Let’s read aloud first. 最初に声を出して読んでみましょう。
Everyone preferred to work from home and thus fewer people traveled to their workplace. Fewer people used London’s subway and buses. The reason was the omicron variant of Covid-19. There were few people who had omicron at that time. Companies said it was better to work from home. The change was big in business style but still children traveled to school by bus. Schools were still open in the UK. Covid-19 gave the huge damage on the nation’s economy hence growth rate in GDP of most of all countries was diminished.
thus (したがって), variant (変異株), hence (そのため), diminish (減少する)
Questions:
- Why did people prefer to work from home?
- Why did fewer people use subway and buses?
- What is the variant of covid-19?
- How did children travel to school?
- Did schools open in the UK?
- Which impact was given on economy by covid-19 pandemic?
- How often do you travel by metro?
- Were the metros closed in Japan during the pandemic?
- Were school closed in Japan during the pandemic?
- What is your opinion?