Oldest woman dies (最長寿女性の死)– Level 1

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 old. She lived in the city of Fukuoka, Japan. She married an owner of a shop when she was 19 years old. She was born in 1903 and lived through two world wars. She survived the Spanish Flu in 1918 and the Covid-19.

marry (結婚する), owner (オーナー), live through (生き抜く), survive (生き残る), 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)

Questions:

  1. What was her name?
    (彼女の名前はなんですか?)
  2. Who did she marry?
    (彼女は誰と結婚しましたか?)
  3. Where did she live?
    (彼女はどこに住んでましたか?)
  4. How old was the woman?
    (彼女は何歳まで生きましたか?)
  5. What is your opinion?
    (あなたはどう思いますか?)
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