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TOEIC通学講座講師のPatrickによる、何でもありのPandemonium。「パトリック先生の頭の中みたいなもん」とA senseiは言いそう。ようこそこのZooへ。

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Halloween (2)


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  2. Halloween Who can claim he or she has never heard of Halloween, when children big and small dressed as monsters, mummies, ghosts or witches visit their neighborhoods, sin...



Halloween (1)




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今回ハロウイーンの由来に関する2話です。

第一話は割と簡単で高校生向け。

第二話はもう少し別な説明も含まれてますが、

基本さえ分かれば...


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 1. Halloween Everyone knows Halloween! Children dress like monsters, mummies, ghosts...



The ambulance


救急車 The ambulance 救急車


初心者 簡単な日本語訳は本文の下


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Doctor helicopter: the only fast means of transportation?

It strikes me how slow the ambulance service can be here in Japan. Many words have been written on why so much pr...



Surprise, surprise!



Surprise, surpriseびっくり


All of a sudden,

the day before Halloween,

"zoo" no longer looks like a zoo.

Away with the ペンギン animals,

no more nature木.

"Maybe Patrick has finally decided

to change for the better?",
as...



turtles



亀は万年


Turtles live to be 10,000 yearsはてな

I 'm pretty sure I will never know for sure. 悲しい

Look at this:


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It's the turtle I started keeping when I was a child, and it's still alive and healthy! PS This turtle is...



Help!!!




初心者 HELP びっくり



「部分的にもう少し説明や日本語訳を足してくれ~!」


と言う意見を最近何回か耳にした。

「エーッ汗びっくりはてなどこはてななんではてな5W1H!」

と最初思ったが、

自分の家までの道順を説明するのと一緒で、
そこに住んでいる人にとって
当たり前、
説明不要、
視野に入っていない注意重要なこともあるが、
探している人は迷う一方。
執筆者にしか分からない点は、
英語にすれば、読者にとって余計にムズい。


大体 まる...



Can you be more specific?




particular

or

specific?


汗困った汗


Yesterday one of my students, Koh, asked me about
the difference between particular and specific. That's a difficult question! Both words have similar and differing meanings...



recycling of words








★ Comeback ★

recycling words





日本語版





The news about the dangers of the sea in Kashiwazaki (Niigata) in today’s first edition of The Japan Times is saddening. It seems as if the world has become a lot...



Sign of the times










Sign of the times







日本語版







The other day,
one of my students, Toshiyuki, told me something I had never thought of before. He explained that many English textbooks used in the first grade of junior hi...



Aya

Aya is one of my English students in the Thursday evening class for adults. She was very busy at work 3 weeks ago, so she couldn’t make it to class. She sent me a short email message saying she was b...