Lesson 13
Dear Yuki,
Thank you for your thirteenth message. My
comments and corrections follow.
Sincerely,
Prof. Sue Garreis
Prof.
Susan Garreis,
Hello.
Thank
you for your reply and corrections of my English.
I
will answer your questions.
I love pumpkin muffins and pumpkin cookies.
I love a spice cake made with cooked, mashed pumpkin. I love pumpkin flavored
tea.
→I love too.
Will
you make the cakes and cookies?
>No, I do not bake any more. The recipes
make too much for one person to eat. I buy the baked goods at a bakery or the
grocery store. My daughter bakes >the spice cake. It is extra delicious!
We do a lot in the US for Halloween.
Already the candy is in the stores. There are costumes for sale everywhere.
My witches hat is out. This year I will decorate
it with fall leaves and pretty ribbon. I don't dress in costume any more.
I love to be at my house and pass out candy
to the neighbors' kids. Fewer and fewer little kids go from house to house,
though.
→The children will probably be
happy about that too.
Mostly the little kids go to organized
parties at a friend's house or a shopping mall.
When I was a kid and when my kids were
kids, we dressed up in costumes that we made.
Farmers, ghosts, witches, princesses and
robots were popular choices. They were easy costumes to make
Kids went to every house in the
neighborhood with a porch light on. Most houses were lit. Everybody gave out
candy.
→Halloween in the U.S. seems to be
very fun.
Halloween
is not such a big celebration in Japan.
>Halloween is a great deal of fun in the
US. The kids are happy when they get lots of candy. It doesn't matter whether
they go house to house or go to one
>party. Halloween is somewhat less fun
for adults without kids, since fewer kids go house to house.
It was great to sift through the candy when
we got home. I was never very good at saving candy to eat later. I still am
not!
→Me too.
I
immediately ate all the candy that I got.
This year I plan to sit outside with lots
of small pretzel bags.>>I will hand them to each child who comes my way.
→I also want to go there to get a
pretzel.
>Come on over! I will have lots of
pretzels for you!
It is an excellent way of relieving stress.
I loved badminton in college.
→It was very funny one day when I
played badminton at school.
The
shuttlecock lodged in the ceiling when I returned it powerfully.
>In this context "returned"
means "hit the shuttlecock with the racket after it was served to
me."
And
then my pants ripped when I picked up the shuttlecock after it fell to the ground.
I
have the pants even now.
Did
you join the badminton club in college?
>No, the college did not have a
badminton club then.
>Badminton was part of a gym (physical
education) class.
>The college did not have any sports
teams then. Now it has several.
Right now the US is in a very interesting
position.
Never in my lifetime have the legislative
and executive branches of the government been so opposed to each other.
Most ordinary citizens are disgusted with
their elected officials.
Since the government is partly shut down,
many people are not getting paid.
Those people and their families will suffer
a very real economic hardship because of lost wages.
There is serious talk that the US will not
be able to extend its debt ceiling.
The US might actually default on the bonds
that are held worldwide.
I cannot imagine the short and long term
global effects of a default.
I sincerely hope that every member of
Congress who currently holds office will not be re-elected in the next
elections.
I am embarrassed for my country.
What do people in Japan say about the
predicament the US is in?
→As if it were me.
The
situation in Japan is also similar.
There
are many people suffering from cruel behavior of the government.
I
hope that many people will be saved from the predicament, even if it is only a
few.
>So do I.
Sincerely
yours,
Yuki
<Homework>
1.
A. Find a stock price quotation of Applied
Materials from Yahoo! Finance.
To find a stock price quote on Yahoo
Finance,
（1）go to the main page
（2）enter the stock symbol, AMAT, at the top of the page in the blank
space that looks like this:
（3）In the Enter Symbol box type: AMAT. Click
the Look Up box.
（4）From the drop down menu, select:
AMAT
Applied Materials, Inc.
Equity – NASDAQ
（5）The stock price per share will be in
large bold numbers near the top of the page.
→I was able to find.
B.
Tell me:
(1) the date of the
quote,
→October 10, 2013 (This
is the time in Japan).
(2) the time of the quote and
→15:40 (This is the time in Japan).
(3) the stock price.
→Last Trade：$17.34
>Thank you for all your answers. They
were what I looked for.
2. Find any other source on the web for an
Applied Materials stock price quote.
List the URL for your source.
→It will be the following URL.
http://jp.moneycentral.msn.com/investor/quotes/quotes.aspx?Symbol=US%3AAMAT
>Thank you for the link.
3. A. Tell me the stock price quote that
you found.
→ $17.34
B. Is it the same as the one listed on the
company's web site at
http://investors.appliedmaterials.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=112059&p=irol-stockQuote?
→Yes, it is the same
C. If the quotes have different prices, why
do you think they are different?
→The quotes were obtained at
different times.
>Thank you for your answers. All of them
are correct.
4.
How easy was this lesson for you?
The accounting was: About right
The English was: About right
Getting to and using the linked web pages
was: About right
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This week's lesson is attached.
It is about various types of technology
that bring us financial information.
The technology brings other information,
too.
On Saturday, I went to a local historical
site with friends. It is called Historic London Town and Gardens.
Here is the link:
http://www.historiclondontown.com/.
The town was started in 1683. That is three
hundred thirty (330) years ago. That is very old for America. It is before we
were a country.
There is an indoor museum and many old
buildings outside. Some people dress up in costumes of the sixteen hundreds and
tell us about daily life there.
We wanted to see the gardens, but we could
not. It was raining too hard. I will go back someday. It was a very nice place.
Have you been to an old historical site in
Japan? What was the name of the place? How old was the place?
In 1987 I went to Kyoto for a conference.
We visited Shoren-in Temple. It is thousands of years old. I do not know the
date it was first built. It was beautiful! So peaceful! I still can picture it
in my mind.