Saki's English Blog

      Susan laughed. 'Amy,' she said. 'When your dad says he can do something, he usually can.'     I looked at Muffy. 'You must fly south,' I said.     For a long time I sat there and thought. She was right. Dad and David were right. 'OK,' I said. 'Tell him it's OK. We'll try.' Amy is a girl who lives in Canada, and she has moved to his father's house because his mother who lived with her passed away. Her father makes machines as his job. His house is always messy, so Amy doesn't like his house and she wishes to see and live with her mother again. She really misses her. One day, Amy watches his father with wings running up and down a hill. She thinks "my father is crazy!!" Then, while walking around the marsh, Amy founds something. Eggs! There are sixteen eggs in a nest of them. But no mother goose. No mother and no father. She decides to become a mother goose of them. She wraps eggs in a piece of clothes to keep warm f

  Zoe stays behind the bush and waits. An hour goes by and nothing happens. She is getting impatient.   'What are they doing in there?' she thinks. "Todd Marin never gives interviews to gossip magazines, so what are they talking about?' Zoe is a girl who works in a bookstore in a small town, and after work, she likes to act in plays with the Newport Players. The troupe does six plays every year, and Zoe is in most of them. That week, she acts in the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare in a theater. Then, she acts the part of Juliet's mother. In the audience, there is a boy who is named Mike. He is a university student at Newport College, and he likes writing. One day he wants to be a playwright for television. His aunt Peggy is the editor of The Newport Weekly News and she asks him to write some articles for the newspaper. Therefore, he comes to visit and write a review of the play. One day later, Zoe finds a newspaper and it says "Zoe Baker acts well

Looking for a Sharehouse? Do you like animals?   Please call Cara on 9356 7782.   Chris lives in the countryside in Australia, and he is going to study at the University of Sydney. His home is far away from Sydney, so he begins to look for a new house. Although his aunt lives there and she asks him to live with her, he says "No." because he doesn't like his aunt very much and he wants to meet girls and go drinking in Sydney. He buys a newspaper and looks at the ads, but the rent in Bondi is really expensive. Therefore, he starts to look for a sharehouse. One day, he finds the ad which says that Cara is looking for a roommate and animal lover is welcomed. Chris has a dog in a previous house and he loves dogs, so he applies to the ad. A few days later, he starts to live with Cara, and he enjoys playing with her dog. However, when he is eating breakfast, he finds a lizard on his legs. He is surprised to see that, and he runs away from the house because he doesn't like li

  'I've cut down on smoking. That's how I could afford the skating boots. Now I'm going to stop. You were right, you see.'  Loz gave Nan a hug. 'That's great, Nan. I'm proud of you,' she said.  Recently, Loz is interested in skating with her friends, Kat and Najma. Although she can't skate as well as them, she is enjoying it. On the other day, Jamie-Lee and Emma also come to skate to the rink, and they give Loz lessons. Loz is surprised because Jamie-Lee isn't usually nice to her. Then, Jamie-Lee hands a poster to Loz, and the poster says Glamorous Gran Contest . She knows her grandmother doesn't look as good as other grandmothers. Also, Jamie-Lee knows it. She deliberately invites Loz's grandmother to the contest. In fact, she is worried about Nan because she starts smoking again. Jamie-Lee fills in an entry form for the contest, pretending Loz's grandmother. Later, Nan finds the letter about the contest and she is super surprise

  Then the Viran stopped and turned. To Neena's horror, he began to run back towards her. Within him, he brought an icy blackness like a chilling, dense stain along the tunnel.  Biff, Chip, Kipper and friends have become Time Runners. They are in the Time Vault, a place that exists outside time. They have a mission to travel back in time to defeat the Virans. Virans aim to destroy history and cause chaos in the future. This time, Neena goes back to 8th Century Baghdad, and she discovers a very important place - the House of Wisdom. This is a library and there are many books and ideas from all over the world. However, what would happen if a Viran got into the library and stole some great ideas?  This series is based on the real history of the world. So you can enjoy both reading stories and learning what happened in the past. I have read this series a year ago, and I found it interesting that I feel as if I were on a time-traveling. If you feel like traveling to the past, you should