学校英語を洗い流す

#unlearn 始めました!

何がきっかけだったのか、twitter で学校英語や英和辞典など、日本の英語の常識を
疑ってみる試みを始めました。

(ブログは書く時間がないかと思ってましたが、この話題は遅い夏休みから帰ってきても
わたしが覚えているかどうか不安なので・・・)

続きを読む

英作文ライティング笑覧

わたしはこのごろ、英作文ライティング とか、英作文スピーキング とよく言うのですが、
どちらも実例抜きでは説明がむずかしいと思っています。

いや、実例があったってむずかしい・・・ なにより、引用できる実例を探すのがむずかしいと
思っていたら、ありました!

以下は 竹岡広信 という人の書いた「英作文がおもしろいほと書ける本」から引いてきました。
(この人は「英作文の鬼」なんだそうですが、たしかに人間離れしている!)
いつか時間のあるときにどこがどう変か、説明しますが、きょうはただ笑っていただこうと・・・

If you are usually healthy, you may make mistakes when you fall ill. You often worry too much or too little about your health.

If you have been to old European towns, you must have been impressed by how beautiful the streets were.

One out of three Japanese has a regular medical checkup or says that there is something wrong with their health.

Once the telephone starts to ring, you have to stop what you are doing and answer it. That is why when I call someone, I always think about whether it is convenient for him or her.

In order not to get lost while mountain climbing, it’s a good idea to take a map and a compass with you.

People are similar to each other in many ways. However, if they live in different places, they have different languages and costoms.

This watch, which I got fixed only a few days ago, is already broken.

He has often been heard to boast that he is very good at swimming, but he has never actually been seen to swim.

A surprising number of people believe that they can keep their feelings under control.

While walking along the street in a hurry, I started to think that it would take far less time to walk than to drive.

It is a pity that although people want to protect their privacy they want to know what other do .
Unfortunately people want to know other people’s business, but they do not want to reveal anything about themselves.

They believed that Japanese society valued one’s academic background more than any other country in the world, but that was not true in European countries.