Hi there! I`m Kou, an English teacher living in Kyoto, Japan. I`ve been teaching in an English conversation school here for more than 16 years and have noticed there are some English words my Japanese students can hardly know, and I have recently found one word that none of them can give me the meaning of for the past 16+ years. I think the word is something students should learn if they take the 2nd grade of Eiken or English proficiency test conducted by The Ministry of Education since it is seen on the exercise books for the 2nd grade …
どうも、コウです。 Facebookをけっこうやってます。 仕事柄、外国の友達が多いので、英語を始め多言語の投稿を毎日見てますが、「お、これ面白い!」、「え、マジ?」といった感情を抱くようなものもけっこうあります。 せっかくなので、英語を勉強している人、英語が好きでたくさん触れたいなぁと思ってる人にも、そういったものに触れてほしいと思い、不定期ですが、個人的にググッと来たものをシェアしていこうと思います。 「ネット上に転がってる Wow! と思うような、感情を動かされるような話を英語でお届けします☆」 的な企画です。 第一弾は以下のストーリーです。 An elderly Florida lady did her shopping and, upon returning to her car, found four males in the act of leaving with her vehicle. She dropped her shopping bags and drew her handgun, proceeding to scream at the top of her lungs, “I have a gun, and I know how to use it! Get out of the car!”. The four men didn’t wait for a second threat. They got out and ran like mad. The lady, somewhat shaken, then proceeded to load her shopping bags into the back of the car …