excuse me

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hi I'm Mari I'm here with Ron Ron is

from Hawaii so Ron what's so special

about Hawaii

well Hawaii is my home

but to people not from Hawaii I think

Hawaii is famous for its nice weather

uh warm all year round also it's known

for its beaches the beaches are very

nice

and it's also known for its warm

hospitality

the people are also very nice

so can you tell

you to weather

Always Sunny it

never rains

scene but often it rains and it's sunny

at the same time so we have a lot of

rainbows so Hawaii is also famous for

rainbows

it's nice

um can you tell me more about the beach

we have beaches on all shores of the

island of all our Islands so there's

many beaches to choose from

and often some some beaches have big

waves some beaches have small waves and

you can choose which beach to go to

depending on whether you want to surf in

big waves or you want to swim where

there's no waves

can you tell me maybe about the nature

in Hawaii

we have forests

so there's lots of animals like birds

and small animals like

um

wallabies we have Hawaiian wallabies

and they live in the forest

what's a wallaby wallabies they're those

little mammals they came from Australia

and they were introduced to Hawaii and

now they're wild in Hawaii and they've

become their own species

what do they look like they look like

Little Kangaroos I think

hmm interesting

uh any other interesting interesting

animals in Hawaii we have a lot of pigs

wild pigs

we like to go hunting for them and we

like to eat them

are there any animals that live in the

sea we have nice coral reefs so there's

lots of beautiful fish in our coral

reefs and many people like to go

snorkeling to look at our reefs we also

have Turtles

and

um

seals in Hawaii

are there any

whales we do have whales during the

months of March until

February I believe

they come from Alaska

and they come to Hawaii

during those months and then they return

to Alaska

wow there are a lot of animals that live

in Hawaii

sounds like a great place to visit

hi I'm Mari I'm here with my friend Ron

today we're talking about food

so Ron what's your favorite cuisine

my favorite Cuisine has to be Hawaiian

food

I grew up eating Hawaiian food so

every special occasion we had Hawaiian

food so now when I eat Hawaiian food it

always brings back good memories

uh what exactly is Hawaiian food

traditional Hawaiian food is usually

cooked under the ground in a hole with

hot rocks and it cooks for maybe six

hours or seven hours and when you take

it out it's very salty because we use a

lot of salt and it tastes really good

usually meat usually pork

and other vegetables like taro and

potato

so then what's your favorite Hawaiian

dish

my favorite Hawaiian dish is called Lao

Lao

it's pork or fish wrapped in leaves and

put inside the underground oven and it's

very salty and very good

so the flavor is just salt

flavor is salt and also the leaf flavor

that it's wrapped in

what's your favorite dessert or junk

food

favorite dessert has to be cake and ice

cream together

I love to eat cake and ice cream

together what's your favorite ice cream

flavor favorite ice cream flavor is

strawberry and I eat and I like to eat

that with chocolate cake

hmm sounds good

do you like vegetables not so much I

don't like to eat vegetables but I can

eat them if somebody Cooks them for me

what's your favorite vegetable

favorite vegetable
I don't have a favorite vegetable but I

can eat vegetables like I don't like

asparagus broccoli carrots those types

of things

your vegetables raw like salad or do you

prefer them cooked I prefer them cooked

thanks Ron welcome

hi I'm Ron from Hawaii I'm here with

Mari from Japan

today we're going to be talking about

food so Mari what's your favorite

cuisine

I think I like American food

what type of American food

I like hamburgers hamburgers

is that your favorite dish as well that

is my favorite dish

um

my favorite hamburger

place is right near where I went to

University

and

they have this hamburger called the

Danish burger and the Danish Burger has

blue cheese inside the hamburger

so I love my favorite dish has to be the

Danish Burger

do you like any side things like french

fries with your hamburger

I love french fries but I know that

eating hamburger and french fries is a

little bit unhealthy so I always replace

the hamburger the the french fries for a

salad a salad okay

what about desserts what's your favorite

dessert

my favorite dessert has to be chocolate

cake

chocolate cake

anything else do you like to eat it with

anything

no I I like chocolate cake by itself

um

anything else I like brownie Sundaes

like brownies and chop brownies with

vanilla ice cream

I guess my favorite dessert is anything

chocolatey

sounds good

so before you said you'd like to eat a

salad what type of salad what type of

vegetables do you like I like all

vegetables

I like them

caught

but I don't like raw onions not raw

onions I really can't eat onions raw

that's probably the only vegetable I

can't eat raw that's interesting

so miss Naomi from where is it you're

from Wales Wales okay

so and how old are you now I'm 11 11

okay so that means you are in what would

that be junior School secondary school

or a Junior School

Junior School okay and

um

so what grade is that in Junior School

six oh grade six okay

tell me about your school what kind of

subjects do you study in Junior School

yesterday

art and maths and Science in English and

geography in history and Ari Ari what

what's re religious education ah okay

and uh so you go to school from what

time in the morning

classes at five pass and then

you get a break

we get a break at half past ten and then

lunch at 12 o'clock so oh 12 o'clock for

how long

for an hour an hour oh nice

and then what what do you do for lunch

in in Wales do you do you have do they

have like a cafeteria where they cook

for you or yeah they have that and you

can bring sandwiches oh you can bring

your own sandwiches instead yeah okay

have what do you do

I normally wearing sandwiches okay oh is

that because the dinners are no good or

they're okay but I don't really like

them as much as sandwiches oh okay

and what kind of food do they do they

serve up in the in the canteen and they

serve roast dinners roast dinners yeah

it was a roast dinner

it's like a meat and vegetables okay

okay sounds very simple yeah and pizza

and chips and

um ham and all sorts of stuff oh okay oh

it sounds good

and do they give you lots of homework

no oh really no oh that's good to hear

so what's your favorite subject then in

in junior school art art yeah okay why

is that

I don't know I just like um painting and

drawing okay and then what's the what's

the subject that you find most boring

maths maths oh really yeah I'm not a big

fan of maths

so I guess uh if you're in grade six

you'll be going on to your next schools

see yeah Secondary School okay and are

you looking forward to that yeah okay

great okay well it's very nice talking

to you and good luck in your next School

so Naomi uh so you're from Wales and

you're 11. so what does an 11 year old

girl do for fun in Wales I do music I

play the piano on the violin

okay how long have you played the piano

for

um

as I was about

eight at eight and what about the violin

felt the same okay and what kind of

level are you at now then at the piano

I remember I just passed my grade three

oh congratulations so that's grade three

of what is that

of

um you have different

levels okay yeah and it starts at grade

one and

an order up till what's the what's the

highest grade you can get

eight a grade eight so you're grade

three now yes so I guess the next one

you're gonna do is grade four yes okay

and so what do you have to do what kind

of test is it it's um you learn threesis

three pieces of music yeah

yeah play them

and you have to do

um some singing oh really yeah okay

so is that like sight reading you look

at the

the script and you have to sing the

notes or

um no somebody

um plays a tune for you and you have to

sing it the exactly the same tune that

they played and this site reading where

you have to

um look at a page and then play it on

the piano oh wow is that hard yeah yeah

I can imagine

so how often how much do you practice

the piano then

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it probably should be once a week once a

day yeah but I normally do it um three

times a week about that okay and you

enjoy it then yeah okay great and you

play the violin too yeah yeah and is

that fun

sort of

it's not as fun as the piano okay

and how do you do any other things in

your spare time

uh I do

um guides and swimming guides yeah

what's guides it's like um a group of

girls and they do activities and

everything they meet each week to do

activities

okay like what kind of activities do you

do well you can go you go camping

sometimes yeah and you just do um uh

activities like um sometimes you do

Sports and outside activities

and lots of things okay oh is it like

kind of like the Cub Scouts for the boys

okay so you have to wear a uniform

um yes okay what can you explain the

uniform for me it sort of this dark blue

and you can either wear jeans or joggers

or these um trousers joggers yeah what

are joggers

the trousers that you wear for sports oh

for like jogging yeah okay

okay well okay well sounds like you have

you do a lot of fun things in your spare

time yeah okay well it's very nice to

talk to you and good luck with your

piano and your violin thank you

so Naomi uh so you're from Wales and

you're 11. so what does an 11 year old

girl do for fun in Wales I do music

I play the piano and the violin

um and I play

um Sports

netball

yeah what's that

it's like a basketball a bit yeah um

they're mostly girls play it and um you

have to you have um two teams and you

have to try and get the ball on each

other's Nets

okay so it's just like basketball you

bounce it around well you can you don't

really bounce it that much you can only

batch it once oh really yeah okay okay I

see and you play it indoors then or yeah

mostly indoors in the summer sometimes

Outdoors okay all right sounds good

yeah so you can only bounce it once yeah

there's three different passes you can

do but

um one is you use a bounce called bounce

pass and you can only um use a bounce

once okay to pass it to your teammate

yeah okay and what are the other passes

um there's chess pass and what's that

it's just sort of a straight pass from

chess to the other person's chest okay

and um shoulder pass which is to sort of

lob like a Lobby throw it over your

shoulder kind of thing okay

so it's just well like basketball then

somebody throws it in the net and then

how many points do you get

um it's a one point for every net every

um ball that you get in the net okay

and how long is a game of netball

um probably about an hour oh really so

like half an hour each side or yeah I

think so okay and how many people are

there on a team

seven seven yeah okay nice

hi I'm Ron from Hawaii I'm here with

Mari from Japan

today we're going to be talking about

entertainment and how often we do these

things so Mari how often do you watch TV

I watch the news in the morning and when

I come home at night I sometimes watch

TV

do you have a favorite TV show

I don't have a favorite TV show

okay

how often do you go to the movies

I really like going to the movies

um

I think I go maybe once a month or once

every two months

and other than that do you rent movies

I no I don't rent movies but sometimes I

download movies

I watch comedies romantic comedies and a

little bit of drama

which which is your favorite movie you

watched recently

my favorite movie or I don't know if it

was my favorite movie but a movie that I

watched recently is called 27 Dresses it

is about a girl or a woman who was

bridesmaid 27 times

and that's a romantic comedy it is

what about reading do you like to read

books

I do like to read books

um right now I'm really busy with with

work

so I don't have a lot of time to read

but when I'm on vacation or whenever I

have free time I like to read books what

kind of books

um I like to read non-fiction usually

like biographies of people

and I also like to read about

um like teaching practices so that I

could become a better teacher

and

um a little bit of fiction

and what about concerts do you enjoy

going to concerts

I don't go to music concerts

um I don't think I've ever been to one

actually but I like to go see musicals

and I also like to go to sporting events

hi this is Mari I'm here with Ron today

we'll talk about types of entertainment

and how often we do these things let's

first start with watching TV Ron how

often do you watch TV usually I watch TV

every day I don't watch TV very long but

I usually watch TV every day usually I

watch the news

why just the news

I like to know what's going on in the

world so I usually watch CNN or BBC

and that's it nothing else usually yes

usually

other than that sometimes I'll watch

sporting events such as baseball or

football

but that's it yeah okay

next

next go to the movies how often do you

go to movies I don't go to the movies

very often maybe twice a year I would

say that's it

yeah do you rent movies

I rent movies more than I go to the

cinema but also not very often

what kind of movies do you like I like

funny movies comedies comedies

what's the most recent movie you watched

I watched home alone last night but it

was on TV I didn't rent the movie

uh how often do you read books

I don't like reading so I don't read

books very often the only time I do read

books is for school purposes

what kind of books do you read for

school

well my major is international relations

so usually I read international

relations books if I have to read if if

you have to read

so nothing no books for pleasure not for

entertainment so when you're on the

airplane you don't read no I tried to

watch the movies on the airplane

okay

uh how often do you go to concerts

I go to concerts once in a while

um in Hawaii there aren't many concerts

so when there are concerts I try to go

what do you go see or what type of

I like Hawaiian music so I go to

Hawaiian concerts

big star from America comes I usually

try to go also some music concerts right

music concerts

okay Ron thanks

you're welcome

hi I'm Ron from Hawaii I'm here with

Mari from Japan today we'll be talking

about abilities

so Mari are you a good cook

I like to cook

um more specifically I like to cook for

people I like to have people over and

eat with people I don't really like to

eat alone so I don't like to cook for

myself I like to cook for other people

um but more than cooking I like to bake

baking what do you like to bake

cookies and brownies and cake

that sounds very good I would like to

eat one of your brownies

um are you a good singer

I am terrible at singing I don't like

going to karaoke and I don't like to

sing I like music but I can't sing for

my life

um

I yesterday or I guess in class it was a

student's birthday and I made my

students sing happy birthday but they

wouldn't start

so I had to start them off singing and

my voice was so bad that they started

laughing at me so I'm just a terrible

singer that's funny

okay next

are you a good dancer

no I'm not a good dancer

I can't dance at all I used to when I

was younger my parents enrolled me in

ballet classes so I did ballet for

six years but

I am not very good at dancing

so you're a teacher now right so were

you a good student when you were a

student

I was a good student

because

um because I'm a dork no

um yeah I think I was a good student I

tried hard in all of my classes I always

done my homework I was always focused

and took notes during class

um if I didn't understand something I

would either ask questions in class or

speak to the teacher or Professor after

class I always really liked learning and

so I think that's why I was a really

good student

and Athletics were you a good athlete

and are you a good athlete now

that's a tricky question I

Sports and I like playing sports I

I am I don't think I'm a very good

athlete probably compared to you I'm

probably not but I really enjoy playing

sports
um

in high school I played soccer I ran

cross country

um I played ice hockey and a little bit

of Lacrosse and which one was your

favorite sport

my favorite sport was ice hockey

I'm Mari from Japan I'm here with Ron

from Hawaii today we're going to be

talking about abilities so let's start

with food can you cook

I can't cook well but I do cook

so I think the reason why I can't cook

well is because I can eat anything so I

don't try very hard to make it taste

good

what do you like to cook

I like to barbecue outside on the grill

what do you put on your barbecue

when I cook meat I don't put much only

salt pepper

and a little bit of seasoning

okay good

uh next

do you think you're a good dancer no I

don't think I'm a good dancer and I

don't really try to be a good dancer

either do you not like to dance I don't

like to dance at all right

um I heard that you're a good line

dancer

I would like to learn how to line dance

and I do like country music but I

haven't officially been taught how to

line dance so you don't dance at all no

okay

next

um are you a good singer

no I'm not a good singer but I do enjoy

going to karaoke what do you like to

sing

Hawaii when I go to karaoke I enjoy

singing Hawaiian music

if I'm in Japan I like to sing other

English songs that they have usually

country music or 80s or 90s music

good that's good

um do you think you're a good student

I don't know if I'm a good student

growing up I was not a good student but

now I'm trying harder to be a good

student how were you not a good student

growing up I didn't enjoy going to

school

try very hard in school

try a little harder I make an effort

can you talk more about your effort what

do you do to try to be a good student

I tried to listen to the teachers now

instead of doing my own thing and I try

to

complete everything with good quality

but

and last

do you think that you're a good athlete

bring up I was a good athlete I played a

few Sports

now I don't play any sports anymore

because I'm old but growing up I think I

was a good athlete what sports did you

play

I played American football baseball and

soccer

American football is my best sport how

long did you play

I've played

um since I was 11 until age 22.

so far 11 years yeah and you played when

you were in University I played at the

University of Hawaii yes

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