Riko English Blog

'Do something you have never done before. Live without something that you think is important.' In this week, I read Midnight Rollers in ELi teen beat series. Nina' parent are wealthy, so she has everything what she wants except her independence. She studies photography in her college because he wants to become a photographer. In the last day of term, new teacher, Mr Crick comes her classroom and says that Mr Sims, her usual teacher has gone away and he'll be back at the end of next term. All class members cannot understand what happens.  Crick walks around the room slowly and looks at all photoes which they took carefully. Then, suddenly, he takes all the photos off the wall and he throws them out of the open window. Students are very angry and don't know why Crick does that. After the lunch time, Crick takes them to Golden Gate Park  and they watch a baseball game. When all member come there, Crick talks about their vacation project. He asks them to live unusu

'Look what I've done,' said Tom. He showed them an impressive collection of equipment : wire, black boxes, little microphones and a camera. He looked very pleased with himself. Today I would like to introduce the book, Spies in ELi teen beat series. Tom, Joe, and Lizzie are college students and one day, they visit Windish Costumes to interview the Carnival Queen, Rosa about the carnival. During the preparation of the interview, the hall is on fire suddenly. It has costumes, the steel drums, the carnival float of Windish Costumes for the carnival. They ran the street to look the situation of fire. No one is hurt by the fire, but it's a case of arson not an accident. After that, Tom, Joe, and Lizzie become spies to look for a criminal. Rosa tell them the last fire about two years ago, and she believe that the criminal is Harper, a great musician. Because one night before the carnival two years ago, one of Rosa's dogs bit Harper's hand in sudden on the street

This week, I introduce 'Food Around the World' in the Oxford Read and Discover series. This book has 8 contents about food. In this book, we can learn about food from various views, for example, important nutrients, food origuns, and festivals which people give thanks to foods. The most interesting content in this book is Food Origins. Do you know that popcorn was invented about 5,500 years old? I didn't know that, so I was very surprised!! In addition, Native Americans used popcorn to make decorations and their necklaces not only to eat it! It's very funny and cute, isn't it?:) I want to try to make a popcorn necklace! Next is the origin of chocolate. It was invented about 2,000 years ago. Actually, people used cacao for drink with chili peppers at first, so this chocolate drink was bitter not sweet! I was also surprised. In 1867, milk chocolate was invented in Swiss and it's very popular now. After I read this book, I was getting hungry... We can know a

Suddenly I got a great shock. I saw him there - on top of the tower. Then I got a second shock. The man on the tower was not the Master. I felt cold and afraid. Everything was quiet; nothing moved. This week's book is The Turn of the Screw in Oxford Dominoes series. Do you believe the existence of ghost? This story is very strange and horrible... A young woman came to work at country to work as a governess for two children, Miles and Flora. Flora was very beautiful girl and tought her about the large house with little secrets. Miles went to school, so he came back home during the school holidays. One day, a letter came from Miles's school and it said that Miles had expelled from his school. But the woman and the housekeeper, Mrs Grose didn't know the reason. Like these, there are some strange things about the house and the children. One evening, the woman looked the man on top of the tower who she didn't know and he stared her without saying anything. On the other