投稿

5月, 2018の投稿を表示しています

New Yorkers

イメージ
What kind of people lived in New York at the beginning of the twentieth centry? Are New Yorkers different now from a hundred years ago? Cities grow bigger with the years, new buildings are put up and old buildings are pulled down, houses are replaced by cars and buses, fashions change. This book is a  sh ort editing, so all stories is written by Henry.O. My favorite story is The Memento. It was easy to predict the outcome, but this story was fun for me. this story is not long story, so please read this story. Henry.O. (2000) Oxford: Oxford Bookworms Library

Christmas in prague

イメージ
     In a house in Oxford three people are having breakfast-Carpl, her husband Jan, and his father Josef. They are talking about Prague, because Carol wants them all to go there for Christmas. Josef wasa born in Prague, but he left his home city when he was a young man. He is an old man now, and he would like to see Prague again before he dies. But he is afraid. He still remembers another Christmas in Prague, many long years ago- a Christmas that changed his life for ever...       I was surprised first 2 sentences. It was written that "Do you know everything about your family? Does your family know everything about yoou?" I think that this sentence attract reader's interest. This book quotes the tragedy of Prague, so you can study about this tragedy by reading this book. Hannam.Joyce (2002) Oxford: Oxford Bookworms Library

Mary queen of scots

イメージ
England and Scotland in the 1500s. Two famous queens- Mary, the Catholic Queen of scots, and Elizabeth 1, the Protestant Queen of England. It was an exciting and a dangerous time to be alive, and to be a queen. Mary was Queen of Scotland when she was one week old. At sixteen, she was also Queen of France. She was tall and beautiful, with red-gold hair. Many men loved her and died for her. But she also had many enemies- men who said:'The death of Mary is the life of Elizabeth.'      This story is non-fiction story. I thoroughly enjoyed this historical biography of Mary, Queen of Scots. I had been studying about Mary in my high school classes,  I wanted to know more about the facts. So, this book was interesting for me. Vicary, Tim (2003) Oxford, Oxford Bookworms library

Anne of green gables

イメージ
Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew want to adopt on orphan, to help on the farm at Green Gables. They ask for a boy, but they get Anne, who has red hair and freckles, and who talks and talks. They didn't want a girl, but how can they send a child back, like an unwanted parcel? So Anne stays, and begins a new life in the sleepy, quiet village of Avonlea in Canada. But it is not so quiet after Anne comes on life there...      The impressin of reading this book is that red hair is disliked in this era of books. Anne received bullies due to that.  I want to know whether red hair would be disliked evcen in contemporary. I read this book for the first time, but it was interesting. L.M.Montgomery (2001) Oxford: Oxford Bookworms library.

The jungle book

イメージ
In the jungle of Southern India the Seeonee Wolf-Pack has a new cub. He is not a wolf- he is Mowgli, a human child, but he knows nothing of the world of men. He lives and hunts with his brothers the wolves. Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther are his friends and teachers. And shere Khan, the man-eating tiger, is his enemy.      I have heard this book name, but i have never read it. Mowgli is a human, but  he was raised by wolves. So he was not able to live on human world.      He knew that the lion was going to eat herself, so he have defeated the lion. However  the villagers feared him. I was sorry because he was having no place to return. Kipling.Rudyard (2000) Oxford. Oxford Bookworms Library