English Essay by Brian Southwick
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　　Hello again, everyone.  It is now the middle of October.  The leaves are falling from the trees, and the days are getting much shorter.  It is already dark when I leave school in the evenings. 
　　In an essay last month I told you that fall was my favorite season.  I like fall colors, and I enjoy the cool weather.  But fall sometimes makes me a little sad.  I often think about the past and the many changes in my life.  One thing I remember very clearly is the odd-jobs I had as a junior-high and high-school student.　In my essay this week I will tell you about two of them.
　　　The first odd-job I had in junior high school was baby-sitting.  Parents in my neighborhood sometimes asked me to baby-sit for them on a Friday or Saturday night.  I went to their house, and I played games or watched television with the children.  Before going to bed, the children had to take a bath and brush their teeth.  After they went to bed, I usually read a book until the parents returned.  I didn’t make much money, only about ten dollars for one evening, but baby-sitting was a very easy job to do.
　　　Another job I had was mowing lawns.  When I was fifteen years old, I could drive a car.  On Saturdays and Sundays I put my family’s lawn mower in the back of the car, and I went to people’s houses to cut their yards. Mowing lawns wasn’t easy, and in summer it was very hot.  I could make a lot of money, though, about fifteen dollars for a small yard and twenty dollars for a larger one.  I had other odd-jobs in junior-high and high-school, and I learned many useful and important skills.

(注)
middle（まん中，中間），leaves＜leaf（葉），essay（エッセイ，随筆），
 past（過去），change（変化），clearly（はっきりと），odd-job（臨時の仕事），
 baby-sitting（両親が留守の間雇われて留守番子守をすること）， neighborhood（近所），
television=TV（テレビ），take a bath（風呂に入る）， brush their teeth（歯を磨く），
return（戻る），make money（お金を稼ぐ）， mowing lawns（芝を刈ること），
lawn mower（芝刈り機），yard（庭）， though（けれども），skill（わざ，技能）



Question and Answers:  Please answer the following questions in English in a complete sentence, with a subject and　a verb.


Q1. How does fall sometimes make Brian feel?

A1.

Q2. What was Brian’s first odd-job?

A2.

Q3. Did Brian make much money by baby-sitting?

A3.

Q4. When could Brian drive a car?

A4.

Q5. Have you ever made money by doing odd-jobs?

A5.


＜解答例＞

A1. It (sometimes) makes him (feel) a little sad.

A2. It was baby-sitting.

A3. No, he didn’t.

A4. When he was fifteen years old (, he could drive a car).

A5. Yes, I have. / No, I haven’t.