musictoenglish blog

My web site has been updated. This month's chants are based on the idiom "make up". the situation is about a guy who keeps breakin' up and makin' up with his girlfriend. He doesn't know whether to break up with her for good or not.

This month's movie is "the Fabulous Baker Boys". It's about 2 piano playing brothers and their lives on the road playing at different clubs. When their act gets dry they decide to hire a female singer and the band has a new light.

You can practice the chants as well as some of the idioms and vocabulary in the movie at http://www.ne.jp/asahi/eigo-de/karaoke/songs.htm

This month's journal is cats in general and about my new pet cat "Mao" and what I learned about cats since she joined my family. You can read it at http://www.ne.jp/asahi/eigo-de/karaoke/journal.htm

The song schedule for next months "From Music to English" class can be found at http://www.ne.jp/asahi/eigo-de/karaoke/fmte3.htm


As usual a sample of my CD can be found at http://www.ne.jp/asahi/eigo-de/karaoke/kyozai.htm

Live party information ca be found at http://www.ne.jp/asahi/eigo-de/karaoke/live_info.htm

Here's another Eiken grade 1 quiz for those of you striving to pass this super difficult test. I'll give you the answers tomorrow.

Quiz 20

1. Judicious
2. Obliging
3. Aloof
4. Veracity
5. Levity
6. Gravity
7. Galvanized
8. Elucidated
9. Demonized

a. explained
b. to make evil or cruel
c. not important or serious
d. serious importance
e. indifferent and reserved
f. truthfulness or accuracy
g. characterized by sound judgment
h. do a favor for
i. shocked into action