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Phrase of the Week: Get Along
"We can't leave our two cats alone in the house together. They don't get along." "You need to learn to get along with the other children your age." When two or more people or animals are friendly together and don't fight, we say they get along or get along well....
TOEIC Practice Question of the Week
"You can recognize this bird by its character pattern of colors." Find the mistake. A. recognize B. by its C. character D. pattern 「この鳥は独特の色の模様で区別できます。」...
It’s a Blue Flower! Pair Colors with Nouns in Happy Valley. 青い花だ！ハッピーバレーで色と名詞のペアを作りましょう。
With this week's video, we use the colors, objects and phrases we've been studying to make simple sentences. 今週の動画では今まで勉強してきた色、物、フレーズを使って簡単な文を作ります。 Classroom Tip This is an extension of the "It’s a" chant and builds upon the Unit 2 language "It’s a flower. It’s red."...
Trivia of the Week: Corpse Flower
The titan arum plant is also called "corpse flower" because it smells like a dead animal that is rotting. It shares this quality with the Rafflesia, and they both grow in Sumatra, but they are different plants. This month many people gathered to see a corpse flower...
Idiom of the Week: Picture Perfect
"She made sure the room was picture perfect before the party." Something that is picture perfect looks exactly right. No detail is overlooked. Perhaps it's called "picture perfect" because it looks too perfect to be real, more like something from a picture....
Word of the Week: Carry
"He was carrying a suitcase." "She picked up the cat and carried him out of the kitchen." "Carry" can be similar to "hold", but to carry something, you have to move while holding it. You can still say, "I saw him standing there. He was carrying a gun!" because he had...
Picture of the Week: Reflection
September marks the beginning of fall. The trees and the sky reflected in the water are very beautiful. Have you seen any leaves changing color yet?...
Phrase of the Week: Wanna Bet?
"There's no way you can climb that tree." "Wanna bet?" "Wanna" is a slurred-together version of "want to". More correctly, the phrase would be "Do you want to bet?" But the less formal version is more easily understood as indicating disagreement. You say something,...
TOEIC Practice Question of the Week
"Doctors were unable to ______ the cause of his symptoms." Fill in the blank. A. detriment B. determine C. undermine D. foresee 「医者たちは彼の症状の原因を突き止めることはできなかった。」 「突き止める」という意味の単語を空欄で埋めたいのですが、Aは名詞なのでアウトです。Dは「予知する」、Cは「こっそり邪魔をする」なので残るBが正解です。「決定する」という意味もあります。 Do more TOEIC...
It’s a video! Practice a basic word pairing with Kinka in Happy Valley! ビデオだ！ハッピーバレーでキンカと一緒に基本の単語のペアを練習しましょう！
"It's a" can be a difficult word combination for young children to master, but it's very common in English. Get some practice with it and have fun at the same time with this week's video! 「It's a」は、小さい子供には難しい単語のコンビネーションですが、英語ではよく使います。今週の動画で楽しみながら練習しましょう！ Classroom Tip...
