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The first day, I was afraid of this class because English is a poor subject for me but I gained confidence at this class. Even if I make a mistake it’s not problems. I can try practicing over and over and I can learn from my mistakes.
This class is really interesting for me. Richard is good teacher because your teaching is very easy to understand and your advice is appropriate so I could make positive efforts to study in this class. Bad point about this class is nothing.
I could learn to write in English Thank you!

About Sport

I think sport is the most interesting topic because there are many interesting things, for example, sport is related to health and sport connects people. People can maintain health and people can make a point of communication doing sport. These are wonderful things.
The best way to keep healthy is to do sport. A proper amount of exercise is a safeguard against disease. If you take exercise you can an intensive function of your heart, lungs and muscles so you can get a healthy body. Especially aerobic exercise is good, for example, jogging and swimming makes the heart and lungs stronger. So if you want to keep in healthy body you must try to do exercise.
There are many ways how to get a communication. To do sport is one of way to make a point of communication and connect people even if they do not understand each other. Actually, when I went to Australia, I couldn’t understand what local people said but when we played basketball we could make ourselves understood. At that time, I realized that without words we can understand each other. Only with one ball we can really communicate.
In this way, sport is absolutely necessary and it is closely related to our healthy life.

Letter of Inquiry

From: Kaori Kawahara
Date: July 6, 2009
To: Bob’s company
Subject: material of Bob’s company

Dear Bob’s company:

I’m a fourth-year student of Tokai University and now I doing job hunting.

I saw broad outline of Bob’s company and I think there is an ideal company for me so I really want to become a member of Bob’s company.

I would know more about your company so if you could send me a material of Bob’s company please send to the address below.

Thank you for your time in this matter. I’m look forward to receiving material of Bob’s company.

Sincerely,

Kaori Kawahara

Star West Trading Co.
12-3-4 Ishikawa, Kita-ku
Tokyo 567-8910, Japan
PH +12-3-456-7777
FAX +12-3-456-7778

Personal Letter

From: Kaori Kawahara
Date: 　 June 29, 2009
To: Asuka
Subject: Letter

Dear Asuka:

Hello, Asuka. I’m sorry for not having written for a long time. Well, I’m very busy these days because I have examinations almost every week so I have to study very hard. Also I must take a test about medical engineering next summer vacation so I started to study the field of medical engineering. For the moment I can’t go to Tokyo and we can’t meet but I’ll write to you again. Good bye.

Sincerely,


Kaori Kawahara

The Most Exciting Sport is Soccer

In my opinion, soccer is the most exciting sport. First of all, many people can play soccer with only one ball and soccer is very easy so anybody can play if they have never to play soccer so soccer is very fantastic sport. Second, soccer is one of means to take a communication. Soccer is playing in many countries so they can make a point of communicate with foreigner to play soccer if you don’t know what they say so the most exciting sport is soccer. Finally, they can enjoy the soccer to play and to watch the soccer game so if you can’t play soccer you can enjoy the soccer game to watch so soccer is very fun. For these reasons, soccer is the most exciting sport.

Ways to Keep in Good Shape

People should try to keep in good shape because it is good for their health. There are several ways to keep in good shape. First of all, to eat healthy foods is very important. If people always eat junk foods it is not good for their health because junk foods have a high in calorific value and low nutritional value so ideal eating habits are to eat much fruit and vegetables, and eat moderate meat and fish. Also, to do exercise is important. People need exercise almost every day. If they don’t get enough exercise they can’t have much of an appetite. Then, they can’t eat enough healthy foods so their body will be weak. Second, people have to get enough sleep. One good night’s sleep and they will be back to normal. The best length of sleep is seven or eight hours. Finally, it is the most important thing to quit smoking. To smoke is bad for health. Smoking increases the risk of contracting cancer so people should not smoke. There are many ways to keep healthy, and if you try to put these into action you can keep in good shape.

Avril Lavigne

Avril Lavigne is a famous Canadian singer-songwriter. Her music genre is pop-rock and the sub-genre is punk-rock. She was born in Belleville, Ontario, Canada on September 27, 1984. Her father named her Avril it means “April” in French. Lavigne’s mother was the first to spot young Lavigne’s talent. Then, Avril began singing with her mother when she was two years old. At the age of twelve, Lavigne began teaching herself how to play the guitar and she devoted herself to write music. After that she decided to become a singer. In 2000, when Lavigne was sixteen years old, she went to New York to improve her skills and she made a contact with a record company at soon. On June 4, 2002, Avril released her album in the United States. It reached number two in United States and peaked at number one in Australia, Canada and United Kingdom. This made Lavigne, at seventeen years old, the youngest female soloist to have a number one album in the United Kingdom until that time. Then, she became a world-famous singer. At present, she has deployed her fashion-brand. Avril Lavigne is still acting somewhere in the world.

About Next Summer Vacation

I’m looking forward to enjoy my summer vacation so I’m making some plans for my next summer vacation. The vacation will start on August the 1st after term examinations and the vacation will be over about on the end of September. I have some plans of during next summer vacation.
First, on August the 1st is my mother’s birthday so I’m going to go home and meet her. Then, I want to say her, “Happy birthday to you,” and I’ll give a birthday present for her. Second, I’m going to go Kyoto to see the sights with my family about for 3 days. We’ll go to many traditional and popular buildings, for example Kinkaku temple, Kiyomizu temple and so on. Third, I’ll go to live concert at Tokyo on September. Many famous artists will come to the concert, for example CHEMISTRY, Moriyama Naotarou, Hata Motohiro and so on. This is the main event in the during next summer vacation.
Next summer vacation is very important for me because next year will be busy because of study so I want to enjoy this summer.

University Life

I’m a second year at college now and I go to Tokai University Numazu Campus in Shizuoka prefecture. This campus is school of High-Technology for Human Welfare Graduate Schools. I’m making positive efforts to study here and especially I’m enjoying study English at English communication class. I like this subject the most because this class is very interesting.

Then, there are many kinds of club in this campus, for example basketball club, baseball club and judo club. I’m a member of Tokai University Numazu Students of Commission. There are about 15 people. Our activity is to make a lot of plans about school’s events, for example school festival management, decorating for the Star Festival, decorating for The Christmas lights and so on. Every time we had a good time.

This campus is surrounded by mountains and sea with a marvelous view of Mt. Fuji and the Pacific Ocean. I like Numazu Campus from which we can see a beautiful piece of scenery. This campus is abundantly blessed with nature but that place is hard of access. It’s my unlikeable point of Numazu Campus.

About Culture

In the wide world there are a variety of countries and a diversity of lifestyles so there is a particular culture in each country. People are surprised when they visit to another country. For example, they are surprised by difference of food, language, and so on.
Sometimes people get a culture shock when they go to abroad and eat there because their dietary habit is different as their country. For example, usually Japanese are using chopstick when eat and Europeans and Americans are eat with knife and fork so some countries are using something, but some countries, for example in India Indian are not using chopstick or knife and fork. They use their hand. It’s a difference of food culture. There are many type of food in the world, for example European food, Asian food and so on. Between these countries have different food cultures. For example, some countries don’t eat beef and some the other countries eat insect. These are difference of food culture too.
In the world there are many languages of each country. Chinese is spoken in China. French is spoken in France. Japanese is spoken in Japan. These languages are quite different and It is difference of language culture. Also even in Japan there are many different dialect of each prefecture so even I’m Japanese I can’t understand another prefecture’s dialect. Also it is difference of language culture between each prefecture in Japan.

About Trying Everything

It is important for parents to teach their children about trying everything. Sometimes my mother teaches to me about many things, for example the importance of life, friendship, work, trying everything and so on. These things are assist me when I run into a problem. Especially the importance of trying everything is most important I think.
To try all the time is very hard even if you like to do that. In fact, when I was a high-school student, I was member of the basketball club. I like to play basketball but the practice was really pretty hard so I decided to leave the club, but my mother said, “Don’t give up yet, you must keep trying till the very end.” Then I thought if I stopped to make an effort it would not achieve anything. According to her words, I realized to give up halfway is an escape and it’s not good for me.
People are living and having many problems but they don’t give up half way. They are positive and try to do everything. I learned from my mother to keep trying in everything makes me develop as a person.

About Me

I was born on July the 4th. My birthplace is Singapore. Singapore is very small country but there is a multinational country I think. Then I moved to Thailand for my father’s job when I was 3 or 4 years old. I went to international kindergarten and next went to Thai Japanese Association School for two years. This term is very important for me because I could learn many things, for example how to make a point of communication with foreigner and so on. When I was 7 years old I came to Tokyo in Japan with my family and living by myself in Shizuoka prefecture now because to go Tokai University. My dream is becoming a clinical engineer so I have to study more hard. I want to study about many kinds of subjects especially English. I can’t speak English well and I can’t write in English well. My English level is not strong. Today English is spoken by many countries so I think t study English is very important. By the way I like to listen to music. To listen to music is very good because it makes me happy so when I don’t have anything to do I usually listen to music. Do you know Daniel Powter? He is one of my favorite singers. His voice is very beautiful. I want to go to his concert someday. If you have your favorite musicians, please tell me.

About Me

I was born on July the 4th. My birthplace is Singapore. Singapore is very small country but there is a multinational country I think. Then I moved to Thailand for my father's job when I was 3 or 4 years old. I went to international kindergarten and next went to Thai Japanese Association School for two years. This term is very important for me because I could learn many things, for example how to make apoint of communication with foreigner and so on. When I was about 7 years old I came to Tokyo in Japan with my family and now I living by myself in Shizuoka prefecture because to go Tokai University. My dream is becoming a clinical engineer so I have to study more hard. I want to study about many kinds of subjects especially English. I can't speak English well and I can't write in English well. My English level is not strong. Today English is spoken by many countries so I think to study English is very important. By the way I like to listen to music. To listen to music is very good because it makes me happy so when I don't have anything to do I usually listen to music. Do you know Daniel Powter? He is one of my favorite singer

Next weekend :-)

Next weekend I'm going to go back to tokyo because I have a class reunion of junior high school. I'm looking forward to seeing my friends.