing. Jen is swimming. She dives under the water and goes down. She sees and touches some plants and fishes. She sees a blue dolphin that time. The dolphin cannot swim because it is in a net. The net is round the dolphin’s body and the rocks. The dolphin cannot break the net because the net is strong. The dolphin is dying. Jen pulls net from the rocks and the dolphin. The dolphin is out of the net and swims up and up. The dolphin takes a breath of air and looks down at Jen. Then it swims away. Next day Jen and Rick come to beach and swim in the sea again. Suddenly, “Shark! Get out of the water!” shouts the lifeguard loudly. Jen and Rick are swimming a long way from the beach. The shark comes towards Rick. They see another fin in the water that time. It is the blue dolphin! The dolphin hits the shark. The shark swims away. Jen and Rick are safe.

I think that many words of colors were written. It is a heart-warming story.

Axten,Sarah. Prowse,Philip. Moore,C.J. Downtown,David. (2005). Blue Fins. Oxford: Macmillan Heinemann ELT,

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My Hobby

My hobby is listening to music. My favorite song is Vocaloid’s song. Vocaloid is mechanical singer. The most popular Vocaloid is Miku Hatsune. Her most famous song is Thousands Cherry Blossom, World Is Mine and Secret Police. Especially, I like her music named Decorator and Skeleton Orchestra And Lilia. Decorator is a song of quick tempo. This song’s lyrics is very nice. Skeleton Orchestra And Lilia is a song of quick tempo too. This song has a pleasant melody by piano. There are other Vocaloids. Rin Kagamine, Len Kagamine and GUMI are famous. I like their songs too! Vocaloid’s song is many.

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