Lesson2
Dear Ichi,
Thank you for your second message.
This is Memorial Day weekend. It is a big holiday in the US.
It is a time to remember all the soldiers who have died.
It is the beginning of summer.
People travel. They visit the beach and family members.
They have picnics. Small towns have parades.
I am in North Carolina. This state is seven hours south of my home.
My sister and I drove down late on Friday night.
We return on Tuesday.
We visit my sister's daughter, son-in-law and her two granddaughters.
They are my niece, nephew and grandnieces.
The girls are one and three years old. They are cute!
We watched the parents ride their motorcycles today.
It is a great vacation.
Where do you like to go for vacation?
Sincerely,
Prof.
Sue Garreis
<Mail>
Dear Professor Sue Garreis，
Thank you for your reply and corrections of my English.
I will
answer your last questions.
How old is your sister?
⇒My sister is 15 years old.
I want to study English and foreign cultures. I read many books.
=> I think this is what you meant. Right?
⇒It is true.
Do you know other languages?
=>Neither can I speak other languages. I speak only Japanese.
We had a lot of rain this week.
It makes my flowers grow.
But it makes the weeds grow faster!
What is your weather?
⇒It rains much.
Because
Japan received the rainy season.
It rains very much because Japan is in the rainy season.
Family's Prof. Susan is very lustful.
Your family is very large.
=>Yes, it is.
I was
surprised to know it.
It is said that I look like the grandfather.
It is said that I look like my grandfather.
Do grandchildren look like Sue?
Do your grandchildren look like you?
=>Some of them do. Three of my grandchildren have blue eyes. I have blue eyes.
I am not good at English.
However, I want to E-mail a lot in the future.
=>I believe your English will be better by the end of this course. This will be a hard course for you, though.
=>Thank you in advance for the hard work you will do.
Sincerely, yours.
Ichi
<Homework>
1. What browser do you usually use for these lessons?
⇒ I usually use Internet
Explorer 7.0 as my browser for these lessons.
2. Do you know how to use
a. Word?
b. Excel?
⇒I know how to use Word
I know how to use Excel a
little
3. Can you read PDF documents with Adobe Acrobat Reader?
⇒I can read PDF documents.
4. Do you usually do these lessons at home or at school?
⇒I usually do these lessons
at home,
5. What kind of connection to the Internet do you have
a. at home?
⇒I have a cable
connection at home.
b. at school?
⇒I have a cable
connection at school.
6. Do my corrections of your English appear in italics?
⇒I see the italics in your
connection.
7. Have you ever been abroad?
⇒I went to Taiwan when I
was a high school student.
I want to go to Spain because of the Barcelona soccer team.
I am a fan of Barcelona.
=>Is this the team's website? http://www.fcbarcelona.com/web/english/index.html
It must be a good team
this year!