• Intensive Conversation 集中的な会話
• Definitely = No mistake. It is 100% 間違いなく
• ex. It’s definitely very far – south Africa.
• piracy = stealing 海賊行為、著作権侵害
• ex. Some people thing that downloading CDs is piracy.
• feel guilty 罪悪感を感じる
• ex. Guilty = feel bad for doing something bad or not.
• ex. Do you feel guilty for sharing CD in Canada?
• nowadays 最近では
• ex. Nowadays iPad is getting very popular.
• Distinguish = tell the difference 区別する
• ex.
  Can you distinguish the difference between Chinese girls and Japanese
  girls?
• gonna ?するつもりだ
• anyway とにかく
• personally 個人的に
• legal repercussion  合法の反響
• ex. If you cheat on your wife, the repercussion is that she will kill you.

Legal repercussion

1. Arrest you
2. Give you a ticket
3. Kill you
4. Take your possessions (bankruptcy)

• anonymously 匿名で
• lack of respect 尊敬の欠如
• absolutely 確実に まったくだ
• illegal 不法の
• Tandem = together
• Up until now = いままで
• Beef Bowl = 牛丼

Do you think it’s illegal to copy CDs?
The effort that they put into the CD is very expensive.

Illegal vs legal

In Canada it is illegal to drink alcohol outside.

I probably would have gone to Hawaii if I didn’t go to Okinawa.
I probably would have bought a new camera if I didn’t go to Okinawa.
What would you have done if you weren’t getting married?
I probably would have gone to Okinawa if I didn’t get married.

Discussion

Do you buy new CDs ?

No, I do’nt. Because I always borrow CDs from TSUTAYA.

Do you burn CDs ?

No. But I convert to MP3 to listen by iPod.

Do you feel guilty about it ?

Yes. If you want to listen music, you should borrow from TSUTAYA and listen privately.

Do you buy pirated CDs ?

No. A Pirated CDs is japanese enemy.

Grammar Point

It’s = It is

Its = belonging to it

Idioms

an eager beaver = 熱心なビーバー = ボランティア精神にあふれた人

willing ?することをいとわない

ace = make an “A” on a test

an egghead = a very intelligent person

This weeks topics
New group joined my section.
Two of new member is from other country.
We speak English every morning meeting.
Next time, we will have a welcome party in Tsukiji.

What’s new? ・・・ どないでっか？

Strict = Somebody who is not kind with rules. 厳しい

• Underdog = somebody you don’t expect to be good, or experience 負け犬
• Underdog vs Alpha Dog
• Cut throat = Business is very competitive 首を締める
• Interpretation 解釈
• Trade School 専門学校
• University 大学
• Break up 別れる 砕け散る
• ex. Dai broke up first love when he was young.

Jay will get PADI license. He will get Open Water and Advanced Open Water license next month in Okinawa.
He can’t make up his mind. Because license school has diverse plan.

Going back to School

• Elementary school 小学校
• enter elementary school
• decade = period of 10 years. 何十年も前
• opportunity = a change to do something.
• although = ?だけれども
• so far いまのところ
• Picks up the trash
• Selects a seat next to the teacher
• Wipe = Clean, Erase, Delete completely きれいにする 拭き取る ex. Wipes the blackboard
• Eldest vs Youngest

She is not the eldest elementary school student in the nation.
> False. She is eldest elementary school student in the nation.

• nation = a country
• attend= to join
• Attendance record = A record that shows how many times you went to school/work.
• quit = やめる
• poverty = very, very poor people. People who can not live, people who
  can not eat, people with no jobs.

The Philippines has poverty in Manila.
South Africa has poverty.
Japan sometimes has poverty.
North Korea has a large number of people in poverty.

• Surgery = Operation 手術
• Cataract surgery 白内障の手術 Special eye surgery
• Semester = The school sections of the year (april – june, etc)
• In Canada, The school start autumn.
• Period =Individual classes.
• Ie: My third period today is Mathematics. First period is English.
• Fellow = friendship, people who do the same thing or are the same as you in your group.

1. My fellow Canadians are very friendly.
2. My fellow classmates are very lazy.
3. My fellow Japanese are very strong.

• Dirty vs clean
• Messy vs tidy
• Tidy = organize

1. My room is tidy.
2. Her room is messy.

• Widow = Somebody whose wife or husband died.
• Black Widow
• Regain = get back after you lost.
• Gain = to get

Who died 40 years ago?
> Her husband died 40 years ago.
How long was her walk to school everyday?

> She walked to school 30 minutes.

Which surgery did she do Cataract surgery or Ear surgery?
> She did Cataract surgery.

Okinawa talk.

USS Eamons
Iceberg 氷山
Underwater Pyramid 海底ピラミッド
Hatch 生まれる

Homework

Supplementary Discussion

今日は雨がやんでいたので、近所にある本牧山頂公園に行ってきました。
結構広い公園で、バーベキュー施設もあり、山手をぐるりと眺めることができます。

春は桜がきれいだった広場です。

見晴らしの丘からはランドマークやベイブリッジが見えます。

遊歩道が整備されているのでのんびり歩けます。

今の季節だとあじさいが綺麗に咲いてます。

レストハウスまで来ると、海沿いの工場が見えてきます。

結構大きい広場もあるので、野球とかも出来そうですね。

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I always using this text to learn English.

• population: 人口
• repeatedly: たびたび くりかえして
• 100 degrees Celsius: 摂氏100度
• 200,000: two hundred thousand
• lazy: だらだらする
• complain: 文句をいう
• argue 反対する 口論する
• occasionally たまに sometimes
• earn 稼ぐ
• useless 役に立たない
• typical 典型的な よくある
• improve よくなる 改善する

I am doing
I am doing: This means I am doing now, at the time of speaking. The action is not finished.
I’m in the middle of doing. I’ve started doing it and I haven’t finished yet.
If I talk “I’m reading a good book…”. But I’m not reading book now. This mean that I has started it, but has not finished it yet.
The action is not complete.
We use the continuous for temporary.

I do
When I am engineer, and I am asleep. You say “Dai creates an application.”.
Dai is not creating now. (Dai is asleep.)
But Dai creates an application.

We use the simple for things in general or things that happen repeatedly.
We use the presents simple to say how often we do things.
We use the simple for permanent situations.

I always do and I’m always doing

• I always do (something) = I do it every time.
• I’m always doing  = I do very often or too mach.

台所あたりをすっきりするためにレンジ台を楽天で購入しました。

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今までは一人暮らしの三種の神器の一つである「メタルラック」を活用していたのですが、便利だけどすっきりしない。そろそろメタルラックは卒業かなと思いました。

炊飯機や、おーのくんからもらった鍋とかも置いています。
レンジがでかいのですが、こうやって置くとすっきりしますね。

実は15歳の時に船舶免許を取りました。
実は5トンの船まで運転できます。したことないけど。
・http://www.jmra.or.jp/から講習を予約
・講習を受けて更新講習修了証明書等をもらう
・運輸局で書類を渡して更新
・住所変更がある時は住民票がいる
・サイズ 縦4.5cm×横3.5cm の写真が１枚いる
横浜にある関東運輸局は、1Fに郵便局がある。そこで、収入印紙1,350円を買ってから上に上がらないと、上では売ってないという悲劇にあう。

花壇に植えたハーブがすくすく育っています。
生命力が強いだけあり、バジルなどはビシビシ大きくなり、それ以外のハーブもいい感じで茂ってきました。そろそろ摘む必要があります。
もしかすると、ちょっと植えかえる必要もあるのかな。

ここにきて、コモンタイムの花が咲きました。
小さい花ですが、小さい花はかわいい。

また、チャーピルは2倍ぐらいの背丈になって、こちらも花を付けています。
小さい花です。小さい花はかわいい。