Look at these maps. This is a United Kingdom, and this is Japan. Both are island nations. Great Britain and Honshu are the main islands. They are almost the same size. But the United Kingdom is smaller than Japan. The United Kingdom has fo…

Do you like traveling? I like it very much. I went to Hokkaido last summer. I visited a Ainu museum. I learnd about the Ainu there. Once Hokkaido was the land of the Ainu. The name of places show this. For exaple, Sappo, Kushiro, and Asahi…

Good evening, Mrs. Baker. Hallo, Mika. Come on in! Thank you. Mika, look at our Halloween pumpkin. Wow, that's great! You see, there's candle in it. Oh, that's pretty. Let's sit and wait for the chidren. What chidren? There are some Americ…

Welcome aboard, everyone. This flight is nine-and-a-half hours long. There are compartments above each seat. Please put your baggage in the compartments or under the seat in front of you. Dinner is at 10:00 p.m. and brekfast is at 5:00 a.m…

※Writing in phrase Next, please. Two humbergers and two colas, please. Large or small? Small, please. For here to go? For here. Here you are. That's six hundred and forty yen, please. Thank you. Do you have any plans for next Sunday? No, I…

Have you ever heard of the haiku? It is the shortest poem in the world. It has only three lines. In Japanese the lines have 5,7, and 5 syllables. But in those short lines, you can understand the poet's ideas and feelings. There is one impo…

Manjiro was saved by the John Howland, an American ship. He was only fourteen years old. Whitfield, the captain of the ship, liked Manjiro very much. He gave him name “John” after the ship. The ship arrived in Hawaii. Everything was new to…

Who was the first Japanese woman pilot to fly to other coutries? Kiku Nishizaki was. Kiku Nishizaki was born in Saitama in 1912. She was an active girl. When she was twu, she climbed up to the roof of her house. That was a big surprise to …

Before World War Ⅱ, there were four elephants in a zoo in Nagoya. During the war, animals had a hard time. One day sodiers came to the zoo and said, “During a war anything can happen. Animals run away and hurt people. You must kill the ani…

In its country, Germany, the “frank-furter” was the name for the hot dog. It came from Frankfurt, a Germany city. In the 1860s, people sold frankfurters in the United States for the first time. But Americans didn't say “frank-frters.” They…

Every year, we use a lot of plastic. Plastic is very useful. It is lighter than glass. And it is often stronger, too. Plastic bottles don't break. And they don't cut people. There is ploblem with plastic, though. It doesn't rot in the grou…

We often use gestures for communication. For example, soccer players sometimes communicate with each other without words. They use body movements and contact. In such cases, gestures are more useful than words. There are many gestures. We …

Lool at these maps. This is the United Kingdom, and this is Japan. Both are island nations. Great Britain and Honshu are the main islands. They are almost the same size. But the United Kingdom is smaller than Japan. The United Kingdom has …

Do you like traveling? I like it very much. I went to Hokkaido last summer. I visited an Ainu museum. I learnd about the Ainu there. Once Hokkaido was the land of the Ainu. The names of places show this. For example, Sapporo, Kushiro, and …