Let’s read aloud first. 最初に声を出して読んでみましょう。
There are several sharks in an aquarium, Seoul’s COEX Aquarium, in South Korea. People come to see them as major amusement. They were shocked because the biggest shark ate the smaller shark. The small shark was hanging out of the big shark’s mouth. An eight-year-old female sand tiger shark, 2.2 meters long, slowly ate a smaller five-year-old male hound shark, about 1.2 meters in length. This was unusual act because usually the killing of animals within the same species was not seen in the wild. Everyone at the aquarium was amazed. Sharks had their own territory. However, if other shark comes into the own territory, they try to bite to astonish the counterpart.
aquarium (水族館), amusement (楽しみなこと), species (種), in the wild (野生において), counterpart (片方の相手)
Questions:
- Where was the aquarium?
- What did the big shark kill?
- Who was shocked seeing this?
- Do the animals kill each other in the same species?
- Why the smaller shark was killed?
- Are you afraid of sharks? Why?
- What is your opinion?