【22nd week 20/11/17 – 26/11/17】

Recently, I’ve found an English word which sounds very close to a Japanese one. On a whim, we learnt the word ‘massacre’, meaning 'mass murder.' I was totally surprised when I heard my teacher pronouncing this because it’s exactly the same pronunciation to ‘まさか’, which means ‘No way’ in Japanese. My classmates can pronounce this word perfectly with proper facial expressions!

We have about a week to an exam and I can’t believe that I'll be able to study with my colleagues only 7 more days. They are literally witty, intelligent, and affable people( I don’t exaggerate by the way). I learnt loads of things in every single lesson not only from teachers but also from them. I’ll definitely do my best to prepare lots of things I’ve learnt for these 3 months. Well then, crack on with my study!

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最近、日本語と発音がかなり近い英単語を発見しました。偶然教科書に出てきた ‘massacre’という単語（意味は「虐殺する / 打ち負かす」とかなり強烈）。この発音が日本語の「まさか」と完全に一致していて、先生が発音したとき日本語を話し出したのかと思ってかなりびっくりしました。笑　クラスの子がちゃんとびっくりした表情で「まさかっ！」て言うのが面白いです。笑

いよいよテストが近づいてきて、今のクラスの友達と受ける授業があと数回しか無いことを考えるとすごくしんみりします。面白くて、賢くて、本当に優しいみんな（盛っていません）。国籍はスイス、スペイン、ドイツ、韓国、台湾と様々で、毎日の授業でみんなからたくさんのことを学ばせてもらったなぁと思います。３ヶ月一緒に勉強してきたことをひっさげて、全力で頑張ろうと思います。ということで、宿題にもどります。笑

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【Words & Phrases】

＜Use of English＞(Thanks to Arlette☺︎)

★ to bare in mind

★ to cause offence to so

★ anything but boring (not boring)

★ nothing but boring (completely boring)

★ to dream of doing sth

★ let alone (even less likely to happen)

★ to hit on an idea

★ stand sb in good stead (useful for sb)

★ to get round to doing

★ to be desperate to do sth

★ to pop into somewhere (to visit some place brifely)

★ accuse sb of (not) doing sth

★ however bad/good/big sth is

★ widely accepted

★ ranging from chocolate to salad (shows variety)

★ within the space of (certain amount of time)

★ the site of an earthquake (place where it happens)

★ sb is dedicated to do sth (spending all time and effort on sth)

★ when it comes to sth (speaking about sth)

★ to part with your money (spend your money)

★ much the same (the same amount)

★ nowhere near as high as (not as high as)

★ put/set aside sth (not allow yourself to be affected by a problem)

まさか！Wow！

分詞構文、英語だと切り口が少し違う。