Thank you Chiho

Hi Chiho,

Thanks so much for the advice. I think food is a great gift, especially fruit ;) I completely agree with you about trying to find out what the person wants first instead of giving them what you want. I think that's not an easy thing to do, though. Sometimes it's very difficult to know what people like unless they directly tell you what they want.

Is gift exchanges common for New Year's holiday as well. And if so, do people usually give food again?

Summer gift

Hi, Jennifer.
Summer gifts and Year-end gifts bother me every year. I think beverage is good for summer gift, such as coffee, juice,beer....
The most important thing is to think about someone you want to give.
We send it to show one's gratitude. You should choose a gift they want to get, not you want to give.

Summer Gift Giving???

Hello everyone :)
Now that it is summertime, I know that it is the tradition to give gifts to family members or bosses. Could someone please tell me what kind of gifts are appropiate to give. I've heard food is a good gift. What other kinds of gifts are good?

English learning here at Global

Being a learner here makes me feel great. I have practiced free talking.

The purpose is to have a skill to argue or debate. In developing the skill, my understanding is that working vocabulary has to gradually become big, and basic sentence structures should be ready to use. All this is fundamentally important.

I always feel motivated and pleased with lesson materials prepared to me.

Topics of articles are social, cultural, economical, and political. Its diversification is meaningful to practice arguing. They are full of words and phrases new and interesting to me. The content is, of course, worth talking.

In order to make teaching materials meaningful, I think questions play a big role. Instructor’s questions are very good in pulling out learner’s views and opinions

To name only a few of the recent topics, they are: A Year of Cappuccino, U.S.-born kids may be split from illegal parents, Three ‘Rules’ that Don’t Apply.

The first one mentions about sabbatical leave, not about coffee. But in this case Cappuccino indicates Italy.

After the lesson of ‘Cappuccino,’ I talked about that with my wife. Although I like coffee, I had not yet tried Cappuccino until that time. As a result, the lesson unexpectedly took me to trying to make my own Cappuccino coffee.

I don’t actually know how to make coffee into Cappuccino. But at a glance, my special cpffee looks like Cappuccino. You can see white foam on the surface of coffee. It really tastes good. This has become one of my morning routines.

The ingredients of the white frothy substance are egg white, sugar, and milk. A little more work is needed. What’ that? Maybe no need to say.

This is a precious by-product of learning here. Thank you.

スクールを探している人へ(2)

アランド講師の勧めでダヴィンチ・コード。
私：「誰がこの映画見るんだろう・・」
そして、映画館を後にし、
私：「この時代は迫害されただろうな・・」
その後、よく立ち寄るショップで、
私：「ダヴィンチ・コード観たんだ・・」
店員：「私なんか、原作も読んだよ！」
意外な反応の中、なぜか会話が弾む。
これは、映画のパワー?それとも、このスクールのセラピーeffect?
そうか！このスクールって
１．ちょっと前に話していたこと覚えていたり・・
２．in advanceテキストの進め方を考えていたり・・
as it were、自分のための映画のスクリプトのようだ・・て思います。
結構、リラックスして爽快な気分。
こんな時間のすごし方あなたは○それとも×？




effect:効果、結果、趣旨
in advance:前もって
as it were:いわば

I saw Da Vinci Code too!

I enjoyed the movie as well. I read the book first, however, which I really liked a lot. The one thing that I did not like about the movie was the casting. I don't think that Tom Hanks should have played the part of Robert Langdon. While I was reading the book, that's not who I imagined playing the part. I was thinking it should be Harrison Ford, although he may be too old now to play that character. Other than the casting, I thought the movie was good and true to the book, except for the end.