Notes:
nephew: おい;
quite a : すごい、相当な;
be supposed to: するはずだ;
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This story is from a students’ aunt. She wrote:
My nephew went abroad to study English in Canada. He stayed with a Canadian family. His host parents were supposed to take care of his breakfast and dinner at first, but that didn’t happen. They worked all day, so he had to make his meals himself. He had never cooked in his life. He asked his mother how to cook using Skype. When he came back to Japan, he had grown up. Now he speaks English very well, and he’s become quite a cook. Things have turned out well. (by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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A new crime novel came out in April. The book was by a new writer, Robert Galbraith. It got good reviews, but it only sold 1,500 copies in three months. Then, a newspaper reported that Galbraith was a pen name (not the writer’s real name). The real writer was by J. K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter books. Now her crime novel is a bestseller! Rowling didn’t use her real name because she wanted to write a different kind of novel, and she wanted to write for fun. (by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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