February 8th 2008

1. What did you learn in this class this semester?
A.I learned many world news and many kind of websites.
I enjyoed many news very much.

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
2. the quality of your blog posts

1. did you answer all the questions?
2. did you spell-check your work before uploading?
3. did you add links, and your own opinion?
4. do you have a title (the date)?

February 1st, 2008

1. Q.Watch the Powerpoint presentation. Write a summary of the key points (in Japanese or English) on your blog.
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2. Q. What is the purpose, objective, of a newspaper company?
A. They gives us true.

3. Q. What is the purpose, objective, of a television company?
A.They gives us true, laugh and impression.

4. Q.What is the purpose, objective of Yahoo! or Google?
A. They tells us anything.

5. Q.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.
A. They publish big news.
They not publish boring news.

6. Q.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.
A. My interest news is "Medicinal in the food." This news is very scary. Because medicinal in Gyoza!! I like Gyoza but I can't eat Gyoza temporarily.

7. Read your classmates’ blogs and comment on them on your own blog.

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!!

January 25th 2008 :)

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1. Iraqis
2. Saddam's 65th birthday.
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5. They think happy.

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1. I think there are about 1,000 people.
2. Yes I do.
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5. I think very scary this photo place.

3. Newspapers should tell the truth. Newspaper is read everyone and evryone believe it.

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★January 18th,2008★

1. There are 1,591,000 Muslims people in Britain.
2. There are 500,000 Hindus people in Britain.
3. I can't find answers.
4. I leave a comment in his blog.

1. My family all stayed at home in Hiroshima. My father came back from Tokyo. My old sister and I came back from Osaka. On a New Year’s Day My father, my mother and I went to grand father’s house in Kagoshima. We met grand father, grand mother and cousin’s family. We pay a visit to a shrine on New Year’s Day. We also got a fortune slip. We also ate traditional Japanese New Year’s food such as osechi. On January 2nd, many people came my grand father’s house. I got some New Year’s gifts. On January 3rd, we went shopping and hot spring. I spend good time.

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1. Scotland’s the name.
2. London. Photo.
3. Birth of JRR Tolkien, author of Load of the Rings.
4. Birth of Guru, birth of the tenth and final Sikh prophet-teacher.
5. Birth of Elvis Presley. He is a singer.
6. Al Hihra is the Islamic New Year cegins on the day. It is the first day of the month of Muharram.
7. Robert Scott and his party reached.
8. Birth of AA Milne. He wrote Winne the pooh.
9. Sir Winston Churchill died. He wrote Literature.
10. I think this calendar is very interesting.

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