Interactive English Lesson⑥: Our impression of U.K.

Date: Monday, 14th June, 2021

Place: conference room in Kirarie kusatsu

Lesson

◆Talking in pairs about doing the weekend

Our gruop ''Kusatsu teruteru club''  held an agricultural experience event on this Saturday.

We enjoyed harvesting corn with 20 people.

Place was Kitayamada, Kusatsu near Lake Biwa.

Ms T: I wanted to take rest, but our kids is very active.

Mr A: I went to the library in Minami-kusatsu. 

There was closed for maintenance until Friday (for about one week), 

but opened from Saturday.

◆David: I'm from U.K.

 What's your impression of U.K. ?

ここで一度整理。

U.K. イギリス（グレートブリテンおよび北アイルランド連合王国、この長い名前も学校で覚えてた）＝イングランドだと思ってたので、4つのStates？Contries（国）？の話がさっぱり分からん。discussion中に、googleで調べて、なんとか話を合わすことができました。

イギリスは、4つのカントリー（国ではない）から成る。

国旗もこんな感じ

確かに、サッカーでよく見るイングランドのチームは、この白地に赤の十字、

やっと分かったー(笑)

The United Kingdom includes four countries. こんなとこかな、、、

There have a lot of rainy and cloudy days.

Ladies and gentlemen are very handsome like David !

It's standard of longitude.

　グリニッジ天文台で標準経度の話をしたかったんだけど、

latitude 日本とイギリスの緯度は同じくらいだよねって解説をしれくれました。

Others: It has high class brand name for Burberry

　→ Detail

It's famous for football league.

　David: But I don't like to play. Watching is OK.

For travel, it's very expensive.

Good music, for example, ローリングストーンズ、ビートルズ、

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　England

シェイクスピア

English garden around U.K. glass

G7

Fish and chips

London Brigade : It's famous but very small.

ロンドンで有名な橋のイメージのある↓は

Tower Brigadeという別の橋ということです。

some famous university

independence

separate class system : Royal, rich, poor 

If you look 〇〇, this restaurant is good for me.

家の造りが強いので、修繕して住むのが普通 fix

safety

England is famou for tea, so good tea drinkers

English taxi is very expensive. ロールスロイスとか

Royal family, Queen

 clean, power, no lead power, symbol, 

⇔ goverment

Homework: July 5th  presentation about India.

 Research about the basic facts of India.

Think of some good (adult) questions to ask her

Topic: Would you like to change the capital city to another, more modern city ?

Public center has some city. It's far from Kusatsu.

 A lot of those are in Otsu or Maibara

Let's lean about other capital city, its some countries. ex) Taiwan

Good use for feature 特色, benefits

 no business or economy only

 cross to Kyoto and Osaka

Let's hang out in Shiga

 ＝enjoy+spend time

We had a great time. See you !!