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Recipe

noreply@blogger.com (I learn at Luna) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:24:00 +0000

Dear Tana

My specialty is Maubou-tofu

You need

100g minced pork

1 tofu(momen)

1/2 onion

2 table spoon soy sauce

some garlic

some toubanjyan

some salt

some ajinomoto

some starch

some salad oil

some sesame oil

1 Boil the tofu and cut to a cube.

2 Finely chopped the onion and garlic.

3 Heat the salad oil in a frying pan.

4 Pan fry the onion and garlic add the minced pork,soysauce,ajinomoto,salt,toubanjyan.

5 Add the tofu and sesame oil.

6 Add dissolve starch.

See you later

From Mutsumi Maruyama

Grey Owl

noreply@blogger.com (You) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:53:00 +0000

Q26: There were a lot of women in Grey Owl's life. What do you think they felt about him? Why?

I think that Grey Owl was awful person for women, because he abandoned his wives and children several times.
He was generous for animals, but he was selfish for women.
I think that his first 4 wives (Angele, Marie, Ivy, Anahareo) and her children felt same as me. But his last wife Yvonne might fell that he was generous for women, because they hadn't divorced.
I think that Yvonne didn't know his love affair well.
If Grey Owl was born in modern age, he shouldn't supported by women.

Yoichi

Room 13 and other Ghost Stories

noreply@blogger.com (yoshiro) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:34:00 +0000

This book consists of five horror stories. One of those story is Room13. I knew that 13 was an ominous number for a certain people. So I was able to imagine that it would be a horror story. I was weak in English, so I had a long time to read... I understood that you should read this book in the daytime!

The Eye of the Tiger

koaku2@happy.email.ne.jp (koa) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:15:00 +0000

The Eye of the Tiger is a name of the big diamond which put into the hole in the golden tiger’s head, The Tiger Throne. This is a kind of suspense story, but it seems the author wanted to include a love story. Unimaginable ending was interesting for me, and I want to know the rest of the story about Harry and woman who called Miss Sherry North.

Chapter 16:
Q1: Harry told Sherry his plan. What was his plan?
A1: Run away to Zurich and live together at there
Q2: On the way to the airport, Sherry tried to tell Harry something. What do you think she wanted to tell him.
A2: I think she wanted to tell him about her real identity.
Q3: What arrangements did Harry make at the airport at Zurich?
A3: He made an appointment to meet Sherry.
Q4: Who did Harry see walking behind Sherry?
A4: Policemen
Q5: How did Harry manage to speak to Sherry alone?
A5: He called up her at the phone-booth by asking the girl at the information desk.
Q6: What had happened to the real Sherry North?
A6: She was killed by Manny Resnick.
Q7: Where was the Tiger Throne?
A7: It was at President St Mary.
Q8: Harry gave the woman a choice. What was the choice?
A8: Whether she live together with Harry at Turtle Bay or not.
Q9: What was the deal Harry had made with the President?
A9: He gave the Tiger Throne the President, and the President promised his safe.
Q10: What had Harry kept hidden in Turtle Bay?
A10: He had the gold plates hidden in Turtle Bay.
Q11: What would be the first question that Harry would ask the woman when he met her at St Mary’s airport?
A11: Could you tell me your real name, please?

Koa

A Town Like Alice

noreply@blogger.com (jun) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:16:00 +0000

This is the story about Jean, who was English woman and was thrown into the World War II in Malaya. The Thirty-one English women and children, including Jean, were taken by Japanese as prisoner at Pangon, and were forced to keep on the move from area to area over six month. They totally have marched more than hundred miles, and half of them were dead. Then...

After I had read this story, I rearized that We Japanese are the victim of war and at the same time are the victimizer of war. I think that We must not only urge the banning of nuclear weapons in the name of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we must atone for role in war in countries in Asia

Tales of Horror

noreply@blogger.com (takeho) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:00:00 +0000

This book is horror.Three strange and frightening short stories;

・The Judge's House

・The Iron Maiden

・The Return of Abel Behena

I felt to be afraid of me is The Iron Maiden. A man dropped the stone near the kitten to be puzzle the black cats. The stone fell and hit the kitten. The kitten died immediately.The mother cat was angry and revenged on the man...

It is said that once a black cat is a symbol of no good luck in Europe and America. It is said that once a black cat is the symbol of the amulet, luck, and the business prosperity in Japan in the old days.

However, I didn't think the man entered "that" .I thought all people who appeared in this book were funny.

Silver Blaze and Other Stories

noreply@blogger.com (yasuhiro) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:34:00 +0000

This book is made up of stories that Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson help the police with the strange cases. There are three stories in this book, Silver Blaze is the most interesting.

I predicted stories as follows before I read book at class. Someone will bet one horse at horserace, but He can't win. Then Someone had killed, so It's relation to a horserace.

I read a story actually, I was interesting and be supried. Silver Blaze is horse name and racehorse. This horse's trainer had been murdered. His name is John Straker. The mystery of muder has a unexpected answer. Sherlock Holmes inverstigated and slove with Dr Watson.

I am telling a bit answer, John Straker was thinking a trick and had been killed.

In reality, The murderer is Silver Blaze. Whoa!

Hamlet

noreply@blogger.com (tomato) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:49:00 +0000

Dear all
This story is well-known on stage drama of William Shakespeare.

This book is written by Scenario. Hamlet is a play about revenge in it.
why does he revenged?

Hamlet is a young prince of Denmark. His father died but the ghost appeared to his son to tell Hamlet the deadful truth. King Hamlet had been killed by his own brother with poison. Uncle Claudius married with Hamlet's mother. The ghost tells Hamlet that it is his duty to kill his wicked uncle.

I red while imagining the scenes. If I watch a stage of Hamlet ,I will recall this book.

I recommend this story.
keiko

The Perfect Storm

noreply@blogger.com (Masao Kuroda) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:12:00 +0000

This book was very interesting for me. This story is nonfiction and some people such as the crew members on the Andrea Gail, on a boat named Satori, and a lot of rescuers really fiercely fought against the perfect storm.
The most exciting scene was chapter 8 and 9. I’ve finished reading these chapters quickly. All members except Ray on the boat named Satori did their best to survive, but the violent storm discouraged against their efforts. For example, first, the rescuers tried to rescue the crew members by dropping a raft into the water, but due to the big waves, they couldn’t because the boat made a big hole in the raft. Then they changed their plan. I don’t want to disturb someone’s interesting for reading this book, I’ll stop to explain the continuation.
Before reading this book, I didn’t know the meaning of the title “The Perfect Storm”. The perfect storm means that three powerful weather systems hit each other like a huge bomb exploding out at sea. In other words, the perfect storm means a very very awful dangerous strom. The perfect storm consists of three powerfull weather systems which are a front of cold air moving south from Canada, the line of clear dry air moving east from the Great Lakes and Harricane Grace moving north up the US coast. From this, I wonder we can use the word “perfect” for something. For example, can we say “The perfect food”? Maybe this has not only bad smell, dirty looking, but also awful taste, further more, dangerous to health....... :-)

Masao Kuroda

Trains, vowels and a picnic in November

oyajim@gmail.com (Jim George) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:03:00 +0000

Hijiri joined us in pre-school on Tuesday - he's been away for a while and was really sweet to see the girls literally take his hand and guide him back into the swing of things; it didn't take him long to get totally immersed in things and 'forget' about mummy! (He was going to come today, too, but mummy got a cold & best stay away from school).

As we know he into his trains, we showed him our train set and he helped us cobble it together - trains crashing into each other, bridges and tunnels in no time at all. Carnage!

We showed him a couple of our favourite songs and games, and he particularly liked the physical aspects of the Hokey Kokey and our vowel race, as you can see.

The weather today was so nice we just couldn't bear to stay inside; we took a blanket and had a picnic lunch on the riverbank outside Luna. The girls enquired about Trolls, but we couldn't see any :) It was a great change of scenery for us, with butterflies and ants to watch. There was a plane circling around, and a troop of kindy kids paraded past us too.

Lovely funshine and healthy appetites, all made us a bit sleepy in the afternoon. We know how Goldilocks felt when she gate-crashed the three bears' house - we watched her on DVD and started to remember the songs! Creative & problem solving puzzles are in high demand, no less so today. A new 60 piece one posed no real challenge, apart from size - took up the whole table!

Tokyo Bookfair & Bledisloe Cup

oyajim@gmail.com (Jim George) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:46:00 +0000

Last weekend I spent in Tokyo at the annual Tokyo EFL bookfair/English Teachers in Japan jamboree. I try to go every year, to dig up new ideas and remember old ones, figure out what the next big thing in teaching will be etc. It is also a good opportunity to meet old friends in the industry - teachers as well as publishers - and to catch up over a few beers on the Saturday evening.

Delightfully, somebody organised the Bledisloe Cup to coincide at the National Stadium...and along a good sized group of us went, finding a row of seats up at the back of the stand. No problem except we couldn't see the screen/scoreboard for replays, score updates etc; neither did the beer dollies manage to make it far enough up the stand with any supplies for our thirsty mob. Some parts of the ground apparently ran out altogether. Bad planning again, JRFU. Why do they insist on selling canned beer, openning each one and pouring it it a cup? Think this is why draft beer was invented...

Anyway, good game, and as will be with this weekend v England, Australia outclassed. We lost a few stragglers on the way to Shinjuku, picked up a few others including one of my old students at Waseda now. A fairly bizarre night as it was also Hallowe'en!

The presentations over the weekend proved valuable for me; these days I orientate towards the more technical ones as I have seen enough happy clappy ones to last me a while. One in particular on using Google documents more effectively made the trip worthwhile.

L.A. Winners

noreply@blogger.com (masaya) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:02:00 +0000

I read L.A. Winners.

Before I read this book, I thought this story is Jockey's story. A man who was winner of horse race past joins race again. He get a good horse but someone is going to preventing him to win race.
Although he won the race finally.

After I read this book, I found my prediction was wrong. This story is for detective man. He was hired a woman. Her request was looking for her horse. He looked for it in a racetrack.

I have a interrogations for this story. He was laid off her but he help her from criminal. Why did he help her? Did he get the payment?

MATILDA

noreply@blogger.com (YujiTakamizawa) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:35:00 +0000

Writing 36: Look at the picture of Miss Honey's house on page 29. Write a description of it.

It is a small and pretty house in the forest. It looks like the house where fairy in forest lives in. It is made by wood. The wall are painted cream color. There are two windows. There is a door which is painted blue color. The roof is made by wooden board. It has a small chimney. It is made by stone of nature, not brick. The house is surrounded big and tall trees. There are many kind of flowers (which are red, yellow, white, pink,etc) around the house. The house looks old, but it makes me relaxation. I love this pretty house.

Movie Night Invitation

noreply@blogger.com (Tana Benzon) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:48:00 +0000

Movie Night Sat 14 November 2009
Star Trek

Date: Sat 14 November 2009
Time: bring and share dinner starts at 7:00pm
the movie will start after that at about 8/8:30pm
Place: Luna International 'Space Lounge'
Who: humans, aliens and friends. ALL WELCOME!

Come dressed as your favourite Star Trek character (or just yourself), bring something to eat and drink, and join us for the latest Star Trek on Luna's big screen.

Hope to see you there!
Tana, Jim, and the Luna team

Warsaw - postcard from Teruki

oyajim@gmail.com (Jim George) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:19:00 +0000

Hello everyone,

I'm in Poland. At first, I visited Waszawa. The city was destroyed by German army during the 2nd World War. However the people rebuild complietlly. Now we can see the city as it used to be. That's amazing! I'm going to Auschwitz tomorrow. I am able to know and think about saddness & fear by the war in this country.

Forgive me the miss-spelling.

Teruki

Billy Elliot

noreply@blogger.com (YujiTaki) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:06:00 +0000

I enjoyed this book and story. But storyline is a little speedy, so I didn't understand some points of story...
Anyway, my answer for "Writing" is below.

Writing 33
You are a teacher at the Royal Ballet School and you are at Billy's audition. Write a list of ten questions for him.
1. Who did teach you ballet?
2. What sports are you doing except ballet?
3. Why do you like dancing ballet?
4. Which is your best moving at dancing?
5. What kind of dancer do you want to be?
6. Why did you start learning ballet?
7. Why did you determine to take this audition?
8. Who does back up you?
9. Which ballet dancer do you want to be like?
10. Could you tell me your enthusiasm about the ballet?

Dr No, Ian Fleming

noreply@blogger.com (Ikaros) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:49:00 +0000

Dr No, it's one of the 007 James Bond's story, so it isn't difficult to follow the thread of a story. In the story there is the word "guano". I don't know about guano. In the story the guano is explained that it's the bird's droppings, full of chemicals, used as fertilizers and　it's one of the most valuable product in the world. At first I can't imagine it. At the end of the story Dr No was killed by Bond. He was under a pile of guano. After reading I make researches about guano on the Web, and then I understand. The guano is a kind of fossils, stones.

Ikaros,

Cambridge YLE Exams at Luna International

noreply@blogger.com (Tana Benzon) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:33:00 +0000

While Jim's away.... there's lots of hard work to be done!

Congratulations to all the students who took part in today's exams. I'm sure you all did very well - at least, it looked that way from all the studious scribbling that was going on.

Yuki, our Centre Manager, did a sterling job of all the official stuff, while Shizue and I took care of the Speaking Exams.

As I'm sure our students will agree, Learning and Exams are FUN! Especially at Luna!

Until next time,
Tana

Trip to Bangladesh

koaku2@happy.email.ne.jp (koa) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:11:00 +0000

Dear Jim,
I’m trying to bolg from Singapore. Today is last day of my business trip to Bangladesh, Malaysia and Singapore. I stayed 4 days in Bangladesh, but I have no time to visit the city, because there were so many meetings with our partners, and the meeting never started on time due to the traffic jam. Please find the picture of Dhaka city, Bangladesh. This is a main street, and it’s NOT the vehicle-free area.
Fortunately, I’ll take a half day-off at here, Singapore until my departure to Nagoya. My departure time is 1:00am on this Sunday morning. I’ll leave my hotel from now, and visit city by subway.

Have a nice weekend and see you next Monday.

Koa

Trip to San Fransisco

noreply@blogger.com (I learn at Luna) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:20:00 +0000

I went to San Fransisco 28 Sept to 3 Oct. San Fransisco city has a lot of steep streets. So we use cable car. cable car was very fun. We went Golden Gate Bridge by site-seeing ferry and then we ate a lot of beautiful meal. It was very cold.

That was nice trip for me!!

Hiromi

A Nightmare before Christmas

noreply@blogger.com (I learn at Luna) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:19:00 +0000

Hello Tana!

I read nightmare before Christmas.

This is a story that Jack of skeleton tries to do Halloweentown to the Christmastown.
And, Jack wanted to become Santa Claus.
But, will it be impossible?

The face of the child who saw Santa Claus of skeleton is very white.
Did the witch ask Jack ,"A boy inside the box of Christmas present?"
Jack said "No!! A toy!!"
Did the vampire ask him "Can we use blood for the red decorations?"
Jack said " No!! no blood!! "
Halloweentown's people didn't understand Christmas.
That is funny.
So, the end is happy feelings .

Everyone loves Santa Claus.
And, he loves everyone.
He is very wonderful!

I　knew Halloween with "ET" .
Now, it is known well also in Japan .
Halloween is coming soon!

Happy Halloween Tana!

See you later.

Your student,

Kazuko Maruyama

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Teachers Lives
Darren Elliott has been teaching English for ten years, mostly in Japan with a stint in UK higher education in the middle. He has taught at private conversation schools, businesses and universities and has even been allowed to train other teachers
an interview with barbara hoskins-sakamoto
Barbara Hoskins-Sakamoto Interview from darren elliott on Vimeo. Barbara is an EFL materials writer, teacher and teacher trainer working mainly with children in Japan. This interview was conducted for the lives of teachers website at http://ww

Interview - vocabulary/learning guru

oyajim@gmail.com (Jim George) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:24:00 +0000

I came across an interesting interview with Paul Nation, who I have seen present a couple of times now at various EFL events and hold in high regard. I was talking about him in class with my students the other day, as his comments on learning vocabulary were very relevant.

The interviewer an OE for Luna, who I had the privilege of training earlier this year but missed the chance to say hello properly last Sunday in Nagoya. Well done Darren, good interview!

Facebook | Luna International

oyajim@gmail.com (Jim George) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:39:00 +0000

Facebook | Luna International

Yes, Luna has a group on Facebook. Please come and have a look, join the group? Informal and friendly place for teachers, students, parents and friends to keep up to date with our local activities and events. Please post pictures to the wall, leave your messages and everything else you like to do on Facebook.

Jim

Matilda

noreply@blogger.com (I learn at Luna) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:31:00 +0000

Q37. Compare the two teachers, Miss Honey and Miss Trunchpole.

Miss Honey likes children, so she is always really nice and kind to kids.
She is pretty and she is young. She likes Matilda and really thanks Matilda for saving her life from Miss Trunchpole. (Miss Trunchpole took all Miss Honey's money). Miss Honey doesn't throw people or scream either, and she doesn' shout.

Miss Trunchpole throws people by the ears and hair, and because she does that, she is not nice. She always shouts to kids, and screams too. She doesn`t like children and she is disgustingly ugly. Miss Trunchpole is mean and she hates Matilda, and she takes all the money from Miss Honey.

I like Miss Honey because she's nice. I like me school teacher, but she sometimes screams because she's mad of people who don't do homework, like a boy in my class. She likes to draw flowers - she's really good at it; she let's us draw too, looking at a real flower.

This is my plan about Miss Honey and Miss Trunchpole. "Nothing" means Miss Honey is not mean, and Miss Trunchpole is not nice.

Posted by Haruka (10)

New York - after reading

noreply@blogger.com (I learn at Luna) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:18:00 +0000

Choose a city in your country. Write a short guide for foreign tourists. What should they see and do?

You might already have read or heard about some famous view points in Matsumoto, e.g. The Matsumoto castle, Kamikochi.

I would prefer some other spots where are my favorite and amazing places.

1. There are many beautiful small springs and wells around city center. You can visit and taste some clean rich mineralized springwater within about 30-minute walk from city center. Off course it's free.

2. Have you ever seen watermelon field after summer? I was amazed that there were lots of various size of watermelons on a field, just watermelons on the ground!

3. I live in an apartment near Matsumoto station. Every resident in our apartment operates parking lot machine. It might be unusual thing in your country.

See and take pictures how a car is going to apear from underground, if you want, it's OK!

4. If you rend a car, you should go to a gas station, not a self-servise st. You can experience many free services while you are waiting for refueling it up. In Japan, one or two staffs will clean up all windows and garbage of your car.. And if you have more time, they will check oil level, wheels pressure, etc. I think it's good for safety driving..

Yoko

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Luna's blog as audio

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Supporting children’s learning in the early years

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Guardian Daily: The 10:10 climate change campaign
Best news synopsis I can find, with brief analysis
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My favourite take on the week's footy
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iPlayer

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CercleS seminar

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