4月6日週の振り返り

5営業日、夜間立会2日学校説明会1日。
実質2営業日しか割り当てられなかったはずだが、週末をちゃん
と使えたり、予備校、学校の説明を聞けたりとそれなりに収穫は
あった一週間だった。
IELTS9を試しに実施してみた。Lは9を狙いにいけるレベル。Rは
不得意分野もあるが、最低8であわせて行きたい。欲を言えば8.5
を超えて、WとSをカバーしたい。

面白いものを見つけた。信ぴょう性は不明。
IELTS Band Score Calculator

■出来たこと
 ・IELTS受験勉強
  -New Insight into IELTS(1回目終了)
  Speaking 4-7
  -Vocabulary for IELTS Advanced
  5,6
  -IELTS 9
  TEST 1 Listening(30/40), Reading(28/40)
  Listening,Readingともにさほど難しい問題ではない印象。
  まずは凡ミスをなくすだけで36問ぐらいまでは行けそう。
  各セクションは以下の評価
  L:dialogueでうまく流れをつかめなくて◯をのがした部
    分が大半だった。先読みの際に、SECTION3のdialogue
    を重点的に読む。
  R:タイトル付与とNOTGIVENの選択が苦手そう。タイト
    ル付与はまぁ、ちゃんと読むしかない。NOTGIVENに
    関しては、ロジカルに答えを導く作業をちゃんとやる。
    Y/T:問題文に書かれていること
       例えば、彼は1位だったと本文でいっているのに
       対して、彼は優勝した。などと少しの言換えが入
       るものの、意味は変わらないパターン。
    N/F:問題文に書かれていることとは明確に違うこと
       例えば、彼は2着だったと本文で行っているのに、
       彼は1着だった。とか明らかに間違っているパター
       ン。
    NG:問題文に書かれていることからだけでは論理的
       に判断しきれないこと
       例えば、彼は先頭集団の一人としてゴールしたと
       行っているのに、彼は3位でゴールした。とか。
       先頭集団なので、3位の可能性もあるが、明確に
       は記載されていないため、答えようがない。
  今回の実験を受けて、以下のとおり目標設定。
   L:9(※最低でも8.5まで上げる)
   R:9(※最低でも8.5まで上げる。答えは目の前に書いてある。時間との勝負。)
   W:7.5(7月中に最低6.5まで持って行きたい)
   S:7.5(7月中に最低6.5まで持って行きたい)
   OA:8.0
 ・留学予備校調査
  -濱口塾
  4/11にフリーカウンセリング実施予定だったが、夜間立会
  が入ったため4/14 21時からに変更。
  -江戸義塾(http://www.edogijuku.com/)
  4/13にFreeKickoffセッションを実施。話している内容から
  Edさんの誠実な人となりが伝わってきた気がした。信頼に
  値するカウンセラーだと評価した。濱口塾と比較してどち
  らかに決めようと思う。
  <概要>
  参加者:15人ぐらい
  場 所:オフィス?おそらく貸し会議室
  概 要:アプリカントのバックグラウンドを一緒に紐解き、
      Only oneのエッセー、推薦状、インタビューを実
      現するためのサービス。
      Good English Skill and High Score of GMATはと
      ても重要で、最低や平均を意識しても仕方がなく、
      最高で突入すべき。平均を下回った段階で、応募
      時にすでにビハインド。
      MBAでは学校で学ぶこと以上に、クラスメートか
      ら学ぶ。クラスメートは自分の経験から知見を見
      出し、クラスに提供する。その時自分は何を提供
      できるか?これがコントリビューション。
      文化的影響が大きいが、日本人は人前で自身を
      持って話すことが苦手。これを克服すべし。
      ありきたりなエッセーではなく、エッジの聞いた
      オンリーワンのエッセーを作るために、とにかく
      掘り返せ。その時間を確保するために、英語と
      GMATをさっさと終わらせろ。
 ・Business school調査
  HULT
  -ADLが設立したB-Schoolを欧州の金持ちのHultさんが出資
  してHULTになった
  -Soft Skillの開発に力を入れている(Leadership,Global Diversity)
  -Teaching methodはLecture & Practice Practicalなschoolである
  ことに重きを持っていた
  -Almuniはあまり尖った感じはなかった。皆さんいい人そう
  だった。
 ・会社対応
  計画表送付。試験を受けていないことでツッコミをもらった。
  5月には1回めを受けると伝えておいた。

■出来なかったこと
 ・情報整理

■今週やること
 ・IELTSテキスト(Vocabulary 6-10)
 ・BC講座(予習、復習含む)
 ・予備校調査(濱口塾)

■所感
 ・江戸義塾はなかなかよい手応え。First Private Meetingを受
  けて見ようと思う。
 ・IELTS9を実際にやってみて、LとRは比較的取り組みやす
  いことが分かった。稼ぎ頭にすべく、L:9,R:9を最終目標
  として6月に最低8まで持って行きたい。WとSで最低6.5ま
  で持っていければコンスタントに7が見えてくる。

4月10日英語表現のコレクション

referendum
 A referendum is a vote in which all the people in a country are asked whether they agree or disagree with a particular policy.
amend
 If you amend something that has been written or said, you change it.
 Law applying to referendums is step toward amending Constitution.

rectify
 If you rectify something that is wrong, you change it so that it becomes correct or satisfactory.
 The current referendum law was enacted in 2007 under Abe’s first government to rectify a situation where there is no detailed process to hold a national referendum.

ballot
 A ballot is a secret vote in which people select a candidate in an election, or express their opinion about something.
 It lacks details on how such a ballot will be held.

misconduct
 Misconduct is a bad or unacceptable behaviour, especially by a professional person or someone who is normally respected by people.
 Stem cell researcher denied misconduct.

filed an appeal with 〜
 〜に不服申し立てをする
 Haruko Obokata filed an appeal with the government-backed Riken institute Tuesday.

expel
 If someone is expelled from a school or organization, they officially told to leave because they have behaved badly.
 Japanese people are also working in that sector and it would not be appropriate if they got expelled from the industory.

4月9日英語表現のコレクション

tariff
 A tariff is a tax on goods coming info country.
 Tokyo has agreed to lower its tariffs on Australian beef.

accord
 An accord between countries or groups of people is a formal agreement, for example to end a war.
If everything goes smoothly,
 すべてのことが順調に進んだら
 If every thing goes smoothly, the accord is expected to take effect in 2015

step down
 If you step down or step aside, you resign from an important job or position.
midst
 If you are in the midst of doing something, you are doing it at present
tycoon
 A tycoon is a person who is successful in business and so has become rich and powerful
 Your Party leader Yoshimi Watanabe will step down as president of the minor opposition party he founded in the midst of a scandal involving ¥800 million in unregistered loans from a business tycoon.

robust
 Someone or something that is robust is very strong.
 Japan wants to make U.S. President Barack Obama’s upcoming visit an opportunity to show the robust Japan-U.S. alliance to the world.

deterrent
 A deterrent, or something that has a deterrent effect, is something that prevents people from doing something by making them afraid of what will happen to them if they do.

like elsewhere around the country,
 国内の他の土地と同じように、

albeit
 You use albeit to introduce a fact or comment which reduces the force or significance of what you have just said.

fled
 Fled is a past tense and past participle of flee.
flee
 If you flee from something or someone, or if you flee them, you escape from them by running away.
 Futaba’s entire population fled during the disaster and its municipal office has moved several times.

mussels
 A mussel is a kind of shellfish.
click
 If something clicks or if you click it, it makes a short sharp sound, called a click.
 When you suddenly understand something, you can say that it has clicked.
  Thi An Nguyen sold freshly cooked mussels and fruit to the German tourist, and they immediately clicked.

ordeal
 An ordeal is an extremely unpleasant and difficult experience.
 Marriage was supposed to bring them together. Instead, it was the beginning of a long ordeal apart.

flunk
 If you flunk an exam or a course, you fail to reach the required standard.
aspiring
 Aspiring describe someone who is trying to become successful in a particular career.
 Nguyen from entering the country after she flunked the language test that aspiring immigrants are required to pass.

working-level
 実務者レベル
 Japan and the United States resumed bilateral working-level talks on a Pacific free trade deal Monday in Tokyo.

intact
 Something that is intact is complete and has not been damaged or spoiled.
 Policymakers expected to keep intact ultraloose monetary easing to beat deflation.

4月4日英語表現のコレクション

collided head-on with a pickup truck
 ピックアップトラックと正面衝突した

reprimand
 If someone in authority reprimands you or if they give you a reprimand, they speak to you angrily or seriously for doing something wrong.
 Tsuruoka told reporters afterward that he had been “sternly reprimanded” by Abe over the outcome.

abide
 If you say that you can’t abide someone or something, you are emphasizing that you dislike them intensely.
 It is extremely regrettable and disappointing, but Japan will abide by the ruling.

allegation
 An allegation is a statement saying that someone has done something wrong.
 Riken began its investigation Feb. 20 after allegations of the articles’ impropriety first emerged on a Japanese website earlier in the month.

veracity
 Veracity is the quality of being true or the habit of telling the truth.
 It failed to clear up some allegations, including the veracity of so-called STAP cells.

fabricate
 If someone fabricates information, they invent it in order to deceive people.
falsify
 If someone falsifies a written record, they change it in a misleading way or add untrue details to it in order to deceive people
interim
 Interim describes things that are intended to be used until something permanent is arranged or established.
 The final report, released just over two weeks after an interim report, assigned blame to lead author Haruko Obokata for fabrication and falsification of data used in the articles that appeared in the British science journal Nature in late January

hasty
 Hasty means done or arranged in a furry, without planning or preparation.

extol
 If you extol something, you praise it enthusiastically.
 The soundtrack to this is a traditional folk-style song with lyrics extolling the virtues of the ninkyo spirit.

rudimentary
 Rudimentary means very basic or not developed to a satisfactory degree.
 Preliminary investigations found that the two sky-blue small aircraft were both rudimentary drones equipped with Japanese cameras.

artillery
 Artillery consists of large, powerful guns which are transported on wheels. The artillery is the section of the army which uses these guns.
animosity
 Animosity is a feeling of strong dislike and anger.
dispute
 A dispute is a disagreement or quarrel between people
 The two Koreans fired hundreds of artillery shells into each other’s waters in a flareup of animosity over a long-disputed sea boundary between the countries.

obstetrics
 Obstetrics is the branch of medicine that is concerned with pregnancy and giving birth.
gynecology
 Gynecology is the branch of medical science which deals with women’s diseases and medical conditions.
obstetrics and gynecology
 産婦人科

forge
 If you forge an alliance or relationship, you succeed in creating it.

foster parents
 Forster parents are people who officially take a child into their family for a period of time, without becoming the child’s legal parents.
 When they apply to become foster parents, people with GID are sometimes questioned about their capability of forging “healthy parent-child ties”.

GID:gender identity disorder
 性同一性障害
 The Osaka Family Court has approved the adoption of a 3-year-old boy by a woman in her 30s who changed her sex from male due to gender identity disorder.

3月30日週の振り返り

5営業日、来客&送別会があったが、それなりに進めることが出来た。
Insight into IELTSの方が1 Practice あたりの分量が減った為だと思われ
る。また、その他軽目の英語勉強に関する本を買って読んでみた。ア
ウトプットの機会を増やすことと、インプットをべらぼうに増やすこ
とがポイント。音と映像の組み合わせで何度も見たくなる教材をネッ
トから探してみよう。
mac miniのiTunesをiPod touchからコントロールできるようにした。こ
れでmac miniを触る際に、いちいちmac bookを触らなくて良くなった。

■出来たこと
 ・IELTS受験勉強
  -New Insight into IELTS
  Speaking 1-3
  -Vocabulary for IELTS Advanced
  3,4
 ・留学予備校調査
  -濱口塾
  2014年度メンバーの感触が良かったらしい。元IF外語学院の
  講師だった濱口さんが個人で始めた塾。GMATに強いのが売
  りの様だが、MBA全般のカウンセリングを日本人と、ネイ
  ティブの双方でやってくれる模様。4/11に無料カウンセリン
  グで話をしてみる。
  -BritishCouncil
  講座用のテキストを購入。講座は毎週火・木。ライティング
  とスピーキングの強化に講座を利用したい。効果を最大限に
  する為に、予習と復習を徹底すること。
 ・Business school調査
  特になし。
 ・会社対応
  とくになし。

■出来なかったこと
 ・情報整理
 ・会社対応(計画提出・・・)
 ・IELTS模試1回分

■今週やること
 ・IELTSテキスト(Speaking 5-7 , Vocabulary 5-7)
 ・IELTS模試1回分
 ・予備校調査(江戸義塾、濱口塾)
 ・会社対応(計画表の提出)

■所感
 ・濱口塾のGMAT770は驚異的。受験のスケジュールにおいて
  5回しか受けられないGMATは慎重に進めるべし。受験→
  フィードバック→弱点強化→受験のサイクルを回すのに適
  切なサイクルは1.5〜2ヶ月と想定。年内4回、年明け1回
  とすると、6月〜7月に初回受験できるペースが理想。
 ・英語は6月の受験で7.0まで持っていきたい。5月の受験で
  6.5まで行けていれば可能性はかなりある。受験勉強を通じ
  て最低ラインを7.5に設定する。
 ・今現在GMATを受験するめどが立っていないため、9月の
  IMD最終はかなり難しい。5月のIELTS次第。
 ・金は惜しまない。必要かもしれないと思った物は片っ端か
  ら買っていこう。必要かどうかはその後に考えれば良い。
  IELTS本試験も一緒。受験するかどうかは、その時の状況
  から判断すれば良い。締め切りオーバー、定員オーバーに
  なってからでは後の祭り。

4月3日英語表現のコレクション

 slug
 A slug is a bullet.

an expected surge in demand
 If there is a surge in the level or rate of something, or if the level or rate of something surges, there is a sudden large increase in it.
 Akao Aluminum Co. has produced its first batch in four years to meet an expected surge in demand for small change as the consumption tax jumps to 8 percent on Tuesday.

hiatus
 A hiatus is a pause in which nothing happens, or gap where something is missing.
 Supplier of ¥1 coins ends four-year hiatus for Abe’s sales tax hike.

tie the knot
 If you say that two people tie the knot, you mean that they get married.
 Pop icon Elton John says hi will tie the knot with partner.

resemble
 If one thing or person resembles another, they are similar to each other.
 A team from South Korea and the United States has used nano-materials to create a flexible and stretchable adhesive bandage.

epilepsy
 Epilepsy is a brain condition which causes a person to suddenly lose consciousness and sometimes to have fits.
 Methods for monitoring so-called movement disorders such as epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease have traditionally included video recordings or wearable devices.

asylum seeker
 難民
 Asylum seekers arriving in Australia on unauthorized boats will no longer be granted free advice on immigration matters.

arbitrate
 When someone arbitrates between two people who are in dispute, they consider all the facts and decide who is right.
 Filipino officials took their territorial disputes with China to international arbitration in January 2013.

tribunal
 A tribunal is a special court or committee that is appointed to deal with particular problems.
 The Philippines presented evidence to an international tribunal against China’s sweeping territorial claims in the South China Sea.

wrap up
 If you wrap up something such as a job or an agreement, you complete it in a satisfactory way.
 ’Waratte Iitomo!’ wraps up after 32 years on air.

plaintiff
 A plaintiff is a person who brings a legal case against someone in a court of law.

quadruple
 If someone quadruples an amount, or if it quadruples, it becomes four times bigger.

autopsy
 An autopsy is an examination of a dead body by a doctor to discover the cause of death.
 A autopsy will be carried out on both men.

cardiac massage
 心臓マッサージ

choked on his diner
 夕食で窒息する
 A man choked on his dinner and was taken to nearby hospital.

detainee
 A detainee is someone who is being held prisoner by a government or being held by the police.
 Two detainees at an immigration center in Ushiku died over the weekend.

whiff
 If there is a whiff of something, there is a faint smell of it.
 Is that a whiff of beer hops?

hoard
 If you hoard things such as food or money, you save or store them, often in secret, because they are valuable or important to you.
 Many people were buying products that they could hoard.

leap
 If you leap, or if you take a leap, you jump high in the air or jump a long distance
 Isetan Mitsukoshi Ltd. saw a huge leap in business on the consumption tax climbs to 8 percent from the current 5 percent.

revoke
 When someone in authority revokes something such as an order, they cancel it.
 Japan shall revoke any existent authorization

disguise
 If you disguise yourself, or if you are in disguise, you alter your appearance so that people will not recognize you.
 The program was a commercial activity disguised as science.

Antarctic
 Antarctic is area around the South Pole.
 The U.N.’s top court ordered Japan to end its anual Antarctic whale hunt.

4月1日英語表現のコレクション

bubonic plague
 Bubonic plague is a serious infectious disease spread by rats. it killed many people during the Middle Ages.
 The scientist were able to compare the strain of bubonic plague preserved there with that which was recently responsible for killing 60 people in Madagascar.

retrieve
 If you retrieve something, you get it back from the place where you left it.
 from the largest teeth in some of the skulls retrieved from the square

excavate
 To excavate a piece of land means to remove earth carefully from it and look for the remains of objects or buildings, in order to find out about the past.

flea
 A flea is a small jumping insect that sucks human or animal blood.
 The epidemic was caused by a highly contagious strain spread by the fleas on rats.

forensic
 When a forensic analysis is done, objects are examined scientifically in order to discover information about a crime.
 Archaeologist and forensic scientist who have examined 25 skeletons unearthed in the Clerkenwell area  of central London a year ago believe they have uncovered the truth about the nature of the Black Death that ravaged Britain and Europe in the mid-14th century.

airborne
 Airborne means flying in the air or coming from the air.
 U.K. outbreak in 14th century was airborne, scientist say.

sttifen
 If your muscles or joints stiffen, or if they stiffen up, they become difficult to bend or move.
 A bad aortic valve can stiffen and narrow with age.

artery
 Your arteries are the tubes that carry blood from your heart to the rest of your body.
 Survival rates were better one year later for people who had new valve placed through a tube into an artery instead.

aortic valve
 大動脈弁
 A new study gives a big boost to fixing a bad aortic valve, the heart’s main gate, without open-heart surgery.

voluptuous
 If you describe a woman as voluptuous, you mean that she has large breasts and hips and it¥s considered attractive in a sexual way.
 In Brazil, the land of minibikinis and voluptuous Carnival dancers, most people say a woman who shows off her body deserves to raped.

czar
 A particular king of tsar is a person who has been appointed by the government to deal with a particular problem that is affecting the country
 Uruguay’s drug czar says every legal marijuana plant in Uruguay will be registered and tracked using radio frequency tags.

falsify
 If someone falsifies a written record, they change it in a misleading way or add untrue details to it in order to deceive people.
 Italy’s financial police found falsified passports and other documents in their hotel rooms.

apprehend
 If the police apprehend someone, they catch them and arrest them.
 Vatican police on Saturday apprehended an American and a Dutchman trying to deposit billions of euros and dollars in fake bonds at the Vatican bank.

accomplishment
 Your accomplishments are the things you have achieved or the things that you do well
 The accomplishment is an advance toward linking the neurons that fire when people make specific movements.

larvae
 幼虫、幼生
 New research has identified the brain neurons responsible for every behaviour that fruit fly larvae exhibit.

atlas
 An atlas is a book of maps.
 First full atlas made of a fly brain

ferment
 If a food or drink ferments, or if it is fermented, a chemical change takes place in it so that alcohol is produced.
 Soy sauce usually contains a small amount of alcohol as it is made though the fermentation of soy beans via rice malt.

amphibious
 Am amphibious military operation, army and navy forces attack a place from the sea
 The new amphibious force being formed by the Self-Defense Forces will likely be based in Sasebo.

comprise
 If something comprises or is comprised of a number of things or people, it has them as its parts or members.
 The Aussie program’s tour in Japan will comprise 30 exhibits that let participants play and learn by using ropes and balls and educational shows in which staff reveal the fun of science though live performances.

lodge
 If you lodge a complaint, you formally make it.
 The government’s top spokesman on Sunday said the Foreign Ministry has lodged a protest with China over President Xi JinPing’s remarks on the number of Chinese killed by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Nanjing Massacre in 1937.

stem
 If a condition or problem stems from something, that is what originally caused it.
 Xi also said more than 35million Chinese were eventually killed or injured as Japa waged a war of aggression stemming from its militarism.

bankruptcy administrator
 破産管財人

impeding
 An impeding event is one that is going to happen very soon.

3月28日英語表現のコレクション

inflict
 To inflict something unpleasant on someone or something means to make them suffer it.
 More than 10 glass-plate negatives of photos taken by an amateur photographer showing damage inflicted on a town in Iwate Prefecture by devastating earthquake and tsunami 118 years ago were discovered.

deity
 A deity is a god or goddess
 To transfer shrine deity to a new building.

exempt
 If you are exempt from a rule or duty, you do not have to obey it or perform it.
 Other measures include a one-time cash handout of ¥10,000 to every membr of a household currently exempt from residential taxes.

retraction
 If you retract something that you have said or written, you say publicly that you did not mean it.
 Wakayama, who was the first co-author of the papers to call publicly for their retraction.

scrutiny
 If something is under scrutiny, it is being studied or observed very carefully.
litany
 If you describe what someone says as a litany of things, you mean that you have heard it many times before, and you think it is boring or insincere.
dissertation
 A dissertation is a long formal piece of writing, especially for a university degree.
 The paper, which appeared in the journal Nature in late January, have come under scrutiny due to a litany of problems, including images resembling those used in Obokata’s doctoral dissertation in 2011.

groundbreaking
 you use groundbreaking to describe things which you think are significant because they provide new and positive ideas, and influence the way people think about things.
 The Japanese researcher and lead author of two recent papers on groundbreaking stem cell research that have been called into question gave a co-author stem cell produced from mice of different genetic lines than originally asked for.

drench
 To drench something or someone means to make them completely wet.
 Tatsuta’s story brings to life everyday details – how gloves get drenched with sweat, or how annoyingly itchy a nose can get behind mask.

wreck
 To wreck something means to completely destroy or ruin it.
 No one who works at Tepco’s wrecked nuclear plant.

devastating
 You describe something as devastating when it is very damaging or upsetting.
 Fishery and tourism would suffer devastating damage.

the tip of iceberg
 If you say that a problem is the tip of the iceberg, you mean that it is one small part of a much larger problem

southern tip
 The tip of something long and narrow is the end of it
 Located at the southern tip of Hokkaido

assembly
 An assembly is a group of people gathered together for a particular purpose.
 Hakodate assembly OKs lawsuit against nuclear power plant

strained
 If someone’s appearance, voice, or behaviour is  strained, they seem worried and nervous.
 Japan and South Korea have yet to find a clear path to fully improve their strained ties.

semblance
 If there is a semblance of a particular condition or quality, it appears to exist, through in fact it may not.
 Japan and South Korea  successfully created the semblance of an alliance in a US-borokerd trilateral summit in The Hague.

3月27日英語表現のコレクション

sign with …
 …と契約を交わす
 Masahiro Tanaka, who signed with New York Yankees.

deregulation
 Deregulation is the removal of controls and restrictions in a particular area of business or trade.
 He said bold deregulation is needed to revive.

economic stimulus packages
 景気刺激策

soured relation
 気まずい関係、ぎくしゃくした関係
 Despite the soured relations between Tokyo and Beijing, wealthy Chinese customers flocked to Japan’s departments stores building.

exempt
 If you are exempt from a rule or duty, you do not have to obey it or perfom it

ultraloose monetary easing policy
 異次元金融緩和

envoy
 An envoy is a diplomat sent to a foreign country.
 The top U.N. envoy there said Monday.

cessation
 The cessation of something is the stopping of it.
 Regulations should prohibit advertising claiming or suggesting that e-cigarettes are effective smoking cessation devices until claims are supported by scientific evidence.

reinforcement
 If something reinforces something such as a feeling, process, or belief, it makes it stronger.

presume
 If yo presume that something is the case, you think that it is the case, although you are not certain.
 The missing person is presumed dead.

trove
 If you describe something or someone as a treasure trove of a particular thing, you mean that they are a very good or rich source of that thing.

reluctant
 If you are reluctant to do something, you do not really want to do it.

tempt
  Something that tempts you attracts you and makes you want it, even it may be wrong or harmful

 Ban’s comments suggested concern that events in Ukraine could make some countries more reluctant to give up any nuclear weapons capabilities, or tempt others to pursue them.

arsenal
 An arsenal is a large collection of weapons and military equipment.
 Ukraine gave up its Soviet-era nuclear arsenal under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum.

pact
 A pact is a formal agreement between tow or more people, organizations, or governments.
 U.N.’s Ban says Russia’s seizure of Crimea could affect 1970 pact.

jeopardize
 If someone or something jeopardize a situation or activity, they do something that may destroy it or cause it to fall.

petition
 A petition is a document signed by a lot of people which asks for some official action to be taken.

plague
 A plague is an infectious disease that spread quickly and kills large numbers of people.
 The plant has been plagued by various problems linked to management of the toxic water.

stringent
 Stringent laws, rules, or conditions are severe or are strictly controlled
 Tepco said in February that it will set stringent safety criteria.

the water meets certain decontamination standard
 その水は除染の一定の基準を満たしている

pledge
 When someone pledges to do something, or when they make a pledge to do it, they promise solemnly that they will do it or provide it.

deter
 To deter someone from doing something means to make them not want to do it.

 Prime Minister Sinzo Abe pledged Monday to strengthen measures to ensure the safe management of nuclear materials and facilities to deter nuclear terrorism.

standard practice
 The use of feeding tubes at the end of life, which isn’t standard practice in the Western world, is common in Japan.

reimbursement
 If you reimburse someone for something, you pay them back the money that they have spent or lost because of it.
 The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry also plans to boost reimbursements to institutions that check swallowing ability and encourage rehabilitation to help the bedridden eat naturally.

curtail
 If you curtail something, you reduce or restrict it.
 The government is trying to curtail growth of a ¥38.5 trillion annual health bill by releasing patients from hospitals sooner.

insertion
 The government is planning to cut payouts on insertions in  new patients and encourage home care.

bedridden elderly people
 For the first time, Japan is trying to hold down the number of bedridden elderly people kept alive, sometimes for years, by feeding tubes.

wrangle
  If two people are wrangling over something, or if they are involved in a wrangle over it, they are arguing angrily for a long time about it.
 diplomatic wrangles over how to make the occasion.

inflammation
 An inflammation is a swelling in your body that results from a infection or injury.
 Scientists also suspect air pollution may be to blame for inflammation in the heart.

irritation
 Irritation is a feeling of annoyance. Irritation is that keeps annoying you.
 One of the main risks of pollution is that tiny particles can get deep into the lungs, causing irritation.

timber/lumber
  Timber is wood used for building houses and making furniture.
 A remarkable curved roof made of timber

card-board paper tube
 段ボール

extensive humanitarian efforts
 多大なる人道的努力

top government spokesman
 官房長官

get the boot …
 If you get the boot, you are forced to leave your job.
 Russia is booted from G-8 over Crimea grab.
 Group of Eight booted Russia off the membership list.

3月23日週の振り返り

5営業日、夜間立ち会い+送別会で平日の勉強は2日しか出来な
かった。しかし、Oxford Saidの話を聞いてみたり、British Council
のクラスに申し込んでみたりと、いろいろと進みはあった。

■出来たこと
 ・IELTS受験勉強
  -New Insight into IELTS
  進捗なし
  -Vocabulary for IELTS Advanced
  3着手
 ・留学予備校調査
  -AGOS
  Oxfordの説明会参加(3/26)
  全体80人位。8割位男性、海外の方数名。
  Oxford saidのプログラム(MBA/EMBA)に関して説明して
  くれた。また、体験授業として実際に教鞭をとっている日本人
  の人が授業をしてくれた。理論だけでなく、実態経済に基づい
  ていることが重要と言っていた気がする。
  国の発展具合の推計方法、クズネッツカーブなどに関して話を
  していた。細かいところは分からなかったけど、話自体は面白
  かった。
  Oxford saidは元々候補として考えていなかったけど、Social
  Entrepreneur に重きを置いていると言う話は興味深かった。
  また、Oxford said独自の1+1MBAは非常に興味深いと思っ
  た。MBAを1年で終わらせずに、その後他の選考でMaster
  を取得する。大変そうだけど、かなり興味あり。
  Alumniは大きな学校であることにとても価値があったと言っ
  ていた。said自体は140人ぐらいで、どちらかと言うと小規
  模。入学後にcollegeに所属して活動をするらしいが、collage
  にはSaid以外の学生もいる為、いろいろな出会いがあり、それ
  が視野を広めるのに役にたったらしい。
  -BritishCouncil
  IELTS Advanced classのコースへ申し込み。
  ¥115,000+¥4,500(text)=¥120,000
  安いか、高いかはIELTSの結果を見てみて判断。
  カウンセリングの際には、7.0位は十分狙える位置にいるとい
  う評価だった。
 ・Business school調査
  -Oxford said
  AGOSの記載した通り。結構興味がわいてきた。エッジの効い
  たコンサバを目指すには良いかも。
  -Cambridge Judge
  特に環境が優れている印象を受けた。Leadershipに関しては
  いくつかのアプローチを執っているようで、それだけにフォー
  カスした何かは少なさそう。
  -IESE
  何にせよ若いかな。2年のプログラムで、やる気次第ではスペ
  イン語もマスターできるのはウェルカムだが、周りに参加して
  いる学生はどんな感じか気になるところ。
 ・会社対応
  とくになし。

■出来なかったこと
 ・情報整理

 ・IELTS準備(Vocabulary, Speaking)

■今週やること
 ・IELTSテキスト(Speaking 1-4 , Vocabulary 3-5)
 ・IELTS模試1回分(弱点把握と試験までの過ごし方を検討)
 ・会社対応(計画表の提出)

■所感
 ・Oxford Saidや、Cambridge Judgeは今後検討の対象に
  入れていこうと思った。学ぶ環境としてはとても優れてい
  るという評価。
 ・BCの講座に申し込んだので、ちゃっちゃとやっていこう
  と思う。特に、speaking & writing はこの機に集中的に
  やり込んで、5/10の試験で目指せ7.0。
 ・1年間の活動のペースメーカーが欲しい・・・。