Let’s read aloud first. 最初に声を出して読んでみましょう。
Fewer people used London’s subway and buses. The reason was the omicron variant of Covid-19 spread in 2022. There were few people who had omicron. Everyone preferred to work from home and thus fewer people traveled to their workplace during the Covid-19 pandemic.
fewer (ほとんどいない), variant (変異株), spread (まん延する, spread[現在形] – spread[過去形] – spread[過去分詞]), few (ほとんどいない), prefer (好む), work from home (在宅勤務), thus (したがって), workplace (仕事場)
Questions:
- Why did people prefer to work from home?
(なぜ人々は在宅勤務を望むのですか?) - Why did fewer people use subway and buses?
(なぜほとんどの人々は地下鉄やバスを使用しなかったのですか?) - What is the variant of covid-19?
(変異株というのはcovid-19の何ですか?) - What is your opinion?
(あなたはどう思いますか?)