Lesson3
Dear Professer Garreis,

Thank you for you reply and corrections of my English.
I will answer your last questions.

Is it easy for you to stay up late.
>Yes. I work from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. for 5 days of a week.
After coming back home, I clean my room and eat supper, use Internet etc.
I like to these actions slowly. It takes until after midnight.

Do you have ever get a chance to practice speaking Englsh?
>Yes. But I'm in a hurry, I don't speak English.
>>Do you know other languages besides English and Japanese?

What was your favorite food? Do you know how to cook any of your mother's recipes.
>I like Sushi! It is very delicious for me to catch fish in Iwate.

I know a few my mother's recipes, such as curry and rice and kimpira gobo.
What was your favorite food? What was your good at cooking?
>My favorite food is spaghetti and meatballs. It is a hot meat, so I eat it in the cooler weather. My husband taught me a great spaghetti sauce recipe.
>My favorite summer foods are ice cream and watermelon. No cooking necessary!

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 your message on Monday at 1 p.m.

2. Visit America's largest telecommunications company, AT&T.  Click here for a recent blog entry.  AT&T wants to connect drones through their wireless network. What is one potential opportunity for connected drones?  (Hint: The answer is in the fourth paragraph. Pick only one of the list for your answer.)
>I think Assisting Emergency Response. As of the earthquake was in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan is a disaster in many cases. When you take advantage of the drone at that time, I think that a lot of people helped.
>I think that a lot of people are helped.

>That is a wonderful application for drones!
>Can you think of any way drones would be useful in your life?
>Drones that provide traffic reports would be helpful to me.

3. Visit a large public university on the east coast, the University of Maryland, and see the Department of Accounting and Information Assurance.
>I read it.

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 139,000,000 (one hundred thirty-nine million) hits. Using Bing, there were 15,000,000 (fifteen million) hits.
>Using Yahoo! Japan, there were 115,000,000 hits.

5.  How easy was this lesson for you?
>The accounting was about right.
>The English was about right.

I'm waiting for your reply.
Sincerely, yours

Aya

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