Let’s read aloud first. 最初に声を出して読んでみましょう。
Kane Tanaka was the oldest woman in the world and she died in April 2022. She was 119 years of age. She worked in a shop until she was 103. She married a shop owner. She married him when she was 19 years old. She lived in the city of Fukuoka, Japan. She was born in 1903 and lived through two world wars. She survived the Spanish Flu in 1918 and the Covid-19. She had four children. She spent her last years in a Japanese care home where she enjoyed board games and chocolate. With her death, the world’s oldest person is now Lucile Randon, a 116-year-old French woman. Japanese government released life expectancy statistics in July 2020 and showed that women had a life expectancy of 87.45 years compared to 81.4 years for men.
live through (生き抜く), Spanish Flu(スペイン風邪, 1918年から1920年にかけ全世界的に大流行したインフルエンザ), statistics (統計), life expectancy (平均余命)
Questions:
- What was her name?
- Who did she marry?
- Where did she live?
- How old was the woman?
- Where did she spend her last years?
- How many world wars did she survive?
- For how long did she work in the shop?
- Who is the world’s oldest person now?
- Why do you think women live longer?
- What is your opinion?