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September 11, 2016
Dear Hibiki no Kai and Echo Society Members,
 Information Notes
● Facebook ひびきの会のグループをダグさんが作ってくださいました。連絡に便利ですので、
みなさんもどうですか。 https://www.facebook.com/groups/hibikinokai へどうぞ！
● ひびきの会の教室が、変更になったり中止になるときは、メールでお知らせしています。
「お知らせ」メールは注意して見てください。
● 返信メールを送る場合は、全員に宛てたメールか、個人に宛てたメールかを書いてください。
 Room Reservations
September 18 AM room 7. PM room 6.
September 25 ２５日は休みです！Notice! Our classes will be closed.
October 2 AM & PM Audiovisual room 11F. 視聴覚室
October 9 AM & PM room 2.
October 16 AM & PM room 2.
October 23 AM & PM room 2.
October 30 AM & PM room 2.
Today’s teachers and participants: Masanori Tatsui, Doug Lerner, Michael Uki, Katsuyo Sudo, Hideki Noji, Mieko Kodera, Akie Omori, Yoshio Kuno, Keiko Tsurumaki, Yuriko Yamada, Takato Hase, Shinichi Suetake, Ayako Hashimoto, Karin Son and Sanae Sugimura.
Photo: English class.
Masanori taught us about relative pronouns.
(辰井さんが関係代名詞について教えました。)
We studied these words. （単語についてー変化に関係する動詞）
change become glow develop improve increase
expand spread
＊テキストは「ネイティブスピーカーの単語力 １．基本動詞 （大西泰斗/ポール・マクベイ著）
Photo: English class.
Self-introductions （自己紹介）
Photo: English class.
 English song Karaoke
♪ We listened to "Beyond the Reef" by Andy Williams.
（アンディ・ウィリアムスのビヨンザリーフを聴いた。日本では彼も曲もよく知られている。）
Photo: English class.
Today's Stupid Joke
Real Questions & Answers from Court
Lawyer = 弁護士
Witness = 証人
o Lawyer: "How was your first marriage terminated?"
o Witness: "By death."
o Lawyer: "By whose death?"
o Lawyer: "How far apart were the vehicles at the time of the collision?"
Autopsy = 検死 けんし
o Lawyer: "Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?"
o Witness: "No."
o Lawyer: "Did you check for blood pressure?"
o Witness: "No."
o Lawyer: "Did you check for breathing?"
o Witness: "No."
o Lawyer: "So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?"
o Witness: "No."
o Lawyer: "How can you be so sure, Doctor?"
o Witness: "Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar."
o Lawyer: "But could the patient have still been alive nevertheless?"
o Witness: "Yes, maybe he was alive and a lawyer."
Expand the sentence! Add adjectives, verbs and adverbs!
Example:
The boy is reading a book.
Add an adjective -> The young boy is reading a book.
Another adjective -> The young boy is reading a thick book.
Another adjective -> The short young boy is reading a thick book.
An adverb -> The short young boy is slowly reading a thick book.
A verb -> The short young boy is walking while slowly reading a thick book.
An adverb -> The short young boy is walking quickly while slowly reading a thick book.
Try!
The girl is talking to a cat.
The beautiful girl is talking to a cat.
The beautiful girl is talking English to a cat.
The beautiful girl is talking English to a white cat.
The beautiful girl is talking English to a fat white cat.
The beautiful girl in the park is talking English to a fat white cat.
The beautiful small girl in the park is talking English to a fat white cat.
The beautiful small girl in the park is talking English quickly to a fat white cat.
The beautiful small girl in the park is talking English quickly to a very fat white cat.
The car is in the rain.
The car is in the hard rain.
The black car is in the hard rain.
The broken black car is in the hard rain.
The broken black car is sitting in the hard rain.
The broken black car is sitting quietly in the hard rain.
The broken American black car is sitting quietly in the hard rain.
A monkey walks into a room.
A monkey quickly walks into a room.
A cute monkey quickly walks into a room.
One after another, cute monkeys quickly walk into a room.
One after another, cute monkeys quickly walk into a wide room.
The train leaves the station.
The train suddenly leaves the station.
The bullet train suddenly leaves the station.
The bullet train suddenly leaves the local station.
The bullet train suddenly leaves the Shin-Yokohama local station.
The bullet train suddenly leaves the Shin-Yokohama local station in the morning.
Hangman game! （ハングマンゲーム）
Photo: English class, Koji came to meet us.
Today’s teachers and participants: Doug Lerner, Akiyuki Goto, Masanori Tatsui, Michael Uki, Akie Omori, Yoshio Kuno, Makkun Mitsui, Karin Son,
Sanae Sugimura and others...
On 9/13 iOS 10 will be released. Next Sunday we will learn about the new iOS for iPhones and iPads.
On 9/20 Mac OS Sierra will be released.
You can look at records of Hibiki’s past (from 2007). 過去の記録を見ることができます。
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