Oral

Conversation Practice and Baseball

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I. 会話(練習)は野球の様ですか?

question = Does Shinko have any brothers or sisters?
short answer = Yes, she does.
S区V区 O/C/+A区base
Her sister Tomoko  1st
   2nd
   3rd
   home

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question = Does Cane Kensington have any brothers or sisters?
short answer = Yes, he does.
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Hehas 1st
His brother Kevin  2nd
His sister Tiffany  3rd
Hehas,too.home

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Pitch: Does Shinko have any brothers or sisters?

Hit: Yes, she does.


1st: Her sister Tomoko went to a good university.

2nd: She married Takeshi, an elite businessman.

3rd: But he was laid off and ran away from home.

Homerun: So Tomoko came back to her parents' house.

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Pitch: Does Cane Kensington have any brothers or sisters?

Hit: Yes, he does.


1st: He has one brother and one sister.

2nd: His brother Kevin wear glasses and loves fish.

3rd: His sister Tiffany likes to ride horses.

Homerun: He has a wife (Talon) and daughter (China), too.

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Pitch: Is aspirin absorbed in the stomach?

Hit: No, not in the stomach.


1st: It doesn't even dissolve very well there.

2nd: It is absorbed in the small intestine.

3rd: Then the hepatic portal vein takes it
to the liver, which destroys up to 80% of it.

Homerun: It only starts to inhibit COX
enzymes several hours after ingestion.

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Pitch: Did the Protestant Reformation
influence Britain?

Hit: Yes, both Scotland and England.


1st: John Knox brought Calvinism
from Switzerland to Scotland.

2nd: England went Protestant, too, when the
Pope refused to grant Henry VIII a divorce.

3rd: Only Ireland remained Catholic.

Homerun: And that was a deep political
division as well as a religious one.


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