2011年12月31日土曜日

BR10: Marty and the magazine

Joe and Marty were best friends since they were little. one of their habit was that hang out at the Mr. Mancini's music shop every friday. one friday he saw Marty taking a magazine into his jacket. Marty was really shocked and couldnt believe what he just saw while Mr. Mancini was talking to his customer. Joe showed him the magazine and he talked about it like nothing wrong with stealing it. then his mother walked by, and she asked him about the magazine. so he lied about it by saying its Marty's. Marty told Joe that he will keep it for a while and went to the music shop and put it back on the shelf. after that he did not want to talk to Joe for a while.

[136 words]

Karen Oppatt, (2007), Marty and the magazine, Thomson Learning Australia

BR9: Drive into Danger

Kim works at the Mark Mile's. Mr.Mark suddenly asked her if she can drive to Nyon with his son who speaks French. It was because of one of his employee was injured. she took her passport and stopped at the some places she was told to stop at. when they stopped at Dover, Andy realized the truck was losing oil somehow. so they looked at the under the truck then they found a wooden box.
when they were having coffee in the cafe, they saw a guy in yellow shirt looking under the truck. but actually, Andy took the parcel when he found them. there were small white paper bags inside. and the guy was following them. they found a rubbish dump and threw the parcel into it. Andy phoned french police in french and fought the guy until the police got there.
after that, Andy and Kim arrived Lyon safely and people kept asking why they took for so long!

[163 words]

Rosemary border, (2000), Drive into Danger, Oxford bookworms starters

2011年12月27日火曜日

brave heart!

This story is about a Scottish man called William Wallace who loved his country so much. At the beginning, his father was killed by English soldiers in battle. His uncle took care of him and taught him languages and world cultures. He came back to Scotland to raise a family but Scotland was currently occupied by English invaders. He fell in love with his childhood friend. Then they got married secretly to avoid ‘prima nocta’ which gives a lord sexual rights to any man’s wife. But after a fight between William and English soldiers, she was killed to bait him. 
After it happened he started to fight to free his country. He killed all the English soldiers in his town and gradually gained support from other communities in Scotland. The English king was busy in France and left the problem to his son. Wallace gained so much support that, using clever tactics, he was able to beat the English army and invade England. The French princess was married to the English prince, and was sent to make a deal with Wallace. She was attracted to his strength and bravery and pure intentions to free his country, and supported him secretly.
In the next battle against the English, Irish conscripts betrayed them and joined the Scots, but the Scottish lords were bribed by the English king, and betrayed Wallace. He was almost captured by the English but escaped during the battle, and continued the rebellion in Scotland. He killed the Scottish lords who betrayed him, but the remaining lords asked to make a deal with him. He was so desperate to unite Scotland against England that he fell for the trap, and was finally captured.
He was hung, drawn and quartered as he wouldn’t confess to doing anything wrong. Scottish lord Robert the Bruce united Scotland after Wallace’s death, and Scotland won its independence from England.

[315 words]