My hometown

 I had never moved out from my hometown, Sapporo, for eighteen years. So, I know some attraction of there.
 Sapporo is surrounded by small mountains and hills. I like the views from those mountains and hills. For example, the scenery of Sapporo from the top of Mt. Maru (円山） is one of the most beautiful scenery, I think. Mt. Maru is 225 meter high, so it's easy to hike there. Some wild birds that inhabit there are fed by some hiker, and get used to people. Last January, I went up there with my friend, and it's a very exciting memory for me.
 Other than that, when I lived there, I had been to many places and events by myself, or with my friends or family.For instance, Odori park, the central municipal city  library, Sapporo station, some festivals be held at a park or a shrine, and so on.
 I love my hometown because, I have many memories in there.

Happy 10th anniversary, blog!

The class is no longer called English 3B, but Advanced English B, and the students don't seem scared of computers or the Internet anymore, but it's still the same class and still the same blog for 10 years today. Welcome new students, and I hope you have a good time and learn something in this semester's English composition class. Please take some time to read old blog posts first. -JP http://iiibclassblog.blogspot.jp/2005/04/welcome.html

Self introduction

 Today, I would like to talk about myself.
 My name is Miki Tooyama. I'm going to be 20 years old next month. (My birth day is May 5th.) I'm from Sapporo, Hokkaido, and I major in law at faculty of humanities.
 Also, I join two volunteer circles. Both of them have some kinds of activities that get involved with kids. For example, teaching math for a primary school child, playing with children at a park, and doing simple science experiments with them. These are interesting for me, and I enjoy all those activities.
 By the way, I have some hobbies. For instance, listening to music, singing a song, reading books, watching films, eating, and so on. Especially, I like listening to music very much. It makes me relax and happy. I want to know many kinds of music, because I like the moment that I come across a cool music.
 Thank you for reading my self introduction.Nice to meet you.

Good Bye Class

I could really enjoy this class.

I was so sorry to be late for lesson sometimes.

I think that I could be better than before six months.

So, I will study more. Thank you very much Mr.Philips.

Goodbye to the class

Sorry, I late!

Thank you for teaching us English! It is fast that I forget my homework. I'm sorry. At my first impression to Philips, he was scary person. However, actually, he was full of a sense of humor. He made us laugh well. I am weak in English, but I like to hear his joke.So, I took a class. ln addition, I knew the pleasure to watch a movie in English subtitles. It was an interesting class.Thank you for your hard work.  See you again, but I hope that I do not meet you as a patient!

Good bye, Philips

Thank you for teaching us English, Philips! I often did'nt hand in home work,so I'm sorry . At my first impression to Philips, you were scary peson, but it is wrong. You have nice humor and charming smile. You are surely strict, but you say only usual thing we have to do. Thank to your instruction, I feel strongly I am so lazy. I am going to do my best next year as second grade student. For only latter terms, thank you for your hard work. I never forget your proverb in E mail reply.  See you again sometimes.

Goodbye to the class

 I learned various things through this English class. Because all the languages in the class were English, a body was able to be stained in English.　
　It is a very good memory that I was able to watch a movie during class.
I want to make use of the experience of this class.
　
　Goodbye

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Goodbye to the class

I had not much time to improve my skill of writing until this class started.So this class`s homework was often too difficult for me to finish easily.However,today I don`t think it hard to write paragragh in English.I belive that doing my homework in myself everyweek improved my English writing skill.The skill writing paragragh will be requested in the future.So I thank for this class,and I will keep on improving the skill of writing English.
Thank you very much.

My favorite food

I love sweets! Cakes, cookies, chocolate, everything like that is fine! Probably, you said "most of men is not like you. " however, this is BIAS!! Then you will say" if you keep eating sweet one everyday, your body will cry!(it's means that getting a sick)" I believe that the food I like is good for my mind and body health. Anyone can't stop me!

Good bye to the class

   Hello, I'm Kei! It's my last time to write this blog. This class was very interesting. I learn a lot of things to write academic English in this class. For example, paragraph structure, unity, coherence and so on. These were very difficult. And now it is still very heard for me to write a good paragraph. But I could understand how to write paragraph through this class. I'll try to write more better paragraph from now on.

   Thank you very much! And good bye, everyone!

Spring vacation

   Hello! I'll talk about my plan of spring vacation. I have a big event in my spring vacation. It is my trip of Maine program. I'm going to go to Maine in America for three weeks! This is my second visit to Maine. I'll stay home of my host family with my friend. I sent an email and contacted my host mother five days ago. I'm looking forward to meet her. By the way, I'm a contact officer of Iaido club. In March, I have important meeting of contact officers in Iaido club of university in eastern Japan. It's my first job. So I'm very nervous. However I'll do my best!

   Thank you!

Vacation

   Hello! I want to talk about my summer vacation.  In summer vacation, I had two residential training of Iaido club. First one was for our own club. We ran at the morning, and we took lessons with our grand master. It was very hard but I could get a right sense of Iaido. Second one was for Iaido clubs of universities in Tohoku. There were members from Tohoku university, Tohoku university of art and design, Yamagata university, and Hirosaki university. It was first training that I saw  women's Iaido in another university. Their Iaido was not strong but very beautiful and attractive. I want to be able do Iaido like them.

   Thank you!

The plan for my spring vacation

This spring vacation is big different from ever one!!! The spring vacation of college student is pretty long. Of course, this is also the difference, but I have more great one. What I'm really looking forward to is going to America!! I had ever been there two times, though either is when I was child so I don't remember well.  I can't wait!!!!

My favorite movie

   Hello! Let me tell you about my favorite movie. Do you know "School of Rock"? When I was a high school student, my ALT showed it in LL class. 

   It's American comedy film. Central character is Dewey Finn (portrayed by Jack Black), who puts his heart into rock music. He is rock singer and guitarist in a band group. But one day, he was kicked out of his band because of his selfish deeds. After that, he disguises himself and become a substitute teacher at a top school for paying off his rent. At first, he doesn't feel like doing anything as a teacher. However, he notices his students' feelings of worthlessness in strict rules and also their musical talents. So he decide to teach them about rock music and make a band group to win Battle of the Bands.

   If you watch Dewey first, you may don't like his laziness. But I'm sure that you would like him at the end of this movie. Why don't you watch this movie? If you want to watch it, please tell me and I'll rent you the DVD!;-)

   Thank you!

Good bye to the class

 I have studied English in the English 3A class since October in 2014. In the class, I have studied many things.
 For example, I studied "MARGINS". MARGINS is the blanks on the both ends of the document. For the first time, I could not obey the law of the MARGINS. But I can do that now.
 Secondly, I studied topic sentence. Topic sentence means the sentence which describe the topic of the paragraph.
I have studied a lot of things in the class, so I am going to study English more hard using the knowledge I have studied in this class.

My favorite food

   Hi! I want to tell you about my favorite food. My favorite food is my grand mother's Sushi. She sometimes make Sushi roll for party. Her vinegared rice taste very nice. And she is good at rolling Sushi very beautifully. Have you ever rolled Sushi? I have done before and it's difficult to make. In addition, My grand mother can make not only regular Sushi roll, but also Sushi rolls with designs as flowers or stars. These are very cute and I like it! I need some technics to make these, but I want to make cute Sushi roll someday.

   Thank you!

Good bye to the class

     In this class, I was able to study how to write English. Until high school, I was not able to study how to write and I did not understand way of writing. However, in this class, I was able to study how to write English, and I could understand topic sentence. Nowadays I can enjoy write English. Thanks to this class, I like English very much. Thank you.

Weather

   Hello! l want to talk about weather. In fact, I don't like winter because it's very cold in Aomori and the sun sets early. However, my favorite weather is snow. You may think it sounds strange. But I like falling snow. A view of keeping falling silently makes me calm and I think it looks very romantic. When I go back to my home by walking in winter, I sometimes see a beautiful view of snow and take pictures. 

Goodbye to the class

Goodbye everyone. Through the half of year, I think my writing skill improved!! I guess  more or less, everyone is so! To keep writing paragraphs and doing blog was little hard, but it's good for me!!
Listening to what professor Philips said is also good for training of listening English, and I'll never forget what you said again and again...."practice and practice!!!!"

Goodbye to the class

I was very interested in your English class.
It was the most interesting for me to watch the DVD "Forrest gump".
I thought I could know that I couldn't know about my life in the future and it is very wonderful to love only a man throughout life through DVD.
I want to watch American movies!
I want you to tell me what you like the best movie.
Your English class was very exciting! Thank you very much!