Let’s read aloud first. 最初に声を出して読んでみましょう。
A 32-year-old Chinese man loves cockroaches. He therefore has a farm full of them. This insect is a cheap source of protein and medicine. He earns a lot by selling them. One kilogram of cockroaches is sold for 16 dollars. Cockroach shells and oil are used for medicine to treat a lot of diseases. He makes a fortune for himself and lives happily. Heart diseases, hepatitis and burns are treated using the shells and oil of these insects. His farm has 60 rooms. There are 20 million cockroaches in each room. So, there are one billion cockroaches in total. Everyday cockroaches eat 50 tons of food waste.
therefore (従って), protein (たんぱく質), shell (外皮), hepatitis (肝炎), burn (やけど)
Questions:
- How old was the man?
- 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?
- Which diseases are treated using the shells and oil of the insects?
- Have you seen and heard of this before?
- Do these insects scare you? Why?
- What is your opinion?