BR 02-17 MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS

" ' She's afraid of me, and she hates me too. She hates me because I am beautiful, and she is not; because I had three husbands, and she never married."(p. 2)

This story was not written by Mary Queen of Scots. The writer was Bess Curle who is a her chamberlain. There is story about Mary Queen of Scots in this book.

The Queen of Scots returned from France when she was young, then her husband was died. And unfortunately for her, England have ruled by Elizabeth I then. And then The Mary Queen of Scots
was confined in Fotheringhay Castle in England with her a chamberlain and some maids...

The story was written in plain English, so it is very easy for us to read and understand this contents. At first, I could not be interested in this book as the story is history of England and about the Mary Queen of Scots. But, it is reader-friendly version, font and text, that means it is reader-friendly pages, so I was gradually interested in the story.

[193 words]

Vicary Tim. (2000). Mary Queen of Scots OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY: Oxford University Press

BR 02-16 Mystery Mansion

" Loud moans rang out from Mystery Mansion, deep in the marshes, and a glowing, yellow mist curled around its walls." (p.3)

Mystery Mansion is a place of dark secrets and terrifying nightmares. Harry the boot boy tries to ignore them all and get on with his job until he finds himself caught up in an adventure more scary than any nightmare.

The book contains 10 chapters and their after story. There were a lot of scary monsters, for example there were some living dead monsters (Zombies), skeleton bones, bats and big wolf. There were some pictures at intervals of one page. Therefore you can understand the stories very well.

[121 words]

Sims Lesley. (2004) Mystery Mansion. USEBORNE YOUNG READING London; Usborne

Congratulations!

Emma Watoson was chosen one of the most beautiful 100 faces of this year, and she won first prize!

Do you know about her?

She was born between Briton father and France mother as the first girl in France in 15 April 1990, and now, she is 21 years old. Her parents devoted, and she has live with Her mother and younger brother in United Kingdom.

She debuted as actress in  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone . In 2000 when was ten years old, Emma began filming for the first time with 11 years old Daniel Radcliffe and 12 years old Rupert Grint. She was extremely nervous. But, she had no reason to fear as, on its opening day, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone broke records all over the world and Emma won great critical acclaim for her performance as Hermione Granger.

In 2007 Emma accepted her first role outside of the Harry Potter films playing Pauline Fossil in BBC's drama Ballet Shoes. The drama was incredibly well received and was viewed by a staggering 5.2 million people. But, in my opinion, the drama's story is bit boring. However Emma was very cute in this drama, so I settled for less. The following year, Emma voiced her first animated character (playing opposite Dustin Hoffman, Sigourney Weaver and Matthew Broderick) with the role of Prince Pea in Universal Pictures' The Tale of Despereaux. 


She uses Twitter, so if you also do it please follow her tweet.

[271 words]

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http://www.tccandler.com/beautiful-faces/most-beautiful-2011/

BR 02-15 The Snow Queen

" 'Let's show it off to the angels.' " (p. 4)

Gerda and Kay are best friends, until Kay suddenly changes. Then he is kidnapped by the wicked Snow Queen and everyone thinks he is lost forever. But Gerda is determined to rescue him.

Follow her, in this retelling of the classic tale by Hans Christian Anderson, as she sets out on a lonely, dangerous quest to the frozen north.

The Snow Queen is in series two of Usborne Young Reading, which combines good stories with easy reading text. Developed in consultaion with Alison Kelly, Senior Lecturer at the University of Surrey Roehampton, series two is for readers who are growing in confidence. For readers who have just started reading alone, try the exciting stories in series one.

[140 words]

Anderson Hans. (2004). The Snow Queen. USEBORNE YOUNG READING: SERIES TWO London: Usborne

BR 02-14 Frog and Toad Together

" 'Because,' wailed Toad,  'running after my list is not one of the things that I wrote on my list of things to do!'" (p. 14)

Have you ever read this series of "Frog and Toad"? They have been translated into Japanese. So I think that large segment of the population have had a chance to read them when they were kindergarten pupil or early elementary school student. This is because they have been very popular with young children all aver Japan.

Two frogs are featured in this volume. One of them, main character, is Toad who is red frog, short and yellow streak. And he like his friend very much. Frog is his friend's name. He is rain frog, taller than Toad and like Toad.  More than anything, unlike Toad, he is very brave. Therefore he always help and treats Toad with gentle patience.

There are five stories in this book. I especially like second story because Toad wanted to have own garden as he saw Frog, his best friend, has grown plants in his garden. And then he planted the flower seeds. He had thought that the flowers come up any second, so he walked up and down around his garden. Then Frog came and told him that "Leave them alone for a few days. Let the sun shine on them, let the rain fall on them." Therefore Toad do something for his flower. I felt it was very cute. I want you to do read it.

[260 words]

Lobel Arnold. (1972). Frog and Toad Together. New York: Harper Collins

BR 02-13 New Zealand

"The Maori are famous for their woodcarving. When they arrived in New Zealand, they found large trees everywhere." (p. 11)

New Zealand is in the south Pacific Ocean, along way from anywhere. Australia is the closest country and that is two thousand kilometres away. New Zealand is isolated and this makes it special. This isolation changes everything. New Zealand's history, the weather, the way its people are and the trees, flowers and animals that you can see.

New Zealand is made up of two large islands - the North Island and the South Island, and a much smaller island, Stewart Island. It is about the same size as the United Kingdom, but it has only four million people. The United Kingdom has sixty-one million people. There are almost a million young people under fifteen in New Zealand.

I have been to New Zealand last spring vacation. I enjoyed home-stay in Auckland where locates in North Island for a month. And my friends and I went somewhere, for example we went to Hot Water Beach, Rotorua and so many. I recommend you going to Rotorua because there is Waimoto Carves. They are very brilliant!(the picture). It was great. It really got to me! You must go there to see them before you die!

[223 words]

Johnson Margaret. (2009) Madrid; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

BR 02-12 MR BEAN

" 'Americaaaaaa!!' shouted Mr Bean at the airport. 'I am going to Americaaaaaa!!'" (p. 4)

Do you know "Mr Bean"? I think that all Mr Tomei's student of speaking class know it because professor Tomei showed the movie of Mr Bean.

It is comedy story  series which is very famous in the world, and it is British story. Therefore sometimes a lot of places appear in this film. Mr Bean is main character, and he hardly speaks in the movie, but he can tells fun of the story.

This book is written about one day at Grierson Art Gallery....

Nobody in the room liked Mr Bean. They all wanted him to leave the gallery, why? What was wrong with the man? He only had to sit in one of the rooms in the gallery all day and watch the paintings. He was not very good at his job. He usually fell asleep, but why did they all hate him?

I want you read this book without anybody else because I guess that you absolutely can't stop laughing. It was written by British English, so it is bit difficult to read, but it is good chance for you to touch British English.

[211 words] 

Curtis Richard and Driscoll Robin (2000) Harow: Person Education