{"id":135,"date":"2018-03-19T14:40:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T05:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/?p=135"},"modified":"2019-07-30T15:20:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T06:20:33","slug":"english-recitation-contest-and-year-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/2018\/03\/19\/english-recitation-contest-and-year-end\/","title":{"rendered":"English Recitation Contest and Year End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Everyone,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_1420.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-136\" src=\"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_1420-644x429.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"644\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_1420-644x429.jpg 644w, https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_1420-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_1420-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday was our English Recitation Contest. Two students from each junior high school class, so 24 in total, were chosen to compete. Each students practiced hard to not only remember a story, but to tell the story well. Grade one students read \u201cZorba\u2019s Promise\u201d a story about a cat who helps a young bird to fly.<\/p>\n<p>Second grade students performed \u201cDolphin Tale\u201d, about a dolphin who is helped by a young boy. The title has a double meaning as \u201cTale\u201d means story, and \u201cTail\u201d is the part of the dolphin that was injured.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, grade three students told us about the story of Nishikori Kei. He is, of course, the famous tennis player that moved to America to practice tennis, even though he did not speak much English. In the story Nishikori tells us that he was not afraid of making mistakes in English, because he wanted to communicate with his coaches no matter what.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_1451.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-137\" src=\"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_1451-644x429.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"644\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_1451-644x429.jpg 644w, https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_1451-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_1451-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, as we head into the spring holiday, think about Nishikori\u2019s message. Come back ready to make LOTS of English mistakes, but as a result have LOTS of communication.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for this year and see you in April!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Everyone, Last Saturday was our English Recitation Contest. Two students from each junior high school cl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shin-ai-english-compass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shin-ai.wakayama.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}