Lesson13

Dear Professor Garreis,

Thank you for your reply and corrections of my English.

I will answer your last questions.

On the way I saw some trees finally turning into fall colors. Hooray!
Fall is my favorite season. It is cool and it has such beautiful colors.
What is your favorite season? Why?

>My favorite season is fall.

>Autumn food is very delicious.

>I like a Japanese persimmon, a pear and a grape.

>These fruits are tasty in the fall.

>>Do you eat the fruits raw or cooked?

Emily spent the weekend in Delaware.
She visited friends on Friday night, Saturday and Saturday night.
While Emily visited her friends, my daughter and I shopped. My daughter found some nice clothes for work.

>Oh! Shopping!
>As I have not bought clothes lately, I want to shop.
>Did you good shop?

>>I love to shop!
>>Shopping with anyone for anything is always good.

How is your weather?
On the East Coast of the US it is hurricane season.
Florida just had a big storm: Hurricane Matthew.
In the mid-Atlantic states, where I live, we just had a little rain. We were lucky.

>For the last few days it has been sunny and partly cloudy.
>In addition, these days are cold.
>I’m no good at the cold.
>But, I like to have hot drinks, a hot pot cooking, a stew and the like on a cold day.

>>Me, too!

I think typhoons are worse than hurricanes. When is typhoon season?

>Yes.
>I don't like those rainy days because my clothes are wet and I am cold.

<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
>Ok.

(2)enter the stock symbol, AMAT, in the space that looks like this at the top of the left-hand column
>Ok.

Type “AMAT” over the phrase “Quote Lookup”
(3)Click the Enter key.
>Ok.

(4)From the menu, select: AMAT
>Ok.

(5)The stock price per share will be in large bold numbers near the top of the page.
>Ok.

1.B.Tell me:
(1)the date of the quote,
>It’s October 13.

(2)the time of the quote and
>It’s 4:40a.m.

(3)the stock price.
>It’s $27,88.

Thank you for the quote.
In American English, we write the amount as $27.88.
We use a decimal point, not a comma, to divide the dollars and cents.

2.Find any other source on the web for an Applied Materials stock price quote.  List the URL for your source.>http://www.msn.com/ja-jp/money/stockdetails/fi-126.1.AMAT.NAS?symbol=AMAT&form=PRFISB

3.A.Tell me the stock price quote that you found.
>It’s 27,86.

B.Is it the same as the one listed on the company's web site athttp://investors.appliedmaterials.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=112059&p=irol-stockQuote?
>Yes.

C.If the quotes have different prices, why do you think they are different?
>Not different.

Thank you for this answer.
See my comment above about using a period, not a comma, to separate the dollars and cents.

4.How easy was this lesson for you?
>The accounting was somewhat hard.
>The English was somewhat hard.
>Getting to and using the linked web pages was somewhat hard.

I'm waiting for your reply.
Sincerely yours,
Aya


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