A new homestay family

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1. Where are they from?
2. What is a stream?
3. What does Martin do?
4. What does he do?
5. What does Monica do?
6. What are Martin's hobbies?
7. What about Monica?
8. What can you do at the bottom of their garden?

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Raibow Springs

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1. What does "nocturnal" mean?
2. What are some of the things you can buy in this shop?
3. What is the Manuka Honey made into?
4. Why are we back in Rotorua?


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Native Speed...

Today's videos are taken from the example site on my video hosting site. They give interesting examples of 'native language' speed. The first is slower than the second because she is talking to the baby.

Can you write down everything they say?


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P.S. We said goodbye to Miho and Yuki today. It was sad to see them go. We will miss them.

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1. What have we just done?
2. What do most people in N.Z. do?
3. What did Miho do two times?
4. Where are we going next?
5. What can you do up the top?
6. What is Miho always doing?

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Lollipops Playland...

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1. What are there lots of?
2. Why is it not busy?
3. What does 'having a blast' mean?
4. What special thing can you do here.
5. What was the annoucment?
6. What is the expression "The _______ _______ f________"?
7. What did Yuki say?

kiwifruit Part Two

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1. What are the best fruit for our health?
2. How do you make steak tender?
3. How do you ripen kiwifruit?
4. What is our next stop?
5. What happens automatically at 1 degree?

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Minature train...

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1. What is unfortunate today?
2. What did the doctor say?
3. What is quite a big problem in N.Z.?
4. What kind of volunteers run this train?

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Kiwifruit Part One

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1. Who is the biggest customer of our Zesperi Gold Kiwifruit?
2. When did the Chinese Gooseberry come to N.Z.?
3. When did Hayward make the Kiwifruit?
4. When does the flower start?
5. Where do the 'pickers' come from?
6. How are they picked?
7. How long can they keep Kiwifruit at 1 degree in a cool store?

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A great sightseeing attraction...

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1. How high can the geyser go?
2. What will I show you another time?
3. What is the 'haka' and who does it?
4. What is another way to say "I have a lot of stress at work"?
5. How often does the geyser go off?

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Yeah a Fusion English student returns...

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1. What is the big surprise?
2. How did I describe their honeymoon?
3. What was I doing with them?

Sorry but I couldn't finish the video because the batteries ran out on my camera.

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Kiwifruit and dolphins..

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1. What did Yasuno do today?
2. What did she say about the cake?
3. What is Yuki always doing?
4. Miho was s _ _ s_ _ _ ?
4. Why couldn't people swim with the dolphins yesterday?

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Baby sitting...

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1. What are the kid's doing?
2. What am I doing?
3. What is 'baby sitting'?
4. Why am I baby sitting today?
5. What is 'birthday wine'?
6. What was a shame?
7. What does 'a shame' mean?

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Miho's homestay...

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1. Where are we and what is Yuki doing?
2. Who is Abe and what is he like?
3. What happens every morning?
4. What does 'exaggeration'mean?
5. What damage has there been?
6. What does 'whole lot' mean?

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First time at the beach...

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1. Why is today special?
2. Where has Roz gone?
3. What am I 'making sure of'?
4. What were the three places we went?
5. What is very popular?

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Welcome Yasuno and Daichi...

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1. What did we do when Yasuno and Daichi arrived?
2. What did we think would be a good idea?
3. What is the opposite of "drop off" ?
4. What do I hope?
5. What does Annalise want?
6. What does "stuck" mean in this video?

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Sheep around the house...

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1. What am I doing?
2. What did Roz not have to do?
3. What is a paddock?
4. Why was the gate closed?
5. What was Daniel afraid of?

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Yuki's first horse riding lesson...

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1. What was Yuki doing to the pony?
2. What does 'scared' mean?
3. What are too big?
4. Who was at the hot pool (onsen) today?
5. Who did they meet there?
6. What does "looking forwar to" mean?

Wild weather...

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1. What is the weather like today?
2. What do I hope?
3. What did Annalise see on T.V.?
4. What was Daniel news?
5. What does "tidy up time"

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Miho and Yuki are here...

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1. Where did start to play?
2. Why did we change to the indoor playground?
3. Where is the playground?
4. Why did I say "poor Miho and Yuki"?

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Daddy's problem...

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1. What did I buy?
2. What is Daddy's problem?
3. What does Annalise want to do?
4. What will we use the desk for?
5. Who is coming tomorrow?
6. Why is our lounge messy?

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A conversation listening website...

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1. When did we back from Raglan?
2. What did I do before I sat down?
3. What does "don't forget to drop me a line" mean?
4. What will I do with the website address?

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http://www.focusenglish.com/

Camp Out....

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1. What is a "camp out"?
2. What does "top and tail" mean?
3. What is Roz doing?
4. What is the other big news?
5. What did Jo swallow?
6. What does "what ever happens" mean?

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Back in Raglan...

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1. What do I think we are going to have tonight?
2. Who lives down the bottom at the neighbours?
3. What did the neighbours who live up the top use to do?
4. How long did it Jo to recover from Tim’s party?
5. What do you think “…went really well” means?

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Aeroplane museum cafe...

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1. What did Daniel want to do?
2. Where is the cafe?
3. Why do boys like this place?
4. How much does the old German plane cost?

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Learning English online...

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1. What am I doing?
2. Why can't you hear Yuko?
3. What is the quality like when you make the picture big?
4. What did we do in the lesson tonight?

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Some question for you....

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1. Could you catch what I said to the father and son?
2. Why can the swimmers stand up?
3. What is the opposite of 'deep'?
4. What was my first question?
5. What was the second question?
6. What was the third?

See you tomorrow.

P.S. Please tell me your answers to the three questions.

Very good news....

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1. What is Annalise's poem about?
2. What is the 'big news'?
3. What do Annalise and Daniel think?

P.S.

'leave the nest' is quite a common expression. Parents talking about their chlid going to university in a different city might say "He has got to leave the nest sometime".

Tim's party?

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1. What was the reason for the party?
2. What did we have for dinner last night?
3. What is amazing?
4. What two meals did we have on the BBQ?
5. What is "brunch"?
6. Where does Allen live?

See you tomorrow.

Something Cute...

Hi everyone!

Sorry no video today. I am leaving to go to Raglan and Daniel had an accident. He is OK now but I had to take him to the doctor. He cut is big toe badly.

I thought I would give you this link to have a look at. It is quite a cute way to practise pronounciation.

Her name is Cathy.

http://www.vec.ca/english/11/english-practice.cfm

I will do a video from Raglan where we are going for my father-in-laws special 50th birthday.

See you tomorrow.

Poor kitten...

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1. What is our problem?
2. How did it find us?
3. What did we put outside our house?
4. Where are taking it?
5. Why can't we take it (keep it) at our house.

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Australia stops NZ advertisement!

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1.Where is the article from?
2.What do these words ( Aussie, ban, toddler) mean?
3.What happens in the ad (advertisement)?
4.Do you think Australia was being to careful?
5.What is the competition on Roz's program she likes?

Here is the article:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=14&objectid=10425466

Here is the ad if you want to watch it. It is the first one.

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/tvone_minisite_four_column_skin/tvone_fair_go_ads_2006_group

See you tomorrow.