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?

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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.

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?

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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.

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.

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.

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?

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?

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.

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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.

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?

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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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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?

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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.

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

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'.

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.

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?

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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.

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.

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?


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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!

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.

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.

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

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.