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Oral English 2: Lesson 5

10/15/2015

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Hi everyone,

Can you believe we're one-third the way finished with our course? Time sure does fly!

How to Disagree (Refuting Opinions)
At the beginning of today's lesson, we learned different ways to disagree with opinions.

When you hear an opinion, and you want to diagree, there are two ways you can diagree.  You can say the opinion is not true or it is not important.

When it is not true, you choose one of these three ways to show disagreement:
a. This is not true because...
b. This is not always true because...
c. This is not necessarily true because...

When the opinion is not important, you can choose one of these three ways to express your disagreement:
a.  This is not relvant because...
b.  This is not significant because...
c.  This is easy to solve because...

In next week's lesson, we'll review these expressions. You'll be using these a lot when we start our debates in November/December. 

Homework:
  1. Blog Posting #5
  2. Opinion Presentation Preparation
  3. Presentation Vocabulary: write down example sentences from today's opinion presentation vocabulary
  4. My Vocabulary: write down 5 new words that you learn this week (e.g. in other classes, from watching TV/movies, etc.)
  5. Opinion: In the homework section of your notebook, write your opinion on one of the topics from today's opinion presentations. These were the topic: (1) coffee and caffeine; (2) African airplane accidents; (3) Tokyo's global standing; (4) Shinkansen fares to Hokkaido; and (5) technology and romance.

Blog Question #5:

In a few more weeks, it'll be Halloween, so we'll have some Halloween questions.

​Tell me about one of your scariest experiences. 


* Write 12-15 sentences.
* Use capital letters, punctuation and spelling correctly.
* Submit by Wednesday, October 21 by 6:00pm. ​
19 Comments
OE2-Kana.N
10/16/2015 08:04:25 am

My scariest experience is a test of courage at the circle’s camp. I don’t like ghost and ghost story. Moreover, I hate dusky and quiet place. However, we did both of them at the camp of circle. We gathered on the dusky room and heard the ghost story. Ten minutes later, we went to do the test of courage. We entered a forest with a flashlight. Time was the 11 p.m. I was surprised at a sound of the wind. It’s because after hearing the ghost story, I imaged various things. It was so terrible. I will never do a test of courage.

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OE2-Aya
10/16/2015 08:39:09 pm

I don't have scary experiences much. But I watched a scary dream last year. It was the dream that I was murdered. When I walked the road at night, a man walked from behind. The man had a knife. Then I found that. When I ran, the man ran after me. I woke up before the man killed me. I felt easy that it was just dream. I checked in Web later says and seems to have a good meaning. It's a bad thing in myself seem to disappear. This is my scariest experience.

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OE2-Fumiya
10/16/2015 10:44:46 pm

From now on, I talk about one of my scariest experience. My scariest experience is when I went to haunted place in Chiba and Hachioji. First, I want to talk about Chiba. I went to two haunted places in Chiba. The name of haunted places are Jukai and Tokyo-wan-kannnon tunnel. There was a string of the committing suicide by hanging oneself in real in Jukai. When I found it I trembled violenly. In tunnel, I also trembled. Because, I found light in tunnel. The time I went to the tunnel was night of course. However, I found light. Next, I talk about Hachioji. I also went to tunnel.
Unfortunately, I didn't see psychic phenomenon. But, the tunnel was also very scared for me.

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OE2-Kaori
10/17/2015 09:55:04 pm

When I was a high school student, I was going to be a cecum. This is my scariest experience. Some people may care nothing for being a cecum. But I have had an operation only once. So it is very scary things for me. Also I was put on an IV for the first time, then. I had a stomachache that day but I thought it would get well soon. On the contrary, condition was getting worse and worse. So I reluctantly went to hospital. I was surprised to hear my symptom from doctor. I got nervous when I was put on an IV. As a result, when I knew that I didn't be a cecum, I was relieved. I think it is important to consult doctor immediately, again.

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OE2-Jo
10/18/2015 09:49:28 pm

I'll write about my scary experiences. First of all I write about when I was a high school student. I went to FujiQ Highland that is a famous amusement park. There is a famous and scary haunted house. I didn't like a haunted house. But I tried it with my friends. It was very scary and I felt so tired after I finished the haunted house. Secondly I write about when I was a child. One night I went a wash room by myself. Then I saw that a ghost is there. I felt so scary and I cried. From then I don't like a ghost. This is my scariest experience.

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OE2-Marina
10/19/2015 07:15:09 pm

My most scary experience until now is that it was torn uniforms of school to pervert. I was a member of the junior high school, high school and tennis club. In the morning, it begins practice in 6:30, after school there are alternative practice until about 7:00. Therefore, the time to go when it comes to winter, around here's the dark.First, but had been afraid to darkness its way, we have become accustomed Gradually. One day, I listen to music while watching the mobile, it was down the hill there is no pedestrian traffic. So, that the bicycle is stuck To snugly in their horizontal I did not notice. Out of thw way and noticed a bike, it became such a result is pulled strongly the skirt when it is skipped. After this, I became careful to road at night.


































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OE2-MASAKI link
10/20/2015 05:04:16 am

The most scariest experience is the story that I was half-dead.One day,I was attacked by someone.The criminal was my friend who I made fun of before a little.When I was a elementary school student,I teased the girl as always.I said too much for her that day.So,she got angry and tried to catch me.Of course,I run away from her so that I escaped danger.However,she could catch up with me and pushed me.Unfortunately,I plunged into the glass.The people who are around the sense of the accident looked at me while being surprised.Once I took notice of the circumstance happened,I felt an acute pain at my left hand.The doctor,who examined me,told me that if the wound had been deep more 1 cm,I have would died.From then,I have never made fun of girls.

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OE2-Yukiko
10/20/2015 06:38:16 am

When I was a junior high school student I worked at a zoo as a trainee of a zookeeper. Every student worked at someplace as a trainee for two days. It was a kind of social study. It had been my dream to become a zookeeper. Therefore I was extremely happy that my dream came true. At the zoo I took care of the lions and the tigers. After they went out to the showrooms for the visitors, some zookeepers and I firmly closed and locked heavy iron doors so that they couldn’t come back while we were in their bedrooms. When I stepped into the rooms I had a kind of scary feeling that they really lived there. After I cleaned the rooms with a scrubbing brush I prepared for some food for them. I cut and weighed some meat on the scale and mixed various nutrition in it. They especially loved the heads of chickens. I was told to throw the food through the windows of the iron doors. When I was watching the lion for a while, he noticed me and glared at me. At that moment he threateningly roared just like a lion king in the movie. It made my hair stand on end. I was horribly scared and couldn’t move a bit just like a bunny which was chased and run into a corner. It was the scariest experience of my life.

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OE2-Yuka
10/20/2015 05:14:08 pm

My scariest experience is to be shut in the train for two hours. Three months ago, I took the train to go home. The day which I was shut in the train, I watched baseball game at Tokyo Dome with my friend. So I came home late and I would arrive at the nearest station at midnight. But because of the car which was going off the shoulder in the railway, the train couldn't run. I thought that it was no use complaining so I listen to music. Unfortunately ,however, the train not only didn't run but also was blackout. In order to move the car which was going off the shoulder, the train had to turn off the all light. So I had to wait for turning on the light for about one hour in the dark car. It was so terrible that I was thinking that I wanted to go home rapidly. After a few minutes, the train ran and arrived at my nearest station safely. So I was quite relieved. I hope that the accident like this never happens.

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OE2-Kohei,f
10/20/2015 07:45:12 pm

My sceriest ezperience is having injured a knee. When I was twenty years old, my right knee hit the player. I couldn't walk. I have a plan to go to Korea for playing soccer. though I could go there, I didn't play. Coming to japan, I went to hospital. I had a diagnosis that I must not take exercise for six month.I declined the invitation from some clubs. the injured was cured now. But If I have the same injured again, I would give up soccer. I play soccer now, but I have to care about my knee. The injured change my soocer life and my life style. From the reason, this experience is the scariest.

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OE2-Tomomi
10/20/2015 08:38:45 pm

I don't have scary experiences. But a cartoon called Ganz is borrowed from a friend recently. I'm quite afraid of the contents of the story. I usually read only a love story. I'd like also to read the other genres, and it was borrowed from a friend. She did recommending, so this cartoon is being read, but a person is killed one after another, and it's a weird story. The fact that the lead is overridden by a train and dies from the beginning. A boy cartoon has not been read, I'm afraid to be too afraid of description and turn over a page. I think it can be read if it's originary, when thinking because it's the world of a cartoon. But I'm afraid of this cartoon of which the life of the enormous person is dying indiscriminately and have no choice. What did a writer make such cartoon with, I thought of wax. This cartoon was read for myself to broaden the horizons this time. Such worldview, the fact the person who thinks it's fun needs, it was known.

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OE2-Yosito
10/20/2015 09:06:08 pm

One of my scariest experiences is Great East Japan Earthquake. When I was a third-year student of a junior high school, the earthquake happened. It was the first time I experienced an earthquake registering a strong 5 on the Japanese seismic scale. Thanks to an earthquake drill, I got under the desk quickly. I understood the importance of an earthquake drill. The earthquake caused a lot of problems. For example, the earthquake caused the water to spill from the pool of the school. For tht reason, there were big puddles in the playground. I could not believe that it was the actual scene. Because of the earthquake, I felt an earthquake close to me. I knew the importance of the preparation for an earthquake. I always want to be careful of the earthquake.

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OE2-Honoka
10/21/2015 12:00:44 am

I don't have big scary experiences. However, I am easily scared. So I will talk about My trifling scary experience. The experience is commercial of the horror film. When I was a high school student, the movie called the black lily housing complex was shown. Its advertising was done with TV and a poster before it was televised. I feel that even the commercial is scary. So when it was broadcasted at the moment when I turned on TV, I was very scared. In addition, I couldn't but see it because its big poster was put via where in the station which I use for attending school every day. The face of the boy who looked scary appeared in the poster. It was very scary and exasperating for me. I do not want to have a scary experience from now on either.

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OE2-Maki
10/21/2015 12:36:13 am

I do not experience some psychical phenomenon. However, I will talk about scariest experience for me. I sometimes look at bad dream. For example, earth go to ruin by virus. In addition, I murdered my friend. I guess I always afraid of bad situation. I also looked at bad dream last night. When I got up, I was so shocked by this dream. In dream, I lost my all teeth. I have been cure my teeth for 1 year. Because of this, I pay attention to my teeth very much. This is scariest experience in these day.

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OE2-Rikako
10/21/2015 12:36:16 am

I talk about one of my scariest experiences this time. My scariest experience is to watch one movie. I watched the movie with my friends when I was a junior high school student. The name of the movie is ‘Kokuhaku’. I like to watch movies very much so I have ever watched many movies. However, the story of movies I have ever watched were happy, interesting and so on. Kokuhaku was a revenge tragedy of woman. The story was very tragic. I was frightened very much. I could not forget the fear for a while. I do not want to watch movies like this after this. I would like to enjoy happy movies!

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OE2-Kana.K
10/21/2015 12:50:25 am

When I was 10 years old, my parents bought me a mobile phone for contact with my parents. I was got carried away because most of my friends didn’t have that yet. My father said me, “Don’t access to the internet on your mobile phone. You must use a computer if you want to.” However I wanted to get pretty standby images and incoming melodies that were popular at that time. So I broke my father word. I was shallow. One day, I registered my email address to a suspicious site in order to get incoming melodies. But the truth is that site was a dating website. I received 50 emails once every few hours. I was scared and my hands were shaking when my mobile phone told me emails receive. I looked for withdrew the site desperately, but I couldn’t. In that month, the usage charge was over 20,000 yen. My parents were very surprised. I told to my parents the truth. After that, my father scolded me. I learned terror of use the Internet from this experience.

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OE2-Ayano
10/21/2015 12:57:25 am

I didn't have proved scariest experiences. However, I liked scary story when I was elementary school student. My elementary school was so old. The school building was built of wood. I often made the seven wonders of school with my friends. For example, it was story stares increase and story of girl live in toilet. When I was sixth grader, I stayed school with my classmates. We did test of courage in my school. We should walk to music room from ground alone with friend. I was scared, but I thought school at night was strange and mystery. I like scary story even now, but I am bad to see horror video. I don't think to want to prove scariest experience.

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OE2-Mao
10/21/2015 01:03:39 am

After I started living alone, I often experienced fearful happening. Especially when I was a second grade, I experienced very scare happening. That is the happening that my alarm clock rung suddenness at midnight. I was really surprised. You may be not able to know what is fearful. But, the battery of that alarm clock was dead! I felt fear and I can't be toilet and bathroom alone. So I called my friend and asked to come right then. This is my scariest experience. I hope I will not come across these scare experience. However, I like watching horror movies or stories. But I don't want to experience by my self.

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OE2-Naoko
10/21/2015 01:47:09 am

I did not believe a ghost basically, and I’m not sensitive to the spiritual world. That is why I have not had a scary experience. But I felt as though I were paralyzed while sleeping of my childhood. I stayed with my grandmother, I sit up till late. I finally went to sleep at two or three o’ clock. I suddenly can’t move my body, and utter any word. Then I fixed my eyes into darkness, an unknown girl is putting on my body! For the first time I had sleep paralysis. Without my notice, the morning came. I can laugh it now, but at the time I was worried sick. I often heard a superstition that a ghost appears the dead of night. Perhaps the girl was actually ghost. I think it is an once-in-a-lifetime experience, and I never want to have that experience.

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