Showing posts with label essays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label essays. Show all posts

Monday, January 18, 2010

THE WONDERFUL TEAKETTLE: QUIZ




Hi! It’s me again, Professor Panda! Sorry I am so late, but sometimes things just get too busy around here! Today here is the short quiz I promised on the story about the teakettle. There are ten questions and one bonus question. Each one is worth 10 points. This is a “fill-in” quiz, so you get to write your answers in English to each question. At the end of the week, Friday (Japan time) I will give you the answers. You can also send me your answers (in English) by email to Panda_English@yahoo.com and I will grade them for you. 100 points is an A, 80 points is a B, and 70 points is a C. If you get the bonus question correct, you get another 10 points. Read the story again and then take the quiz. Good Luck!

Professor Pannibal P. Panda, PhD.

1. Why was the old priest so happy?
2. What was his new teakettle made of?
3. What did the third boy see when he peeped through the screen?
4. What did all the boys see when they looked through the screen together?
5. What did the teakettle do when the old priest put it on the fire to heat?
6. Who did the old priest sell the teakettle to?
7. Where did he take the teakettle to after he bought it?
8. What did the badger say he liked to eat now and then?
9. What did the people who saw the dancing badger on the tightrope do after they saw it?
10. Where did the owner of the teakettle put the teakettle after he became rich?
11. Bonus: Using the story, describe what a badger looks like.

Monday, June 1, 2009

NEW BOOKS AND ESSAYS


Hi everybody! We did not forget about you, but we have been very busy indeed. We just began a new publishing company called Shisei-do Publications and it has kept us too busy with no time for anything else. Sometimes not even time for eating!

Anyway, we are going to be publishing what we hope are interesting books on Japanese history, culture, and literature, including many old books about Japan that are no longer published but have lots of good information and some very interesting stories, etc.

Our first book coming out soon is The Annotated Bushido, by Inazo Nitobe, edited by H. Tokugawa. It will tell all about samurai philosophy and lots of things about samurai and Japanese history and culture. It was published in 1895 but the English in it is very hard to understand, even for me, so I have "translated" it to modern English and put in lots of illustrations.

Please visit us at http://360.yahoo.com/shiseido publications


Also, if you like to practice reading in English, we have published an essay on a great Japanese scholar and some Japanese history. HIs name is Shoin Yoshida and you can read this essay at:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/11997930/A-Most-Audacious-Young-Man


Please visit and enjoy it. Soon there will be some even more interesting essays about interesting people in Japanese history.

As to English lessons - later this week there will be a nice and new lesson for everyone!

See you then!

-Prof. Panda, PhD.