Slice by Slice

I like pizza, and nobody dislike pizza. This story is about pizza. When I met this book in the library, I thought this as the book about the way how to count something. (like the way how to count bread is “a slice of bread.”) It is also learning English. But after reading this book, an idea stroke to me. This book is simply the story of pizza. I was betrayed by the title. However, this book has a sub title. That is “The Story of Pizza.” The betrayer was me……

This book says the pizza business. Many pizza restaurants and delivery stores are franchises. If my business is a kind franchise, I have to pay a well-known company to use their name and sell their products. Mr. Ostman said to me in a class that MacDonald is not originally hamburger shop. I cannot remember the original work, but the work is not hamburger shop. And Tsutaya is  also a franchise. Not franchise Tsutaya is not useful, because we cannot return the DVDs the other Tsutaya shop. The franchise system is interesting. I want to research the system of franchise.

Simon Beaver. (2014). Slice by Slice. Cambridge University Press.

Sugar

We have always put the sugar into some meals, or coffee. In these days, I do not put it into coffee. Black coffee is the best. Because when I drink sweet coffee, something ugly leave on my throat. When someone looks at my drinking, they are surprised at the color. It is minority to drink the black coffee. I also felt that I became an adult. Sugar has a lot of species. The best sugar is Zyo-haku-Toh, which I use in my home. The taste is really sugary. It is the best. And I can put it into everything because of the sweetness.

Recently, we can put sugar into something. But sugar has not always been so easy to get. 300 years ago, it was unusual for people to have sugar. And this book says that sugar have come with history of the slaves.The slaves were African people who caught, sold, and then sent to the southeastern United States to work on sugar and cotton plantations. The slaves were send by the ships. The ships were filled with as many slaves. Many of them died during the journey. But now, we can get sugar without slaves. I thought that we have to thank these historical slaves from the bottom of our hearts. I will treat sugar with care considerately.

Theo Walker. (2014). Sugar. Cambridge University Press.

What are the Odds?

This story told me a lot of possibilities about something. One is a chance of getting hit by lightning. I believe that the rate is low. Of course, yes. The possibility is very low. The percent is a 1 in 175,711,536. This rate is interesting because it is too low! Do we have to know the percentage? May be, I can show the knowledge in a party like a mixer. In the future. The odds that the average person will get lit by lightning are low, in addition, the odds are much higher that a person who is hit by lightning is man! Because Woman has been inside when the lightning comes near, but men don’t do that. I feel that I have to go inside to save myself from the danger of the lightning attacks.

When I got this book in a library, I thought the “Odds” as something strange. But through reading this book, I noticed that the meaning of “Odds” was the possibility. The sub theme of the title is “From Shark Attack to Lightning Strike.” I understand what the book said. The story tried to explain many kinds of the probabilities, but I could not catch the signal because my brain did not work. I have to make my brain work fluently.

Genevieve Kocienda. (2014). What are the Odds. Cambridge University Press

L.A. Raid

This story is about a private detective, Lenny Samuel. One day, there was a big news, $ 100000000 was stolen from the First City Bank on Sunset Boulevard this morning. The raider put on a duck musk, and he/she escaped by a mortorbike. Then, the stolen case by duck musk have increased suddenly. Who was the laider, and why did he/she steal the big money?

I don’t like detective genre, Because there are a lot of characters in a story. Logan Series, which is in CUP, is the worst. Those are really tired. This story is too. I never have read those detective genre without Meitantei Conan.

Prowse, P. (2005). L. A. Raid. Oxford; U.S. Macmillan

Bounce!

This book is about rubber used in many different ways. We hardly think about what an material it is. It keeps us warm and dry, and it makes our lives easier. Before I tell you what rubber is, I want to try to explain why the preposition does not come before “rubber.” Honestly, I could not understand why it is. But the rubber is uncountable nouns. They don’t allow “a” to come before themselves.

What I was surprised extremely is about the relation between the rubber and the shoes. Some shoes companies have improved rapidly because of the rubber. Somebody knows that shoes improving. In addition, I got the information about the relationship between Adidas and Puma. The people who established these company are bothers. I did not know that. I want to spread out the relationship to my friends.

Karmel Schreyer. (2014). Bounce! Cambridge University Prss

Are you listening?

I remembered a forum hold last year. In the forum, some professors said that there are four aspects, that are the listening, writing, reading, and speaking. It is important to input a lot of English words using four aspects.  My weak point is listening. Thinking so, I found out this book in the library.

This book is about sounds. It is also to listen. But I learned a interesting thing in this book. That thing is Mosquito’s sound, which is artifact. Young people can hear the sounds, however, older people can not hear this sounds. The sound is used in store in order to stay away there. It is not comfortable sound. Is it good idea? Lately, the sound became a ringtone for sell phones, then almost teachers can not hear this, so teenagers can use their phones in class without them knowing. How terrible it is!!

Some sounds are high. These come in short, quick waves. Low sounds are so high or slower waves. Some sounds are so high or so low that people can’t  hear them. But, some animals can! Dogs, for example, can hear very high sounds.

I found a word which i don’t know. That is earplugs. Perhaps, I think that it is mimimitabu, but actually, it is mimisen! I have not used this word, so I want to use this word in Fiji which I go to next month.

Maule, D, (2014), Are you listening?. Cambridge University Press

Aliens

Do you think aliens will recover our messages? Will they communicate with us in words or in another way, like musical sounds? That’s what the aliens did in the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind

I believe there are aliens that live on other planets in the universe! It is impossible not to live! How do they look like? In science – fiction books and Hollywood movies, the aliens are often “little green men” which has thin bodies, large eyes., and hands with only three fingers. They travel using UFO. I want to encounter that.

And I want to go and walk on the moon. According to this book, Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky researched building spacecraft as early as 1883. In addition to that, The Soviet Union also had the world’s first manned space flight. Yuri Gagarin became the first man to travel in space around planet Earth. I could see a photo, which is him in this book, he is nice guy.

Can we make friendships with aliens? I can do that. Because we might have already met those intelligent extraterrestrial.

Kocienda, G. (2014). Aliens. Cambridge University Press

Northanger Abbey

I read this book this weekend. This was written by Jane Austen. The author reminds me that Professor Mizuo, who belonged to our department. Because she likes Austen’s works. By the way, what do you mean Northanger Abbey? Northanger means the place name. Abbey means a monastery given to nobles. Nothanger Abbey means a noble home with a history as a Christianity. Of course, this story is around the Northanger Abbey.

The main character is Catharine Morland. She is beautiful and cheerful. She made a friend in Bath, England. Her name is Isabella. Both of them had often go to a party hold in somewhere. One day, they met a nice man named Henry Tilney in a party. Chatharine and Henry became intimate after the party. But Chatharine did not like him. I could not believe it because Henry is a rich man and handsome. If I were Chatharine, I would be with him. After all they had a celebrate for them marrying.

In the middle of the story, she found a room in Tilney house. The door caused strange circumstance. Maybe in the room, some secrets were hidden by Henry’s father, but I did not understand what they are after reading.

Jane Austen, (2005), Nothanger Abbey, Macmillan Readers

The Gift of the Magi and Other Stories

I read this book this week. There are five short stories in this book, and the author is O. Henry. First story is “The Gift of the Magi, and its main character is a poor couple. And second one is “The Art Game,” and its main characters are two thieves, then third one is “The Troubadour,” and its main character is, of course, a troubadour. Fourth one is “Money Talks,” and its main characters are a rich man and his son. Finally, the last one is “Soapy’s Winter Home,” and its main character is a man who has no houses. I like first story because I had alredy known this story. It was easier to read than other stories.

After reading this book, I found a common point among these five stories. This book’s topic is money. Why did O. Henry write a lot of stories which are about money. In the Wikipedia,  O. Henry lived from 1862 to 1910, and that age had a big gap between rich people and poor people, so he wanted to tell next generations how serious his living time was, I think. Then, I enjoyed reading this book, and each story has short words and easy grammar like the Macmillan Series I like.

Henry, O. (2000). The gift of the Magi and Other Stories. Edinburgh Gate, Harlow; England. Pearson Education Limited.

Little Woman

Little Women was written by Luisa May Alcott. When I took this novel in the library, I regarded it as a story about little girl. Of course, it was right. The main characters are four little girls in a family. Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. They have each characteristic separated, and also have kindness in their mind. One day, they could not buy a present to them. But an idea stroke into their mind that they should afford a present for their mother. The story is not only about little girl but also about their growing to the good women who have a good manners and kindness.

When I take a research on the Internet about the author. She was born in a middle-class family. But the family was not rich. And they had four daughters like this story. Probably, the life she had effected to this story. “Little Women” was her father’s saying. He hoped that the children grew a woman had a good manners.  If I have a family in the future, I hope that my children grow up to good women.

Louisa May Alcott.(1868). Little Women. Macmillan Readers