Oral English 1: Lesson 10

12/9/2015

Hi everyone,

In today's lesson, we had a special Christmas lesson. We got to watch How the Grinch Stole Christmas and we learned about Christmas traditions in the U.S./Canada.

You learned a lot of new vocabulary while you watched the movie, remember to write down the vocabulary in the Presentation section of your notebook, and an example sentence.

Movie Vocabulary:
string up lights (v)
trim the tree (v)
hang up decorations (v)
You're a grinch. (idiom)
go carolling (v)
chimney (n)
wreath (n)
sleigh (n)

Homework:

Blog Comment #8
Debate #2 Preparation (group 1)
Presentation Vocabulary: write down example sentences for the movie vocabulary.
My Vocabulary: write down 5 new words that you learn this week (e.g. in other classes, from watching TV/movies, etc.)

Blog Question #8:

What are your plans for the Christmas and New Year's holidays?

* Write 12-15 sentences.
* Use capital letters, punctuation and spelling correctly.
* Submit by Monday, December 14 by 6:00pm.

28 Comments

OE-kumi

12/9/2015 08:35:32 pm

My christmas plan is dancing recital. its mean art festival in Tokyo December 26th. This recital since several decades.I have been appear junior high school student. Also, I will look illumination at Tokyo Germany Village with my friends. This plan is every years plan. It will good time and impressed. And my new years plan is eating noodles. But I and my family are not like japanese noodles. So we eating chinese noodles. Late at night, we watch a singing cantest beteen a male and a female team of popular singers, sponsored annually by NHK on New Years Eve.Chistmas and new years plan is nery fun.I hope happy new year.

Haruna.k

12/9/2015 11:36:27 pm

I am going go to Yokohama on Christmas with my friends. I will see illuminations and eat Chinese food there. The one disappoint thing is that I do not have a boy friend. I want to go there with boy friend if possible. However, I think I can surely enjoy it!
I am going to go Aomori in New year holiday. My grand mother and grand father live in Aomori. In there, much snow falls so I can ski. I'm not good at ski but like it. I want to come to be gone down from the course in the top in this year. I like also grandmother's dishes. I look forward to New year dishes made her.

OE1-Tomoki

12/11/2015 05:14:14 am

I am going to play with a friend on Christmas. I go out by car and go to watch illuminations. In addition, I go to the amusement park and go to rice. I look forward to it now. And a parttimer becomes busy over the end of the year, too. I think that the end of the year becomes busy generally. But I want to enjoy it because it is a precious rest. Of course I try the study hard. We have the test after the end of holidays, too. In addition, there is the announcement, too. You must make those preparations. I think about time well and want to be able to go ahead premeditatedly.

OE1-Yuki

12/12/2015 05:29:40 am

My schedules at Christmas and New Year's holidays are happiness and unhappiness. On a day in Christmas Eve, I'm going to go out to play with a friend of a club. The group is the people's gathering a sweetheart is not. First we go to an amusement park, play until the evening and see illuminations in the evening. After that I go to a hot spring and heat up a body. I don't know whether it's that I'm happy or that it's unhappy. On a day at Christmas, I spend with the family. I'm very busy at New Year's, because there are many things which should be done. I have to do homework at school in the 1st. When the winter holidays end, a test starts with me. There is no room where I'm playing. We have to do a part-time job in the 2nd. I have a dream, so I earn money for it. I'd like to spend a substantial holiday.

OE1-Nanami

12/12/2015 07:56:41 am

I and my friends will go to a friend's house on Christmas Day.The name of the landlord is ungil.He is Korean, and he is a foreign student.However, he is very good at speaking Japanese.So,we are very close beyond the nationality.We are planning to eat the pot in his house.I am very much looking forward because I like pot very much.In addition, my friends are good to cook.And, I am going to spend the New Year with my family.New Year dishes that make my grandmother is very gorgeous.Moreover, I can get the lottery numbers.I am looking forward to winter break very much.However,I worry about overeating.

Ellena Sa

12/12/2015 08:39:43 pm

I will annual event for the Christmas and New Year's holiday. For example, I eat special dinner with my family in the Christmas . It is a barbecue of the turkey and lasagna and so on. Because I love the lasagna which mother makes, I am a pleasure every year. Moreover , I eat the Christmas cake. And I eat New Year dishes for New Year holidays and get a New Year's present. I help cook New Year dishes every year. A only special event in New Year's holiday this year. It is the intercollegiate figure skating competition . Therefore I always practice figure skating. Also I will very busy winter vocation . In conclusion , I eat a lot of delicious foods and enjoy the time with the family . Then I want to try the skating hard.

OE1-Haruna.T

12/13/2015 01:01:49 am

I'm going to stay in my friend's house at Christmas.
We're planning to do a present exchange.
By the way, the present is decided that it's within one thousand yen. My friend's mother makes me dinner. Those would be good.
My schedule at New Year's is to work part-time. I'm planning to work from the 30th to the 1st. It seems very crowded at New Year's. I'm afraid now. But I think I'll do my best and exert myself. When I work at New Year's, I profit. Because the hourly wage is higher than usual.

OE1-Emiri

12/13/2015 04:36:14 am

My Christmas plan is going to eat special dinner with my family and grandmother. I, my sister and my mother cook something worthy of Christmas thing and we want to eat on our own. We also devise the decoration of dishes. For example, a salad shapes like Christmas tree and decorates by using carrots, tomatoes and broccolis. Other than this, we can make a Santa Claus with strawberries and creams, and we are changing every year. Besides, it will be another big event in my house. It is the Christmas gift exchange each other in my family. Of course, I will keep buying in advance gifts for all family, and I will give it them. I am looking forward whether I get any presents.
My New Year plan is very busy. Though I will wait a lot of fun events, it is very hard every day. I am going to eat the New Year’s dishes with my family, and we are going to pay a visit to a shine on New Year’s Day. I also have to go to the place where relatives all gather. I’m afraid that I may be sick but I think happy every day.

OE1-Elena Se

12/13/2015 07:24:14 pm

I will spend very busy Christmas day.In the morning, we will go to the church to receive mass of Christmas with my family.We are Christianity, so we go there every year.It will be very good mass.After Christmas mess, I will enjoy with my friends of club activities at the time of high school.We play volleyball every year, so in this year play too.After enjoy volleyball, my family will dinner at the restaurant.When Christmas went over, I will study hard for a test of a January.It will become good, so I will do my best.In addition, I will clean up my house.In this way, I will spend busy day, but I will enjoy.I look forward to winter vacation.

OE1-taku

12/13/2015 07:29:15 pm

I will be go to Miura and stay there in Christmas night with my friend. We will show illumination and eat dinner. It is to go to Miurakaigan by car that I look forward to most. The Miurakaigan is not major spot. However, we can show a lot of star. So the main event is the showing star. Next, I will go to grandparents’ house in Hiroshima. And I will stay business hotel in New Year’s Eve. The hotel room is single every year. So I always contact with my friend by cell phone. I like this style and spending time, I will enjoy this new year.

OE1-Hiroki

12/13/2015 10:02:44 pm

I spend Christmas of this year with a friend.
I go to the house of the friend and am going to have a party on Christmas.
I present it, and we change it and eat a cake.
I go to see the illuminations this year.
I go to Roppongi.
I look forward to it very.
I spend New Year holidays in families.
I spend it in families every year.
I eat New Year dishes in a house and go for a New Year's visit to a Shinto shrine.
I go to Chiba to meet a relative this year.
Because I do not meet a relative for a while, I look forward to it very.
It wants to be winter vacation early.

OE1-Yu

12/13/2015 10:07:20 pm

I am going to write about Christmas plan. I will go to Yokohama with my friend. Then, we will watch movie. And we will eat dinner and cake. What I'm looking forward to most is that look around the shops. I like Christmas market. In the New year, I spend alone. Because I won't go back my home. I feel lonely, but I will spend relax time. In holidays, I want to do various things. I have much times. So I want to do everything.

OE-1 Haruna.I

12/13/2015 10:23:35 pm

A plan of my Christmas is to go for a drive with a boyfriend. The place is Yokohama. At first I watch a movie there. Then, I eat my way while taking a walk in Yamashita Park. Finally I cook in a house and eat chicken and am going to change a present.
For New Year holidays, I go for a meal with a family and a relative. There is Chinzan-so. There is a big garden, and scenery is very beautiful. I stroll in the garden and pull a sacred lot every year in a Shinto shrine over there. I want to try study and a part-time job hard for Christmas and the pleasure of New Year holidays.

OE1-Takayuki

12/13/2015 10:44:46 pm

When New Year’s holidays, I will go to church. I am a Christian. So I will attend Mass with my family on New Year’s day. Moreover I plan to go to gathering of relatives and seeing Hakone Ekiden. Our school joins to the Ekiden so I am looking for cheering them from my hometown. Of course, I hope they will win. I have a lot of exciting events. However, we have the final exams after the holidays. We have to study hard and hard. Furthermore, some of the professors imposed assignments. Every years, I have been spending the holidays for sleeping long time or having fun with my friends. Next year’s holidays will not be as usual as I had since my school starts earlier and I have to start studying soon.

OE1-Sakiho

12/13/2015 10:48:29 pm

I will spend Christmas with my boyfriend. But we have not plan yet. Maybe, he will work daytime,so I would like to eat dinner and Christmas cake with him. Also, I want to buy Christmas presents for each other. I want Christmas come early!!
New years holiday, I will meat cosines and grandma, grandpa. Because I didn't meet them this year, I'm looking forward to very much. New Years holiday is my favorite days of the year. I prefer to spend slow time with family and friends. The most important thing in this holiday is treasure. I hope New Years holiday will be sunny day.

OE-1 Satomi

12/13/2015 10:54:07 pm

I work part-time on a day of Christmas. But I go to eat dinner with a friend after a part-time job. I intend to go to see the local illumination lights if I have time. Because I do not yet go to see it this year, I look forward to very much. I pray for it being fine on the night.
There are a lot of domestic events for New Year holidays. At first I go for a New Year's visit to a Shinto shrine. I go to the house of the relative to say hello afterwards. At that time, I get New Year's presents.
Because there are not many opportunities to meet the person of the relative, I look forward to this day. (There is the relative coming from Hokkaido among them!)
When these days are happy for me, I am glad.

OE1-chikako

12/13/2015 10:58:58 pm

My Christmas plan, we will go to Hawaii travel in family. Come out to Hawaii journey of five days.It is very fun because it is the first time in Hawaii. Not spend Christmas in Japan is the first time in two years.In Hawaii, swim to go to sea, I can surf, it is scheduled to be shopping.
And, the New Year is scheduled to spend with friends of the club.
Last year I did not go to the New Year's visit to a Shinto shrine. So, I want to go to New Year's visit to a Shinto shrine and important people this year.
Because my grandma is a teacher of cuisine, it will make New Year in all handmade each year.Winter, I would want to spend fun because there is no club.

OE1-Minori.N

12/13/2015 11:05:13 pm

Because I am together almost every day, I think that I can surely spend wonderful Christmas!
I want to spend good time with my special friend!

OE-1 Natsumi

12/13/2015 11:15:21 pm

I spend time with my family on every Christmas Eve and the night. My brother and I put up Christmas decorations ,then enjoy good Christmas cheer my mother makes. A chicken onion soup is one of my favorite dishes at Christmas. After a special dinner, it's a time to give presents! My bro and I give presents to my parents, and so does my parents. The Christmas time is always my joyful pleasure because l can feel that " family is my all." Then I have a plan to go on a date with my boyfriend on that weekend! I think we're also going to be with on on New Year's Eve. And maybe we go about together to Meiji Jingu Shrine to see in the New Year. I'am happy to be with him when the new year starts. The next day will be my family day. We go to the Shrine nearby my home where we go every year. Can't wait for both awesome events!

OE1-Misato

12/13/2015 11:16:15 pm

I have two plans in my Christmas and New Year's holidays.
First, I'm going to go to Tokyo Disney Land with my family. When I was an elementaly school student, I went there with them every year. But we didn't go there together in recent years because I'm busy with my club activities. We can go there all the member of my family after a long time. I want to play and to watch Christmas special show.
Second, I'm going to visit a shrine at the beginning of year. I'm planning to wear kimono then. I like kimono and I learnhow to wear kimono now. I think that new year is a good chance of wearing kimono. So, I'll try to wear kimono by myself.
I'm looking forward to this holidays.

OE1-Aya

12/13/2015 11:43:41 pm

My plan for the Christmas is exciting. I will have night cruise. It is the first experience for me. So I am looking forward to doing it. But I have to have part job in day. It is little unlucky thing for me.And my plan for The New Year's holiday is visiting to a grave with my family. It is annual event for my family. My ancestors' graves are in Yokohama. After a visit to a grave we go to chainatown. I love Small Ryutsutsumi. So we eat it!

OE1-Komugi

12/13/2015 11:54:50 pm

I will enjoy the Christmas and New Year's holiday with my family. That's a custom of my home. So, I have never spent the Christmas with my friends. We're going to eat fried chicken and cake at Christmas. I want to eat Bush de Noel as cake this year, because I have never eaten before. However, the nearby cake shops don't sell it. The night of New Year's Eve, we will eat soba while watching TV program. Then, we will go to strike Joya no Kane. The temple of the neighborhood let us strike the big bell for free. January 1, we go to give a greeting to maternal relations, and 2, we do it to paternal relations. It's almost time I may be ought to give New Year's present for my cousins. I'm going to enjoy the holiday.

OE1-Yui

12/14/2015 12:05:54 am

I'm going out with my friends on the Christmas Day.
We are going to hold a Christmas party with my friends at night.
We haven't decided detail plan yet.
We've only decided to do present exchange.
I'm looking forward to attending this party from now.
On the New Year's Day, I eat dinner with all of my family every year.
I'll be able to see my cousin after a long time.
I have so many things to talk with her.
I want to enjoy my winter vacation.
However I will have to study hard, too.
It is because I have many tests soon after the classes start in January.
I want to enjoy Christmas and New Year's Day with enough studying.

OE1-karin

12/14/2015 12:21:19 am

I go to see illuminations at Christmas. Lunch plays by an amusement park and sees illuminations in the evening. Very pleasant. And there is taking an examination of my younger brother. I support younger brother's taking an examination at Christmas. I go to Nagoya in a holiday of a new year. My parents' home is in Nagoya. I drink sweet drink made from fermented rice and walk a shrine. I like whether it's rice cake very much. I eat too much. This is the usual pattern. I return to Tokyo by bus after it.

OE1-kotone

12/14/2015 12:37:07 am

I am going to party in my friend's house at Christmas and go to dinner with my friends. It is planned to exchange gifts with my friends and eat cake at home. And I am going to go to training camp up to December 30. I am always swimming in every end days of the year. I spend with my family new year's Eve and new year's day each year. Each housecleaning is difficult for me in ever end days of year. And I send off the old year and welcome the new year with watching "Kotaku Uta Gassen". After I welcome the new year, I go to grandmother's house for new year's greeting. I hope happy new year because I can meet relatives who I do not meet everyday. Chistmas and new years plan is nery fun. I hope happy new year.

OE1-Ryota

12/14/2015 12:39:00 am

I am going to go to skiing with my friend in Christmas. I am not good at skiing. So I want to plactice ski. My friend is good at skiing. So I will be instructed by my friend. I hope that I will be able to ski. And I going to go to shopping in New Year's Days. I want many clothes now. It is because I am saving money. And l will get Lotteries. So I can buy many clothes.I am interested in Christmas and New Year's Days.

OE1ｰYukari

12/14/2015 12:54:27 am

I will go to Soramachi of Tokyo-skytree with my friend in Christmas.Moreover, I have a plan which I will eat a variety of cakes with her.She and I like cakes, so I often go to cafe and eat cakes with my friend.Moreover, I didn't have plans in Christmas, and her too.Therefore, I ordered to go to Soramachi for her.This is why, she and I decided to go to there and eat cakes.In addition to, I have a plan not only Christmas but also New Year's holidays.I have a plan which I'm going to return my home.In addition to, I will help my mother to clean in my house.There is my room which I used for many years in there.My room isn't cleaned while I live alone in Tokyo, and it is used such as barn.So, it will be so dirty.I think I have to clean my room quickly.

OE-1 Hitomi

12/17/2015 04:07:26 am

My christmas plan is to make money. I work at a cake shop every year. So, in this year, of course, I work. But after work, I'm going to meet my friends. We have christmas party. I'm so excited.
My new year's holiday plan is to spend my family. I'm going to go home in Toyama. My mother is looking forward to meet me. Of course, me too. I want to eat my mom's delicious foods.
I hope christmas and new year's holiday make me happy.

Oral English 1: Lesson 10

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