The report of the meeting on 24/12/2016

We had five attendees at today’s session.
Firstly we did “What’s new” as usual.
The first person mentioned the physical test of her stomach. According to her she used to take the checkup of the stomach before. At that time a doctor put an endoscope through the mouth, but this time another doctor did through the nose. Putting the endoscope through the nose is more comfortable than through the mouse, she said. Another person also took this test.
The second one explained the change of profile picture. The new one is the banner of a feudal lord, Kenssin Uesugi who is famous for the battle with another famous feudal lord, Shingen Takeda. There is the just one Chinese letter on the banner, namely “毘”, which is the first letter of the Buddhist deity,”毘沙門天” or Vaiśravaṇa in Sanskrit. According to his explanation, Vaiśravaṇa is thought to be the king of battle. Kenshin Uesugi respected this deity.
The third person talked about the trip to Singapore and Malaysia with his wife. He enjoyed the trip very much because the weather was always fine during the trip. This was one good point. Another lucky thing was that the hotel room was upgraded without any extra cost. A bath room was excellent, and a balcony was very wide. He took many pictures and he wants to show them others, but he has had not enough time to arrange them. He said he would show us them and elaborate his trip in the near future. Others look forward to seeing them and listening to his story.
The fourth person touched the Christmas Eve. She did not do anything special to celebrate Christmas. Only thing was she made boiled chicken with sweet vinegar and soy sauce. Usually families in Japan celebrate Christmas with cake. But she refrains from eating cakes or sweets for her health.
The last one gave others the story about KFC fried chicken. Now families in Japan celebrate Christmas with a fried chicken and cake. This general trend started in 19070s. A manager of KFC got an idea to promote selling his company's product, “party barrel”. One day when he was in his shop, he overheard that a couple of foreigner talked about roast turkey. They said they missed it. The manager dreamed an idea, waked up in the midnight and jotted down it. He launched the promotion of “Kentucky for Christmas”. The promotion resulted in success. But this general tendency is limited in Japan. Other countries do not celebrate Christmas with KFC.

Then we went into the today’s topic—“New store lets you shop, walk out and pay later”. First we read the article in turn, and then answered the questions and the line where the clue is shown. Questions and answers are bit difficult, so we used more time than expected. In the discussion task, the opinion was divided.
The new shopping system Amazon is planning to introduce has two aspects, positive side and negative side. Amazon Go might be convenient because we don’t need wait in checkout line at the shop. When the line is long and we have to wait for long time, we feel frustrated. The introduction of Amazon Go will save our time.
But on the other hand, many attendees pointed out there will be risk in the new shopping habit.For example, many people will be involved in crimes such as fraud. If the personal data in a smartphone is stolen, it is very easy for criminals transfer all money in the account to another one.
Technology makes advance so quickly and it is hard to catch up with it. Where are we going in the future?
(Taka)

The report of the meeting on 17/12/2016

There were five attendees including me (a chairperson) at the meeting on December 17.
First, we talked about what's new, or how the week was, which is summarized as follows:
1) The first member said that he had watched soccer games of the Club Championship in Japan two days before. The level of that championship is higher than that of the World Cup. Kashima Antlers will go to the final game. However, it would be a little difficult for Kashima Antlers to win, because their opponent team with Cristiano Ronaldo,a MVP, is very strong.
2) The second one firstly talked about schedule of FETS meetings. The last meeting of 2016 will be held on December 24. The first one of 2017 will be held on January 7. And he also talked about the result of his TOEIC test. It was not as good as he expected. He thinks that time management is very important for the reading test.
3) The third one talked about her busy week. On Tuesday she went to Nagoya to sell an old violin made in France. It was played by her son long time go, and now no one plays it. Unfortunately she could not sell it, because an estimate by a shop owner of musical instrument was much cheaper than that she expected. It is old, and nowadays violins made in foreign countries seem not to be popular in Japan. On Wednesday she enjoyed Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in a theater.　On Thursday She went to a mobile-phone shop to buy a new iPhone. On Saturday she enjoyed a mandolin concert.
4) The fourth one told about an incident which had happened in her country within the last few days. Protesters blockaded the parliament in support of opposition party's unhappy about new rules restricting press reporting. It is believed to be the first protest of its kind in the parliament for 10 years. It is a Christmas season now, so people are very busy to prepare many things. She hopes that situation will be settled soon. ( for more information → http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38347674 )
5) The fifth one said she had done nothing much. She just went to the civic auditorium and enjoyed a mandolin concert as another member said before.

Next we moved to Today's topic, "Wisdom Teeth". First, we read the article in turns. Secondly, we shared our opinions and discussed about wisdom teeth, dentists, how to keep teeth in a good condition, and so on. By the way, according to a member, rinsing mouth with water solution of "Isodine (a kind of antiseptic solution used for mouth wash or gargle)" is effective in keeping teeth clean. I had thought Isodine is just for gargle...
(Yuki)

The report of the meeting on 10/12/2016

Four members participated in today’s lesson.
First of all, we talked about “what news of this week”.
The first person told about attending Christmas meeting and playing an ocarina at the party.
The next one told about having gone to Umeda station to make his bank account. Then, he took his mother to an opera theater, and enjoyed there. After that, he and his mother had dinner.
The third one told about reading himself for TOEIC test and also told about Toffler Alvin.
The fourth one told that her power source of PC went down. Then, each member asked one of the members about how to study about TOEIC test.

Then, we talked with members about today’s topic “ Train conductors in Japan make a lot of strange hand gesture”. Japanese train conductor’s gesture and rule are different from foreign ones. So, some foreigners may feel it funny. The feeling is equivalent to Japanese in foreign country and foreigners in Japan so that some Japaneses feel American people to do gesture over. Bus drivers and train conductors to the same gesture. According to web site, the conductor in New York has one gesture and one point. The train conductor in Japan is unique. But the conductor in Japan reduces 30 percent accident by their gesture and pointing. The conductor’s gesture and pointing seem very funny for foreigners, but the ways are good ways to prevent the accident of human’s error 30 %.
There was a bad bus driver who had driven with having operated (ポケモン) who was arrested, but there are actually serious drivers.
Finger operating shows different from each countries custom. For example, crossing finger and making a circle with thumb and index finger etc. Finger index is different from American and Germany. For example, in case of that, people show 123 with finger. When a Japanese shows money with finger, they show OK with a circle with thumb and index finger, but Germans and Americans show it by rubbing with thumb and index finger, etc.
(Tae)

The report of the meeting on 26/11/2016

There were 6 attendees at the meeting tonight.
We talked about what’s new? How was your week?
①The first member said that she make a phone using skype software. Her friend has no PC, therefor she talk through the skype. It is easy to use it and moreover the fee is cheaper than fixed-line phone
②The second person said that he visited Sushi shop (not revolving sushi shop) with his friend. He long time no see the friend, therefore the meeting took long time.
③The third attender said that he visited gorge (small canyon) in Yamanashi. He showed us some pictures through the PC. There were many interesting rocks named Monkey, great Buddha, matsutake mushroom and so on.
④The fourth member talked that she attended offline ECC in Yokkaithi city. This meeting hold a few times in a year. In this time she introduced our FETS meeting.
Two others didn't have their “What’s new?” this time.
(Ue)

The report of the meeting on 19/11/2016

We had six attendees including a new comer.
Firstly the newcomer introduced himself. He lives in Osaka prefecture and he has a lot of hobbies such as watching movie, playing internet games, listening to music, and eating out ramen noodle soup. At the moment he has a bit time and we intended to brush up English skills. So he joined our group, FETS. After that other members introduced themselves very briefly.

Then we moved to the “What’s new”. Here is a summary of it.
1 The first person mentioned “super moon” which was recently shown in the world. This natural phenomenon happened for the first time in 68 years. The super moon looked bigger and brighter than a usual full moon. He also referred the relation between the super moon and earthquakes. According to some scientists the big earthquakes seems to be occurred when the super moon happens.
2 The next person attended to funeral ceremony. She also visited a hospital to see her friend. She talked to someone from Rumania guy via Skype. He used to join FETS chat on Wednesday.
3 The third person tried AI English software called “Nanna”. Chatting with it didn’t last so long. She install another AI English software which is provided by Google Play.
4 The fourth person went to a cinema to watch some animation whose title is “Kimi no nawa” or “What is you name”. he said the pictures in the animation was really beautiful and the story was quite good.
5 The internet connection of the fifth person was quite bad this day, so she skipped “What’s new” session.
6 The sixth person ate a deep fried pork cutlet, which his wife cooked in order to wish her husband’s test would be successful. He wants to get good marks in TOEIC.

We did two word games; “What is this word?”, “An Impromptu speech by Roulette” The purpose of the both games is that attendees speak well and clearly in English without preparation. In the daily life we have to express ourselves with a few preparaton. We need to speak while thinking and think while speaking. These games seems to be useful to speak with thinking.
(Taka)

The report of the meeting on 12/11/2016

There were 5 attendees at the session tonight.
First, we talked about what’s new? How was your week?
Second, we talked about “study English” as tonight topic. I asked them that “What was your trigger to study English? When?”
①The first member answered that he had a bitter memory never forget. When he was 20th he was asked some question from foreigner on the train. Maybe the question was easy. But he couldn’t understand at the time. After that he tried to study English hard. Especially he studied listening using “Hearing marathon” software. He has loved studying English hearing in the car using a cassette tape.
②The second member said that she has studied English since her primary school student. Her parents advised to commute to the primary school which has English class. The education way of her parents was correct. I thought it was good for her. (According to the Web site that in her country, young generation can understand English now. But more than 30 years old person can’t speak English.)
③The third member said that when she was young, she didn’t like English subject. But when her husband quitted his job she tried to study English in her spare time. She has studied English at YMAC, finally she got a semi-first class capacity of the EIKEN.
④The fourth member said that she has loved to read literature since she was kids. And when she was high school she use to read a foreign novels in English many times.
⑤The all last member said that his trigger to study English was the church in his town. About 10 years ago the church started to serve us English classes which has native English teacher.
( Ue )

The report of the meeting on 22/10/2016

There were four attendees at the meeting on October 22.
First, we talked about what's new, or how the week was, which is summarized as follows:
1) The first member said that he had visited and helped his son with gardening. He parked his car near the corner of the road in front of his son's house, because there is no other parking place near there. There was vary little traffic on the road, so he thought it was OK. However, two policemen came and said that one of neighbors had called and complained that his car was obstructive, and parking near the corner is illegal. After talking for about thirty minutes, he did not receive any tickets or documents for illegal parking. He wonders he should still wait for information from the police.
2) The second one talked about beautiful kingfishers, or "kawasemi" in Japanese, which he had seen during his walk along the river in his area. Recently he seldom saw those birds, although there had been more kingfishers seen before. He gave us two links to show some photos and a video of kingfishers. They are called "Jewels of mountain streams" seen along the clean streams in Asia, North Africa, Europe, and so on. Before winter they migrate to warmer areas like Indonesia.
3) The third one said she had weeded and newly planted some daffodils in her garden, although it might have been a little late for planting. She also mowed tall goldenrod. After drying them, she burned them up in several batches around sundown in consideration of neighbors.
4) The fourth one told that her husband had started to repaint the walls of their house. First, he set the temporary platform for painting high above the ground. It will take him several days. She also talked about her plan to visit one of her friends living in Yokosuka. It will be a trip of three days and two nights.

Next we moved to Today's topic, "Glass bridge: China opens world's highest and longest". First, we read and translated the article by the paragraph. Secondly, we shared our opinions and discussed related to the article.
For only about five minutes left, we answered two riddles. One of them was "How can a pants pocket be empty and still have something in it?" Can you tell its answer?
(Yuki)

The report of the meeting on 15/10/2016

We had four attendees at the today’s session.
First of all, we talked about the recent events which happened around each member or things which attracted them, and chatted about them.
① The first person talked about kimonos, or Japanese traditional clothes. She owns several kimonos, but recently she seldom wears them. In order to keep them good in quality or to prevent the bugs from damaging them, she airs them every autumn and change bug repellent. Another member also has them and she wear them frequently when she takes part in tea ceremony. According to the latter's opinion wearing often them is the good way to avoid bugs from damaging them.
② The topic of the second person was Itsukushima shrine which is located in Hiroshima. It was listed as the world heritage by UNESCO. She went to Fukuoka prefecture to visit her parents’ grave, and on the way back home she stopped by at Hiroshima to see that shrine. She was so surprised and impressed to see it. Its shape and color are so beautiful and the location is so unique, namely it is built in the shallow sea.
③ The third person talked about some serial drama on TV, whose name is “Containment”. The summary of the story is as follows; the epidemic happened in a large city in America. People there are prohibited to move out of there. They are made containment there. Virus spreads. Some of people become panic and sensitive, but some of them maintain their humanity. And there appear heroes and heroines. We had similar movie drams in the past; American movie “Outbreak” in 1995, Japanese movie “Kannsen retto(感染列島)” in 2008.
④ The last person enjoyed the music concert which focused on the ocarina. There is the park near his house and it holds many events. The ocarina festival took place in open air place. Many performers joined and playing the ocarina. The numbers were various from Japanese pop music to British old fork song. Under the clear blue sky of autumn he enjoyed music lots.

Then we moved to the today’s topic; three important things for certain job such as skills or personalities. Each attendee select the job and show their idea about them.
① One of them chose the house wife. And she said that good cooking skills, washing skill or skill to organize the house are very important. In addition, to be patient and broad-minded are necessary personalities for the house wife.
② The second one mentioned the important skills or personalities of doctors. According to her, examining the patients’ face and examination by touch is one of the necessary skills. And paying attention to words of patients and their family is also critical because doctors can understand or guess the disease or its symptoms through communicating with patients or their family.
③ The third one picked up several skills and personalities required for a computer programmer. She said knowledge of math is needed for computer programmers. Logical way of thinking is one of the most important requirements. Having interests in new computer technology is also vital. In this area new technology is invented almost every day, so keeping up to it is vital. She also said the importance of being patient. It is not easy to make program without any bugs. It takes long time and great efforts to create the perfect program.
④ The job which the last person talked about was a veterinarian. He said these are three important skills for the vet; 1) communication skills with the pets’ owners. 2) knowledge about animals. 3) experience in this area. Pets cannot speak human languages, so they can obtain the information of the symptoms of pets illness from the owners. Without good communication skill they cannot treat the pets.

The final task was the word game, “What is this word?” The words to picked up were “seem”, ”shut” and “paper”. To explain “verbs” in another English word might be more difficult than to explain “noun”. We took a bit long time to get the correct answer about the first two words both of which were verb.
(Taka)

The report of the meeting on 08/10/2016

There were 5 attendees at the meeting tonight.
First, we talked about what’s new? How was your week?
①The first member said that he bought a device named “Sound Blaster”. It works for not only sharing sound also online lesson. .I’m sure the device will be useful for his job.
②The second member said that She spend busy day, She went a Bank, ,hospital, and attended the tea ceremony. And she trimmed her hedge. How busy it was today!
③The third member said that she got the Windows 10 anniversary update, and attended an offline English class in SUZUKA city, and had a lunch. After that she join the reading book club.
④The fourth member said that she had to take care her nephew who is six years old. He asked to her a lot of questions even about gender. In this generation, they are interested in everything. This situation is almost common in all over world I think.
⑤The all last member explained about AI English site. .English language company “Weblio” provide us this site. The skill of the site is not only translate also having conversation. But the skill still poor. The site is under the trial now. I want to expect this site which is more improved in near future. 　　　　　　https://chat-robot.weblio.jp/ 🌟
Today’s topic. Which do you prefer? Could you explain bellow the advantage, or disadvantage points.
1, Which do you prefer a dog, or a cat as your pet?
2, Male or female, Which is benefit?　 　　　　
Intermission “Where is Panda?”
3, Which do you prefer in town, or in countryside as your home?
4, At the shopping, paying by money, or credit card?
(Ue)

The report of the meeting on 01/10/2016

Three members attended today’s session.
We told about the news of the week each other.
The first member talked that he started to prepare himself for the TOEIC test again. TOEIC test is changing, and become more difficult than the past one by degrees.
The next one talked having gone to the super market by bicycle. A leaflet of the food shop made us to sway to the market.
The third one told about washing the curtains of the house. She began cleaning of the house to prepare for New Years. She visited the dentist to fix her broken teeth.
After it finished, we began a today’s topic.
First of all, we read and translated the each sentence by turn. Then, we discussed the student’s questions. One person agreed with Dr. Posso’s opinion, but she had a disagreed point too. The other one remembered to watch a hang man, Australia, New Zealand, and American TV show. Also, A bit coin game existed ten years ago. We discussed the games in the past, for example, invader game, a final fantasy, and a role playiong game and action one.
Some opinions were told about social media, for example, social media is boredom. Sports activities are better than social media and on line game, for young students. Also, their games are bad for their eyes and health. So, the balance between the time management and time control are a necessity for people. Physical games have lots of merits to make good relation with the others. People can get good time by playing Karuta, Japanese backgammon, and a card game. It is also told that the class room held before schoolwork can make the children close relation each other. Therefore, the game has good merits. Recently, elderly(= aged) people is very popular playing mahjong because playing mahjong give their brains stimulus and is activated by moving their fingers
(Tae)

The report of the meeting on 17/09/2016

Five members attended to the today’s session. Here is report on it.

The first part of the session is “What’s new. Talk anything.”
The first attendee reported the trip to Finland in brief. She took a lot of pictures while traveling, however she did not transfer them to PC, so she could not show the others them. She traveled seven days including transferring from Japan to Finland. Main place of staying was Helsinki, the capital of Finland, where she looked around many tourists spots. Weather was very good while staying there. In the evening and morning it was bit cold, while in the daytime the temperature went up to 28 degree Celsius.
The next person mentioned about the blueberry which he planted in his garden. Every summer morning he picks up some berries. The blueberry has good effects to health, for example it improves eyesight or suppresses a symptom of hay-fever. After he took them regularly, his eyesight has got better.
The topic of the third person was how to arrange the pictures. We took a lot of pictures in the past but left them. We used to use an analog camera, so all pictures are developed and printed out at a photo shop. She wants to put them away. She thought that only necessary pictures would be kept, and unimportant ones would be throw away. However it was bit difficult to make up mind of which one being thrown away. Finally she scanned all printed pictures by scanner and save them in the computer. She asked the other members the best way of arranging them.
The fourth one reported several problems which European countries are facing now. One of them is that immigrants are increasing, and that against them nationalism is gaining power and influence. She introduced an example; when a drive drove the truck, a number of immigrants ambushed it and got in the track. They wanted to pass through a border between countries to enter Britain. Another problem is that terrorists’ attacks happen more frequently. The raise of nationalism has turned to international trend, the other member commented on her report.
The last person is planning to sit TOEIC in November. He sat it before, but the result was unsatisfied. Recently he has had more free time than before, so he started studying TOEIC again. According to him the contents of it has changed a bit, and it has become more difficult than previous test. However he said that he would do his best.

Today’s topic was “Let’s enjoy word games in English.”
We did the following games;
1 What is this word?—this game is each person selects a number on the table of the website, and clicks it, and then they get some English words. Each person explain the English words in English, the others guess what they are.
2 Hangman—this is very popular game among English-spoken countries. The chairperson divided the attendees to two groups first. And then the first person of the first group says one alphabet. All alphabets are hidden. This is the game to guess the hidden alphabets and get the correct word.
The time was not enough to enjoy the third game, “Impromptus speech by roulette”. (Taka)

The report of the meeting on 10/09/2016

There were four attendees at the meeting on September 10.

First, we talked about what's new, or how the week was, which is summarized as follows:
1) The first member said that he had had his automobile inspected by a company Autobacs. This was the sixth official inspection for his car which he bought about ten years ago. It cost 25,000 yen including changing wipers and break oil. His car was in a good condition considering ten years driving. He wants to buy a new car, but he does not have a plan to buy one so far, because of less budget.
2) The second one talked about his visit to a zoo with his wife for the first time in 35 years. It were to take him about an hour from his house by car. However, thanks to a car navigation system, he could reach the zoo in 50 minutes without getting lost. The zoo lies in a broad area on the hill and it has four zones of Asia, Africa, Australia and insects. It was a hot day but there were a lot of trees. In the shade of the trees, they felt cooler. He showed some pictures of animals in the zoo.
3) The third one said she had had a plan to visit a zoo with her friends, but it had been rainy. She gave up and played a game named "Game of Life" with her friends at her house. In the game, she became very rich. It was very fun.
4) The fourth one talked about an off-line English circle which she had attended in the morning that day. The circle invited a special guest who is a Muslim. They learned about Muslim from him. His English, however, was accented, which made her a little difficult to understand his speech. The most interesting point to her was one of duties of Muslims. Rich people have to give alms to poor people. 2.5 percent out of the income has to be paid for the poor, debtors, travelers, someone that needs money, etc. It is sin for wealthy people to neglect it.

Next we moved to Today's topic, "A Special Gift". First, we read and translated the article by the sentence. Secondly, we shared our opinions and discussed related to the article. For about ten minutes left, we enjoyed "Riddles".
(Yuki)

The report of the meeting on 03/09/2016

We had four attendees at today’s session.

The first task is “What’s new” as usual.
The first person talked about the trip to Hokkaido with her husband. It took more time from her house to Hokkaido than usual because the typhoon No.10 approached there. They looked around several sightseeing spots such as the Clock Tower or the statue of Dr. Clark.
The second attendee happily lost some weight while she stayed at her father’s house. According to her explanation some stress due to living with her father caused the weight loss. And she also talked about some essay, which she wrote for the newsletter of English conversation circle she belongs. It is about smartphone which she recently got. Among attendees discussion about smartphones took place for a while.
The third participant said that the new school year has already started in her country. And the temperature has been getting cooler in the morning. Surprisingly, the sunset time in her country at the moment is after 8 pm in the local time. The sunset time in Japan now around 6 pm, so it is quite interesting that the sunset time is different from location to location.
The last one came across a group of monkeys while walking. Because he lives in the mountainous area, wild animals such as monkeys, wild boars, and deer come down to the residential area of the humans. He saw the monkeys getting the chestnuts from the big chestnuts tree. In the autumn the residents sometimes suffer the damages by wild animals, e.g. they steal the chestnuts, persimmons or sweet potatos.

Then we went to the second task; reading an article titled “Dietary supplements could be bad for you ”, True/False questions, and discussions related to the article. Opinions about taking supplements are divided to two among the attendees. One opinion of anti-supplement is that we should taka vitamins, nutrition from foods, not from supplements. And a prescribed medicine by a doctor is more reliable than supplements. Opponents said that they partially accept the anti-supplement opinion, but it is quite hard to take all vitamins or nutrition fully by only three meals, so supplement is necessary.
Anyway, some supplements are very harmful to people, especially they take supplements too much.
(Taka)

The report of the meeting on 27/08/2016

There were 5 attendees at the meeting tonight.

First, we talked about what’s new? How was your week?
①The first member said that he lives in KANTO area and the typhoon NO 10 hit the area a couple days ago. And a landslide happened at his neighborhood. The typhoon NO 9 is coming soon. He has to prepare the measures against the typhoon NO 9.
②The second member said that She spend busy days in last week. She go to the hospital once a two month. She is worried about her blood sugar level. Because of the numerical value is raising recently.
③ The third member said that she is in HIROSHIMA today. Her father lives there alone. She always has concerned about him. She introduced us the “emergency medical information kit” and she said this is very useful kit for elders. http://kyoto119kitto.com
④The fourth member said that his favorite driving course is around the Lake BIWA. The road is located almost along the lakefront. The Lake BIWA give us different scenery through a 4 season. Yesterday, the total driving distance was about 200km and it took in six hours.

From this time, another member attended our session. We talked next questions with five members.
1, What is a dear (fond) memory of your childhood?
2, What does money mean to you?
3, What are the pluses of watching TV?
4, Why people should learn a foreign language?
5, What do you think the world will be like in 50 years?
(Ue)

The report of the meeting on 20/08/2016

Five members attended today’s session.

We initially talked about the news of the week in turn.
The first person told he worked and ate through the week.
The second one told that her husband started harvesting the rice with a combine harvester.
The third one talked about setting up web site of FETS. When he started it four years ago, many people attended, but soon they disappeared. It is Yuki san that only one continues it. Now, a foreign attendant takes part in this session. It is happy for him that she continues to attend this session diligently. She will start to do a chair person next month.
The fourth one talked about that his wife and her sisters took trip. He gave them a gift of the fruit, but it was not carried his wife, because the staff of the front desk forgot to hand over her it.
The fifth one told that she cleaned her house after her family visited and returned on Bon festival.
Then, our session shifted the next topic, “Stealing food is not a crime, says Italian court.” After we finished reading one sentence each other respectively, an attendant asked the meaning of one sentence in the article. The other one answered and explained about European rule, law structure and British constitution.
About No. 1 question, two persons told that they remembered a novel of Les Miserables. The other ones told about the trouble of the shoplifting and food theft in childhood. It was not crime. Each court ruled and ruling is a constitution. In Germany, law follows a precedent. In Japan, we call the precedent a law. Law’s structure of Japan forms the foundation England one, etc.
(Tae)

The report of the meeting on 06/08/2016

There were six attendees in all for today's lesson.
There was the participant from the second foreign country this time. I do not understand the nationality, but want to expect it because I seem to speak English as vernacular speech in Japanese.
New comer: A certain woman participated this time from Switzerland. It is participation that she works and leaves a small child to her husband. She said that she was weak in pronunciation and grammar about English. However it is incomparable to us because she speak English routinely. She was applauded because of her good talk of pronunciation. And she replied the reason is that as you know Europeans speak English well. (?) She talked about German. She talk about German umlauts, but I could not understand that at all. She said that I leave a child to her husband on Saturday and want to participate this from here on.
Second person: He talked about the murder case that happened near his house. Because he taught the person who was in such facilities for three years, He did not think that with the other people's affairs. He went to the place to offer flowers and prayed. This news seemed to run through the world instantly. A certain woman said that a European was sensitive to particularly this kind of case. There was the person that this is a rare case, but do not really go, and I want it; because do not try it for the first time
Third person: Though I put them in order because there were various things in the kitchen, I had a hard time and was busy at all. It was cleared up and I was comfortable
Forth person: She used the Shinkansen bullet train for the Tokyo National Museum of Ueno. She went to watch an ancient Greece exhibition. Those showpieces were showpieces of in 3-7 centuries B.C. (really 1-20 centuries B.C.). She said that because I learned the history well, I understood it well.
Fifth person: She talked about a political problem about a terrorist incident in Europe. The case seemed to happen in Germany and the U.K. Because it is detailed, I omit it by a too political problem here.
Last person: He told that he was preparing for repairing a house by care of old mother. Though a lot of steps in an old house, He has to fix it and it takes a large amount of expense so on.
(TAG)

The report of the meeting on 30/07/2016

There were five attendees at the meeting on July 30. (However, one of us left in the middle of the session, because he had to answer the phone.)

First, we talked about what's new, or how the week was, which is summarized as follows:
1) The first member said that although she had had nothing special that week, she had been to the bank by car with her husband on a rainy day. She also went to the hospital for medical check-up.
2) The second one said he had attended the radio gymnastic exercises group in the morning as usual. Then he cleaned the road in front of his house. There is an unoccupied house across the road. The garden has been unkempt for a long time, so trees and grasses got overgrown to cover over the fence. Homeless cats entered the house and messed it up, and birds made their nests. The number of such houses is increasing nationwide.
3) The third one said his mother's house had been unoccupied, because she had lived in the nursing home. Therefore he set up some hidden video cameras outside her house. Those cameras will start to video-tape when they catch big sound. His mother wants to return to her house, but her body condition is not good. Her bone density is very low, 45 percent. However, her brain is so clear that her speech gives others a big surprise.
4) The fourth one talked about the International World Youth Day 2016 held in Krakow, Poland from July 26 through 31. It is an annual, religious event. Many young people gathered from around the world; Africa, New Zealand, China, etc. There were some activities and events such as shows, music, prayer, meeting and listening to the Pope, and so on.
5) The fifth one said that her husband had gone to climb Mt. Fuji with his friend. It is his annual event. He left home very early morning on Friday and came back home in the evening on Saturday. Her mother-in-law and she stayed at home.

Next we moved to Today's topic, "Emperor considers abdication". First, we read an article by the sentence. Secondly, we shared our opinions and discussed related to the article. However, after this article, there seemed to appear another article with a little different information about the Emperor. According the newer one, the Emperor does not consider abdication so far. We should wait for the Emperor's own words through TV. For some minutes left, we tried the game "Word Chain".
(Yuki)

The report of the meeting on 23/07/2016

6 people attended to the session today. Here is the report about it.

Firstly each person talked about “What’s new”.
The topic of the first participant was nephew’s birthday. He turned 6 years old and was celebrated by his family and relatives. He was very happy to be presented many things, such as chocolate or candy and some games. The first participant also gave a gift to him.
The second one had anything special this week. She put away and threw away many documents, and went out for shopping. However, she had a happy time this week, namely her son sent sweet yellow peach to her. She ate it and became satisfied with it. According to her, Okayama and Hiroshima are famous for production of many kinds of fruits including peaches.
The third person visited to ball parks to watch the baseball games. Now nation-widely in Japan, under way are local tournaments of baseball games, where the baseball teams in senior high schools compete for earning a place to the national tournament. He supports some high school team, which successfully has won up to quarter final in the local tournament in his living area.
The fourth person talked about the computer of his wife. The computer was the desk top type and its OS was Windows 10 upgraded from Windows Vista. There were many troubles with the computer, so finally he sold it on auction. The price was so cheap saddly.
The fifth attendees said that today is her birthday. Every other attendee congratulated her. Her daughter took to some restaurant to celebrate her birthday and enjoyed chatting around one and half hours there. She was presented a book by her daughter.
The last person has got a new client at the online English school. He got a bit busy recently because clients booked his lesson more than before.

Then we moved to the today’s topic, ”You are a tour guide”. This is the task that each attendee pretends the tour guide and introduces some famous and attractive sightseeing place to foreign travelers.
Here are the places to have been guided; Hokkaido(Japan)? New York(USA)? Brasov(Romania)????? USJ in Osaka (Japan)? A part of CHIBA I like? Warsaw(Poland)?
All places were introduced with very beautiful pictures, and surprisingly one person made a presentation by Power Point. This task was really enjoyable and useful because we were able to get much information on the places where we never been.
Someone said, “I want to go to Warsaw someday” after we saw wonderful pictures of some architecture and listened to interesting guide.
The presentation made by Power Point was about the travel to New York. All participants were surely impressed with many pictures.
Time was not enough unfortunately for all tour guides to introduce the places satisfactorily.
(Taka)

The report of the meeting on 16/07/2016

There were 6 attendees at the meeting tonight.

First, we talked about what’s new? How was your week?
①The first member who is leader of this group said that one member will leave this group. He didn’t get the clear cause. It’s unavoidable. Instead, we welcome new member from tonight. She is active student of university now.
②The second one said that she made a plan to go Greece. But this area is becoming dangerous place by terrorist recently. So she changed her plan to Finland.
③The third member said that she went out for shopping in Suzuka after long time. She had her lunch in restaurant alone, and she enjoyed window shopping.
④The fourth member said that she concern about incidents by terrorist. A reckless truck driver killed about 80 tourists in France. Also in Turkey, a part of soldier carried out the coupdetat(?), finally the victim reached more than 150 person, they say..
⑤And we welcome new member who has lived in Hiroshima. She is 19 years old and student of university.. If she attend with this group in formal, our average age will extremely down. She wants to study biology and chemistry in future.
⑥The last member said he go to the park for playing radio exercise with the neighborhood every morning. This is a one of his essential morning routine now. 　

Tonight topics. Do you know your BMI and ideal weight?

We told about our BMI and ideal weight,

Your BMI = weight (kg) / (height (m))²    The best BMI = 22.0

Your ideal weight = (height (m))² ? 22

Reference: http://keisan.casio.jp/exec/system/1161228732 　　　　　　　　　　　　 (Ue)

The report of the meeting on 09/07/2016

There were six members in the secession on July 9.

At first, we talked about our news as usual.
The first person went to the church to listen to the Gospel songs. He enjoyed it.
The second one was very busy for his job for two week. Two days ago, he enjoyed seeing some kinds color Japanese hydrangeas which come into full bloom. He explained about the way to change the color of flowers by the acidic soil, or not.
The third one told that he went to Fujiyoshida city with his wife by his car. He was going to eat the delicious noodle at the most famous noodle shop, but two the most famous noodle shops unfortunately were closed. After eating the noodle at the common noodle shop opened. Then, They visited the famous art museum to appreciate the drawing letters, and then, visited the art gallery to see famous photographer’s works called Kouyou. The photo’s color was famous for black and white in 1870.
The fourth one asked about a recipe of Japanese noodle. We answered her about the ways to cook soup and toppings on the noodle. For example, boiled fish, reek, deep flied shrimps and buckwheat.
The fifth one told that she went to English conversation club and played a coordinator of presentation there.
The sixth one told that she visited two hospitals for check her eyes and her cholesterol.

After that, we read the today’s topic “ U.N. says refuge numbers at record level” in turn. After everyone read each sentence, we talked about our idea.
One person asked about asylum seeker. It is reported that people who are equivalent to Japanese population become refugee in Europe.
The other one told that U.N. wrote in this story. There were many children in refugee. But according to information, it was actually young gays without children. So, ladies in Germany and Sweden were actually raped. It is a serious matter in Europe. Also, Rabbits of pet kept in the garden were stolen by refugee. A deterioration of security has been increasing.
The other one told that main reason increased for a civil war of the government and the antigovernment in Syria. The war brought a refugee in Europe. Iss power becomes weaker and weaker, and the core of ISS becomes weaker, but it has repercussions in neighboring countries. At moment, home ground terrorists grow up in Syria, and Afghanistan, and young gays influence through Internet.
One member told that Japan was really safe, but the other one told to the terrorists. The other one answered that it was difficult for the common persons to fight with the terrorists. Also he said “ if I were an Iranian, I would escape into the safe countries”. “ I could not find a good solution strategy”.
The other one told that the political action to stop the conflict needs, for example, U.S, Russia and North Korea manufactured weapons, but we should oppose for stopping it. But in the other hand, there are some business man called “ a merchant of death “ to sell the military weapon to make profit and they got much money. A merchant of death is pessimistic word, but the weapon fairs were held conspicuously and secretly in the world even now. U.N has no power to solve it.
Nowadays, refugee is a global issue.
(Tae)

The report of the meeting on 02/07/2016

This time was the participation of 6 members.

The beginning of the person showed how using for the words which are recently, lately, these days and nowadays. Recently, it can use in the present perfect, past tense. Lately, it can use in the present perfect, present tense. These days and nowadays, both can use as a present tense by comparison with past. And these days can express more personal recent situation. (I am writing to correct because there is an error in the actual explanation contents)
Second person: The person talked about the climate at the beginning. It was muggy today. I maintained the repair of the storeroom. There is spider web towards the top. To get rid of it I have to watch in a posture of bending the neck towards the top. I felt sore neck. It was a great day with the other work.
Third person: The person went to the English circle in Yokkaichi city which is away from one and half hour. Transportation expenses it took more than two thousand yen. This payment is equivalent to one month worth of BMM.COM. The person said that I felt it’s better to join BMM.COM English.
Forth person: The person explaining a method to get rid of the cockroaches. The person make it a rule to do it every summer. The person made many the dumplings which contains the component to kill the cockroach. The component are mainly onion and boric acid.
Fifth person: The person said that this week was not interesting especially but the person told about the weather. Last week it’s very hot. Last Saturday’s temperature was 25 centigrade degrees. ( for Japanese it’s very comfy temperature ) Luckily after storm the temperature dropped from 25 degrees to 20 degrees, 15 degrees. The storm killed a lot of trees. Police and firefighter came to clear away the fallen trees.
Last person: The person said that the person got the chance to speak American gay in down town and had enjoyable time to speak English in the civil English circle. Benefits of speaking a non-native language is not only for useful, but it support good brain in its own body. Even in Japanese modern age we are not known about beneficial and interesting information sometimes. it’s good for government but bad for people actually. There are things that are not known in Japan from the world point of view. I will try to collect the future of such article aftertime also.
(TAG)

The report of the meeting on 25/06/2016

There were seven attendees including a newcomer at the meeting on June 25.

First, the newcomer introduced herself. She is now staying in Cairns, Australia, with working holiday visa. Before Australia, she visited and stayed in Fiji for learning English at the age of 20, during college days. Among other students, some experienced staying in Australia with working holiday visa. She envied them, and since then visiting Australia had been her dream. Now her dream has come true.
Then, after other regular members' self-introduction, we talked about what's new, or how the week was, which is summarized as follows:
1) The first member showed a picture of vegetables harvested in his garden: an eggplant, a green pepper, another type of green pepper called "shishitoh", a cucumber, and a small tomato. His wife made a salad with them.
2) The second one said he had played table tennis. It was good for health. He also attended an off-line English circle held in the community center. It costs him 2,500 yen a month. He is considering another on-line English training course on the Internet.
3) The third one said it had been very hot in Poland, and the temperature read 34 degrees Celsius at that time. Usually it stands at much lower degrees, around 28 C. No one in her country have air conditioners except supermarkets. She also talked about summer holidays. College students have three months (June,July and August), and other students two months (July and August). They usually go to the seaside.
4) The fourth one talked about a recent national referendum held in the UK. It was about whether to leave EU. His opinion is that the UK should keep staying, but they decided to leave. He said it was understandable. The number of immigrants is increasing which influences their economy, working situation, social security, and so on. And the rules of EU are very sever, which are disagreeable to those who once ruled the seven seas.
5) The fifth one said that her car, which she had asked TOYOTA dealers to repair, came back to her. It became refreshed and beautiful, which made her happy and felt relieved.
6) The sixth one said she went to the library, and found a Japanese comic book "Dragon Ball". She borrowed it, which did not lead to a drop in motivation for learning English. She has learned harder.
7) The seventh one talked about the abnormal weather in her hometown where she had stayed last week. That area usually has less rainfalls, but it rained tremendously heavily last week, and there were some floods and landslips, which caused a heavy traffic jams on the Route 2. As every express way was closed, many cars and tracks came into Route 2. She took a bus for the station. Usually it takes 30 minutes, but that day it took 3 hours.

Next we moved to Today's topic, "Japan moves to rein in do-nothing solar projects". First, we read (and Japanese members translated into Japanese) an article by the sentence. Secondly, we shared our opinions and discussed related to the article. Anyway, the industry ministry has lowered the fixed purchase price for output from large-scale solar power installations 40 yen in fiscal 2015 to 24 yen now. It will be expected a further decrease to 17 yen to 18 yen in fiscal 2019. And the legislation was revised that projects with little prospect of a quick startup would be rejected and revoked their approvals.
Do you have a plan to install any solar panels near future?
(Yuki)

The report of the meeting on 18/06/2016

We had six participants at the today’s meeting.

Firstly we did “What’s new” as usual.
The first attendee talked about the earthquake insurance. He elaborated the policy of it. For example, the insurance premium varies based on the building material and its location. Mega earthquakes are projected to happen in Tokay-Kanto region, so the premium of building in this area is more expensive than others’.
The second explained her daily life. She was bit busy because she went to the hospital with husband. She also wrote the some document and submit it to the health center. She was busy because she had many household chores to do as well.
The third person was staying at father’s house in Hiroshima where she attended to FETS. She talked about the endoscope operation. Recently the operation of removing the small polyps in internal organs has got easier than before by using the endoscope. Another member took it last autumn and the operation took only 20-30 minutes.
The fourth person also explained the earthquake insurance at the beginning and then he moved to recent events about his mother. His mother live quite long fortunately. Another topic he mentioned was the first aide. He has the skill of it. If there is an occasion to explain it, he wants to do so.
The fifth talked about the violent storm which happed recently in her living area in Poland. Trees swung and bent violently by gusty wind. Because of storm some streets were flooded and a tree broke down on a car, and some people were injured. She also mentioned the soccer match which is going on now in Europe. She was so happy to watch her team win one game and draw with German team, which was the winner FIFA world cup 2014.
The last person mentioned his dog, whose health condition has been bad. It stopped eating. He took it to an animal hospital to check it. No special health problems were found. A vet suggested a heatstroke might be its cause. It is quite old, so it is natural it has many health problems.

We moved to the today’s topic-- Definition of crimes by our own. There are so many crimes nowadays. We wanted to cover all crimes, but because of limited time, we only picked up seven crimes as follows; abduction, child abuse, drunk driving, embezzlement, espionage, murder, poaching.
1 As for abduction, Japanese people were abducted by North Korea in the past, and still now many of them are not able to return to Japan. It was a national crime by North Korea and violation against human rights.
2 Child abuse was defined by one member as “the crime of harming a child physically, sexually, or emotionally”. She took an incident occurred recently in Hokkaido, Japan as an example: a child was left in an empty area by his parents for discipline. He was missing for nearly a week. There is a controversial argument over discipline and child abuse.
3 Definition of drunk driving is “driving a car under the influence of alcohol”. The punishment to drunk driving has got severer in japan than it was. Many tragic car accidents happened from drunk driving.
4 About embezzlement some crime was mentioned, which was committed by a principal of an elementary school in Japan. He stole official funds of his school.
5 Espionage is crime that someone steals secrets or information from public or private organizations such as government, especially from opponent one.
6 Concerning murder, one member distinguished between murder from hate and indiscriminate murder. In the USA, many indiscriminate murders happened. As almost all people recognize, possession of guns are admitted in the USA based on its constitution, however many people think that some stricter gun-control regulations should be set in America when we see indiscriminate murders by guns.
7 Poaching is defined as follows; The crime of illegally catching or shooting animals, birds, or fish, especially on private land without permission. Poaching is committed not only Africa but also in Japan; abalones, turban shells or sea cucumbers are caught illegally by some Japanese or criminal organization Yakuza.

This time, we used Word Online as a white board. We need to get used to this application. It is surely useful application.
(Taka)

The report of the meeting on 11/06/2016

There were six attendees for today's lesson.

The following items are for the report of individual behavior or conduct in this week : First attendee talked about his harvest of vegitables showing us picturs of cucumbers and potatos. Those were fresh and delicious for him eating with vinegar taste dressing and would get mini-tomatos about 2 weeks later.
Second one held a family union with his 2 sons' families at Lake Hamana resort area while they were busy with their work, and enjoyed eating dinner of Chinese cuisin at hotel. The next day they had sighseeing around Kanzanji area, eating grilled meals with expensive price.
Third one talked about picking up loquats. She had to use special tools of scissors for picking up loquats at high positions of trees, and found that about half of them were pecked by birds that made her regretable.
Fourth talked about three affairs. He went to hear gospel music singing. He made adjustment of Skype to get better conditions. He introduced us with his girl friend showing us her photos during camping at Rocky mountains ares using gorgeous campimg cars.
Fifth one talked about her physical training of Yoga. She had exercise of Yoga watching and following the TV program with three basic positions. The next day she felt better and did'nt feel any discomfort but began to feel some pain at her side the day after the next, which is peculiar phenomenon to rather elderly people.
Sixth one talked about the procedures of earthquake breaker setting-up. He made a application documents for asking of support of setting-up cost and handed in to Fujieda Office. After his application is accepted, he would get support of the cost by 2/3. Fujieda city has put on stress for prevention of fire caused by the big earthquake(Tokai Jisin) which has been forecasted with very high possibility of occurrence and offered to support of cost of breaker setting -up by 2/3.

Regarding Today's topic: Anger over racist Chainese advert Task1 : Each sentence was read and translated into Japanese one by one. Task 2: Attendees expressed their own opinion to the questions and other opinions and counter comments given therby were discussed . ( We did'nt have enough time to complete all questions but upto No. 4.)
(Jun)

The report of the meeting on 4/06/2016

There were eight members (include new member coming from Nagoya city. ) in today’s session. FETS leader decided to divide into two groups. Recently FETS member is increasing little by little. It’s good for us. Instead the speaking time of each member is becoming shorter than before. It is ideal that one group consist of four members. If the attender has more than eight members we should divide into two groups after “What’s new” corner. So we divided into two groups tonight.
Group 1. The group members talked about “spoken language” while watching the FETS Online White Board.
Group 2. The group members talked about “What was the most important decisions in your life so far?"
(Ue)

The report of the meeting on 28/05/2016

There were five members in today’s session.

Before anything, we talked about the member’s news respectively as usual.
The first person talked about “Mr.Kouhei Kuroda” of Soccer player.
The next one told that he had fixed net screens of his house.
The third one talked about planting seedling of summer vegetables, and showed us their pictures.
The fourth one told about having dropped her notebook of PC on the floor, and having visited some famous spots in Kyoto. She enjoyed chattering with her friends from her college days. For example, when they decided the order to take a bath, they decided it by rock-paper-scissors.
The last one told that she had a car accident at the parking area of the shop. The both drivers fortunately weren’t injured. The car of the other side had a mere scratch, but her car was broken a front part.
Then, we made a progress of Today’s topic “The President of FIFA “. Each member read and translated in turn. After that, we discussed each other about it as follow.　 They should improve the system and organization of FIFA. Mr. Sepp Blatter graduated Lausanne University. He is from Switzerland. He worked the position for long years, and has influenced to the right to decide. In Japan, a rumor says that Mr. Takeda is also dirty, and used the bribe as consulting pay to lure the Olympic Game in 2020. Mr. Sepp is a typical sport tycoon. We should convert the term of FIFA President into short one, for example, two years. We should also change the president’s system too, etc. They showed the good points which we should improve. That’s all.
(Tae )

The report of the meeting on 21/05/2016

There were six attendees in all for today's lesson.

Today’s session is that we hold free conversation greeted a woman from Poland, so normal session is postponed. (Poland’ local time is 12:30.) Although the original agenda was going to perform for the Panama paper problem, a few days ago I got the fact that there is a guest participation from foreign countries, so I examined the moderator to respond to it. Today prior to the meeting I explain in English that we will not carry out the advance of the agenda. After explaining it seemed that everybody agreed what I explained it. But surprisingly no one understood what I explained it. After that it made discursive indaba.
We asked her about political, economic, national trends, lifestyle of citizens in Poland. However, the answers to the questions are considered as personal her thoughts. Except the matter like her personal thoughts. for the remaining 18 minutes I can record the contents.
こんばんは　 Dobry wieczor ありがとう　 Dzi?kuj? おやすみなさい　Dobranoc ありがとう　 dzi?kuj? za
Situation of the country will find even without heard by examining. Conversation Skype is alive as the top is important. At all events we were quite exciting this time to know the situations of completely different in Japan, such as feelings for the living conditions and the neighboring country of Poland.
(Tag)

The report of the meeting on 14/05/2016

There were seven attendees including two newcomers at the meeting on May 14.
First, two newcomers introduced themselves. One is now living in Melbourne, Australia. She is working on an internship. She teaches Japanese to primary school, middle school and high school students.
The other is staying in Brisbane, Australia, with working holiday visa. He works on a strawberry farm.

After other regular members' self-introduction, we talked about what's new, or how the week was, which is summarized as follows:
1) The first member says it is harder for her to teach Japanese to primary school students in Australia, because they have less motivation, and because they have to learn some other foreign languages.
2) The second one tells there are many restaurants in Sunnybank, Brisbane. He is considering working at a restaurant, because he has to earn more and wants to have more chances to speak English.
3) The third one talked about his backache. He has had a strong pain in the lower part of the back for a few weeks. He went to see a doctor, but any causes could not be found. His wife guesses he is sitting at the desk for a long time, which causes this pain.
4) The fourth one told the condominium he lives in had been under construction. Recently, a part of scaffolding structure was removed, so he can see outside a little now. He also talked about his mother in the hospital, and his visit to his son's family during the Golden Week.
5) The fifth one said that the week had been hot and dry, so she had cleaned the curtains.
6) The sixth one talked about President Obama. He will visit Hiroshima two weeks later. He is a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, declaring abolishment of nuclear weapons.
7) The seventh one refrained from telling her week because of the shortage of time.

Next we moved to Today's topic, "One-time passwords adopted to prevent money fraud". First, we read and translated an article by the sentence. Secondly, we shared our opinions and discussed related to the article. Although Internet banking sounds very convenient, there are some problems such as money frauds and cyber-attacks. We expect the one-time password system will make our money transactions much safer. Regional banks should adopt this system as soon as possible.

By the way, it is said that strawberries harvested in Japan are much sweeter than those in Australia.
(Yuki)

The report of the meeting on 07/05/2016

There were six attendees in all for today's lesson.

The following items are for the report of individual behavior or conduct of this week : First attendee talked about a problem of unregistered illeagal hotel room due to shortage of authorized hotel rooms for foreign travellers in his living area of Uji; neighbors are annoying with stayers having bad manners such as making big noise in the late night and disturbance caused by their ignorance. The government shoud do something for these troubles.
Second one had a trouble of bulb filament outage of ceilling light and exchanged it with a new one with the help of kind neighbors. She enjoyed attending the tea ceremony and picturer appreciation.
Third one introduced his accomplishment of renewal of FETS web site; complete upgrade of web page design and improvement of English words for explanation for visitors and some other new sysytem convenient. He was busy with a lot of work to do including his first assignment of on-line English teacher . He wanted to adopt on-line White Board which every one can write in and shares with others.
Fourth one attended to other English speaking circle activity today. He has been busy with E-mail correspondence with a lady in Ukraine almost everday. He enjoyed having dinner with his son's families at Katsuera.
Fifth one talked about the upgrade application of W7 to W10, including funny story with a pet mischief . She was looking forward to seeing her daughter over for lunch on Mother's day for expecting her daughter's present.
Sixth one talked about the production cost of Japanese 1 Yen coin for about 2 Yen and so we shoud not neglect it. Apart from this issue, he recalled about US 1 panny conin that when he was in NY and dropped in a souvenir shop, he found a souvenir of shape- changed 1 penny coin embossed with the Statue of Liberty(small oblong sheet). What was surprised him was the suvenier made by real coin, that is illegal in Japan.

Regarding Today's topic: Over-the -counter medicine may shrink brain Task1 : Each sentence was read and translated into Japanese one by one. Task 2: Attendees expressed their own opinion to the questions and other opinions and counter comments given therby were discussed . ( We did'nt have enough time to complete all questions but upto No. 3.)
(Jun)

The report of the meeting on 30/04/2016

Five members attended today’s session.

The first part of it was “What’s new. Talk about anything” as usual.
The first person talked about the new job. Recently he was employed as English conversation teacher by online English school. He made many texts for his lecture, and devised the effective method for teaching English to students online. For example, he will use presentation software such as Microsoft Power Point or Microsoft OneDrive.
The second female was a bit busy this week because she looked after her husband, and visited the city hall in order to receive an individual card or so-called “My Number Card”. In addition to these, she went to a garage for inspection, and visited the old temple to see wisteria in other day.
The third participant said that he loves watching baseball games of senior high school students. This season, team members change. It is interesting to guess which team will be better than the previous one and win games. He goes ball parks sometimes to watch the game. He gives a cheer to the teams which are not so strong initially but are getting stronger after hard training.
The fourth person attended the party which is held every year by his previous company. The purpose of the party is for the company shows many thanks to its retired workers. Foods and drinks are definitely owed by the company. He enjoyed talking with his old colleagues and got some information on the current company situation.
The last attendee did laundry of “kotatsu” blanket because it was sunny and dry day. She put it away after drying by sunshine it. Because the kotatsu has been situated in the center of a room and the location is spacious now, she felt bit vain.

Then we moved on to the today’s topic. It was the task that all attendees make 5 statements in advance which are related to the pictures. Two statements out of five correctly describe the picture and others don’t match it. Here are some examples;

	A) The car in the picture has trouble with its engine. B) The man in the picture is putting on a tie. C) You can see the man wearing a black shirt. D) The car overheats because it runs in a hot desert. E) The hood of the car is open.
	A) He is going to drive a nail. B) He is going to pulling a nail C) It's over in a little bit D) There were lots of work for him to be finished E) He is using the hammer to fix the floor.

(Taka)

The report of the meeting on 23/04/2016

TAKA, YUKI, three people of TAG attended.

The charge is taｇ on this time. I apologized that I was`nt possible to be in charge of on Wednesday. TAKA challenged new work and spoke the method that gained it.
YUKI talked about having gone to the Universal Studios. Story, Taka compared it with Disneyland about the entering a kindergarten system of the verge and talked.
I talked about the state that the appearance including disease of repair work and the relative of the house and having enrolled in the circle newly was busy.

Today's article was placed in the New York Times about an earthquake and South America Ecuador earthquake of Kyushu. It was written in the association of two earthquakes carelessly, but there does not seem to be the association in conclusion. Because the next person is a person of Ecuador and talked all the time when I boarded it before from Schiphol Airport to Narita Airport, the reason why I chose this article as is because it was anxious.
It was few numbers of people, but was substantial contents.
(Tag)

The report of the meeting on 16/04/2016

There were 6 participants tonight.

At first we talked about news which each member had in this week. One of them was a newcomer. So, she introduced herself. The first one told about his English lesson. According to his talk, he has attended English club for 10 years. It is held on every Tuesday, and there are about 20 participants in the English class.
The second one told about the earthquake in Kyusyu region. He expressed his condolences and sympathy on passing away of the persons for the damage caused by the earthquake. He added that it was fortunately good that we didn’t have the damage of Tunami. Also, he told that it was regrettable for the researcher not to able to predict the occurrence of the earthquake in advance. The assistant professor of the Tokyo University, Mr. Ishibashi had predicted the big earthquake would occurred in Tokai region about on 20 ~ 30 years ago. So, he has paid it attention about researching the prediction of big earthquake in advance. But the big earthquakes like Hanshin, Fukushima occurred. It was regrettable that the researcher could not success about the earthquake prediction yet. He lives in Shizuoka pref. Therefore, he hopes the earthquake research will be predicted in advance as soon as possible.
The third one told she visited his father’s house and stayed there, and took part in our lesson. She told that she made a promise meeting her friend the next day. So she hopes it will stop raining the next day. The other one told that she was writing a manuscript of essay.
A new comer left for FETS ２． 　
About the second Task, We read the today’s topic and translated the sentence in turn. After that, we talked about questions each other.
1). She did not know about Panama Paper at all. So, she researched it in the Web site. The other one read it in The Asahi News and was so surprised so much. She was interested in it so much. She thought that the journalist who had disclosed it was great.
2). One said, “Tax is duty.”, and the next one said, “This incident is unfair”. The third one told that he submits his own tax, and that Government plans to increase the consumption tax.
3). Panama Paper is the customer’s list which 24 Japanese companies are contained, for example, YUNICRO, JAL, MITUBISHI, and Japan Packet Ship, etc. The tax which Japanese firm paid was total 60 trillion per one year in 2013. The other one told that they should donate. The other one told that Japanese government budget had about 100 trillion deficits, and that the government had not established consumption tax yet. The Japanese government should confiscate the tax to the people who avoided paying this tax. The other one told that Japanese government should donate and also should take a penalty.
4). One told that she did not know about WikiLeaks at all. The other one also did not know about it in detail at all. But the other one researched it in Website. According to it, WikiLeaks was concerning of Government’s anonymous. Mr. Julion Paul Assange was a founder of WikiLeaks. Each one researched about it in Website’s homepage. According to their answering, it brings us the important information in public, or it is Website secret information company, or, after he had criminal sexual harassment, he escaped foreign country, so nobody knows about him, and so forth.
The other one told that the Russia, China, Syria, and the other readers don’t resign yet, and they have kept the silence. But Sweden president resigned his job soon. She thinks he is a honest man.
6). One person told that she could not imagine 1 trillion yen. The other one told that she could not understand why they want to stock much money more.
7).One man told that leaking the document happened many risk for the business, for example, the inside denunciation like Watami, Makudonald, Fried chicken, and a chicken nugget brought the company many risks.
8). The next one told that a succor player Mr. Messi tried to avoid a tax. He has a sizable finance fortune. He has to pay 50 percent tax of his income. It was strict for them.
9). One person told that the poor should not pay. But the other one told that the both of the poor and the rich should pay the tax. It is fair. The other one told that the big money made money.
( Tae )

The report of the meeting on 09/04/2016

There were four attendees at the meeting tonight.

First, we talked about what’s new? or how was your week?
The first member said that a great swimmer Mr.KITAJIMA wasn’t chosen as swimmer of next Olympic Games, and also determined to retire from an active swimmer. And he was disappointed that a badminton player Mr.MOMOTA who was expected gold medal gambled which is illegal.
The second member said that she went to the hospital in NAGOYA city for check her glaucoma. And also said she has to check her eyes once an every three weeks at the hospital.
The third member said that he visited a park called SHIROYAMA Park. There was no castle but this area looked just as a battlefield of the Samurai war in Sengoku Era.
The forth member said that his wife bought the newest smart phone recently. He surprised because of she is a person who called IT tone-deafness. He hopes that she don’t give up using it.

The title of today’s topic was Do you know the “help mark” We talked about“help mark” and “priority seats”. And we talked furthermore. 1, What was the most crisis in your life so far? 2, Have you had a serious troubles in a trip abroad?
(Ue)

The report of the meeting on 02/04/2016

There were five attendees at the meeting on April 2.

First, we talked freely about what's new, or how your week was, which is summarized as follows:
1) The first member said he had attended an off-line English conversation circle held every Saturday. It consists of about 24 members, and they are divided into some groups with 4 members. That day there were 3 men and 1 woman, who have different occupations, at his table. They enjoyed discussing some topics.
2) The second member said he had dined out at a conveyor-belt sushi restaurant. There are two famous and successful conveyor-belt sushi restaurants in the Kanto region, "Sushiro" and "Hamazushi". Sushiro provides more fresh and reasonable sushi. There is a similar sushi chain named "Sushi Train" in Australia. Their sushi prices are higher than those of Japanese ones.
3) The third member said that day was his first grandson's birthday. His family had a birthday party for the boy, and enjoyed a birthday cake and lunch. He gave the boy a present of "Lego building blocks" and a book "Thomas and Friends".
4) The fourth member said he had visited "Kyoto Gyoen", an imperial garden, with his wife. It is located in the center of Kyoto. It has 90 hectares of land, where he enjoyed a lot of beautiful weeping cherry trees in full bloom that day. Kyoto Gyoen is not registered as a World Heritage Site. One of the reasons seems that the Imperial Household Agency, who controls Kyoto Gyoen, does not want UNESCO to control it.
5) The fifth member talked about translation of FETS website. Its opening page and "Admission and Contact" page has been already finished. Now "Rules" page is being translated halfway through the page. That page is a little difficult. So it will take more time to complete it.

Next we moved to Today's topic, "New Zealand Flag Referendum". First, we read and translated an article by the sentence. Secondly, we shared our opinions and discussed related to the article. Then we answered seven 4-choice questions. By the way, do you like your country's flag?
(Yuki)

The report of the meeting on 26/03/2016

There were six attendees in all for today's lesson.

The following items are for the report of individual behavior or conduct of this week :
First attendee suffered from cold but already got recovered as well as his wife. Second one made a breef explanation of talk contents of FETS/ Chat held this Wednesday. It mainly concerned how we get new members; active participants and foreigners if possible. There were nothing new ideas and English transulation of FETS homepage was going to be refined for easy understanding for foreigers. Proposed revision of English expression was examined on that day.
Third one visited 3 different graves and preyed on the day of equinox, for his pet, his parents and his wife's parents.
Fourth one was busy this week with visiting hospital to receive the rsult of inspection and completing proceedings at the notary public town office.
Fifth one talked about the trouble of ANA passenger dispatching system which gave lots of passengers inconvenience. He wondered why ANA didn't improve their systm taking account of the past similar trouble in advance.

Regarding Today's topic: Donald Trump on global risk list Task1 : Each sentence was read and translated into Japanese one by one. Task 2: Attendees expressed their own opinion to the questions and other opinions and counter comments given therby were discussed . ( We did'nt have enough time to complete all questions but upto No. 3.)
(Jun)

The report of the meeting on 19/03/2016

We had six attendees today. One of them was a new comer who is originally from Japan and lives in Australia now.

Initially we exchanged the latest news which happened around them, or talked about things which they had interest. I introduce what was talked in time order.
The first person took part in free English conversation classes online which have been served by many businesses recently. These online English classes are really cheap to compare to that of being served at local facilities. And mostly teachers are Pilipino.
The second attendee talked about several topics such as a pheasant, partial broken bone at her neck and recent successes of her relatives. As for the last episode, her grandchild successfully entered the high school and one of her relatives passed the national exam for doctor. Congratulations!!
Recently some murder cases at the trials have attracted our interests. Namely, suspects changed their previous testimony at the questioning by police and prosecutor when the trial started. The third person put the stress on the importance of visualization at the questioning prior to the court. Especially there are no clear objective evidences except for suspects’ testimony.
Then new comer introduced himself such as his living place in Australia, the period of staying there, the reason why he attended to FETS. Given members also introduced themselves to him. We exchanged questions and answers.
The fifth participant mentioned the recent event with her old friend. Two females enjoy talking via Skype sometimes and suddenly they came to meet and visit to the Ise Shinto shrine. They enjoyed the French cuisine and chatting.

Time is too short for the last person to talk his topics, so we moved to the today’s topic.
Make five statements to see a picture. Two of them match correctly to the picture and others don’t. Each member has to make these five statements and make narration.
The purpose of this task is to make grammatically correct and natural English statements. Language skills are comprehensive, that is to say, they include speaking, listening, reading and writing.
In my theory or opinion, each area influences each other. If writing skill gets better, then speaking skill should be improved by that, and vice versa.
Making a lot of short statements is the very good way to improve the writing skill. I strongly recommend that you should do that.
Here are some examples which was made by attendees.

No10， 1,There are many skiers on the ski slope. 2, The color of the skier’s skiwear are red and white. 3, The big tree is standing up straight. 4, The area was covered with deep snow.　 5, The sky is completely gray. It will rain.	No.15 A. There are four girls watching TV. B. One of them is a Japanese woman wearing kimono. C. All of them are touching the keyboard of the PC. D. A woman with her hair tied in a ponytail is very cute. E. Two girls are holding their chins on their hands.

(Taka)

The report of the meeting on 12/03/2016

There were five attendees at the meeting tonight.

First, we talked about what’s new? or how was your week? The first member said that he was in computer trouble today. He use the outlook as his daily mail
software. But his mail software didn’t work today.
The second one said that she visited NAGOYA city for listening the chorus music. It’s called Senior Citizen Chorus and it’s consist of many amateur chorus groups.
The third member said that his granddaughter is two months old and his family member visited the shrine for praying his granddaughter’s happiness. It’s called OMIYA MAIRI. And he showed us some snaps. What a wonderful pictures were!
The fourth member said that her husband installed some solar panels on the roof of the garage. She said “this is my husband’ hobby”. May be it is waste money for her.
The last member said he is making a plan in secret to go road trip to SHIKOKU island alone. It is his dream for long time since he bought his own car.

The title of today’s topic was “Japanese RAKUGOs and American Jokes’. We enjoyed some Japanese RAKUGOs and American jokes. I have thought memorizing RAKUGO and Joke are useful for studying English.
(Ue)

The report of the meeting on 05/03/2016

There were six participants on March 5. 2016.
First of all, we talked about the news of this week. The first person had the Doll’s Festival for his granddaughter. She is seven months old.
The second one spent the terrible days because he caught a bad cold, but not flu. He suffered from terrible cough. The vitamin C that he took was so effective. So, he recovered soon, but his wife went down and has stayed in bed. So, he had to go shopping to buy food.
The third one told that he didn’t do special anything. Then he told about U.S President’s election campaign. Republic party, Mr. Donald has a big problem for U.S people. The some problems are a refugee issue, great wall, having unfair relationship, military convention between Japan and U.S.A. Mr. Tramp has radical and abnormal opinion. According to his opinion, all American people don’t support him, negative, miss demarches, and he is not suitable for U.S. president. The second one told that Mr. Donald is strong but his popularity will disappear because U.S. election campaign term is long. The fifth one told that Mr. Donald will be surely beaten. Democratic Party Ms. Clinton is better than Mr. Donald.
The fourth one told that her communication tools are Skype, Line, and messenger. The mobile phone that the fourth one uses is a common mobile phone. She uses short message by mobile phone. She is not sure which service is better ,or not. But she uses full function.
The fifth one told that his wife went to Australia. He got the email which she arrived the airport without any trouble. Also, he asked us about 10 things that Japanese people are pride of the world.( by Japan times articles). 1. Video game of high technology and Nintendow Playstation, 2. a vending machine, 3. an urban legend, 4. A slingshot parlar, 5. Public customer’s service, 6. Japan does not have differentials, 7. An animation and a comic book, 8. Toilet system or, rest room, 9. Video game, 10. Food and Technology, etc. We had the other things like Japanese citizen keep the law, and two religions. Also, Japanese people obey traffic signal. Furthermore, He told Nintendow has many problems, DS price is cheap, On line game is popular, etc.
The last one told about English rakugo which one went to listen to Yokkaichi. It was interesting. According to other person, there was a famous professional comic storyteller, but he suicided.

Then, we started to translate today’s topic the robot called “Musio” in turn. After that, the time being limited had come, and we finished Student Question quickly. Then, the next task was done just only checking answers.
(Tae)

The report of the meeting on 27/02/2016

There were five attendees at the meeting on February 27.

This was the first opportunity to the moderator for me. And I think just in the preparation of the document, did not think the subsequent things. As such, I did not write down what the individual said what thing.
How to learn English, he came out for the speed-learning materials. We talked about commercials of using the famous professional golfer. His english skill was the progress is, there was also talk of being with a personal professor as well as teaching materials.
There was the story of that she was talking to the British for the first time in a long time with the skype､the special tea has been sent.
Good results in the blood test comes out, there was a story that has been made determination of this year.
I was also told that my daughter was able to change jobs well luck to UASC, headquartered in Dubai. Actually,there are more interesting to talk about this､next time.

Today's topic is the United States government and the Apple company collision. In this regard, it was also covered in the news station, etc., it is a very difficult problem. It’s seemed like asking that which is important the governance and the free. From the considering of the refugee problem, I understand that the existing of the country is very important for us.

Now computer is poor condition, I am barely writing the report. I have 114 of the pass word.How do you manage the pass word.In a time I would like you to ask the problem.
(TAG)

The report of the meeting on 20/02/2016

There were six attendees at the meeting on February 20.

First, we talked freely about what's new, or how your week was, which is summarized as follows:
1) The first member said he had visited Matsuda-cho in Kanagawa prefecture to see Kawazu-zakura (very pinkish cherry blossoms). There were a lot of cherry trees in 50 percent bloom along the river. There were also yellow rape blossoms. The sky was very clear in blue. The contrast of three colors - pink, yellow and blue - was really beautiful.
2) The second member said it was a garbage collection day in his town. He saw a lot of crows around the garbage place. They pick through the garbage after people left there, which is the big problem. The garbage place is covered with yellow nets, because yellow is a color crows dislike. But crows in his town don't care.
3) The third member said he remembered his summer holidays when he was a student. He stayed in villas in Izu or Atami, and enjoyed swimming in the sea. There are many Kawazu-zakura cherry trees in the Izu Peninsula too.
4) The fourth member talked about liberalization of electricity prices, which will start this coming April. He received notification about discount of electricity rate from two power companies. One will offer 1,500-yen yearly discount, and the other, 4,500-yen yearly discount. The latter case is rather good discount.
5) The fifth member talked about a famous sake brewery in Suzuka. One day her friend asked her if she knows it. At first, she didn't know it, so she searched the Internet and finally found the information about it. The sake her friend looked for is "Zaku" which is produced by Shimizu sake brewery which distributes their goods to a special sake retailer. The sake is expensive; 4,000 yen for 750 ml, and more expensive one is 25,000 yen for 750 ml. She sent an email to her friend soon.
6) The last member said she had attended a book club, where they read a book of Adler individual psychology titled "Break away from difficulty in living （生きづらさからの脱却）" which is written by Ichiro Kishimi, and exchanged opinions and discussed.

Next we moved to Today's topic, "FOOD EXPORTS HIT RECORD". First, we read and translated an article by the sentence. Secondly, we filled in the blanks using suitable English words from the article. Thirdly, we shared our opinions and discussed related to the article. By the way, nowadays, Japanese food is booming in the world. And "Washoku" was listed as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. Do you think this boom will continue for a long time?
(Yuki)

The report of the meeting on 13/02/2016

There were six attendees in all for today's lesson.

The following items are for the report of individual behavior or conduct of this week :
First attendee talked about the procedurs for e-tax system of the final income tax return that is convenient for saving time but need to use card readers for showing self-identification and certification of credit card.
Second one was busy this week because she had to finish proceedings of the final income tax return at the city office with her hasband, and had visitors of surveyor.
Third one visited to her father in Hiroshima to help him with his houshold keeping . Besides, she attended to the class reunion of senior-high school held at the hotel in Nara and visited Chusonji Temple and Houryuji Temple next day.
Fourth one talked about the current situation of the pre-election campaign battle of the U.S. President for the Democratic Party and the Republican Party respectively.
Fifth one talked about the TV news of the resignation of a politician because of exposed love affair with young girls, that was the most interesting this weeek among these kinds of scandal.

Regarding Today's topic: Woman do not get enough sleep Task1 : Each sentence was read and translated into Japanese one by one. Task 2: Attendees expressed their own opinion to the questions and other opinions and counter comments given therby were discussed . ( We did'nt have enough time to complete all questions but upto No. 6.)
(Jun)

The report of the meeting on 06/02/2016

5 members came together to the today’s session. However, internet connection of one attendee was so bad that he gave up participation unfortunately. In addition to this, another participant had also a trouble with her connection. Anyway we could finish a scheduled task.

In the first session, “What’s new”, one member talked about short visit to country side near the Lake Biwa, where he grew up and his childhood friend still lives. According to him neighbors and visitors can enjoy different but beautiful scenery in each season. There is a belt line railway around the Lake Biwa, so people can travel conveniently with reasonable fair.
The second person showed the others the pictures of his grandchild, who is a just month-year baby girl. We shared the pictures on his computer screen. He also talked about the special ceremony so-called the seventh night after birth or “Oshitchiya ”.
The third person took a medical check-up. A cholesterol level was bit high but fortunately the result was good. She also mentioned the Japanese electric maker well known for its high LCD technology, Sharp. The company is now suffering from a huge amount of financial loss.
The topic of the last attendee was the two tests which he recently sat. One of them is that for examining the translation ability from English to Japanese. Another is TOEIC. He predicted that he might not reach his goal this time. However he continues taking the test in the future till he will get the satisfactory result.

Today’s main topic was the debate about the following theme:
Theme 1 Japan should accept more immigrants or not.
Theme 2 English should be a compulsory subject from the first grade of primary school in Japan or not. Four attendees were assigned to two groups regardless their own opinions. The debate was conducted under these rules:
1 All people have to make remark more than once at least.
2 The length of each remark has to be within 3 minutes. A timekeeper software checks the time.
3 The remarks have to be made in turn by each group.
In my opinion the debate is quite good practice to progress English conversation skill because debaters can prepare for making both their own and opposite ideas clear in advance and must refute against opposite opinion without preparation during debate.
(Taka)

The report of the meeting on 30/01/2016

There were five attendees at the meeting tonight.

First, we talked about what’s new? or how was your week?
The first member said that he enjoyed the TENSYOIN ATHUHIME exhibition at EDO metropolitan museum. I’ sure he loves EDO era, and his talking made me remember the drama ATHUHIME provided by NHK.
The second one said a Chile wine is becoming popular recently. A lot of Chile wine has imported from Chile. He loves the Chile wine every night. Because of it’s cheaper than French one.
The third member said she tried to make a Japanese MISO, and the fourth member said she also made a custard pudding. And they showed us in detail how to make that. I’m so sorry but I couldn’t take a note.
The last member said that the class he has attended had a first meeting of the New Year last Saturday. The all members of the class talked about this year’s resolution. There were many kinds resolutions, for example, visiting foreign country, to be good English speaker, maintain good health, passing examination, reconstruction their own house, and so on. All member of FETS also had each wonderful resolutions.

The title of today’s topic was “A nuisance phone call”. I have thought this is common problem of all people, and the bad influence is spreading more and more. In near future “nuisance phone call” should be under controlled by government.
( Ue )

The report of the meeting on 23/01/2016

There were four participants on Jan 23 2016.
First of all, we talked about the news of this week.
The first person told that he had four Personal computers, but that one of them collapsed, so he had so much time to repair it and to install software again. Also, he added that there was English circle in Mobara city where he lived. He attended it.
The second one told that he spent a relaxed and comfortable days because his daughter-in-law returned her parental home with elder grandson and a new born baby. He had lots of free time, but he had a complicated feeling because he felt peaceful, or sad. Then he told about the Facebook. There are check marks like good, mare good, marvelous good, every agreeable good, and terrible good, and so forth in the Bacebook. He also added terrible marks.
The next person told that her husband planted the seed of turnip, but it did not grow up bigger. They were the same bigger as mini tomatoes size is. Her husband’ hobby is growing vegetables.
The fourth person told that she did not have a good health condition, for she suddenly felt her body trembling on the bed on Wednesday night. She felt it abnormal condition. So, she was delivered to the hospital by an ambulance car. She received CT check, X-ray, blood check at the hospital, and received the dropping water for three hours. She returned home by taxi because she got better.

1) Today’s topic was a lessor and a lessee with 21 pets. The first one told that pets were cheerful and lovely. He keeps a clever cat. The second one told that Japanese people kept lots of animals like a dog, a cat, a snake, and lots kind of animals. This means they are sad, so they keep pets to talk. Therefore, it makes pet boom, but on the other hand, there are some people who treat pets cruelly. The pet owner should keep the pets with responsibility.
2) The other one told that Pet’s raiders don’t have a facility and a breeding ground. It is a big problem. The next one told that 21 pets made dropping so much and their feces and urine made bad smell. The bad smell with 21 pets gives the neighbors a trouble.
3) One told that a lessor is against to make a contract with ( Mr. and Mrs. Restall) who keep guinea pigs.
4) One told that the pet gave the old person and patients healing.
5) One person told that a lessee should get rid of the guinea pigs, and move out.
6) The other one told that the property company has the right to claim Mr. and Mrs. Restall, and to urge them out to the other place.
7) We had the different opinions about the way to interpret the last word “make”. One told that “make” is a noun, but the other one interpret it as a verb. So, one think that it is a experiment of laboratory. But the other one think that those pets are kept for fighting cancer, and made also people comfortable. The last one think that a lessor can tell Mr. and Mrs. Restall to move out. However, a lessee tells that a lessor to move out. However, a lessee tells that a lessor should consider humanistic to rent them the house. But one person thinks that PCH can tell a lessee to moving out. A lessor can void the both contract.
That all.
(Tae)

The report of the meeting on 16/01/2016

First, we talked freely about what's new, or how your week was.

They are summarized as follows:
1) A member talked about her low blood pressure. She felt dizzy when she got up. She thought it was caused by medicine which she takes to lower high cholesterol level. But her doctor said she should continue taking the medicine without worry because her blood pressure is low, not high.
2) Another said he had stayed at home whole day and enjoyed web-surfing because it was very cold. He found what's good about Japan from the point of view of foreign people; Japan is the safest country where people are prohibited from possessing guns; It has four seasons; Most Japanese people have middle-class feeling; Everything goes punctually; It has low unemployment rate; Most Japanese people have permissive eyes on other religions, etc.
3) Another said he had had second grandchild, a girl. He is happy because his own children are all sons, and his first grandchild is a boy. But he is a little worried about how to deal with his grandson, 2 years and 8 months old, who is always missing his mother.
4) The other said about one of her high school classmates, most of whom are keeping in touch through the mailing list service. He lives in Silicon Valley, California. He established a company related to IT. He sometimes gives other members tips of IT from America.

Next we moved to Today's topic, "ROBOTS COULD REPLACE HALF OF WORKERS". First, we read English words and their English explanations provided, translated them into Japanese, and told the Japanese equivalent words. Secondly, we read and translated an article by sentence. Thirdly, we shared our opinions and discussed related to the article. By the way, some people foresee that robots with articicial intelligence would have the ability of self-learning and become smarter than humans, which might enable robots to dominate humans someday in the future. I wonder if robots would be good assistants or enemies to humans? What do you think about it?
(Yuki)

The report of the meeting on 09/01/2016

It was the first session of FETS of this new year .There were five attendees in all for today's lesson.

The following items were for our individual behavior or conduct of new year's days or the following week :
First attendee talked about his receipt of E-mail from the U.S. for celebration of the new year.
Second one talked about two topics of good and bad.The good one was to the matter of having had a visitors of her daughter's family including her grand child, enjoying chat and eating out at a restruant. The bad one was that she received a sad E-mail from her skyp friend telling that her daughtor was back in Russia suffering from” lekemia” (白血病）.
Third one visited Fushimi Inari for praying for the new year's luck and happiness, where 1,000 torii(鳥居） is provided and very crowded with new year praying visitors because of popularity for the domestic and also for foreigners .
Fourth one had visitors of her daughter on Jan. 1 and enjoyed chat with her eating Zouni. She was presented with a picture of treasure ship (Takarabune) from her . Although she put the picture near her pillow to have a good first dream of the year , she failed to do it for 3 nights and all the more, nightmare on the 4 day .
Fifth one visited and prayed for the new year luck and happiness on Jan 1 at the two places of temple and shrine near his living area. Then he wondered why he did the pray at the different relegion of Shintou and Budism. He could'nt get any clear goal but reached to somewhat understading because Japanese are rather indifferent with the relegion and very generous to it in terms that Buda and God are identical. On the other hand, he also wondered why Iran and Saudi Arabia have being struggled not withstanding the same relegion of Islam.

Regarding Today's topic: Height may be the key to a happy marriage
Task1 : Each sentence was read and translated into Japanese one by one.
Task 2: Attendees expressed their own opinion to the questions and other opinions and counter
comments given therby were discussed .
( We did'nt have enough time to complete all questions but upto No. 7.)
(Jun)

The link to the report of 2015