(メルマ)英語に慣れるには
発行日:11/14
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英語に慣れるには
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http://www.mail-marketing.biz/book/paperback-list.htm 参考図書リスト
心に響く言葉: ENERGY
感動を与える物語: No Small Act of Kindness
心温まる物語: I Will Remember
___私の読者さんへのメッセージ____________________
PERSEVERANCE
You do what you can for as long as you can,
and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing.
You back up, but you don't give up.
やれない事があって出来なくても、後悔しない。ちょっと、遊び場で
体と精神を休め、もう一度出来るところからやってみる。
決して、あきらめない事だ。
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● 英語/英会話を自分の物にしたい人のための情報発信 ●
● http://as0.biz/english/ ●
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● チリも積もれば山となる英語力のヨシダです。 ●
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┣How to Read Freud (HOW TO READ)
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●英語のホネ―中学3年間の英語を2週間でマスターできる!
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読んでもわからない参考書や、手つかずで残された問題集はもういりません。
子どもから大人まで、「英語の入り口」でつまずいている人には特におすすめ。
・・・と書いてありますが、実際に手にとってやってみなければ効果は、分か
りません。まず、やってみる事です。
●英文法がはじめからわかる本
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大学受験で英語は重要な教科になっています。追い込みをする時期ですが、
英文法は、一番点数がとりやすい分野です。おさらいの意味で軽く読み返す
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最近では、Yahoo以上の開発力であっと言わせるインターネットサービスを
Google Lab.というテスト運用ページで提供しています。
スタンフォードの学生の間では、Googleからオファーがあれば決して断るな!
という事が、合言葉になっているようです。そんな会社を描いた洋書です。
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検索エンジンサービスがなぜ儲かるのか。The Google Storyにビジネスの視点
を加えるという意味で参考になる本です。一般の利用者には分からないビジネ
スの秘密が説明されています。
●生協の白石さん
http://tinyurl.com/8udas
引用です。
★生協への質問・意見、要望をお書きください。
中間テストがやばかったので、単位があぶないです、、、。生協で単位を売っ
てください!!
(17年7月12日/所属 M/お名前 うめつ)
☆(生協からのお答え)
中間テスト、お疲れさまです。当店へのリクエストの多い順TOP3として何故
か1文具 2菓子 3単位 と、存外にも単位が健闘しているのですが、当生協
ではというより他の生協でも、単位の販売は致しかねます。次のテストで挽
回して下さい!
(05年7月12日/担当 白石)
こんなやり取りで東京農工大学の生協にいる職員が学生とコミュニケーション
をしています。その内容が面白く、含蓄があります。英語を学ぶ傍らにコーヒ
ーでも飲みながら楽しんで下さい。人生の別の角度から見れるかもしれません。
● Hopes, love and dreams in New York
−NHK CD Book―NHKラジオ英会話ストーリーブック
大杉 正明 (著)
http://tinyurl.com/68ppk
この教材は、一度NHKラジオ英会話で放送された物を学習参考書として
まとめた物です。私は、この教材を今も時々聞いています。登場する人物
と内容が心に響き、声優の声に恋をしてしまったのです。
物語に喜怒哀楽があり、最後には感激して涙が出てきてしまうほどの
ドラマが演出されています。英語学習書を越えた名作英語会話学習書
です。
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□ 心に響く言葉
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ENERGY
"Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all
boundaries." -- Corita Kent
その瞬間、その瞬間がエネルギーだ。
"Your mental energy is limited by your physical energy. How do you
develop more energy of all kinds? You start by putting your body in
top physical condition. Unless you do that, all your other activities
won't help much--you'll be stuck with the mental and emotional energy
that you have now." -- Tom Hopkins
精神力は、体調によってかなり影響する。疲れた朝は、精神力も弱っている。
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□ 感動を与える物語
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No Small Act of Kindness
By Donna Wick
The day was Thankful Thursday, our "designated day" of service.
It's that my two little girls and I began years
ago. Thursday has become our day to go out in the world and make a
positive contribution. On this particular Thursday, we had no idea
exactly what we were going to do, but we knew that something would
present itself.
Driving along a busy Houston road, praying for guidance in our
quest to fulfill our weekly Act of Kindness, the noon hour
appropriately triggered hunger pangs in my two little ones. They
wasted no time in letting me know, chanting, "McDonald's,
McDonald's, McDonald's" as we drove along. I relented and began
searching earnestly for the nearest McDonald's. Suddenly I
realized that almost every intersection I passed through was
occupied by a panhandler. And then it hit me! If my two little
ones were hungry, then all these panhandlers must be hungry, too.
Perfect! Our Act of Kindness had presented itself. We were going
to buy lunch for the panhandlers.
After finding a McDonald's and ordering two Happy Meals for my
girls, I ordered an additional 15 lunches and we set out to deliver
them. It was exhilarating. We would pull alongside a panhandler,
make a contribution, and tell him or her that we hoped things got
better. Then we'd say, "Oh, by the way . . . here's lunch." And
then we would varoom off to the next intersection.
It was the best way to give. There wasn't enough time for us to
introduce ourselves or explain what we were going to do, nor was
there time for them to say anything back to us. The Act of
Kindness was anonymous and empowering for each of us, and we loved
what we saw in the rear view mirror: a surprised and delighted
person holding up his lunch bag and just looking at us as we drove
off. It was wonderful!
We had come to the end of our "route" and there was a small woman
standing there, asking for change. We handed her our final
contribution and lunch bag, and then immediately made a U-turn to
head back in the opposite direction for home. Unfortunately, the
light caught us again and we were stopped at the same intersection
where this little woman stood. I was embarrassed and didn't know
quite how to behave. I didn't want her to feel obligated to say or
do anything.
She made her way to our car, so I put the window down just as she
started to speak. "No one has ever done anything like this for me
before," she said with amazement. I replied, "Well, I'm glad that
we were the first." Feeling uneasy, and wanting to move the
conversation along, I asked, "So, when do you think you'll eat your
lunch?"
She just looked at me with her huge, tired brown eyes and said, "Oh
honey, I'm not going to eat this lunch." I was confused, but
before I could say anything, she continued. "You see, I have a
little girl of my own at home and she just loves McDonald's, but I
can never buy it for her because I just don't have the money. But
you know what . . . tonight she is going to have McDonald's!"
I don't know if the kids noticed the tears in my eyes. So many
times I had questioned whether our Acts of Kindness were too small
or insignificant to really effect change. Yet in that moment, I
recognized the truth of Mother Teresa's words: "We cannot do great
things - only small things with great love."
Reprinted by permission of Donna Wick (c) 1996 from Chicken Soup
for the Woman's Soul by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Jennifer
Read Hawthorne and Marci Shimoff.
Q1: What is their weekly tradition which started a year ago?
Q2: What did their father find a way to fulfill their mission?
Q3: What do you mean by "We cannot do great
things - only small things with great love."?
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□ 心温まる物語 (自分の意見を英語で表現する訓練)
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I Will Remember
By Shelley Ann Wake
Until I was eight I thought Sunday was called Sunday because you
had to spend it in the sun. I thought that because I spent every
single Sunday outside in the garden with Nana. The zucchini plants
quickly became my favorite.
It was the way the tiny little delicate tendrils reached out and
wrapped around the lattice, like tiny fingers holding on as tightly
as they could. They seemed so helpless. I would sit on the ground
and tend to them, sensing that they needed me.
Nana would sit there, perched on her gardening stool, looking at
the tomatoes in the same way.
"Nana," I asked one day, "should I take off all these little yellow
flowers?"
"Why would you take the flowers off?" she asked gently.
"Well, I thought they might attract the bugs and then the bugs might eat
them."
"No, darling," she said with a little laugh, "those flowers will turn into
zucchini soon."
"Really?"
"You just wait. Soon you'll see that little things can turn into
wonderful things. You should remember that."
"Little things can turn into wonderful things," I repeated.
"That's right," she said.
Every Sunday I returned to the garden to check on the zucchini plants, and
each time I saw more and more zucchini.
"Do you think there are so many because I take good care of the plant?" I
asked.
"Yes," Nana said, "when you look after things, good things tend to grow.
You should remember that."
"When you look after things, good things tend to grow," I repeated.
"That's right," she said.
I looked after the zucchini plants even better after that. I removed
brown leaves, and if one of those tiny tendrils couldn't reach the
lattice, I moved it a little closer.
Nana did the same to the tomatoes. Then one Sunday I watched as
she took the clippers and cut off one whole branch of the plant.
"Nana!" I put my hand over my mouth in shock.
"What did you do that for?"
"The plant isn't strong enough to have two good branches full of tomatoes,"
she said.
"I had to get rid of one so the plant could make the most of the
other one."
"Oh."
"You might have to make the same kind of choice some day," she said.
"What do you mean, I'll have to get something chopped off?"
"No dear," she said with a giggle, "but you might have to make some
decisions, because sometimes you just can't have everything."
"I'll remember that," I said.
For months I returned every week to Nana's to see how my plant was doing,
and each time I was proud to see more zucchini. Until one day,
when they stopped appearing, and a few weeks later, there were none.
"Nana, what's wrong with my plant?" I asked tearfully. "It's not growing
anymore."
"That's what happens, darling. Things grow but then they stop. Nothing
lasts forever."
"But I was so good to it."
"Yes," she said, "but things end so new things can start."
"And is there something I should remember?"
"Yes," said Nana. "Seasons change, but for everything that ends,
something new will take its place."
"I'll remember that," I said.
I helped tend other garden plants, but one day I admitted, "I really
miss the zucchini plants."
"I know, darling."
"I was thinking, Nana, what if we got Poppy to make a greenhouse?
Then we could have zucchini plants all year."
"I don't know," she said. "Maybe we should just wait for the right
season."
"But can we just try? Can I just ask Poppy? Please Nana."
"I guess we can try," she said.
Poppy agreed, and the next week I arrived to find a greenhouse constructed.
The best part about it was the inside of the walls: there was
lattice from top to bottom.
"This is the perfect home for zucchini plants," I said.
"And tomatoes," Nana added.
We planted zucchini on one side and tomatoes on the other.
Week after week, the zucchini plants looked better and better.
Nana's tomatoes were just as good. Then the fruit came, and we
both realized that this greenhouse worked perfectly.
"Look, Nana," I said.
"I have a little zucchini here and hundreds of
flowers. These plants are going to be the best ever."
"What a fabulous idea you had," Nana said, squeezing my hand.
"Nana," I said, "I think you should remember something."
"What's that?"
"There is always a way if you want something bad enough."
Nana turned and looked at me. I saw a tiny tear in her eye and for a
moment, I thought she was going to cry. Then she smiled the
biggest smile I have ever seen. She shook her head slightly and
squeezed my hand again.
"Thank you, darling," she said. "I will remember that."
Reprinted by permission of Shelley Ann Wake (c) 2004 from Chicken
Soup for the Grandma's Soul by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen
and LeAnn Thieman.
Q1: Who is Nana?
Q2: What did you learn from the story?
Q3: What will she remember?
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□ 編集後記
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発行が定期的に出来ていませんが、出来るだけ続けて発行します。このメルマ
ガは、見ても分かるとおり初心者向きではありません。英語、英会話の実力を
かなり求められます。
取り上げているエッセイーは、私も楽しめるものです。私が楽しめるものとい
う基準で提供しています。
ご了解ください。
Hanji
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◎Ready to Write More: From Paragraph to Essay
Karen Blanchard (著), Christine Root (著)
http://tinyurl.com/4k2ce
米国の大学で初めて英語の授業を受けた。まず、習った事は、
パラグラフの書き方だ。その次が、A41ページのエッセーの書き方だ。
毎回授業がある度に宿題でエッセーを提出させられた。そして、添削
された宿題が点数(A, A-, B+, B, B-など)と共に戻ってきた。
日本で学んだ方法とは、180度違っていた。それが新鮮だった。
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電子出版: 英語/英会話を自分の物にしたい人のための情報発信
発行者: Norito H.Yoshida
ご意見・ご感想等: noriyos@spamex.com
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