Let’s read aloud first. 最初に声を出して読んでみましょう。
To celebrate NATO, a small Finnish brewery made special beer that was a few kilometers from Russia. The name of the beer was Otan Olutta. This name means, “I’ll have some beer’. Otan is also the French word for NATO. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has two official languages, English and French. Finland and Sweden had decided to join NATO as they were afraid of Russia. CEO of the company decided to start producing the beer due to “worries over the war in Ukraine” and its consequences for Finland. he also said that the beer tasted of freedom and safety. The beer can is blue and white in color. They are the colors of NATO. The cans show a knight who holds a beer, and he has NATO’s logo on his armor.
NATO (北大西洋条約機構), Finnish (フィンランドの), brewery (醸造所), consequences (将来の帰結), taste of (の味がする), knight (中世の騎士), armor (甲冑)
Questions:
- Who makes a special beer?
- How far was the brewery from Russia?
- What is the name of the beer?
- Why did Finland and Sweden decide to join NATO?
- What was on the can?
- How did the beer taste?
- What is your opinion?