Feburuary 8th Friday 2008

1. What did you learn in this class this semester?
I learned British culture, about world news many English word and Christmas in England in this class.
2. Make sure all your blog entries are up to date. I will check all your blogs this evening. Your blogs show me what you learned this semester.
3. To pass this class, you must show you learned something.
4. 100% attendance is not enough to pass the class.
5. I will count
1. how many blog posts you wrote
I posted my blog about 13. I wrote.
2. the quality of your blog posts
1. did you answer all the questions?
No, I didn’t all the questions because I can’t understand some questions. And I can’t find the answer on the internet.
2 did you spell-check your work before uploading?
Yes, I checked my spell on the micro soft word before uploading It helped me.
3did you add links, and your own opinion?
Yes, I did add links, and I wrote my opinion. But sometimes I couldn’t do that and to write own opinion was very difficult.
6. If you have time:
1. Read your classmates’ blogs.
2. Blog about them on your blog.
3. Read some of the news items listed in my delicious links.

February 1st Friday

1. Watch the Powerpoint presentation. Write a summary of the key points (in Japanese or English) on your blog.
ワードでスペルチェックする。翻訳機器を使わず、自分の文で書く。質問文を書く。引用部分はしっかり明記する。文書簿コピーは使わない。自分のブログのコメントを読む。　クラス名とのブログにコメントを残す。
2. What is the purpose, objective, of a newspaper company?
To tell so many people world news is a newspaper company’s objective.
3. What is the purpose, objective, of a television company?
To offer so many people many amusement program, serious program and happy program and so on is a television company’s objective.
4. What is the purpose, objective of Yahoo! or Google?
To offer so many people huge information and to get many user is Yahoo!’s objective.
5. The purpose of all the above is to make money. That is the purpose of all these businesses. How do they make money? By getting as many readers or viewers (”eyeballs”) as possible. If their purpose is to get as many readers or viewers or “eyeballs” as possible, then what kind of news will they publish? Give 2 or 3 examples. What kind of news will they not publish? Give 2 or 3 examples.
They will publish news what another company doesn’t have. They will publish news what everyone want to know. They will publish news what a huge of the country.
They will not publish news what everyone don’t want to know. They will not publish news what disadvantage for them.

6. Find a news article in English that interests you, and write about it on your blog. Write a summary of the article, then your thoughts about it, and any interesting English words or expressions or grammar you learned from reading this.
http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200802010083.html
A summary of the article. The frozen “Gyoza” have a bad influence upon many Japanese people because pesticide is into it. So about 400 Japanese people are sick now. The news made me very unhappy, sad, mad, and afraid.
I learned English words “dumplings” “tainted” “pesticide” “switching” “manufactured”.
I learned English expression “Labor and Welfare”
7. Read your classmates’ blogs and comment on them on your own blog.
I read Bell’s blog this is my comment.
Your article is same with me!
It is very terrible isn't it?
I feel get angry when I heard the news.
8. Make sure your blog posts are all up to date. February 8th is the last class! I will use your blog posts to decide your final grade, so make sure your blog posts look great! Impress me!!