week 12

Site: BBC Sport
Topic:TOEIC etc
Your score (if any):
Key words learned:
*educate: teach, school
*resolve: solve, decide
*pollution: poison
*pessimist: gloomy
*therefore: so
Rating of the site: :( :/ :I :)
Comments: (too easy / difficult / good level / interesting / boring / (not) effective)interesting
Time spent doing activity: about 1 hour

week11

Site: BBC Sport
Topic:TOEIC etc
Your score (if any):
Key words learned:
*gentle: quiet, mild
*astronaut: someone who travels and works in a spacecraft
*run: manage
*escape: eject, avoid
*courage: bravery
Rating of the site: :( :/ :I :)
Comments: (too easy / difficult / good level / interesting / boring / (not) effective)interesting
Time spent doing activity: about 1 hour

Week10

Site: BBC Sport
Topic:TOEIC etc
Your score (if any):
Key words learned:
*novel: story, fiction
*nutrition: goodness
*expect: look forward to
*minor: small, little
*justice: right
Rating of the site: :( :/ :I :)
Comments: (too easy / difficult / good level / interesting / boring / (not) effective)interesting
Time spent doing activity: about 1 hour

Week 9

Site: BBC Sport
Topic:TOEIC etc
Your score (if any):
Key words learned:
*suppose: imagine, consider
*describe: express
*differ: vary
*architecture: building
*interrupt: block, prevent
Rating of the site: :( :/ :I :)
Comments: (too easy / difficult / good level / interesting / boring / (not) effective)interesting
Time spent doing activity: about 1 hour

Week 8

Site: BBC Sport
Topic:TOEIC etc
Your score (if any):
Key words learned:
*associate: unite/ to make a connection in your mind between one thing or person and another
*predict: foretell/ to say that something will happen, before it happens
*venture: adventure, risk/ a new business activity that involves taking risks
*starve: famish/ to suffer or die because you do not have enough to eat
*voyage: navigation/ a long journey in a ship or spacecraft
Rating of the site: :( :/ :I :)
Comments: (too easy / difficult / good level / interesting / boring / (not) effective)interesting
Time spent doing activity: about 1 hour

week 7

Site: NetAcademy
Topic:TOEIC
Your score (if any):
Key words learned:
*deny: 1. say sth is not true 2. not allow
*labor: work and workers
*define: to describe something correctly and thoroughly, and to say what standards, limits, qualities etc it has that make it different from other things
*competitive: determind ot trying very hard to be more successful than other people or businesses
*alien: very different from what you are used to, especially in a way that is difficult to understand or accept
Rating of the site: :( :/ :I :)
Comments: (too easy / difficult / good level / interesting / boring / (not) effective)interesting
Time spent doing activity: about 1 hour

week 6

Site: NetAcademy
Topic:TOEIC
Your score (if any):
Key words learned:
*ambition:a strong desire to achieve something
*confuse:to make some feel that they cannot think clearly or do not
*capture:to catch a person and keep them as a prisoner
*increase:it  becomes bigger in amount, number, or degree
*arrest:if the police arrest someone, the person is taken to a police station because the police think they have done something illegal
Rating of the site: :( :/ :I :)
Comments: (too easy / difficult / good level / interesting / boring / (not) effective)interesting
Time spent doing activity: about 1 hour

week 5

Site: NetAcademy
Topic:TOEIC
Your score (if any):
Key words learned:
*conrtaband:goods that are brought into a country illegally, especially to avoid tax
*rupture:1.an occasion when something suddenly breaks apart or bursts 2. a situation in which two countries, groups of people etc suddenly disagree and often end their relationship with each other 3. a medical condition in which an organ of the body, especially one near the abdmen, sticks out through the wall of muscle that normally surrounds it
*intermit:stopping and starting often and for short periods
*involuntary:happening to you although you do not want it to
*signature:formal the act of singing something
Rating of the site: :( :/ :I :)
Comments: (too easy / difficult / good level / interesting / boring / (not) effective)interesting
Time spent doing activity: about 1 hour

Week 4

Site: NetAcademy
Topic:TOEIC
Your score (if any):
Key words learned:
*impute:to say, often unfairly, that someone is responsible for something bad or has bad intentions
*colloquial:language or words that are colloquial are used mainly in informal conversations rather than in writing or formal speech
*caption:words printed above or below a picture in a book or newspaper is showing
*derogate:to make something seem less important or less good
*compassion:a strong feeling of sympathy for someone who is suffering and a desire to help them
Rating of the site: :( :/ :I :)
Comments: (too easy / difficult / good level / interesting / boring / (not) effective)interesting
Time spent doing activity: about 1 hour

        Amanda, please give me some advices about the news websites.
        I sometimes read the English news sites to study English and to know about the international situation. But it is almost made by Japanese company, for example, Asahi shinbun and Yomiuri shinbun etc. So I want to read it made by the English speaking world. Please give me Amanda's advice. What the news websites should I read to study English?

Week 3

Site: NetAcademy
Topic:TOEIC
Your score (if any):
Key words learned:
dumb: unable to speak, because you are angry, surprised, shocked etc
surpass: to be even better greater than someone or something else
mutual: mutual feeling such as respect, trust, or hartred are feelings that two or more people have for each other
vicious: violent and cruel in a way that hurts someone physically
intrepid: willing to do dangerous things or go to dangerous places - often used humorously
Rating of the site: :( :/ :I :)
Comments: (too easy / difficult / good level / interesting / boring / (not) effective) interesting
Time spent doing activity: about 20 minutes

Week 2

words

・introvert:someone who is quiet and shy, and does not enjoy being with other people
・sovereignty:1.complete freedom and power to gonern 2. the power that an independent country has to govern itself
・bolster:1. to help someone to feel better and more positive 2. to improve something
・aesthetic:connected with beauty and the study of beauty
・browse:1. to look through the pages of a book, magazine etc without a particular purpose, just looking at the most interesting parts 2. to look at the goals in a shop without waiting to abuy any particular thing 3. to serach for information on a computer or on the Internet 4. if a goat, deer etc browses, it eats plants

1. Think about your long-term goals. Why are you studying English?
        I want to go to study abroad in this summer. And after that, I want to go travel all over the world! I love English, but I'm not good at English I think, so I want to use English better than before.

2. What do you need to reach your goal?

        I think it will be necessary for me to get the score of TOEFL and TOEIC. But I especially become nervous about TOEFL because my many friends and many senior said to me that it is so difficult to get the good result. I will take TOEFL before this summer, but I also think that it is meaningless for me to take TOEFL just before the studing abroad. So I regret that I have never taken TOEFL so far.

3. What is your current language level? Think of your strengths and weaknesses.

        I always feel that my speaking is the weakest skill because if I have something to say, I can't say it well or I become silent occasionally. But when I work in the Yokohama Stadium, my part-time job is its staff, foreign customers come up to me to ask the question, so I am forced to tell them about it. This situation improves my speaking a little by little. On the other hand, I think that my writing is the best skill in my English skills because if there are some grammatical mistakes, I can keep writing English. I learned from Dan in last semester that we must write English without being afraid of mistakes.

4. What are your learning preferences?
        I prefer studying in the afternoon and evening but I want to do in the morning. Because I always hear that the people who study in the morning get more efficient results than the people who study in the evening. And I studied English with books so far, but now I study it with books and computer. Last semester Dan told me "TED.com" that I was fond of it, and I often watch it which I'm interested in. And when I try to memorize words, I watch, listen to and speak. I think that it is efficient for me to use many organs. So I prefer studying in my room and the library. But I occasionally want to study in a cafe, in that case I go to there only a short time.

5. Considering the above, make a plan for this class.
        In class I try hard to study with NetAcademy to get high score at TOEIC. What I especially need to study is listening because I studied English to enter the university so far, but now I must acquire it to get really English skills. And out of class I try hard to study with NetAcademy, the textbooks and TED. Finally I want to improve my English better than last semester, and I want to get the high score of TOEFL in this summer.


Please remember me, Amanda!