2008年2月8日金曜日

World News B February 8th, 2008: Final class!

1.What did you learn in this class this semester?
I knew the world that I didn’t know so far not to mention I was able to know world news.

2008年2月1日金曜日

February 1st, 2008

1. ワードでスペルチェックしてから投稿する。翻訳ソフトを使わない。友達のブログの文章を使わない。許可なしに、写真などを使わない。

2. What is the purpose, objective, of a newspaper company?
→ It is to tell information to people of the world and to raise sales by putting a problem in the present world and gain money.

3. What is the purpose, objective, of a television company?
→ It is to offer weather and news, information to the audience.

4. What is the purpose, objective of Yahoo! or Google?
→ It is to give people pleasure like auction or shopping including telling information to people.

5. ①If their purpose is to get as many readers or viewers or “eyeballs” as possible, then what kind of news will they publish? ②What kind of news will they not publish?
→ ①About the case that a reader such as the food poisoning may happen to oneself. News about an entertainer / the famous person.
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6. Find a news article in English that interests you, and write about it on your blog. Write a summary of the article, then your thoughts about it, and any interesting English words or expressions or grammar you learned from reading this.
→ http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080107/hl_nm/activity_obesity_dc;_ylt=AgCuj2VcNw7pztnN5S3RbMKISbYF
I selected this news.
Summary:

7.Read your classmates’ blogs and comment on them on your own blog.
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