Sunday, December 31, 2006


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1. What game are they playing?
2. What other games have they played?


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3. Where do young people go?
4. What did we have for desert?

See you tomorrow

Saturday, December 30, 2006

Fishing at Ragaln...


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1. What is the difference between 'fly fishing' and 'normal fishing'?
2. What is bait?
3. What is very popular?
4. What can happen in the harbour?

See you tomorrow?

Friday, December 29, 2006

At the beach...


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1. What is behind us?
2. Why couldn't Izumi swim with the dolphins?
3. What did the man at the dolphins tell me?
4. What happens after two or three minutes?
5. What are the flags on New Zealand beaches for?

See you tomorrow.

P.S. Izumi and Takana both went for a swim and had a great time in the surf!

Thursday, December 28, 2006

Raglan


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1. What does Izumi think of Raglan?
2. What are we doing today?
3. What was red and blue?
4. What is the answer to the question "You don't like snakes do you?"

See you tomorrow.

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Hobbit Motel


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1. What kind of motel is it?
2. What animals are here?
3. What is fog?
4. What are 'bunks'?
5. What are Takana and Izumi doing today?

See you tomorrow

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Boxing Day


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1. What have we just been doing?
2. What were the prices like?
3. What did Takana buy?
4. What was different?

See you tomorrow.

Monday, December 25, 2006

Christmas Day


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1. What are we doing?
2. What is in the distance?
3. What did we do this afternoon?


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1. What are we having for dinner?
2. How do we get gravy?
3. What is different with Christmas between Japan and New Zealand?

See you tomorrow

Sunday, December 24, 2006

Christmas Eve


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1. What has been Izumi's and Takana's first impressions of New Zealand?
2. What have they done today?
3. What is the difference between suprmarkets with Japan and New Zealand?
4. What will we do next?

See you tomorrow.

Saturday, December 23, 2006

Rainbow Springs


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1. What is Raibow Springs famous for?
2. What can you tell me about trout?
3. Describe the native New Zealand duck.

See you tomorrow.

Friday, December 22, 2006

A busy time in Rotorua...


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1. How many times did we go down the luge?
2. What did we do before lunch?
3. What will we do after lunch?
4. What is the plan for tomorrow?

See you tomorrow.

Thursday, December 21, 2006

Honey Sop


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1. What is the home of a bee called?
2. What mistake did I make today? (Clue: I said something the wrong way around)
3. What can you do in the honey shop?

See you tomorrow.

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Christmas at the village


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1. Who is`Alo talking to?
2. What is on everybody's face?
3. What are some of the things happening at the village?


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4. What kind of rides will there be?
5. What did Alo and Ai really enjoy?

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Two Kittens

Sorry, but I left my camera at someones place today so Have had to use an old video from when we first got our cats. Annalise and Daniel a little bit younger arn't they?


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Part 1

1. What question did I ask Annalise?


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Part 2

2. What was Annalise's answer to the question "What do you think?"
3. What does 'tummy' mean?
4. What did I say at the end? "Do you.........?"

See you tomorrow.

Monday, December 18, 2006

NZ Camping


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1. Tell me about the movie I saw tonight?
2. What has got very expensive?
3. What are three ways you can sleep at a Camping Ground?
4. What does 'tempting' mean?
5. What are some New Zealanders worried about?

See you tomorrow.

Sunday, December 17, 2006

Twins


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1. What does 'gorgeous' mean?
2. What has Aloha been doing today?
3. What doesn't my camera do?
4. What do Steve and Lisa do?

See you tomorrow.

Saturday, December 16, 2006

PARTY TIME


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1. What kind of party was it?
2. What is Annalise's news?
3. What is inside there?
4. What did Toshi's homestay family make for the bbq?
5. What did we drink?

See you tomorrow

Friday, December 15, 2006

Cute ponies...


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1. What are Aloha and Ai learing?
2. What does he say to make the horse go?
3. What things did we do today?
4. Where are they go next?

See you tomorrow.

Thursday, December 14, 2006

Christmas Tree


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1. Why am I tired?
2. What are we going to do?
3. What will we do with the tree when it's up?
4. Why is it hard for kids?

See you tomorrow

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

A new homestay...


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1. How old are the piglets?
2. What animals do they have?
3. What kind of trees do they have?
4. What do you do with a 'slippery slide'?

See you tomorrow.

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Annalise's school...


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1. Where are we today?
2. What do kids love?
3. What can you tell me about Annalise's school?
4. When does her school finish and start again?
5. What do you think "looks a pretty impressive turn out" means?

See you tomorrow.

Monday, December 11, 2006

Bad news..


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1. What is the bad news?
2. What do we hope?
3. What takes a long time?
4. Why are we very excited?

See you tomorrow.

Sunday, December 10, 2006

What a mess!


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1. What has finally happened?
2. What did I "warn you" about?
3. What will happen by tomorrow?
4. What did Daniel tell us?

See you tomorrow

Saturday, December 09, 2006

Moving House


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1. What have been doing today?
2. Why was I suprised today?
3. How many loads did we do in the truck?
4. How did I say thank you for the truck?

See you tomorrow.

Friday, December 08, 2006

The kid's are making dinner...


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1. What is happening today?
2. What is on Annalise's pizza?
3. What is our other problem?
4. What does "sort everything out" mean?

See you tomorrow.

Thursday, December 07, 2006

A big day out!


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Hi everyone! Today we were driving so it is a little hard to hear but it is good practise.

1. What were we doing today?
2. What was very bad?
3. What is a 'Sports Bar'?
4. What is very popular in NZ?
5. What was the last thing we did?

See you tomorrow.

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Today's Adventure


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1. What's going on?
2. What was Daniel trying to do before?
3. Where are we?
4. What is a stream?

See you tomorrow.
p.s. The flowers are not Dandelions they are Daisies.

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

At the park


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1. What is this park used for?
2. What is a 'trial' ........?
3. Why did we come to the park today?

See you tomorrow.

Monday, December 04, 2006

Salmon Cakes


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1. How do I cook Salmon Fish Cakes?
2. What did Annalise do today that was special?
3. What is an Advent Calendar?
4. What was written in the first box?

See you tomorrow.

Sunday, December 03, 2006

I am too big for this....


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1. What does the sign say?
2. What is the theme of this McDonalds?
3. What is another way of saying "go back"?

See you tomorrow.

Saturday, December 02, 2006

Rotorua Adventure!


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Part 1

1. How do you make the luge go and stop?


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Part 2

2. What does "had a blast" mean?
3. What are the three tracks?
4. What is up the top?
5. What is the 'Sky Swing' and how fast does it go?

See you tomorrow.

Friday, December 01, 2006

Pronunciation helper...


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1. What do I use the books for?
2. Finish this... "Sam sings .........times"
3. Who does Michelle live with?
4. What were Annalise and Daniel doing?

See you tomorrow in Rotorua!

Thursday, November 30, 2006

N.Z. Advertisements


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Something a little different today.

1. Do you think New Zealand advertisements are similar or different to Japan?

2. What does "my shout" mean?

3. See if you can write down the questions I ask and then answer them.

See you tomorrow.

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Speech Therapy


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1 What relation is Anita to me?
2 Why has she come to Tauranga, (where and what)?
3. What kind of people do speech therapists help?
4. How are the jobs different?

See you tomorrow.

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Fishing...


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1. What is 'bait'?
2. What was the special thing this morning for Annalise?
3. What was the other interesting thing for Annalise?
4. What are we having for dinner tonight?

See you tomorrow.

Monday, November 27, 2006

If you had been...


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1. What is Annalise's news?
2. What did Annalise say when I asked her what she was going to put in her containers?
3. Write and answer the questions?

See you tomorrow!

Sunday, November 26, 2006

A Japanese restaurant in Tauranga...


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1. Where are our friends from?
2. What are they doing in Tauranga?
3. How often do they do to this restaurant?
4. What kind of crab did we eat?
5. Who else is with us?

See you tomorrow.

Saturday, November 25, 2006

Another kind of cafe...


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1. What is quite common?
2. What is Annalise's news?
3. Why did we go out this morning?
4. What is happening on Tuesday?

See you tomorrow.

Friday, November 24, 2006

A mixi visitor...


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1. What were two things Minako wanted to do in New Zealand?
2. How many times has she been to NZ?
3. What is her top recommendation?
4. What is her impression of Tauranga?

See you tomorrow.

Thursday, November 23, 2006

A bedtime story from Annalise...


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Hi everyone! No questions tonight just a goodnight story from Annalise. I hope it is easier to understand her while she is reading. I know it is hard to understand her when she talking!

A mixi girl rang me today as she is visiting Tauranga for a few days. She is going to visit us tomorrow afternoon after a Swimming with Dolphins trip.

See you tomorrow.

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Pavlova!


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1. What is Pavlova?
2. What does it have on top?
3. What is it made of?
4. Why is not Eriko's last night with her homestay family?
5. What is happening at 4.40am?
6. What will we do on the way to the airport?

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

The new house...


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1.How long before we move in?
2.Who own the house before?
3.What is "out the back"?
4.What does the lounge have?

Sorry about the quality of the video inside but I hope you could see the outside OK.

See you tomorrow.

Monday, November 20, 2006

News ....


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1. What is Annalise's big news today?
2. How many did she buy?
3. What are the stickers for?
4. What is Daniel's news?
5. What is our family news?
6. What is happening tomorrow?

See you tomorrow.

Sunday, November 19, 2006

A Political BBQ


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1. What kind of party is it?
2. Why was it strange for me to see the construction site?
3. What did Eriko do this weekend?
4. What did Eriko's homestay mother say?
5. What does 'stuck for words' mean?

See you tomorrow.

Saturday, November 18, 2006

Annalise's own recipe...


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1. What did Annalise do?
2. What did she call it?
3. What is in the recipe?
4. What was Daniel's news?

See you tomorrow.

Friday, November 17, 2006

New Zealand's best sausage?


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1. What is special about tonight?
2. Where can you buy these sausages?

Part 2


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1. What does Daniel have?
2. What did Annalise write on the note?

See you tomorrow.

Thursday, November 16, 2006

Yeah Junko's back!


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1. Why is today very special?
2. What kind of sushi is it?
3. Where is Cape Reinga?
4. What is there?
5. What Junko do at 90 mile beach?
6 What did Junko do at Hot Water Beach?
7. How hot was the water?
8. What did Junko do to make the water cooler.

See you tomorrow.

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Gondola


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1. Where had we just been?
2. What did they do at the sheep show.
3. What were the two amazing things?
4. Who milked the cows.
5. What was he most famous Maori song about?
6. What is up the top?

See you tomorrow.

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Smells bad!


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1. What did I say the hot water was doing?
2. What does Eriko think of Rotorua?
3. How do people describe Rotorua?
4. What does 'rotten' mean?
5. What other places are we going to?
6. How far is Rotorua from Tauranga?

See you tomorrow.

Monday, November 13, 2006

DIY?


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1. What kind of muffins are they?
2. What did Annalise say when she came home from school?
3. Why would I not build one?
4. What are my two options?

See you tomorrow.

Sunday, November 12, 2006

A new boat...


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1. What are Daniel and Annalise doing?
2. Who owns the boat?
3. How long has he been putting it together?
4. What was unfortunate?
5. What does he have 'high hopes' for?

See you tomorrow.

Saturday, November 11, 2006

Christmas sales already!


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1. What is the man doing?
2. The lady said "Japanese are exquisite quilters." What does 'exquisite' mean?
3. She also used the expression "out of _______ ___________".
4. Where has the lady just come back from?
5. What did the two Japanese do?

See you tomorrow.

Friday, November 10, 2006

Choas


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1. Who does Amane love?
2. What happened this morning?
3. What does 'chaos' mean?
4. What is the area we live in called?
5. What did Eriko do this morning?

See you tomorrow.

Thursday, November 09, 2006

Cultural differences....


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1. What was one of my mixi friends doing this weekend?
2. What are 'huge'?
3. What is the difference in bed times?
4. What is the different about New Zealand husbands? Why is it differnt?
5. What is big differnce about driving in NZ?

See you tomorrow.

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Let's be 'pro active' ....


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1. What did the first missionaries in Tauranga do?
2. What was on Eriko's tour?
3. Why couldn't Eriko hear the guide?
4. What did I do with Junko?
5. What does 'pro active' mean?

See you tomorrow.

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Japan wins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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1. What kind of party is this?
2. What is the other big news?
3. Why is today a very big day in New Zealand and Australia?
4. What do people do?

See you tomorrow.

Monday, November 06, 2006

A fire?


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1. What is the name of the popular game?
2. Why did I ask if everyone was O.K.?
3. Where are Eriko and Junko going?
4. What will they do there?
5. What do I hope?

See you tomorrow.

Sunday, November 05, 2006

Buying a house?


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1. What is quite popular in New Zealand?
2. What is a Real Estate Agent?
3. How do you work out the Japanese?
4. What does 'decor' mean?
5. What does 'easy care grounds' mean?
6. What does it mean when they say it could be for 'investors'?

See you tomorrow.

Saturday, November 04, 2006

Saturday Morning


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1. What is Leslie teaching Annalise?
2. What is the stirrup for?
3. Who is Gipetto?
4. What do you do if you want the pony to go?

If anyone is interested here are a couple of others.......


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See you tomorrow.

Friday, November 03, 2006

A special party...


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1. What is special about this party?
2. What is the reason for Guy Fawkes?
3. What are the children doing tonight?
4. What did Eriko do today?
5. What is happening on Monday?
6. How many children does Debbie have?

See you tomorrow.

Thursday, November 02, 2006

Native speaking at native speed.


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1. What do I have to do?
2. Why do I need to do it?
3. Why am I lucky?
4. What did I try and help Junko find today?
5. What was impossible?
6. What did I mean when I said we (English teachers etc.) have trained people for a marathon but we have only let them walk in their training?

Hope today's blog wasn't to confusing.

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Tauranga view


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1. Why is this also an interesting place?
2. What does 'have a dream' mean?
3. What is our question?
4. What did Eriko do this morning?
5. What will she do next week?

See you tomorrow.

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Gold Rush...


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1. What is this place famous for?
2. What is today's expression? "Better to be __________ than _________?
3. What does it mean?
4. Where did the people come from for the 'gold rush'?
5. When shopping today what did Eriko notice was different to Japan?

See you tomorrow.

Monday, October 30, 2006

Homemade Orange juice.


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1. What's special about today's afternoon tea?
2. Where did the oranges come from?
3. How has Eriko's day been?
4. What's the difference between pre'school and playcentre?
5. What does Amane like?

See you tomorrow.

Sunday, October 29, 2006

A relaxed day


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1. What kind of day has it been today?
2. What does 'hanging out' mean?
3. What did we see on the drive?
4. What did Daniel do this afternoon?

See you tomorrow.

Saturday, October 28, 2006

What's wrong with Annalise?


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1. What is daylight savings?
2. Why is it great? (What can you do?)
3. What is wrong with Annalise?
4. Why is it harder for kids to go to be during daylight savings?
5. What will I do tomorrow?

See you tomorrow.

Friday, October 27, 2006

Party in the Park


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1. What kind of bbq party is it?
2. What are we eating tonight?
3. How was Junko's surfing lesson?
4. What is Eriko's first impressions of N.Z.?
5. What is Hiromi's homestay dad doing?

See you tomorrow.

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Surfing part 2


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1 What does 'given it a good go' and 'give it your best shot' mean?
2 What might happen in the next few minutes?
3 Why are there hardly any people on the beach?
4 Why will Junko have five lessons?

See you tomorrow.

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Hiromi's Surfing lesson


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1. What do have when you are learning to surf?
2. Why do have that kind of board?
3. What does "catch a wave" mean?
4. What are some other usages of 'catch'?
5. What does 'Did you catch what I said?'

See you tomorrow.


p.s Look at the photo below and guess many years the instructor has been surfing?

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

A great English expression!


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1. What is the expression?
2. What was the situation I used that expression?
3. Who likes wine?
4. What does the expression mean?

See you tomorrow?

Monday, October 23, 2006

A public holiday today!


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1. What is Daniel's news?
2. Why didn't Annalise go to school today?
3. What does Labour Day celebrate?

See you tomorrow.

Sunday, October 22, 2006


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1. Why is it called Bridal Veil Falls?
2. I wonder how many ______ ___ _____ fall _________ ________ _____ .
3. I wonder ________ _____ __________ ___ ___________ ___ ___ ______ .
4. I wonder what _____ __________ ____ _______ ____ ___ ______ _________.
5. What does "muddy" mean?
6. Whay is the water muddy?

See you tomorrow.

Saturday, October 21, 2006

Big surf!!!!!


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1. How did I describe the waves?
2. How many surfers are out?
3. How big are the waves?

Part 2


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1. Did my first video stop?
2. Why can it be dangerous jumping off the rocks?
3. What am I hoping?
4. Who lives at Raglan and why is he not surfing today?

Part 3


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5. If it was me what would I do?
6. What are we going to do next?

See you tomorrow.

Friday, October 20, 2006

Children's horse riding school...


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1. Where are we today?
2. What did Junko do?
3. What question did I ask Leslie?
4. What will Leslie be doing at one o'clock?

See you tomorrow.

Thursday, October 19, 2006

Brilliant golf shots!


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1. Why was Junko's shot brilliant?
2. But what was the big news?
3. What do you think "not enough juice" means?
4. What was special today for Hiromi?
5. What is a project?
6. What are the kids in Junko's class doing?

Sorry if you missed the end of the video blog. Junko is going to help at a childrens horse riding school as a volunteer.

See you tomorrow.

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Extra education


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1. Where are we going?
2. What is the subject?
3. Where and when am I picking Junko up.
4. Who works at the highschool?
5. What did we do before we dropped Junko off?

See you tomorrow

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Why sushi?


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1. Who is going where tonight?
2. What was Hiromi doing on the internet?
3. What were Roz and Jo doing?
4. What was Annalise and Junko doing?
5. What was Daniel showing you?
6. What was Annalise going to do with Junko next?

See you tomorrow.

Monday, October 16, 2006

85 today!


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1. Where am I and why are we there?
2. What was happening to Annalise?
3. What is Andrew doing tonight?
4. What is Hamilton?
5. What does Kylie do in Queenstown?
6. What is her hobby?
7. Where is Queenstown?

See you tomorrow.

Sunday, October 15, 2006

Dead Eels and Possums


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1. What type of competition is it?
2. Why are possums a pest?
3. What hadn't started yet?
4. What was the competition for dads last year?
5. What did I say about the piglet (baby pig)?
6. What was over the back?

See you tomorrow.

Saturday, October 14, 2006

Farm Day at Annalise's school...


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1. Where are we today?
2. What is a "sausage sizzle"?
3. What is trailer often used for in NZ?
4. What was the judge showing the kids?

See you tomorrow.

Friday, October 13, 2006

Night Classes


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1. What is Junko going to be doing?
2. How often will she do it?4
3. What type of class is it?
4. What question did I ask Hiromi?
6. What is the difference between Tauranga Port and Auckland Port?

See you tomorrow.

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Tricky English


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1. What is Junko's new volunteer service?
2. What is Hiromi's new phrase?
3. What is Junko's new phrase?
4. What does it mean?

See you tomorrow

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

A cool French game...


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1. What did we do today?
2 What did we do that was good?
3. What did we do that reversed that good?
4. What is the aim of the game?
5. What is todays expression?
6. What does it mean?

See you tomorrow.

P.S. the name of the game is 'Petanque'.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Lamb Chops tonight....


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1. What is sad?
2. What does Roz like?
3. What is 'basil'good with?
4. What does "mention' mean?
5. When I use the internet the '_____________ __________ ____________ __fast.'
6. "Where has the _________ ___________."

See you tomorrow.

Monday, October 09, 2006

Katikati Museum


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1. What have the girls just done?
2. What is 'over there'?
3. What was interesting about the Katikati musuem?
4. What did a guide do?

See you tomorrow

Sunday, October 08, 2006

Catching the train.....


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1. What is Annalise and Daniel's favorite thing to do?
2. Who runs the train?
3. What does 'runs' mean?
4. Now we are "gunna go" (slang for 'going to go')through the tunnel. Usually the kids _________________ so you _____________ want to ________________ _________ _______.
5. What did I say about the weather?

See you tomorrow.

Saturday, October 07, 2006

I hope Roz doesn't find out...


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1. What did we just have that was "yummy"?
2. What is Daniel doing?
3. What were Annalise and Daniel playing?
5. What was Daniel's idea?
6. Why didn't I have to cook lunch or dinner yesterday?

See you tomorrow.

Friday, October 06, 2006

Fashion Models


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1. What has Sarah just done?
2. When they asked Sarah about being so tall she said "she was pretty insecure growing up". What does 'insecure' mean?
3. How tall is 6 foot 1 inch in centimetres?
4. How tall are models usually?


See you tomorrow.

Thursday, October 05, 2006

A new homestay...


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1. Please introduce Jade's family?
2. What is quite common in New Zealand?
3. What is in the sleepout?
4. What is a deck?
5. What are Jade's children doing?

See you tomorrow!

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Elms Mission House


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1. What kind of place were we at today?
2. What is a 'missionary'?
3. What does 'settler' mean?
4. What is an oak tree?
5. Where was the oak tree?

See you tomorrow.

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Pub Dinner...


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1. Where are we?
2. What is special about this place?
3. What is Cous Cous?
4. Where is it from?
5. What is "Quiz Night"?
6. What is a "Bar Tab"?

See you tomorrow.

Monday, October 02, 2006

Photo boards


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1. Who wants to share news?
2. What is in Daniel's book?
3. What do you do with photo boards?
4. What kind of photo's will go on the boards?
5. What did we make this afternoon?

See you tomorrow

Sunday, October 01, 2006

5th Birthday Party


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1. Where are we?
2. What are we doing here?
3. What is there to eat?
4. When did Hiromi arrive?
5. How long has Hiromi been in N.Z.?
6. What will she do here in New Zealand?
7. Describe her homestay family?

See you tomorrow.

Saturday, September 30, 2006

Something a little different


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1. Where are we?
2. What is in it?
3. What is the answer to the riddle?

See you tomorrow.

Friday, September 29, 2006

At Starbucks


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1. What has happened to Annalise and Daniel?
2. Who is Simon?
3. Where were Annalise and Daniel last night?
4. What did they do there?
5. What presents did they get?

See you tomorrow.

Thursday, September 28, 2006

Roz interview ....


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1. What are we doing at the mount?
2. What is Roz going to be doing?
3. How long is the flight?
4. What does Roz want to buy?
5. What happenend at Junko's rest home volunteer service?

See you tomorrow.

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Out in the garden


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Part 1
1. What is spring growth?



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Part 2
2. What ran out?
3. How old will Annalise's cousin be tomorrow?
4. Where are Junko and Roz?
5. What kind of cats are they?

See you tomorrow

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

BBQ night part 2


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1. What are we going to do?
2. What mistake did Annalise make?
3. What did Daniel give Annalise?
4. How often do most families cook on their bbq?
5. What temperature should you have it for the steak?
6. What kind of beer is it?
7. What do I do with the beer?

See you tomorrow

Monday, September 25, 2006

BBQ


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1. Tonight is ........ night?
2. What way did they come?
3. What do we need for the bbq?
4. What is the difference between New Zealand prices and Japan?
5. What are they getting before they go?

See you tomorrow

Sunday, September 24, 2006

Rock climbing...


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1. What nickname did the Waitomo Caves guide give Junko?
2. What is a 'lunch order'?
3. What did Annalise order?
4. What started today for Annalise and Daniel?
5. How long is it?

See you tomorrow.

Saturday, September 23, 2006

Feeding time...


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1. What are we doing?
2. What is a baby pig called?
3. What did it do to the young man?
4. What did we do to the eels?
5. What does 'slimy' mean?

See you tomorrow.

Friday, September 22, 2006

The farm tour...


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1. What were the three animals?
2. What did Kenzo think of the helicopter flight?
3. What did Masaho think of it?
4. How long had the guide lived on a farm?
5. What do they do with the sheep on this farm?
6. What was the donkey trying to do?

See you tomorrow!

Thursday, September 21, 2006

History made again!


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1. Who is sitting where in the helicopter?
2. Where are they going?
3. What does spectacular mean?
4. What do they all have?
5. What did I say I was going to do?

Part 2


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6. Try and write down everything I say in this short video.

Make sure you have a look tomorrow as we have a special video from the farm!

See you tomorrow.

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Caving Adventure!


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1. What have we done already?
2. What are Masaho's first impressions of Waitomo?
3. What did Kenzo do for lunch?
4. What do many sports teams in N.Z. have on their uniforms?

Part 2


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5. How was the big adventure?
6. What was the most thrilling part?
7. What was very beautiful?

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Archery


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1. Where are we?
2. Where do we go next ...... what is it like.


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3. When had he been to Japan?
4. What does Kaituna mean?

Monday, September 18, 2006

Famous New Zealand Pies


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1. What kind of place is Maketu?
2. What is special about lunch?
3. What kind of pies did we eat?
4. What did we do this morning?

Part 2
6. Why is Kenzo's head sore?
7. What else are we doing today?

See you tomorrow.

Sunday, September 17, 2006

Welcome Masaho


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1. When did Masaho arrive?
2. What did Masaho do when she arrived in N.Z.?
3. Who picked Masaho up at the airport?
4. What did Masaho and I drink at the chocolate boutique?
5. Tell me about the homestay family's dog.

See you tomorrow.

Saturday, September 16, 2006

New Zealand Market


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1. What can you buy at a Farmer's Market?
2. What kind of wines can you buy?
3. How can you use the wines?
4. What does versatile mean?
5. What special deal do you get if you buy this man's cheese?

See you tomorrow.

Friday, September 15, 2006

A second crash!


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1. What was my question to Junko. "When you.....?"

Part 2

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2. What happens today because of the wind?
3. What was our 'change of plan'?
4. What is a 'competition'?

See you tomorrow.

Thursday, September 14, 2006

Night out for Annalise


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1. Why was Annalise at school in the evening?
2. What did they use for this?
3. What was the name of Annalise's hat?
4. Where are we?
5. What did I do with Junko today?
6. What did Annalise say at the end of the video?

See you tomorrow.

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Welcome to NZ Junko!


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1. What was Junko's first impression.
2. How did I describe New Zealand children?
3. What kind of visa does Junko have?
4. What is another way to say "clean up"?
5. Where did Annalise clean up?
6. What was Daniel showing you?

See you tomorrow.

P.S. I am glad Junko likes children!

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Kids Dance club concert


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1. Where was I tonight?
2. What was the theme?
3. Who does Annalise go with?
4. What are the kids wearing?

Part 2

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1. What are the kids telling Santa to wear?
2 What do we hope for Christmas?

See you tomorrow

Monday, September 11, 2006

Kenzo makes history...


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1. What does 'made' history mean'?
1.a How did Kenzo make history today?
2. What does 'participant' mean?
3. What does 'tip over' mean?
4. What does 'get the hang of it' mean?
5. What was the mistake I made?
6. What are we looking forward to?

See you tomorrow.

Sunday, September 10, 2006

Old planes...


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1. Where are we today?
2. What kind of people volunteer at this museum?
3. What is the cool thing about this museum?
4. What is very interesting when you talk to the guys at this museum?

Sorry for the end of the video I was talking to an elderly man and it is very hard to hear.

See you tomorrow.

Saturday, September 09, 2006


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Sorry everyone but my camera "steamed up" a bit tonight so the picture is a little hazy.

1. Who was out our place tonight?
2. What was in the lemon meringue pie?
3. What did Kenzo do this morning?
4. What were Kenzo and I planing to do tonight?
5. Why did we change our plan?

Fill in the blanks.

Hi everyone, 6.______you can _______ me tonight. We have a lot of people here tonight. We have Kenzo’s homestay family who are 7.__________ __________ ____________. Welcome guys. 8.And __________ Kenzo playing with the __________. Very tired, great. 9.So Anita, what did you ________ for ________, what did you cook for dessert.

See you tomorrow.