Lesson3
Dear Yuki,
Thank you for your third message. My comments and corrections follow.
Sincerely,
Prof. Sue Garreis
Dear
Professor. Susan Garreis,
Hello.
Thank
you for your reply and corrections of my English.
I
will answer your questions.
They sound like cute characters. Do your drawings look like little teddy
bears?
¨Yes, Itfs very cute characters.
They
look like little teddy bears and cats.
Did
you eat any food at the wedding there?
>I had delicious chicken and vegetables. Others had steak or fish.
>There was wedding cake for dessert.
>It was very good food.
¨I am very hungry just listening to
the story.
Here is a link to La Sagrada Familia:http://www.sagradafamilia.cat/.
We did not see the Casa Batllo. Here is its
link:http://www.casabatllo.es/en/.
¨I was surprised to La Sagrada
Familia and Casa Batllo is more beautiful
than
I imagined.
I
want to go there more and more.
>I have never seen a church or any building like La Sagrada Familia.
>It is so beautiful! It looks like a fairy tale made real.
I loved Paris, too.
The architecture is lovely and the museums are fantastic.
The Louvre is a place where I could spend weeks.
¨I want to try to go the Louvre
once too.
Who
is your favorite painter?
>I love the works of Claude Monet. Some of his works are here:
http://www.claudemonetgallery.org/.
>I prefer paintings that look "real." I do not understand much modern art. I prefer paintings with lots of color.
>Do you have a favorite artist?
>Do you have a favorite museum?
The croissants are food for the gods.
¨It was new to me.
I
like a croissant very much.
There
are rusks of delicious croissant in Japan. Here is its link:
http://cafe-ohzan.com/
>My goodness! Those pictures make my mouth water!
I found Tokyo an impressive city. I had never seen a city so large!
Where would you like to go if you travel?
¨I want to go to Kyoto. It is a
city in Japan.
>It is a peaceful, beautiful city. I hope you go there someday.
There
is a thing called the riverbed in Kyoto.
Make
a parlor on the river, eat Japanese food there.
The
cool breeze feels good in summer.
>Here is a picture I found of riverbed dining: http://japanwithu.com/?p=1133
>I never knew that was in Kyoto.
>It looks like such fun! It is a beautiful view.
Have
you ever come to Japan before by travel?
>I came to Japan in 1987. That is when I met Shiina Sensei.
>I saw Tokyo and Kyoto. I rode the Bullet Train (Shinkansen) between the two cities. I loved that!
>That trip was my first and only time in Japan. It lasted two weeks. It was great!
>I still have vivid memories of the trip, the fascinating sights and the wonderful people.
Sincerely
yours,
Yuki
<Homework>
>1. I usually write my messages on Sunday evening in Arnold MD. When I am
>finished, it is early Monday afternoon in Chiba. When do you first check
>for my reply to your message? Tell me the day of the week and what time of
>day you check.
¨I usually check in at 14:30 on
Monday.
Thank you.
>2. Visit America's largest telecommunications company, AT&T. Click here
>for a recent press release. AT&T designed new cruise ship packages. What
>are the packages designed to give cruise ship travelers? (Hint: The answer
>is in the first sentence of paragraph three. Do not translate past the bold
>phrase gMore Messaging, More Saving.h)
¨The new packages are designed to
give cruise ship travelers discounted
rates
on voice, messaging and data use while at sea.
Correct.
>3. Visit a large public university on the east coast, the University of
>Maryland, and see the Department of Accounting and Information Assurance.
¨I was allowed to browse. However,
I can understand English is difficult.
>Yes, the English is very difficult. It is written for native speakers.
>4. Use any search engine to search the Net for "balance sheet." Tell me
>how many "hits" you have, i.e., how many documents have that phrase in it?
>Tell me what search engine you used. For example, I used Google to find
>"balance sheet." There were about 75,000,000 (seventy-five million) hits.
>Using Bing, there were 46,000,000 (forty-six million) hits.
¨I used Google. I got 24,000,000
(twenty-four million) hits.
¨I used goo. I got 32,000,000
(three-two million) (thirty-two million) hits.
>5. How easy was this lesson for you?
¨The accounting was somewhat hard.
¨The English was very hard.
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The next lesson is about several places to get financial information on the Internet.
The file called #3 Sources of American Accounting Information is the main lesson.
The second file, NTT-IncStmt2012, is an excel file. Use that file if you cannot access the NTT Income Statement from the web site.
I send this email early because tomorrow (Saturday) I drive to Delaware.
I will attend my grandson's last soccer game. He loves soccer! He is eleven years old.
I may attend a granddaughter's baseball game. I am not sure if she plays tomorrow or not. She is six. She loves to play baseball.
On Sunday, my daughter and I will work on a quilt she started a long time ago.