Total posts: 6
Book reviews: 2
Monday, April 26, 2010
Alice in Wonderland: the movie!
I went to see Alice in Wonderland on Friday night…finally! Alice in Wonderland is actually the theme of two of my classes this semester, and I have told my students to see the movie as soon as possible, so I was a little embarrassed not to have seen it yet!
I wasn't actually looking forward to it so much, because my impression of Tim Burton (the director) in recent years is that he has gradually deteriorated as a director and has set into one pattern, always using Johnny Depp in the leading role and so on. However, I thought Alice in Wonderland was magical!
I saw it at the Warner cinema in Clea, which I think is the best movie theater in Kumamoto. Two things I like about it are that fact that we can choose our seats when we pay for tickets, and that the 3-D glasses are much lighter than the Toho ones, so we can wear them for 2 or 3 hours without discomfort.
Until then, I had seen two movies in 3-D: Avatar and Up! I thought Avatar was a terrible movie, with poor dialogue and a too simple storyline, and that the 3-D effects, although clever, failed to make the movie a good one. Up! was a great movie, but to me it didn't make much difference whether it was in 2-D or 3-D. But with Alice in Wonderland I think the use of 3-D has been taken to a new level.
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Monday, April 19, 2010
The Dragon and the Phoenix
Long, long ago, a dragon lived beside a magic river.
I read The Dragon and the Phoenix. It's about a dragon and a phoenix and an egg, and it explains some of China's landscape.
The Dragon and the Phoenix, Usborne First Reading, 9780746085424
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Alice in Wonderland
Because Alice in Wonderland is playing now, I felt that many students would be interested in the topic, so I have made it the theme of two of my integrated skills classes at PUK. Actually, I don't know Alice in Wonderland so well, so this has been a learning opportunity for me.
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The Fox and the Stork
Fox and Stork were friends,but Fox loved playing tricks
The Fox and the Stork is a famous story by Aesop. It was very funny. Watch how the stork gets his revenge!
The Fox and the Stork, Usborne First Reading, 9780746085295
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