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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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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.

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 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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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.

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.

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.