Let’s read aloud first. 最初に声を出して読んでみましょう。
A lot of people are afraid of cockroaches but a Chinese man grow cockroaches in his farm because he loves them. He makes a lot of money by selling them. He sells one kilogram of cockroaches for 16 dollars. Cockroach shells and oil are used for medicine to treat a lot of diseases. He makes a fortune for himself and he is happy with his farm. This man has one billion of those insects in his farm.
farm (工場), shell (外皮), disease (病気), fortune (幸運), insect (虫)
Questions:
- What does the man love?
- Where is the man from？
- How much money does he make by selling one-kilogram cockroaches?
- How many cockroaches does he grow in his farm?
- What can be made from cockroaches?
- Have you seen and heard of this before?
- Do these insects scare you? Why?
- What is your opinion?