Practise listening at home!

Do you want to improve your listening skills?

Here is a website with lots of short listening exercises.

Listen to the conversations and do the quiz to check your understanding.

http://www.esl-lab.com/

Online English/ Japanese Japanese/ English dictionary

Here's a great website for translating between English and Japanese.

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html

You can copy and paste a whole text in Japanese and have it translated for you- no cheating on your homework though!

There's even a version for your mobile phone!

When you were a kid...

When you were a kid what TV show did you like?

Kamen Rider?
Okaasan to issho?
Ojamajo doremi?

I loved Sesame Street.
It was on TV every afternoon after school.
Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Bert and Ernie, Elmo, I loved them all.

But my favourite monster was Grover.

Do you know Grover?

Click on this link to make a postcard with Grover.

http://www.sesameworkshop.org/sesamestreet/games/flash.php?contentId=8473866

There's a couple of funny things about the Japanese postcard.

Can you find them?

Can you spot the difference?

Follow the link to play a Christmas game.

Click on the picture of the Christmas tree 'Spot the difference'

Use your mouse to find what's different between the two pictures.

You have to hurry or your time will run out!


http://www.www.thekidzpage.com/christmas/wordgames.htm.php,


How did you do?

Christmas is coming!

What's your favourite holiday?

Christmas is my favourite holiday.

I love choosing presents for my family and friends.
I love decorating ouir Christmas tree.
I love Christmas dinner with turkey and ham and stuffing and roast vegetables.
I love Christmas pudding, too. Yum!!
But most of all I love Christmas carols.

Christmas carols are the special songs we sing at Christmas.
We Wish you a Merry Christmas, Silent Night, Santa Claus is coming to town and of course Jingle Bells.

Let's sing Jingle Bells!

Can YOU tell the difference?

Many westerners have trouble telling the difference between Japanese, Chinese, and Korean people.

How about you?

Try this quiz and see how you do.

http://www.alllooksame.com/exam_room.php

Click on the top link Exam #1 Faces

You have to register but it's safe.

How did you do?

(I got 7.)

What does Richard do in his free time?

Watch this video of Richard and his friends fishing in Alaska.
Those are some BIG fish!

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