How did you celebrate your Christmas Eve? Did you stay awake the whole night waiting for Santa Claus to come? Or did you go straight to bed after your Christmas dinner hoping to find some presents when you wake up the next morning?

For some people Christmas is about the presents that they get. For some it's about the dinner they have with their family. For others it's about the songs and the festive mood. There are those who only think of it as a holiday. And there are also those who go to church to pray.

How was my Christmas Eve? Nobody invited me to celebrate with them. Will you invite me to your Christmas dinner next Christmas?

Verbs

• stay [stayed, staying]
• awake [awoke, awaking]
• wait [waited, waiting]
• find [found, finding]
• think [thought, thinking]
• pray [prayed, praying]
• invite [invited,inviting]

add

• added
• adding
• adds

例文

1. Add some cheese to the pasta.
2. Add this color to that color and you get green. (a green color)
3. We added some more chocolate for you.
4. If you add 1 and 2 you get 3.
5. Can you add some more? (cheese, chocolate, など)

add と plus は数学で意味が同じけど会話ではちょっと違うの感じ。

Verbs (動詞）

Here are some verbs that might be useful. (Upcoming posts will describe them in more detail)

• add
• awake
• back
• bear
• beat
• begin
• bite
• blow
• break
• breathe
• bring
• build
• bump
• burn
• buy
• call
• calm
• care
• carry
• catch
• check
• choose
• clear
• close
• come
• cool
• cost
• count
• cross

「これはも一つのパターン、どれがいいかな？」

I've never celebrated Halloween as a kid (child) and most of what I know about it comes from watching TV shows (Television programs) and reading books and magazines. So I don't know if what I'm saying about it is true or correct (accurate).

Why is that the grown ups (adults) put in the time and energy (effort) to make things look scary? I guess maybe they wanted to use Halloween as an occasion to mix things that are scary and fun together so that their kids (children) will grow up not being afraid of things like ghosts, zombies and other strange and scary things. Or maybe it's a way for grown ups to release their stress by scaring(frightening) others and themselves.

I think it will become a more cheerful and less scary celebration as it becomes more popular. I have no problem with that.

Key points

1. verbs

• celebrate [celebrated,celebrating]
• watch [watched,watching]
• read [read,reading]
• say [said,saying]
• scare [scared,scaring] -> scarying じゃないけど発音は近い。scaryはadjective
• frighten [frightened,frightening] この動詞の使い方は後で説明します。

2. words that are similar in meaning ここは意味が似ている。

   informal	formal
   kid	child
   grown up(s)	adult(s)
   kids	children

ここはenergyとeffortの意味が近いけど場面による同じかどうか異になる。

「ここは一つのパターン、どれがいいかな？」