My writing class progress and feelings

At first, I was not good at writing English on my blog, but I can write now thanks to this class. I had to write 8 thousands in spring semester and 10 thousands in fall semester. It was very hard to count words. However, I can count words easily using this page. This is very useful and helpful for me.

I think "Essay 1-02b: Let's have a good university life" is the best essay in 1st semester. I can corporate with my friend, Akino. It was very fun for me to write essay together. In addition, I couldn't write essay so long, but I could write long essay because I wrote it with Akino.

I think writing essay is very important thing because I could know how to write essay very briefly. I can write essay which is easy reading whoever read thanks to this class' essay. In addition, I couldn't corporate with friends before, but I can write essay with my friends now thanks to it. That is why essay is very useful and helpful.

I think "BR 1-09 The Little Match girl" is the best book review because I can enjoy reading this book the best. I have read this book in Japanese, so it was easy to write this book review, but I can write it briefly.

I don't like reading books before, but I can enjoy reading books now through book reviews. At first, I couldn't write book reviews anything. However, finally, I can write the book reviews in brief. It is very important for me to write it. I can read books faster than before. It is great progress.

I think "Essay 2-02a: Satoshi Tsumabuki" is the best essay because I could corporate writing essay too. I like writing essay with my friend, Akino. In addition, I like Tsumabuki Satoshi. I can so long essay because I like him. It was very fun to write it.

I think "BR 2-17: Go-kart Race " is the best book review because it was easy to read, so I can write review easily and briefly. In addition, I can write 2 paragraph in this book review, so I can write little longer than other book reviews. I can enjoy reading this book very much.

I'm not good at writing book reviews last semester, but I can write it easily through book reviews homework. In addition, I can learn how to make some paragraph, so It was very helpful. I think I want to read a lot of English books thanks to book reviews homework.

Through my writing class in both semesters, I can learn how to write English diary, essays, book reviews and other writing. It was very helpful for me. At first, I felt that writing English on my blog is very heavy things and I have trouble for writing it. I didn't like the homework of this class. For example, I didn't like typing homework, essay, book review and other homework. However, I can enjoy writing diary and essay because I used to write English on my blog every day. It is very great progress. I'm very glad to be able to write English easily. That is why even if I pass the class, I want to continue writing my blog in English because I believe that it will be special thing in the future.

 

 

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Essay 2-03b: Learning with computers

Recently, a lot of people use computers. People can do anything using computers. It is very useful. People who have their own notebook computers can use it anytime anywhere. People can research something, play CDs and DVDs, listen to music, and watch movies. That is why people who have their own computers can do a lot of things.

If people are university students, they have to do a lot of homework using computers. For example, people who major in English department have to do typing homework, English central, Book reviews, diary blogs, Essays writing, reports, News Quiz homework and other homework using computers. Typing homework, book reviews, diary blogs, and Essay writing are Writing class's homework. They have to use computers many times if we take Writing classes. 

In addition, they have to use computers in not only writing classes but also Reading, Listening and Speaking classes mainly. Reading homework is News Quiz homework. They have to research news through website. There are a lot of newspapers on the Internet website. The Japan Times and The Japan News are easily reading. That is why they have to do almost all homework using computers in English. Sometimes, they use microphone to check their announcement with English central and listening classes. There are a lot of homework using computers, so university students have to use computers to learn.

They have to learn not only English classes but also other subjects using computers. For example, they have to make presentations in inter-cultural communication class, Japanese class and other classes. They also submit some reports in Japanese in a lot of subjects. It is very hard.

Computers are very convenience. It has a lot of convenience tools. For example, there are Word applications, Recording tools, Playbacks, Excel and Internet Explorer on the computers. There is also Google. It is very useful too. Google have Drive, Blogger, Gmail, Presentation, Google map, Google searching tool, and other convenience tools. People can do anything using only Google tools.

There are not only good points but also bad points in learning with computers. First, if people don't have their own computers, they can't do homework in their house. It is unfair. However, there is the library in the university. There are also some libraries around Kumamoto city, so whoever goes the libraries can use computers for free. Next, there are a lot of people who are not good at typing keyboard fast. They have troubles more than people who are good at typing very fast because people who are good at typing keyboard fast can submit reports very fast, but other people submit very late. That is why it is necessary to be able to type keyboard fast. If people cannot type it fast, they have to practice typing hard.

Using computers is very good, it is very useful, but learning with computers is not only good but also bad. However, It is very good thing what people have their own computers. There are a lot of learning ways. Computer is one of them. There are a lot of convenience tools in the computers, so computers are unrivaled things to do anything.

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Essay 2-03a: Learning with computers

Recently, a lot of people use computers. People can do anything using computers. It is very useful. People can research something, play CDs and DVDs, listen to music, and watch movies. That is why people who have their own computers can do a lot of things.

If people are university students, they have to do a lot of homework using computers. For example, people who major in English department have to do typing homework, English central, Book reviews, diary blogs, Essays writing, reports, News Quiz homework and other homework using computers. Typing homework, book reviews, diary blogs, and Essay writing are Writing class's homework. They have to use computers many times if we take Writing classes. 

In addition, they have to not only writing classes but also Reading, Listening and Speaking classes mainly. Reading homework is News Quiz homework. They have to research news through website. There are a lot of newspaper on the Internet website. The Japan Times and The Japan News are easily reading. That is why they have to do almost all homework using computers in English. Sometimes, they use microphone to check their announcement with English central and listening classes. There are a lot of homework using computers, so university students have to use computers to learn.

Computers are very convenience. It has a lot of convenience tools. For example, there are Word applications, Recording tools, Playbacks, Excel and Internet Explorer on the computers. There is also Google. It is very useful too. Google have Drive, Blogger, Gmail, Presentation, Google map, Google searching tool, and other convenience tools. People can do anything using only Google tools.

There are not only good points but also bad points in learning with computers. If people don't have their own computers, they can't do homework in their house. In addition, there are a lot of people who are not good at typing keyboard.

Using computers is very good, it is very useful, but learning with computers is not only good but also bad. However, It is very good thing what people have their own computers.

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Essay 2-02b: Satoshi Tsumabuki

There are a lot of movies all over the world. Needless to say, there are a lot of movie actors all over the world too. One of the wonderful actors is Satoshi Tsumabuki. He is wonderful Japanese movie star. He appears not only movies but also TV dramas. He is also stage actor. He is thirty three years old now, but he looks younger than his present age. Almost all Japanese know about him. Some foreigner know too. He is very famous and popular. The famous movies what he appears are "GTO", "Water boys", "Nadasousou", "Dororo", "Tokyo Kazoku", "Akunin", "The Magic Hour", "Paco and the magic book", "Pandemic Island", and other movies. There are a lot of dramas what he appears too. In addition, he appears a lot of CMs on TV recently. A lot of Japanese watch about him through TV's CM. He performed various characters, so let's compare his performance each characters using two movies.

One of the movies that he appears is “Dororo”. The movie’s original is Osamu Tezuka’s comic. This story is about Japanese monster. The movie is about muromachi era. Satoshi Tsumabuki performed the main charactor, Hyakkimaru. He was taken his 48 body parts by monsters, so he is blind and deaf. He got alternative 48 body parts by his father, but they are fake, so he didn’t feel pain. His father is not really father. It is not clear who is his father until the movie’s last. In order to take his taken 48 body parts back, he fight battle with the 48 monsters. If he wins the battle, he gets one of his taken body parts. When the taken body parts come back his body, he feels very big pain, but he wants to get all his body parts, so he fight battles very hard. He is very strong. He got only 24 body parts in this movie. It is half body parts, so it may have second series of this movie.

This picture's man is Satoshi Tsumabuki. He performed blind and deaf man. In addition, he performed the man who lost 48 body parts. It is very hard to perform such a man. However, he performed this man perfectly. He gets right into Hyakkimaru’s part, so as if he is really blind and deaf. In addition, he seemed really lost hisbody parts. It is very surprising and wonderful.

One of the popular movies that he appears is "Akunin/Villain" in 2010. This movie's original author is Shuichi Yoshida. The main tame of movie is "Who is the actual villain?" The story of this movie is that Yuichi of a murderer who Satoshi Tsumabuki performed escapes from society with a woman. Yuichi wanted to meet the person who he really loves, so he enrolled in online dating Web site. Finally, he met only one woman, Mitsuyo he really loves, but he had terrible secret that he killed a woman before. Yuichi and Mitsuyo decided to escape together without giving himself up to the police. While they ran, they made love stronger, but they were driven into a corner. After their hegira finished in the end, they considered that “who is the actual villain?” By this movie, the audience becomes to think of true love and actual evil.

Satoshi Tsumabuki performed both of actual villain and really good person very well. It was difficult to perform this character, but he could do very well. In addition, he won the Best Actor of Japan Academy Award by this movie in 2011. That is to say, a lot of people admit his ability as wonderful actor.

Like this, he can perform action movie and the person who is murderer, pure and humane. As if he changes himself each movies. He can get right into each movie’s parts. In addition, he won a lot of prizes at other movie awards. For example, he won the Rookie of Golden Arrow Award in 2002, the Best Actor of Blue Ribbon Award in 2010, and the Best Supporting Actor of Japan Academy Award in 2014.He won a lot of other Awards. It is very fantastic! He won the prize only Japan yet, but he will be admitted around the world in the future.



Reference

Wikipedia.  (2014, October 2). 妻夫木聡 [Satoshi Tsumabuki]. Retrieved from http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/妻夫木聡

Wikipedia. (2014, August 19). どろろ [DORORO]. Retrieved from http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/悪人 (小説)

Wikipedia. (2014, September 16). 悪人 [Akunin/Villain]. Retrieved fromhttp://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/どろろ (映画)

 

 

 

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Essay 2-02a: Satoshi Tsumabuki

There are a lot of movies all over the world. Needless to say, there are a lot of movie actors all over the world too. One of the wonderful actors is Satoshi Tsumabuki. He is wonderful Japanese movie star. He appears not only movies but also TV dramas. Almost all Japanese know about him. Some foreigner know too. He is very famous and popular.

One of the movies that he appears is “Dororo”. The movie’s original is Osamu Tezuka’s comic. This story is about Japanese monster. The movie is about muromachi era. Satoshi Tsumabuki performed the main charactor, Hyakkimaru. He was taken his 48 body parts by monsters, so he is blind and deaf. He got alternative 48 body parts by his father, but they are fake, so he didn’t feel pain. His father is not really father. It is not clear who is his father until the movie’s last. In order to take his taken 48 body parts back, he fight battle with the 48 monsters. If he wins the battle, he gets one of his taken body parts. When the taken body parts come back his body, he feels very big pain, but he wants to get all his body parts, so he fight battles very hard. He is very strong. He got only 24 body parts in this movie. It is half body parts, so it may have second series of this movie.

Satoshi Tsumabuki performed blind and deaf man. In addition, he performed the man who lost 48 body parts. It is very hard to perform such a man. However, he performed this man perfectly. He gets right into Hyakkimaru’s part, so as if he is really blind and deaf. In addition, he seemed really lost hisbody parts. It is very surprising and wonderful.

One of the popular movie that he appears is "Akunin/Villain" in 2010. This movie's original author is Shuichi Yoshida. The main tame of movie is "Who is the actual villain?" The story of this movie is that Yuichi of a murderer who Satoshi Tsumabuki performed escapes from society with a woman. Yuichi wanted to meet the person who he really loves, so he enrolled in online dating Web site. Finally, he met only one woman, Mitsuyo he really loves, but he had terrible secret that he killed a woman before. Yuichi and Mitsuyo decided to escape together without giving himself up to the police. While they ran, they made love stronger, but they were driven into a corner. After their hegira finished in the end, they considered that “who is the actual villain?” By this movie, the audience becomes to think of true love and actual evil.

Satoshi Tsumabuki performed both of actual villain and really good person very well. It was difficult to performed this character, but he could do very well. In addition, he won the Best Actor of Japan Academy Award by this movie in 2011. That is to say, a lot of people admit his ability as wonderful actor.

Like this, he can perform action movie and the person who is murderer, pure and humane. As if he change himself each movies. He can get right into each movie’s parts. In addition, he won a lot of prizes at other movie awards. For example, he won the Rookie of Golden Arrow Award in 2002, the Best Actor of Blue Ribbon Award in 2010, and the Best Supporting Actor of Japan Academy Award in 2014.He won a lot of other Awards. It is very fantastic! He won the prize only Japan yet, but he will be admitted around the world in the future.

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Reference

Wikipedia.  (2014, October 2). 妻夫木聡 [Satoshi Tsumabuki]. Retrieved from http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/妻夫木聡

Wikipedia. (2014, August 19). どろろ [DORORO]. Retrieved from http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/悪人 (小説)
Wikipedia. (2014, September 16). 悪人 [Akunin/Villain]. Retrieved fromhttp://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/どろろ (映画)

Essay 2-01a: My living room is the best place all over the world.

I'm going to write about my favorite place. I can relax in the living room the best, so I like there very much. I grew and experienced a lot of things there, so I have a lot of memories in the living room, so it is the best place.



I spent very long time in the living room. I rarely go my room because I like living room the best in my house. I also like my room, but I like better living room. I chat with my family there. I talk about anything with my family there. For example, I talk about my friends, classes, events, school life, TV program, music and other things with them. Sometimes, I also talk about trouble. I like chatting with them very much. They make me very happy and relaxed.

In addition, I usually eat breakfast and dinner with my family in the living room. I like eating it with them very much. Sometimes, we go out for dinner. It is very fun, but I can relax in the living room better.


My favorite spot in the living room is sofa. I always stay there. When I watch TV, take a nap, chat with my family, eat snacks, and other doing, I stay there. I like sofa because it is very comfortable. Our sofa is not so big, but I can relax there. Our sofa is black, but I want a white sofa because I like better white than sofa. When my sister sleeps on the sofa, I can't sit on it, so I feel that I want to sit on it very much.


I experienced a lot of things in the living room because I live my house for nineteen years. I spent very happy time and sad time and irritation time there. I experienced a lot of events there too. For example, I spent happy christmas day, new years day, vacation and birthday. That is why, I have a lot of memories in the living room. If it were not for the living room, I could not spent happy time.


I moved to Kumamoto city last year, so I can't go back my before house. It is little sad. I like the living room now, but I feel I want to back my before house sometimes because there were a lot of memories there.

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Essay 1-03b: Language Learning Presentation

This presentation is about my language skills and plans. I'm going to introduce my language skills. I wrote about when I was born, I was three years old, I was an elementary school student, I was a high school student and university student. In addition, I wrote my language skills in the future.





Thank you for viewing. If you have some questions or comments, please write comments.

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Essay 1-02b: Let's have a good university life

I'm going to write about university life. There are a lot of things to write about KGU life. I will talk about six topics, Clubs, Takumasai, Bakery, Canteen, Library, Schedule, and Classes. A lot of students are going to KGU now. They enjoy their university life. They are having many interesting experience, for example, studying, friends, part- time jobs, and the other. There are a lot of clubs at KGU. For example, there are the lacrosse, the music, the calligraphy and other clubs. If the students at KGU belong to the flower arrangement club, everyday is fun. If they belong to any clubs, they can have a lot of friends since they belonged to it. New friends will help about a lot of things. For example, they give advises of homework, human relations, and the other. New friends will be happy in university life. Usually, flower arrangement club's member holds club activities on Wednesday. They often hold pizza party, takoyaki party, and other parties. In addition, they hold a BBQ, video viewing, hide and seek and other activities. These activities are very fun and interesting. They are always looking forward to coming Wednesday. Takumasai is also fun. Takumasai is like school festival. If the students at KGU don't belong to clubs, the students at KGU can't take part in Takumasai. Some of club's members serve an executive committee of Takumasai. It is very busy and tired, but they enjoyed it. In addition, they could watch the concert for free because they were executive committees of Takumasai. It was very lucky. The concert was very excited and wonderful! I'm going to write about KGU facilities. The university's bakery is very popular. The bakery's bread is so delicious, so students like them. If the students want to eat their favorite bread, they must go there earlier than other students. Otherwise, they can't eat their favorite food, because this bakery's bread are all sold out as soon as. The students have to fight in bakery to eat delicious breads, but they like this university's bakery. Also, canteen is very popular for students, too. The student's favorite menu is curry and rice and Udon. They are very good taste! As with the bakery, if they want to have lunch in the canteen, they should go in a hurry because the seats will be all taken by a lot of students. The students at KGU often go library to study. There are a lot of books in this library. They sometimes use computers there. There are also a lot of computers there, so it's available anytime. In addition, they often watch DVDs at AV corner. There are a lot of DVDs there, so they watch DVDs there when they are free. KGU library is very useful. Thanks to this library, they can finish my homework, and look into anything. I'm going to write about my university schedule. The almost students at KGU have to wake up early in the morning. They usually get up at 8a.m. It is very hard for them to get up early because they like sleeping very much. They usually spend hard morning, but some of English department's students at KGU get up 12p.m. on every Monday because they have classes from 2: 40p.m. It makes them very happy. In addition, there is speaking class on Monday. They like speaking class very much because they like speaking English. That's why, they like Monday schedule. The students at KGU have a lot of classes. For example, they have an American literary history, Western art history, and other classes. In American literature class, this class is on Friday. In this class, the students can know many popular writers in America. They can learn about Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and more. It is interesting for all students. The students can get a chance to meet popular books in the world. In this vacation, please read them! Thus, At KGU, the students are enjoying university life very well. They can meet a lot of people, for example, there are the other students, teachers, exchange students, and the other people at KGU, so they can experience various things there. They get a lot of skills, and they grow using these skills. All students love KGU!

Content for this joint essay came from previous blog posts: Nagawa, Akino. (2014, 5 23). Essay1-02a: University Life http://ukhow.blogspot.jp/2014/05/essay-1-02a-university-life.html

Umeda, Misaki. (2014, 5 21). Essay 1-02a: Life of the students at KGU http://lqvc.blogspot.jp/2014/05/essay-1-02a-university-life.html

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Essay 1-02a: Life of the students at KGU

I'm going to write about university life. There are a lot of clubs at KGU. For example, there are the lacrosse, the music, the calligraphy and other clubs. If the students at KGU belong to the flower arrangement club, everyday is fun. If they belong to any clubs, they can have a lot of friends since they belonged to it. It makes their very happy. Usually, flower arrangement club's member hold club activities on Wednesday. They often hold pizza party, takoyaki party, and other parties. In addition, they hold BBQ, video viewing, hide and seek and other activities. These activities are very fun and interesting. They are always looking forward to coming Wednesday. 

Takumasai is also fun. Takumasai is like school festival. If the students at KGU don't belong to clubs, the students at KGU can't take part in Takumasai. Some of club's members serve an executive committee of Takumasai. It is very busy and tired, but they enjoyed it. In addition, they could watch concert for free because they were executive committee of Takumasai. It was very lucky. The concert was very excited and wonderful!

Next, I'm going to write about KGU facilities. The students at KGU often go library to study. There are a lot of books in this library. They sometimes use computers there. There are also a lot of computers there, so it available anytime. In addition, they often watch DVD at AV corner. There are a lot of DVDs there, so they watch DVD there when they are free. KGU library is very useful. Thanks to this library, they can finish my homework, and look into anything.

Then I'm going to write about my university schedule. The almost students at KGU have to wake up early in the morning. They usually get up at 8a.m. It is very hard for their to get up early because they like sleeping very much. They usually spend hard morning, but some of English departments students at KGU get up 12p.m. on every Monday because they have classes from 2: 40p.m. It makes their very happy. In addition, there is speaking class on Monday. Their like speaking class very much because they like speaking English. That's why, they like Monday schedule.

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My Start-up Labels

books, brainstorms, drafts, essay prep., essays, fiction, free-writing, graphics, links, media, movies, non-fiction, outlines, quickposts, reviews, revisions, typing, websites

Essay 1-01a: Letter to My Host Family

I will stay with you in this summer, so let me introduce myself. My name is Misaki. Please call me Misaki. I live in Kumamoto, Japan. I'm eighteen years old and go to KGU. There are four people in my family. How many people are there in your family? I'm in the English department. I like English very much, so I'm looking forward to learning English and culture and history during my stay. I'm not good at speak English, so I want to make progress in my English speaking skills. I like baseball very much, so I want to go a baseball stadium to watch a baseball game in America. However, I'm not good at playing baseball, so if you are good at playing baseball, please teach me how to play baseball. I want to be a baseball player. In addition, I like basketball very much too, so I also want to watch basketball games. Anyway, I like watching all sports games. Let's go to the stadium many times to watch various sports games. By the way, I study not only English but also French at KGU. It is very difficult for me to understand French. Especially, French grammar is very difficult. However, I think learning French is very fun. I enjoy it. That's why, I study French hard every day. I like children very much, so I want to play with them if there are some children in your family. I also want to take care of them. In addition, I like animals, especially dogs, so I want to play with them if there are some pets in your family. Where do you live in America? Is there any interesting there? Is it cold there? Japan has four seasons. Now, it is winter in Japan, so it is very cold. I don't like the cold, so I hope it is warm in your country. Anyway, I'm looking forward to meeting you and your family very much. Sincerely. From Misaki

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