Vocabularly and phrases from the complaints dialog

fantastic -- 「夢ほど素晴らしい」

disaster -- 「災害」、最悪

middle of nowhere -- 「どこでもないところの正中」、すごい田舎

difficult to find -- 探し出しにくい、迷ってからやっと見つかった

get completely lost -- 完全に迷う、全く在り処がわからなくなる

in the end -- 最終的に、結局

ask 誰々 to なになに -- 誰々になになにを頼む

my goodness! -- 驚いた！、"My God!" よりはつつましく感じる言葉

for thirty years -- ３０年にわたって

out of a film -- フルム（movie）に出る（ような）

work -- 「働く」を引いて、機能する、動作できる、巧く行く

disappoint -- がっかりさせる
　　「がっかりする」とは、英語では受け身文法になる。

complain -- 苦情、不平、文句などを言う、苦情を申し出る

central heating -- 中央暖房装置

No class this week, either.

Don't forget, there's no class this week, either.
今日も、授業がないことを忘れないでください。

[I have updated the outline! 前回の概要を完成しました。]

I have to apologize about not getting my notes up. Too many things going on at home. (Had to replace the operating system in my computer, and my family needed attention, among many other things.)
先々週のノートをまだ上げていなくて、お詫びいたします。家の出来事が多すぎて対処できていません。（その中にはコンピュタのオペレーティングシステムの入れ替えしないといけないことも、家族をかまってあげる事もあったことも、いろいろありました。）

Next class, we'll talk a lot about pages 40 and 41.

We are going to talk more about places we might move.
引越しするなら、その行く先についてもっと話すつもりです。

Hopefully, we can discuss some differences of opinion -- in English.
巧く行けば、意見の相違点を＊英語で＊話し合うことを予定にしたい。

See you all next time!

(And how was Australia?)

Outline of 6th lesson (August 3rd, 2013) [updated]

I asked if anyone had heard from our friends in Australia, but no one had any contact with them yet.
オーストラリアにいる友達について聞きましたが、連絡がまだないようです。

I talked about the importance of throw-away practice -- listening to songs, watching movies, reading books, etc. in English, and not trying to capture every last word and phrase. It's important to let the subconscious mind work on things.
「使い捨て練習」と言う表現で、全部の単語や文法を一つ一つ理解しようとせず、英語で歌を聞いたり、映画を見たり、本を読んだりするのが役立つ勉強の方法だと、奨めたのです。無意識に動いている能力を働かすのも大事です。

We listened to the complaints (DVD audio track 1.21) from the follow-up interviews (see page 38) on the house swap, continuing from the previous week. We worked verbally, and I didn't really take notes. We have the audioscript in the back of the book (p. 88) for reference.
先週に続いて、家の交換の後インタービュー（３８ページを参照。）から不満や苦情（トラック 1.21）を聞きました。口頭でその文法、単語、熟語を確認しながら聞く練習をし、内容を書き取らなかった。台本みたいなものは８８頁に載っているので参照してください。

I should get some time in a little bit to post some key words and grammar from the dialogs. [Famous last words.]そろそろ、重要単語や文法について投稿するほどの余裕ができるはずです。［最期の名言。］

[Update from here -- ここからは追加しました。]

Then we picked up with the poem on p. 39. I read it, we listened to the DVD (track 1.24), and we examined the text of the poem. We talked about rhymes, alliteration, and onomatopoeia, and examined their use in the poem. After attempting to understand the poem and the pictures on p. 39, we read the poem as a class.
３９ページの詩で先に進み、僕が読んだのを聞いて、DVD（トラック 1.24）から聞いて、歌詞を考えました。そして押韻法及び擬音語について話して、この詩の中にどう取り入れているかを検討しました。こういう感じで理解しようと、３９ページの写真を考えながら詩を皆で声に出して読みました。

More details here.

Next, we looked at the vocabulary in the box in element 5a, p. 40, paired the opposites, and tried using them in sentences.
それから、４０ページの要素 5a の箱の中の単語を見て、対義語を組み合わせて、文章に使って見ました。

After that I gave an example of talking about the positives and negatives of where we live. Then we all gave it a try.
その後、住んでいるところの気に入った良い所や気に入らなかった悪いところを発表する実例を見せてあげた。また、皆一人ひとりも発表して見ました。

The homework was to study pp. 39 - 41 and think about whether we would prefer to live in the city or the countryside and the reasons. I asked you to come prepared to talk about the good points and bad points of both options. In particular, study "Why not move?" on p. 41.
宿題として、３９ページ〜４１ページを勉強して、都会や田舎について、どちらのほうに住むのが良さそうかを考えるように頼みました。どちらの選択肢についても、良い点や悪い点を取り上げて話ができるように用意してください。特に４１ページの "Why not move?" （「引越していけないの？」）を勉強して来てください。

Need more time, no class this week.

I'm going to need more time to get the summary of the last class up. Too much happening at home.
先週の概略を投稿すのはまだです。家の色んなのがあって・・・

Sorry about that.
申し訳ありませんが

Don't forget there's no class this week.
今週は授業が無いのを忘れないでください。

Thinking about study abroad

The assignment:

Pick a place to go for study abroad. You'll be gone at least a month. Tell us about it.

Tell us 

• where you want to go,
• why you want to go there,
• what you want to do,
• how you will prepare.

I asked you to write some sentences about your dreams of studying abroad.

After everyone had written a few sentences, I asked you to talk with each other about studying abroad, using these questions:

• Where do you want to go?
• Why do you want to go there?
• -- Why do you want to go to [Australia]?
• What do you want to do there?
• How will you prepare?
• -- How will you prepare to go [to Australia]?
• -- What will you do to prepare [to go there]?

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I want to go to Ireland.
It is part of the UK.
I have been there once to study English.
I stayed for three weeks.
The Irish people were very kind to us.
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I want to go to the UK.
I want to see Big Ben, and Buckingham Palace in London.
I like Sherlock Holmes, so I would also like to go to Baker Street.
I have to study English more, to get ready.
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I want to go to Austria.
The capital of Austria is Vienna.
Many people call Vienna the music capital of the world.
I like playing the piano very much, so I want to go to there to study about music.
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I want to go to Europe.
I want to go there to study history.
European countries have a lot of history.
I want to visit many world heritage sites.
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I want to go to Australia because Australia has a lot of nature to see and experience, and I like nature.
I want to swim and barbeque at the beach and talk with local people in English.
So I will prepare by practicing speaking English.
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I want to go to France.
Last year I want to France on a school trip.
I saw many things and had a lot of fun.
But I didn't understand any French, and I couldn't communicate with the French.
So I will study basic French, and then I can speak with many French people.
That's why I want to go there again.
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I want to go to Australia because I can communicate in English with the people there.
I want to see Koalas and go to the beach.
I will look for good places to visit before I go.
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I want to go to Tasmania.
It is a part of Australia.
I saw a movie called Heart Beat Once More.
In the movie, the heroine went to Tasmania on a trip.
She had to have an operation because she had some problems with her heart.
She had only a thirty percent chance of living.
Tasmania is called the heart of the world.
So she wanted to go there and start her life again.
I was moved by the movie.
So I want to visit the Church there and go shopping.
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[And I want to know, which Church is it? Is it one the heroine visited?]