Let’s read aloud first. 最初に声を出して読んでみましょう。
People can normally buy water in a plastic bottle. Bottled water is the most popular drink in the US. Bottled water is expensive. Bottled water manufactures have to purchase the water, buy the plastic bottles and pay salary to employees to get the water in bottles, transport those heavy plastic bottles filled with water to a store near the customers. Bottled water requires 2000 times more energy than water from a tap. They also burn oil to make the bottles. Drinking water from bottled water causes many problems. Around 800 million people can’t access safe water to drink in the world.
manufacture (製造業者), purchase (購入する), tap (蛇口)
Questions:
- How many people do not have safe water to drink?
- Where is bottled water most popular?
- Is bottled water expensive?
- Why is the bottled water expensive?
- How much times of the energy does the bottled water need than water from a tap?
- Is bottled water expensive in Japan as well?
- What is your opinion?