A date with Annalise...

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1. What did we do for our special date?
2. What will we do later?


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3. Why did we choose this cafe?

Sorry we ran out of batteries

Christmas Lights....

Merry Christmas everyone!

Something a little different today. I took Annalise and Daniel on a drive to see Christmas lights on peoples houses in our city. We just went to two streets but it was fun. Some people even dress up as Santa and stand outside their homes (sorry it is too dark to see the one in this video).

Enjoy.


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Part 2


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Annalise's big surprise....

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1. What was Annalise's big surprise when she came home from school?
2. Why did it change?
3. What is her other big news today?
4. When will Annalise go back to school?
5. What are some of things Annalise will do on her holiday.

See you tomorrow.

My garden is growing....

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1. Finish this sentence. "And of course they've _______ _______ _________ seeds. So we _________ __________ ___________ ____________ _________"

2. What do I hope we will be doing in a few weeks?

See you tomorrow.

An interview with a famous NZ singer....

Hi everyone. Still having problems uploading my videos but here is one from You Tube with an interview of one of my favorite New Zealand singers (Brook Fraser). She talks about her visit to Africa and how it changed her life. Now she wants to help especially poor children.

Hope you enjoy it.

The Christmas tree is up....

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Hi everyone!

1. Why has it been so long since I have done my video blog?
2. Who decorated the tree?
3. Why did Roz take the presents away?
4. What does 'hid' mean?

See you tomorrow.

A surprise on the last day of spring...

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I am happy!!!!!!! I have been able to upload a video today. I hope the problem is now fixed.

1. When day is it today?
2. What amazing thing happened?
3. What were people wearing today?
4. What was I wearing when I took this video?

See you tomorrow.

P.S. Cultural Note: It is not unusual for New Zealand people to go outside their house with bare feet (no shoes) in summer. Are you surprised?

Sorry...

Hi everyone. Sorry but I have not been able to post a video for a long time because I can't upload them. I am not sure what the problem is but I will try and fix it.

See you soon!

Roger

Kate's getting bigger...

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1. What has Kate just done?
2. What were the boys doing?
3. What is the big news?
4. How did we describe the toliet?
5. What did the kids do today?

See you tomorrow.

Yuko's working holiday job....

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1. What does 'really cool atmosphere' mean?
2. What did I say about the tables?
3. What is quite common in N.Z. cafes?
4. Why do we need to go?

See you tomorrow.

A walk in a suburb...

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1. Where is this part of my walk?
2. What will be different next month?
3. What examples did I use for the word 'suburban'?
4. Who saw me and what did it do?
5. What might be nice to do and why?

See you tomorrow.

Flash Back....

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Here is a 'flash back' to one year ago. Enjoy!

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.

A hiking hutt....

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1. What can you do at the hutt?
2. How much does it cost?
3. What was in the kitchen?
4. What is a 'bunk'
5. What did I tease Yuko about?
6. What does tease mean?

See you tomorrow.

Fumi gets a job...

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1. What had we been studying?
2. Why did we finish today with special treats?
3. What is her new job?
4. What is Fumi's backpackers like?
5. What is the most important thing for Working Holiday people to remember?

See you tomorrow.

Climbing a mountain...

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1. What is a 'Peninsular'?
2. What is an 'exaggeration'?
3. Where is David going?
4. How long will it take?
5. Who is he going with?
6. What is 'Scroggin'?

See you tomorrow.

Moving Detour Thearter Company

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1. What is very popular in New Zealand?
2. Why was the yellow trailer different to the other two trailers?
3. When was the hall built?
4. What do you think a meant when I said the hall has 'great atmosphere'?
5. What did they give us that was very good?

See you tomorrow.

Kite flying....

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1. What was Fumi doing?
2 What does 'crash mean'?
3. What did I think happened to Daniel but what really was the problem?
4. What is another way to say 'wrapped around itself'?
5. What do backpackers often do?
6. What does 'artificial' mean?

See you tomorrow.

Study walk...

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1. What did Fumi and Yuko do first?
2. Use 'get used to it' in a sentence.
3. What has Yuko got used to?
4. What will Yuko never get used to and why is it confusing?
5. What will Fumi never get used to?

See you tomorrow.

A great game...

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1.What is Petanque?
2.How do you play it?
3.Why did I have to buy icecreams for Fumi and Yuko?
4.What is Fumi's plan?
5.Where is Fumi looking to buy a car?

See you tomorrow.

Starting our vegatable garden...

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Visiting friends...

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1. Where is the Hibiscus Coast?
2. What does 'breakthrough' mean?
3. What was Annalise's breakthrough?
4. What are the two words that mean the same thing?
5. What are we going to do after our walk?

See you tomorrow.

Yuko's back...

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1. What were the first two questions I asked Yuko?
2. What does Yuko like best about backpackers?
3. What did I say everybody has?
4. What was Yuko's great news?
5. What were we talking with Fumi about today?

See you tomorrow.

Back at the park...

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1. What did I ask Annalise? "What do _____ ______ _________ Annalise?
2. What does 'wobbly' mean?
3. What did Yuko start today?
4. What was the common phrase I used?
5. What does 'update' mean?
6. Why isn't all the water going down?

Make sentences with the new words and phrases.

See you tomorrow.

Indian Takeaways...

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1. Where are the flowers from what has happened to them?
2. What are we having tonight?
3. What does 'authentic' mean and what is the opposite of it?
4. What is a 'side dish'?
5. How is Kate doing?

See you tomorrow.

Annalise's Agricultural Day...

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1. Where are we today?
2. What was Annalise's friend doing?
3. What do they have latter in the day?
4. What doesn't Annalise know?
5. Why are we going to Pukekohe?

See you tomorrow.

Flash Back....

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Wow here is a blog from September last year. It brings back great memories of the fun times I had with Kenzo, Junko, and Masaho! Junko is already back in Japan after her one year working holiday. I miss you guys.


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!

Homemade hamburgers....

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Kiwis...

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1. What do they do at the 'Kiwi Encounter'?
2. What is the problem?
3. When do they take them back to the forest?
4. They have a 5% survival rate in the wild but after the 'Kiwi Encounter' what is their survival rate?

See you tomorrow.

Hillary's beach...

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1. What have we been doing and why was it exciting?
2. What will Hillary be doing this summer?
3. Where is Nelson and what is it like?
4. What is a 'mortgage'?

See you tomorrow.
5. What does 'renovations' mean?

A Raglan sunset...

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1. What does 'spectacular' mean?
2. Where have the girls been staying?
3. What is 'cutlery'?
4. What didn't Natchan do and why?
5. What has Benjamin been doing?

See you tomorrow.

Archery...

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1. Finish this expression "Its been _____ _________ __________."
2. What were the three things he was teaching us?
a.
b.
c.
3. Why is it an interesting place to come?


See you tomorrow.

Volunteering at a nursery...

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1. What is a nursery?
2. Who is Emma?
3. What did Fumi do this morning?
4. What is fertilizer?
5. What was Emma's advice for archery?

See you tomorrow.

Video problems...

Hi everyone!

I am still having problems uploading videos. Sorry. I will try and sort it out as soon as possible. We started 'daylight savings' on Sunday which is great. It gives us longer days so we will have more time to enjoy BBQ's and 'hanging out' with friends.

The photos are from when we climbed up the Mount with Fumi and Natchan. I love spring time and all the lambs everywhere.

See if you can use the following phrases in sentences.

1. sort it out
2. as soon as possible
3. hang(ing)out

Sheep Show...

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1. Where were we are what had just happened?
2. Why is it a great show?
3. What did he say about N.Z. shearers?
4. What was the record that a N.Z. shearer made?

See you tomorrow.

Okonomiyaki

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1. What did the girls do this morning?
2. What did Natchan get?
3. What happened when we were going to Rotorua?
4. What is a 'courtesy car'?
5. Describe the private spa?

See you tomorrow.

Annalise and the world!

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1. What did Annalise learn?
2. Who did I welcome back to the blog?
3. What was Simon's big news?
4. How long will they stay in Italy?
5. What did I encourage Simon to do?

See you tomorrow.

BBQ season has begun!

Sorry everyone but I am having a lot of trouble uploading my videos. I will try again tomorrow.


1. What has started?
2. What are 'groceries'?
3. What is a common cultural surprise when Japanese visit New Zealand?
4. What did we have for lunch?
5. Where did we buy it?

See you tomorrow.

Fresh Fish Market

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1. What does Fumi think of the fish?
2. What is 'active listening'?
3. What is an example of 'passive listening'?
4. What is important about listening?
5. What flavor muscles did we eat?

See you tomorrow.

Surf Shop...

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1. Where are we and what can you buy there?
2. How did I describe todays weather?
3. What is hay fever?
4. Why did Fumi like the cafe?

See you tomorrow.

Fumi's Homestay

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1. Introduce Donna's family?
2. How did I describe their home?
3. What does 'restored' mean?
4. What do the old people at the museum like to do?
5. What is an ensuite?

See you tomorrow.

Happy farmers....

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1. Why is Waihi famous?
2. What is Fumi doing in N.Z.?
3. What are'dairy products'?
4. Why are dairy farmers very happy?
5. How much has the price of cows changed?

See you tomorrow.

Challenge....

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2. What was our challenge?
3. What was the question?
4. What does annoys means?

See you tomorrow.

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1. Where is Natchan doing Volunteer Service?
2. What was the problem at Blokarts today?
3. What did we learn?
4. What has Kate started to do?

See you tomorrow.

At a church....

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1. Where am I?
2. Why are our students surprised?
3. Who is at the conference?
4. What are we doing at the conference?
5. What were the speakers talking about?

See you tomorrow.

Three children and a cool dog....

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1. What is cool about the house?
2. What are 'bush tracks'?
3. What does 'store stuff' mean'?
4. Why don't we like possums?
5. What was yesterdays big news?

See you tomorrow.

Yuko and Yui in Rotorua

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Sorry for not adding a video yesterday but I am away at a conference in Auckland and I couldn't get an internet connection. This video was taken on Monday which was Yui's last day in N.Z. It was also Yuko's first day in Rotorua.

What are there lots of?
What was Yuko's amazing good news?
What does a Room Attendant do and how long will she do that job?
Why was Yuko sad?
Why was lunch exciting for Yui?

See you tomorrow.

Farm tour....

Hi everyone!

Something different today. I want you to make the questions and I will check them and answer them. Don't worry if it is too hard to understand the farmer he was using a lot of slang and farming words and phrases.


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See you tomorrow.

Roger

Annalise's special bed...

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1. Where was Annalise?
2. Describe Annalise's real bed?
3. What happened while Annalise was at school.
4. What did Annalise have at school?

See you tomorrow.

Beachside cafe...

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1. What will we do after we have our coffee.
2. What does 'rare' mean?
3. Why does Yui like N.Z. cafes?
4. What did Yui do yesterday?

See you tomorrow.