week13

I took vocabraly test. I studied, but I couldn't do my best. After that, I watched Hanna Montana, Taylar Swit's music clip on YouTube. It was so fun to watch the things what I like.

week12

I. Activity one
Site:
1. It's A Wonderful Life Fan Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blWL6qoUWUE&feature=related

2. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=decUIVkZ4GI

3. The Nightmare Before Christmas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx8HqWC1A6Y&feature=related

4. Elf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvtmsqyOkhc

5. Love Actually
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYCkFTyADJ0

Topic:
watch  Christmas movie trailers

Your score (if any):
none

 Key words learned:
･fatso=fatty
an insulting word for someone who is fat

･rubbished
to say something is bad or useless

･nasty
extreamly unkind or unpleasant

･browsing
to look something as if you are watching web sites

･jail
a place where criminals are kept as part of their punishment

･dimension
a part of a situation or a quality involved in it

Rating of the site:
5

Comments: 
I have only seen "The Nightmare before Christmas", but I want to see all the movies that watched on YouTube today and also watch "The Nightmare before Christmas". As I was watching these movie trailers, it reminds me my Christmas in USA. It was so fun that I want to go back again. Each movie trailers were different accents, so it was very useful for me, but I had little trouble with understanding not American English one. Nightmare before the Christmas's trailer was the best trailer to listen because speaker spoke clearly and nice and slow. I feel like I want to watch movie sometime!!!!

Time spending activity:
2~3 min.

week11

I. Activity one
Site:
http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/presperf1a.html#practice1


Topic:
to train my grammar skill

Your score (if any):
18/24

 Key words learned:

･update
to make something more modern in the way it looks or operates
･onboard
carried on a ship, plaane, car etc.
･foodies
someone who is very intersted in cooking or eating food

･warn
to tell someone that something bad or dangerous may happen, so that they can avoid it or prevent it

･lifetime
the period of time during which someone is alive or something existts

Rating of the site:
4

Comments: 
It was very useful site for me to train my grammar skill because grammar is the most weakest point of my English. The reason why I cant make a good paragraph is because I am always pointed out the mistakes of grammar. I can judge past tense and past perfect, but I have a problem with past perfect and past participle. Not to make such a mistakes, I think I should use this site to study. Everything is written in English, so it will train my reading skill, too!

Time spending activity:
5 min.

week 10

I. Activity one
Site:
http://www.wordengine.jp/

Topic:
to check my vocaburaly level

Your score (if any):
8,092/20,000

 Key words learned:

･assumption
something that you think is true although you have no definite proof

･lad
old-fashioned or in formal a boy or young man

･patent
a special document that gives you the right to make or sell a new invention or product that no one else is allowed to copy

･amendment
a small change, improvement, or addition that is made to a law or document or the process of doing this

･wee
informal very small- used in Scottish English

Rating of the site:
3

Comments: 
To check how many words that I know was very useful for me and learned that I only know few words, so I realized that I need to improve my vocaburaly level more and more. When I was taking a test, there are so many words that I have never seen before. I don't know the reason, but TOEIC words was the highest score and basic words was the lowest. I should study from beginning!

Time spending activity:
2.30 min.


II. Activity two
Site:
Ms. Tatsuki's 2,000 Word activities
Topic:
to train my vocaburaly level

Your score (if any):
23/50(47%) → 37/50(74%)

 Key words learned:

･refer
to mention or speak about someone or something

･ swear
to promise that you will do something

･ deserve
to have eraned something by good or bad acrions or behaviour

･firmly
very strongly

･swell
to become larger and rounder than normal
(used especially about parts of the body)

Rating of the site:
4

Comments: 
Training my vocaburaly skill by taking a quiz was fun for me to study. This one was easier than the one that I took at ActivityI. I took a quiz twice because I want to know that I was taking a quiz inaccurately. As a result, I wasn't, but I couldn't get 100% after my second one, but I want to keep on doing this when I don't have nothing to do.

Time spending activity:
15min.

week 9

I. Activity one
Site:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/

Topic:
Reading- Nokia and Apple settle

Your score (if any):
none

 Key words learned:

･infringed its patents
used its legal recognized technology without permission

･counter sued
took legal action against someone who had taken legal action against them

･a carefully worded statement
an announcement expressed in a way that does make them sound guilty

･innovations
new technological and design developments

･decoded
expressed in simple way

Rating of the site:
4

Comments: 
His pronounciation had different accent compared with native English speakers, but I liked his way of speaking because he spoke strongly when he spoke words. On the other hand, he spoke weakly when he spoke auxiliary verbs and articles, so easy to catch words. Also the topic was interesting for me. I think this amount of article is the best for me to listen- not too short but not too long.

Time spending activity:
30 min.

week 8

I. Activity one
Site:
http://australianetwork.com/englishbites/episodes.htm

Topic:
Listening: City Lights

Your score (if any):
none

 Key words learned:

･gentrify
people who belong to a high social class

･reputation
the opinion that people have about someone or something because of what has happended in the past

･clamp down
to take official action to stop something

･vandalism
the crime of deliberately damazing things, especially public property

･queue
people waiting to do something like to enter a building

Rating of the site:
3.5/5

Comments: 
This speaker spoke fast and his English has differtent accent from native American, so I had struggle with listening without looking a script, but to train myself, I listened twice. At first, I listened without looking a script. This time, I understood 55%. Second time, I listened with looking a script. This time, I understood 100%.  To tell you the truth, I had some words that I don't know, but used the dictionary to find out the meaning. I think this is good for me not only to improve listening skill but also my vocaburaly skill, so I want to keep on doing this when I listen to these kind of dialogs. Each dialogs take only few minutes, so I can listen before I go to bed or in my free time.

Time spending activity:
listening time: 5.17min. total: 20min

week 7

I. Activity one
Site:
http://www.elllo.org/

Topic:
Listening: #698 Favorite Drinks

Your score (if any):
none

 Key words learned:

･switch=change
to change from doing or using one thing to do doing or using another

･absorb
to take in liquid, gas, or another substance from space around something
to read or hear a large amount og new information and understand it

･contribute
to give money, help, ideas etc to something that a lot of other people are also involved in

･processed
processed food has substances added to it before it is sold, in order to preserve it, improve its color etc

･a couple of
two

Rating of the site:
4/5

Comments: 
This dialog was conversation style with two women. Talking speed was little bit fast, but they paused in each context or end of the sentence, so it could chatch by each meaning. Person who answer the question used "um" or "and" which is not in the scription, so it made me in the real conversation.

Time spending activity:
listening time: 2.50min. total: 20min.