ECA (英語基礎表現) I (Super A): The Small Book of Big People

Hello!

How are you? I would like to now highlight some of your great writing in this post. It's going into a collection I call The Small Book of Big People.

This is some great writing and I'd like you to look at your work again to be as proud of your writing as I am of it!

Many of you wrote about this picture:

I think many of you were inspired by it, and had some great feeling for it. Here's what you wrote about it:

His name is Junya. He’s Indian, forty years old, and active. In particular, he likes festival and actively takes part in it.

He put on unique hat and big necklace. And he paints his face. First, the hat has many feathers. And a color of the hat is red and white mainly. Secondly, a silver decoration is pounding the necklace in the center. Third, a color of his paint is red and green mainly. And it’s like mask. They are appearances of Indian traditional festival.

It means that Indian prays for their health and happiness. So, they continued it every year for three million years. But it’s lost with the modernization. So, he does activity to continue it now. I wish it’s inherited. And I pray for health and happiness of Indian.

Here's another:

Everyone around the world has heard of United States of America at least once in their life but not many know or have heard that the first settlers were none other than the Native Americans. Today I will talk about one such tribe which is the Cherokee tribe that resided to the Southeastern United States. The Cherokee tribe consisted mainly of warriors and they were proud because they feared no one. Our hero`s name is Agasgi Nvya which in Cherokee language means Rainy Rock.

Rainy Rock was born into an ordinary family where his mother would look after the house and his father was one of the great warriors of the tribe. But alas Rock was born with a breathing problem that would restrain his future. Form early on his father gave up on him because no matter how much Rock trained he would always be sick and unable to become a decent warrior. For that reason almost everybody in the tribe looked down and loathed him as a disgrace to the tribe. But as the famous saying goes “even in the darkest of tunnels will be a sliver of light” and precisely that light was his mother which loved him dearly. So Rock promised that if not for himself at least for his mother sake he will do his utmost so as to show other tribesman that his mother was right and he could become a great warrior if he wished so. For that reason when he was 12 years old and considered an adult in his tribe he left for the mountains in order to train.

After 25 painstaking years of hard work he finally managed to conquer both his disease and also become strong enough to defeat a chieftain of his tribe and become a new chieftain himself. After the glorious battle he ran as fast as he could to his mother`s house in order to tell her the great news but unfortunately he found out that his mother died a few years ago. At that moment the world lost it color for Rock and he just stood there and bellowed towards the sky cursing the Gods for giving him this wretched fate. His one and only source of light was gone forever and it shall never return. But how he became the Legendary Chieftain is another story for another time.
 

Wow! Now that was great. 

This picture wasn't all! One of you wrote about this picture:

 

I have met many unique and really cool people, but I never saw a man who is cooler than John. The person who is always wearing a white flax hat looks really cool. He is strong even though he is seventy now. He is called as Cowboy John.

When he was young, he was the most famous cowboy in his city. He had caught many robbers and sent them to police for stealing money. Once he even could save a kid from few robbers just by himself one person only. It helped him earn much fame from local people. People respect him until today and they also changed their thought about cowboy.

Now he became old and can’t keep his cowboy work, but he also wear as a cowboy everyday. He works as a teacher to tell young people and kids about his story for encouraging them to become a brave man.

That was great too! Now here's more of your writing about people. More great effort on your part!

There is a person whose name is Keiji. He became a university student and school starts today. He had to go school, but lost his way to school. The reason why he and his family just did move around here because of work of his father. So he didn’t know his way so much and he was in a hurry. He didn’t know where he was and what he should do right now.

So he took a picture from that location for now and sent an email to his parents. His parents replied and asked him where he was. They were laughing. After that he knew where he was and turned back the right path. He felt happy although he didn’t make it on time, because he could go to school without accident. He must be looking forward to his school life.

Check this one out!

There are many interesting people in the world, and one of the most interesting is my best friend Kim.

Kim is a young man. Of course, he is very handsome. He has short blond hair, big eyes, and especially his smile looks angelic. He also likes to go to the gym, so he has a nice body too. He likes white, so he usually wears white T-shirts.

Kim’s hobby is cooking. His cooking is absolutely fabulous. He is always cooking French and Italian. He has a girlfriend whom he lives with. Every morning, Kim always gets up early to make breakfast for his girlfriend. They love each other very deeply.

This was some great writing from all of you. A great job by each one of you!

It's been great having you as students this semester. I'm really looking forward to having you again in September. 

See you in September!

 

Images: Top - personal photograph/Native American - "Chief Grey Owl" (courtesy of Elwood W. McKay III)/Older man - "Older Man With Hat" (courtesy of Rosemary Ratcliff)/native American and older man images FreeDigitalPhotos.net. All rights reserved on personal image.