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前回に続いて今日もプチドイツ語をちらっと。

日本語でもよく聞く”アルバイト”。

これ、実は英語ではなくドイツ語に由来しております。

“Arbeit” eiでアイと読むドイツ語では、そのままアルバイトと読みます。

しかし、ドイツでアルバイトと言えば、正社員のことです。

フルタイムでの、仕事のことを指しますので、日本語での意味と少しずれがありますね。

また、英語の”work”にあたるアルバイトなので、”職”という意味の仕事意外にも、

It was such a hard work. のように、仕事量のことを指していたりもします。

ドイツ語でも同じです。　Es war sehr harte Arbeit.

ちなみにドイツ語でアルバイトのことは、mini jobといいます。

ミニ　ジョブ。なんだかかわいいですね^^)/

こんにちは、アミックBlogを訪れてくださりありがとうございます♪

今日はキッズクラスのレッスンについてご紹介です。
大学入試改革や小学校の英語教育改革に対応すべく、Amicでも今春からレッスンプログラムが新しくなりました。4技能（読む・聞く・話す・書く）を総合的に学んで、使える英語が身に付くプログラムです。

教室からはいつも子どもたちの楽しそうな声が聞こえてきます。
英語をただだけでなく、英語で自然や科学など、色々なことを学んでいる様子！

こちらは、Animalについてのレッスンを終えた小学生たちの作品。
My favorite animal is～（私の好きな動物は～）と、その理由を書いています。

こちらのレッスンでは、nature（自然）について学んだようです。

園児クラスでは、こんな楽しそうなアクティビティも♪♪

バナナとビスケットを使ったTeddy Bear作りです。食べ物の名前や顔のパーツも、実際に作りながらだと英語が自然と出てきます。

レッスンについてもっと詳しく知りたい方、最寄りのスクールにお問い合わせください☆

教室案内

無料体験も随時受付中です！

無料体験レッスン

Too and Very

Both too and very are intensifiers. They are used to make adjectives and adverbs stronger.

Very
When we use very, it’s not clear whether what we are describing is a good or a bad thing. 

• The building is very old.

This could be a good thing: ‘the building is old and beautiful’. It could also be a bad thing: ‘the building is old and falling down’.

Too
When we use too, it means there’s a problem.

• The building is too old.

This is a bad thing. The building is too old. It might fall down and could be dangerous.

The World Cup has always been a perfect mesh of two of my favorite things: sports and geography. Ever since I was little, the tournament’s ability to bring the world together for a month during the summer has captivated me. It may not always be the highest quality soccer, and some of the organizer’s behind-the-scene actions are shameful, but I simply can’t not watch.

Although this is the first World Cup in my lifetime that America hasn’t qualified for, I’ll still be following the tournament closely this summer. Even with their absence, previous US National Teams at the World Cup have given me some fond sporting memories I can always relive on YouTube until Qatar 2022 rolls around. 

Landon Donovan’s Equalizer Against Algeria (2010)

One of those came at the 2010 iteration of the tournament. A senior in college, I unfortunately had to work during the day of a pivotal match against Algeria: a loss or draw could eliminate the US from the tournament, whereas a win would potentially allow them to win their World Cup group for the first time since 1930. 

Since I couldn’t follow the game live, I recorded it on a VHS tape (remember those?) to watch later that evening. After managing to avoid finding out the result, I raced home to watch the game alone in my parents’ basement.

At about 70 minutes in the score remained deadlocked at 0-0. Right around then, my mom came downstairs with my childhood pet cat in her arms: Spice had not been doing well for some time, and my parents decided they were going to take her to the vet that evening and that I should say goodbye right then. I was upset of course in the way that anyone would be, but also at the timing of the whole situation, with my nerves already on edge from watching the match. 

Now awash with heartbreak on top of the emotions the match was already loading on me, I watched the minutes tick down apathetically, prepared for a heavy dose of sports disappointment. 

Then, in the final minute, this happened:

I hit the roof (figuratively and literally) out of pure ecstasy, a moshpit of one bouncing around the room. And for at least a little while, my heart didn’t hurt quite so bad. As cheesy as it sounds, the moment (and maybe Spice from the beyond?) made me feel that everything was going to be alright.

I often dust off tracks from whatever phase of my life to match the current mood I’m in or to try to feel a desired way by pulling myself into an atmosphere unlike the one I’m faced with. It’s the middle of the work week and while I do enjoy my job as a teacher, being this social for hours on end takes its toll on my introverted nature. So here I am picturing myself alone in this ancient grotto with moonlight shining in on soft moss before I really get today’s work started.

Joe