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Pre-intermediate students’ poetry: I love the feeling…

The following poems were written by pre-intermediate level students from my class at the University of Sussex summer school, on the theme ‘I love the feeling’

I love feeling.

 

 

 I love feeling of  listening musics.

 Relax…..

 Every morning , in the school bus.

 I am seeing the scene.

 I can forget the busy morning time.

 Various melody flow.

 When I close my eyes, I be in the paradise and feel so warm.

 It is my calm morning time.

 

Michiko Sasaki

 

Cheese and Cheese

 

I love the feeling of taste

Of the cheese

 

Cheese cake …

Very sweet

 

Cracker on cheese…

So delicious

 

Salad in cheese…

Color scheme beautiful

 

Cheese roast in oven…

Good smell

 

Cheese  seeing…

More happiness

 

Love cheese…

 

 

                                          Yukine Sakakibara

Foods

 

I love the feel(ing)

of tasting fish and chips

when I go to Brighton,

there is a lot for me

but it is very delicious

 

I love the feel(ing)

of tasting chocolate

when I eat it first time in England,

they are different for Japanese one

 

I love the feel(ing)

of tasting pizza

when I go to the party in England,

they are more delicious than Japanese one

 

I love the feel(ing)

of tasting sandwich

when I spend lunch time with my friends,

it is in some kind of ingredients

 

I love the feel(ing)

of tasting all of foods

that we can eat in England

Rena Okada

 

 

Korean Food

I love the taste

of Korean food

 

Taste of Kimchi

Sometimes like wild tiger

 

Taste of Bulgogi

Sometimes like being in heaven

 

Taste of Samgyetang

Sometimes like being strong

 

Taste of Kimbab

Sometimes like going picnic

 

I love the taste

of Korean food

 

If I eat Korean food everyday

Like being a god

 

  

SEOHAE BAEK

 

Love in my dreams.

 

 

I love the watching.

Something likes funny movies.

I don’t want to a lot for you.

There is just one thing I need.

 

I love the perfume.

Something likes beautiful flowers.

I won’t ask for much for you.

There is just one thing I need.

 

I love the dreaming.

Something likes Oasis.

I don’t know how to do.

I think I feel like a balloon.

 

I still love in my dreams.

 

 

                 – Michael Bay (Mun Yong Lee) -

Music

 

I love the feel(ing)…

of listening  to HIPHOP music

when I dance with friends

 

I love the feel(ing)

of listening  to J-pop music

when I take a bath

Listening to J-pop music relaxes me

 

I love the feel(ing)

of listening to R&B music

when I go to college

 

I love the feel(ing)

of listening  to Classical music

when I calm my heart down

 

I love the feel(ing)

of listening to rock music

when I want to become high tension from low tension

 

I love the listening to all of music

 

Arisa Suzuki

 

 

Osaka

 

I love the sight of Japan.

 

My hometown is Osaka,

so especially I love the sight of Osaka.

 

Osaka-castle is  one of the famous place.

Many foreign people visit there.

 

Tutenkaku is said Tokyo-tower of Osaka.

There has many restaurant of special food of Osaka.

 

I love the taste of Japanese food.

 

My hometown is Osaka,

So especially I love the taste of special food of Osaka.                 

 

Takoyaki is very delicious.

It is bite size and low-priced.

 

 

Kusi-katsu is very delicious.

It is match beer.

 

Both food’s taste is sauce.

People love the taste of sauce in Osaka.

 

I love Osaka…

 

 

 Chiemi Seko  

 

 

Sweet   Vanilla

                                                   

I love the feeling of smell of vanilla.

 

When I feel not so good,

 

I cannot stop thinking of sweet vanilla.

 

 

Vanilla ice cream, vanilla perfume.

 

Closing my eyes,

 

I am dreaming, 

 

As if I am in the flower garden of  vanilla.

 

 

I loved the feeling of smell of mint.

 

When I was a child,

 

 I could not thinking of cool mint.

 

 

More noisy, more crazy, more tomboy.

 

Closing my eyes,

 

I am  dreaming,

 

As if I am in the flower garden of vanilla.

 

 

I loved cool guy.

 

But now,

 

I love sweet guy.

 

 

                                                                                       Chihiro Teraoka

 

 

SWEET THINGS

 

I love the taste of sweet things as honey .

 

In the morning,  hot spun sugar latte is melted in my mouth.

I`m happy.   

 

 

 

In the afternoon, soft cookies and sweety fruit juice is melted in my mouth.

Once more I`m happy.

 

 

 

In the night, rustlingly chocolate bar is melted in my mouth.

Again I`m so happy.

 

 

 

In the dream, I`m searching for sweet things again…

 

 

DASOM HAN

 

 

                                                    Taste & Smell

 

 

I love feeling of  taste  good  and  smells  good.

 

Taste  good…

 

For  example  fish & chips ,  lasagna ,  chige ,  rice,,,,.

 

I  like  foreign  foods & japanese foods.

 

 

Smells  good…

 

Flower smells  is  sweet..

 

Chocolate  smells  is  sweet..

 

 

After a bath  smells  is sweet.,,

 

 

                                                                                 Ayumi  Wada

 

 

     THE SEA

 

 

I love the feeling of smelling

 

Tidal in the sea

 

I love the feeling of seeing

 

The clear light from into the sea

 

I love the feeling of tasting

 

Drinking water out of the sea

 

I love the feeling of touching

 

Sea anemone in the sea

 

I love the feeling of hearing

 

The sound of Waves from the sea

 

I love the sea

 

 

                                           Sayano Matsueda

 

The songs of the birds

 

I love  hearing the bird’s songs in the country.

 

When I open the window,

 

I see some trees  where there are some coloured birds.

They are yellow, orange, black and white,

Big and small.

 

When they see me they start a happy song only for me.

 

They show me their happiness singing,

Their songs are always more wonderful.

I thank them for give me some moments of relax.

 

 

                                                            Ilaria Castagna

 

Introducing Rainschool

 

Hello, may I take this opportunity to update you about developments on the Rainschool web site?

Setting up the site

The site was set up, technically-speaking, by Ben Leonard, working in collaboration with myself, Peter Ryley. It is based on the Wordpress template, customised in various ways by Ben and designed to meet (as far as possible!) the specifications required by me, as author of the texts found on the site.

 Since 25th October we have been able to sell Rainring cards and accessories. I have also been uploading my exercises to help students improve their English writing skills.  I have also begun to upload some exercises in the grammar section, from Elementary/Intermediate through to Advanced/Proficiency

The contents of the site

Rainschool.com is divided into two main areas, known as the School of English and the School of Rainring.

A. The School of English

How it began

This project first happened through discussions between myself and Alan Cooper. His site www.enjoyingenglish2008.org provides a library of material to help students to access via the web a wide range of materials in English to support and develop their English studies.

The main idea

Rainschool’s School of English aims principally to provide a bank of practice exercises to enable students to develop their ability to use correct, well-structured English. This site is linked to the enjoying English one, with the idea that students using that site will have immediate and free access to exercises and explanations. For the answers, a small charge is made. One single payment allows lifetime access to all the exercise answers in that section.

Live online English classes

I have not given up on my desire to offer online English classes. However, work on the exercises is not proceeding as quickly as I hoped, and I would like to get this further advanced before I feel ready to tackle live online tuition.

B. The School of Rainring

Teaching and learning the cards

The Rainring psychological divination cards are unlike anything else in existence. After spending a year trying to promote them on the web, it has become clear to Peter that the great majority of people approaching Rainring need a network of support and back-up in order to help them master the Rainring system.

One of the two principal aims of this site is to create possibilities for online tuition in Rainring, with the idea of training a first generation of readers. We hope that these will include both people who will use the cards privately, and others who will eventually read them professionally. Ultimately, we (my partner Hacina Guezoul and myself) want to train people to become trainers.

Update: (March 09) None of the above has changed, except that we are both, for the moment, too busy with other priorities.

New words & new products

The second main aim of Rainschool is to popularise the cards themselves. Our site at www.rainringcards.com, with its brilliant interactive play facility, has the unfortunate drawback that we do not manage its content. This means that every change which is needed has to be paid for. The Rainschool site is designed to enable us to constantly revise, update and develop the content without cost to ourselves.

This means that any new Rainring items for sale – such as the directory of meanings summary now on sale for the first time – will be made available through this site, not via the rainringcards site. And it of course means that, as Peter has been doing at http://94stranger.wordpress.com, new articles on Rainring topics can be published, or old ones revised, whenever needed.

Peter Ryley

July 2009

 

 

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