Sakura's Blog

How do you study English? Recently, because of this situation, we cannot speak by person. Then, which way of studying you think is fun? I’ll introduce my studying ways and I’d be happy if you can enjoy my studying way. I often use YouTube and wikiHow. On the YouTube, I watch TED or listen some songs. I can enjoy studying with those ways. Especially, I am able to enjoy watching TED because we can watch the movies we like. There are various kinds of movies so we can watch the movies that we are interested in. Moreover, there is English subtitles and sometimes there is Japanese subtitles so I could understand the content by using it. Same as TED, I can read my favorite article in wikiHow. Some of the articles have quiz so I can understand how much I understand. In those ways, I am studying English every day with enjoyment. Why don’t you try those ways?

    Recently, we have a lot of not fine day because of rainy season. So, I want to introduce you to spend happy time with rain.     First way is to read books hearing rainy sounds. It is said that most people can concentrate more on their work with a little sound than in quiet or noisy places. Sound of rain is good to concentrate on reading, studying and so on.     Second way is to clean your room. Because of rain, humidity is high. You may feel it is uncomfortable. However, it’s good for cleaning up. You can vacuum without  stirring dust up.     Third way is to go out and have walk. You can refresh your mind!! If you dare to take the action, you may be able to feel extraordinary pleasure.     If you have some ideas to enjoy rainy season, please tell me with comments:) I feel happy if you can spend happy days by reading this blog!!!

Today, I’ll introduce my city to you. I’m living in Takasago city Hyogo prefecture. Takasago is located between Himeji city and Kakogawa city. My city isn’t famous compared to Himeji or Kakogawa. However, there are many points that you should know. Firstly, In my city, there are many factories. For instance, Kikkoman, Suntory, Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and so on. Citizen of Takasago go to factory tour when we are children. Secondly, we are very enthusiastic about festival, held in fall. Unbelievably, we are allowed to be absent from school on festival day. We work hard every year for enjoying the festival. Finally, there is much beautiful nature.We have river, sea, mountain and so on. Especially, I recommend you to try Harima Alps. It’s not so high mountain but you can enjoy it!!

Story1 It was weekday when I was there. I was learning many subjects every hour. I heard the “scribble scribble...” sound of pencil. I had to answer questions when I was asked something. Sometimes, I felt boring when I listened no-interesting story. When I fell asleep, the speaker yelled at me. Story2 I was very comfortable when I was there. I had shampoo by clerk and next, I heard snips sound close to my ears. After that, my style changed a little.

I went to London as a school trip. The trip was very memorable for me, so I’ll introduce some pieces of memories to share my exciting. I visited London in January so it was very cold but I love London’s climate. It’s because there was not dry like Japan’s winter. I saw “THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA“ in the opera house. To see the movie, we, my classmates and I, had to study about the work. First, we read the book and we wrote book review three times. Next, we studied songs within a play. And we saw the movies in English. Finally, we could see the opera:) I visited National Gallery, The British Museum, palaces, castles, London Eye and so on. I drank British tea many times and I ate Fish&Chips many times. The trip was fantastic!! I recommend you to visit there once at least in your life.

    When I was 14, I was told by my mother to go to a school which specialize in learning English. I searched many schools and made up my mind to study in DGA(English course). I could entered that school owing to my effort. However, that course has sooo many homework every day. At my surprise, many people studied even in the lunch time!!! I had to study all day or stay up all night to complete my homework.     Even though I studied English so many hours, I couldn’t increase my English ability because of my lack of courage. It’s because almost all people got their ability through speaking with ALTs. I knew I had to speak to someone but I couldn’t. I don’t want to repeat the same mistake.     I had hard days of studying but I had a lot of fun. I visited London as a school trip, accepted homestay, interacted with many countries’ students and so on. I had wonderful days with unique students:)