CHRISMATS VOCABULARY

Note : We can use these words with or without 'Christmas' before them. A lot of Christmas vocabulary can be used with or without the word ‘Christmas’ in front of it.

For example : we can talk about ‘Christmas crackers’ or just ‘crackers’:

1- a cracker (n): a small paper tube which is pulled from each end by two people at Christmas time. It makes a sharp bang (or 'crack') when it is pulled and inside there is a toy and a joke written on a small piece of paper.

2-a carol (n): a religious song (hymn) or non-religious song about Christmas wrapping paper (n): specially decorated paper (usually with pictures of snowmen, Christmas trees, Santa Claus (etc.) used to wrap Christmas gifts.

3- wrapping paper (n): specially decorated paper (usually with pictures of snowmen, Christmas trees, Santa Claus (etc.) used to wrap Christmas gifts.

Shahran

PHONE VERBS

Hi Everyone.

I would like to write some of the top words for phone.


1- ring / phone / call

i- Will you ring me tomorrow?

ii- Did anyone phone while I was out?

iii- She called you last night.


2- make a call

i- Do you mind if I use your phone to make a call please?


3- hang up (end a phone call)

i- And then she didn't even say 'goodbye', she just hung up.


3- hang on (wait on the phone for a short time)


A: Martin's busy right now. Do you want to hang on or call back later?

B: I'll wait, thanks.

That's all from me.

Shahran.

SPORTS VOCUBULARY

Hi Everyone..

Today, in this blog, I am writing to give some vocabulary about sports :

1- Contact sports

Definition : Sports like rugby, American football and wrestling in which the players have strong physical contact with each other.

He played contact sports when he was younger but then he had a serious accident on the field and hasn't played rugby since.

2- Spectator sports

Definition : Sports which people go to watch.

I don't understand why people think golf is a good spectator sport. It's so slow and not much happens in it.

3- Blood sports

Definition : Sports that involve animals being killed or hurt to excite the people watching or taking part.

I don't understand why people enjoy killing tigers. There are so few of them left in the world. I think blood sports should be outlawed .

Hopefully the vocaubularies will be beneficial to you.

Shahran.

A Book Review(TREE AND LEAF)

My lovely book is an English classical novel. I’m sometimes verity of reading books. Recently I am interested in fantasy literature.
Do you heard or saw the load of the ring?! It was written by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien in 1954. This book author J. R. R. Tolkien's best - selling fantasy epic the book was made into a film in 2006.
but today introduce a book some of an essay about J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy literature.
now I will start book review .
Title: Tree and Leaf
author J. R. R. Tolkien's
Genre: an essay
Reason for choosing this book :
i'm visited university of oxford 3 months ago. this book bought book shop near by oxford university.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The plot: on fairy - story discusses the nature of fairy - tales and fantasy.
fairy - story are not just for children also available adult.
he written some poem mythopeia fantasy is consistency of reality.
My opinion
A good read? not really my cup of tea
Reasons for the above: my hobbies id fantasy watching film and reading a book.
but im interested in classical novel.
The english: just about right
Overall comment: if you reading the book, you will be know more detail about J. R. R. Tolkien's. why written about fantasy literature.

Evaluation: (out of 10) 7/10

A QUESTION

Hi everybody

Today, I'd like to write a little bit of questions. The purpose of this writing is to remember what I've only just read about questions. Sometimes I forgot what I read, so I decided to write it to remember it. And also I hope it will be beneficial to you.

I will try to take it is not going to take too long so that you will find it's interesting.

Let's take a sentence, for example " William ate a lof of chocolate". In this sentence, "William" is the subject and "a lot of chocolate" is the object.

1- When we want to make the subject question we do not need the auxilliary verb, for example : Who ate a lot of chocolate?. The answer is "William".

2- When we want to make the object question we need the auxilliary verb "did", for example : What did Willian eat?. The answer is " a lot of chocolate"


That's all.

Shahran

THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO (Corrected)

Title and main details: The Count of Monte Cristo. Alexandre Dumas. Text adaptation by Clara West.

Type of book: Romance, Drama and Story Aventure.

Review:

Edmond Dantess sailed into Marseille in a ship called 'The Pharaon' in February 24,1815. Dante hopes to marry with his fiancee Marcedes very soon . Fernand the cousin of Dante want to marry Mercede too. Fernand, with his friend Danglars, make plans to stop the wedding, the plan worked well and Edmond was arrested on the wedding day. Dantes was in the prison of Chateau for 14 years but one day he escapes. Dante becomes the richest man in the world. He dressed in expensive clothes, and put on a grey wig and changed his name; The Count of Monte Cristo. Hi knew that nobody would reconize him, now hi is ready to take revenge on his enemies...

It you are looking for drama, romance and aventure The Count of Monte Cristo is a very good book and an interesting to read. The vocabulary and English are challenging. * 9/10.

Plot Sumary: The Count of Monte Cristo is a book by Alexandre Dumas. Series editors: Bill Bowlre and Parminter.Alexandre Dumas was born near Paris in 1802. He become successful with a play wright and novelist. His most famous books, The three Musketeers (1844) and The Count of Monte Cristo (1845) are both available in the Dominoes Series.

Persuasion (Sunyoung) (Corrected)

Title: Persuasion

Author: Jane Austen

Genre: Romance

Reason for choosing this book:

Once I watched the film, Pride and prejudice, whose author is Jane Austen. I was impressed by the film. So, I chose Persuasion.

About the book

Setting : Bath

Characters: Ann Elliot, Frederic wentworth

The plot: Ann and Frederic fall in love with each other. But Ann's father rejects Frederic's proposal because he is a solider and isn't rich. Her father persuades her to leave from him. So, Ann follows her father's order. Frederick goes into the Navy and his ship carries him away. Suddenly Ann learns that he is coming back home to visit his married sister. Now he is an important man, the captain of a ship. Do they fall in love?

Your opinion

A good read? it dragged at times

Reasons for the above: It is boring story. It doesn't have and the reverse scenes??. This story is an old-fashioned idea.

The English: too simple

Overall comment: It doesn't suit me. But if you liked love story, it would be better for you.

Evaluation: (out of 10) 4 / 10

A book review (Corrected)

Hi I'm chiaki.

I'm going to talk about a book. Title is ROAD TO NOWHERE. I choose this book by its title.

It made me wonder. I thought why road to nowhere? I thought it would be an interesting story.



The story is set in Um Khalid. There is a side of the river. This was a British colony. Now the British had just left this country. So, there is a developing country. Suddenly, the government suggests building a new boarding school in Um Khalid. Therefore, a new road is nedded between school to Um Khalid. The Young people agreed with this plan. But the old people and conservative people do not agree. However, a new road is built. When they built the new road, they forgot about rainy season. So, rainy season came to Um Khalid. The Um Khalid was washed away by the rainy season.


In this story, conservative thinking is right answer. I think that this story teaches us when we make new something, we have to think well. And we have to listen to another's thinking.

Eye Of The Storm (Corrected)

Eye of the Storm

THE BOOK REVIEW

Title : Eye of the storm

Author : Mandy Loader

Genre :Original fiction

Reason for choosing this book : Just for entertainment, and to improve my English particularly, in reading and writing .

ABOUT THE BOOK

Setting : The story is set in 2003 by Cambridge University press.

Characters : IKEM, HIRU, MAX, ROSS PETERS, RICK AND ELANE BRIDGES.

The plot : A hurricane is tearing across the Atlantic from the west coast of Africa towards America. As the hurricane passes through the Caribbean, it destroys everything in its path. In Florida, a man is out in a fishing boat, unaware of the approaching disaster. His daughter, Ikemi, and her boyfriend must confront the hurricane in a desperate attempt to reach her father before it's too late.

MY OPINION

It's a boring story with a lot of action talking around a fishing man lost in sea, but there is a benefit for those people whose study is English, with a lot of new words.

Reason for the above : A lot of phrases repeated frequantly .

The English : It's good for a student how above there are many of words which are clear and easy to understand.

Overall comment : Good for nonspeakers of English or kids.

Evaluation: 6/10

Sultan

A BOOK REVIEW (Corrected)

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Title : The Sign Of Four.

Author : Arthur Conan Dougle.

Genre : Adventure

Reason for choosing this book : I like this book because of its short. I like investigative story.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Setting : The story is set in 1887 or 1888. 'The Sign Of Four' has a complex plot involving service in colonial India and a stolen treasure and secret pact among four ex-convicts.

Characters : Sherlock Holmes, Dr Wason

The plot : This book has an interesting plot that always encourages us to follow it. It is a mystery story book and an enjoyable read.

MY OPINION

I particularly enjoyed reading this book, because the book tries to explain some mysteries during the story. For example, "since her father disappeared, she received a large pearls via the post on the same day every year. Who is sending them?"

Although this mystery is not so mysterious but it was an interesting and well-written story. If someone is looking for a mystery and investigative book, this it is.

In my opinion, this book is really my cup of tea. Another thing I would like to say is may be everyone who read it they will be surprised at Sherlock Holmes's conclusion.

Reason for the above : I think the first page of this book is enough to explain that the book is mysterious and that it has an interesting story to follow it.

The English : This book is good for intermediate level. Sometimes, it can be difficult to take it in all at once, because there are many unknown words in some paragraph and it is difficult to get used to the structure of the sentences.

Overall comment : Overall, it is an interesting book to read , and quite mysterious. There are so many useful words to be learned.

Evolution : 7/10

Shahran (to show a part of the film)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=crV10tOMSA0&feature=related

A Kiss Before Dying (Corrected)

Author:Ira Levin
Original title :Kiss Before Dying
Placed & time :United States 1953

The Story

Bud Corliss is born into a working-class family and raised by his mother after his father walked out. As an adult, he uses an uncanny ability to adapt his personality to any given situation to chase his dreams of wealth and success — to be achieved by any means necessary.
An overachiever, he is a stellar student in high school and enlists in the Korean War at 18, returning as a decorated hero. The most pivotal moment in his life occurs during the war, when he corners, shoots and kills a North Korean soldier, who is so terrified of an American soldier with a gun that he wets his pants. Corliss is both elated by the total power he held over the soldier and disgusted by a display of terror he considers weak and unmanly. He makes up his mind then and there to never show any sign of vulnerability.
Upon returning to the U.S., he enrolls in college and meets Dorothy Kingship, the daughter of a wealthy copper tycoon. Seeing an opportunity to attain the riches he has always craved, he becomes Dorothy's lover, but panics when she announces she is pregnant. He is sure that her stern, conservative father will disown her. Resolving to get rid of Dorothy, he tricks her into writing a letter that, to an unknowing observer, would look like a suicide note and then murders her. He runs no risk of getting caught, having urged Dorothy to keep their relationship a secret from her family and friends. He continues to live with his mother, who dotes on him and has no clue as to what he has done.
Corliss lies low for a few months until the press coverage of Dorothy's death has subsided. Then he pursues Dorothy's sister, Ellen. The romance is going according to plan — until Ellen begins to probe into Dorothy's death, convinced her sister did not kill herself. Ellen eventually confronts Corliss, who calmly confesses to the crime before murdering her as well.
Not to be discouraged, Corliss courts the last remaining Kingship daughter, Marion. This affair is the most successful; Corliss sweeps her off her feet, meets and charms her father, and eventually asks her to marry him, a proposal she gleefully accepts.
Detective Gordon Gant refuses to give up, however, breaking into Corliss' childhood home and stealing a written plan for meeting and seducing Marion to get her family's money, as well as news clippings about Dorothy's and Ellen's deaths. Days before the wedding, he shows up at the Kingship family home and presents Marion and her father with the evidence of Corliss' deception.
On a trip to one of the Kingship family's copper manufacturing plants, Marion, her father and Grant all corner Corliss while he is standing over a vat of molten copper and threaten to expose him. Corliss frantically pleads his innocence, but they are unmoved. Realizing his luck has finally run out and that he is facing the electric chair, Corliss at last loses his composure and wets his pants — just as the North Korean soldier, his symbol of pathetic cowardice, had done. Delirious with panic and shame, Corliss loses his footing and falls to his death into the vat below.

Review
It is a famous story of a young man who lets the American dream run away with his soul. Bud Corliss is a completely cynical version of the same character, a man who will do anything it takes to get what he wants, including committing two ghastly killings.

My comment

I loved this book! Once you start reading this book and getting into it, it captures you to where you never want to put it down. This book makes you gasp, laugh, cry, and also make you bite your finger nails! If you love romantic and suspenceful books this is the one for you. I truly must say that this is the best book i have read for a long time

A Review Of Sign Of Four's Book (Corrected)

THE STORY

Sherlock Holmes, the famous detective and his friend have studied a murder of the father of a daughter called Miss Morstan. Since her father disappeared, she has received a large pearl through the post on the same day, every years. Who is sending them? And what about her father's paper with the words 'The Sign of Four'

All starts in the apartment of Holmes and Watson where they met a lady, Miss Morstan. She told them about her father who disappeared after a journey to India. And then she put an advertisement at Newspaper to look for who has known about her father. But nobody responded to it.

Some years later she got a strange letter, which told her that she can have a meeting with the mysterious person, therefore she asked Holmes to came with her.

They come with her and met Thaddeus Sholto, who told them that his father was with Miss Morstans father in Indian and there they found a treasure, the Agra Treasure, but after that Miss Morstan father and Major Shalto had a little fight about the treasure and Miss Morstan's father died at the end of it, because he had a very weak heart. After that Major Shalto had hid the body and hid the treasure.

As Major Salto began to die he wanted to tell his sons about the treasure, but before he had finished he died. His sons had some pearls from the treasure and they sent the pearls to Miss Morstan, because his father had told them to share the treasure with the daughter of Captain Morstan. And now they had found the treasure, but as they walked to Thadeous Shalto's brother with had the treasure they found him dead and the treasure was stolen. He had been killed by a poison thorn.

After a little search Holmes found some food prints on the ground and followed them, until they came to a river where the murderer must have travelled with a boat. Holmes found out that the murderer wanted to escape to America and the next day he and the police waited on the river to catch the murderer. They caught the murderer, but had to kill the murderers friend.

After they got the murderer he told them that he and three friend had found the treasure, but they could not get it, because they were in prision. There they meet Major Shalto and Captain Morlton and planed that Morton and Shalto should get the treasure and then free the four prisoners, but Shalto and Morton wanted the treasure for their own and therefore the murderer, the last suviour of the for prisoners, observed Major Shalto to get the treasure back. And after he got the treasure and tried to escape and realised that his friend were killed he throw the treasure in the river.

My comment :

I particularly enjoyed this mystery, because the book tries to explain some of the mysteries. Although this mystery is not so mysterious, but it was a very interesting, well written story. If someone is looking for a mysterious and investigative book, this is it. It will be really your cup of tea.

Shahran

Memoirs of a Geisha (Martina's) (Corrected)

Hi!!!!!
I'm Martina! I want to write about the book that I've just finished reading, "Memoirs of a geisha".
The story is all about Sayuri, the geisha, from when she was a little girl called Chiyo who lived in a small fish town to when she stopped being a geisha and moved to New York.
So it is an autobiographal book (it is all narrated in first person), in which it is interesting to know about the traditional japanese figure of the geisha and about Sayuri's life, her studies to become a geisha, her enemies, her friends, her lovers, all with the social background of the second world war.
This book is edited by the "Penguin readers" and it is written by Arthur Golden. It is for the advanced level but the language is very simple and the words used very common. Maybe the only difficut is about the japanese words that aren't translated in English but they are always explained.
I really like this book and now I want to watch the film and see if the story is the same and how the director has imagined all the characters, espacially Sayuri,the main character.
Anyway if you want to read a simple but interesting story, and find out more about the geisha's world, this is the right book!

Memoirs of a Geisha.(Carmen) (Corrected)

This book tells a story of Chiyo,a little girl that lives in the small fishing village of Yoroido,with her sister,her mother, who is sick, and her father.

It happens during the Great Depression when her father sells Chiyo to Mr Tanaka who brings her to Kyoto where Chiyo is sold to the Nitta Okiya,a geisha house.

Chiyo meets Mrs Nitta,or "Mother" who is the mistress of Okiya and meets another young girl like her ,Pumpkin. They become friens.

Chiyo must become a geisha and she is learning how to become it,but is always obstructed by Hatsumomo,the most beautiful geisha at the moment of the Nitta Okiya.

One day, walking on the Gion's centre Chiyo meets a benevolent Chairman who will change her life.

Chiyo also meets Mameha,the most important in all of Gion who becomes the Chiyo's personal trainer.When Chiyo starts the apprentiship she gives her a new name:Sayuri.

After a long time of practice Mameha organises a bidding war between rich patrons for Sayuri's mizuage(virginity).

Dr.Crab, who wins Sayuri's mizuage , pays the highest price ever paid in Gion.

Next Sayuri is adopted by Nitta and she becomes a famous and rich geisha.

During all this time, Sayuri always thought about the Chairman, who she has fallen in love with.

When World War II happens Sayuri changes her life another time because the geisha districts are closed and she go to work in a factory .

Finally Sayuri will changes her life completly because she will remeet the Chairman and they reveal their feelings to each other.

So Sayuri leaves the geisha's life forever in order to stay with the Chairman.