今日のじゃれマガ(自慢の母)
今日もじゃれマガに学びましょう。
——今日のじゃれマガ——
じゃれマガは面白く、易しい英語で毎日配信される素晴らしい教材です。その英語はとても良いお手本です。じゃれマガからもっと学ぶためのヒントを提供します。
★今日のじゃれマガーその要旨
今日は読者の作品。ビワの話題で50年以上も前の出来事を思い出しました。さてこの作者の母上が存命なのかどうなのか…気になります。
★学びたい英語/まねたい英語(特にお手本と思うところ)
・1枚1枚描いた
・このonly mother aroundが作者の力量を顕していますね。その辺にそんなことのできる母親はいなかった…という感じでしょうか。
★今日のじゃれマガ 全文
Readers’ Corner: Proud of My Mother
When I was in elementary school, my mom drew pictures of loquats on the invitation cards to my friends for my birthday party. My birthday is in June, so the loquat is the best fruit for the cards. She drew them with colored pencils one by one. At that time, we didn’t have any copying machines at home. I can still remember her pictures and her face while she was drawing. I was proud of her. She was the only mother around that made her kid’s birthday cards by herself. That was more than fifty years ago. I don’t remember whether I said “Thank you” to her then. I’m sure I’ll say “Thank you” to her when we meet again. I wonder if she will smile at me like she did fifty years ago.