Let’s read aloud first. 最初に声を出して読んでみましょう。

Joseph Nicephore was born in 1765 in France. The first photograph was taken by him. It took him for 8 hours to take a first photo. The 16 photos were taken in 1827. Out of the 16, three are kept in a museum.

Joseph Nicephore (ジョゼフ・ニセフォール,写真技術の先駆者), photograph (写真), kept (keep保管する の過去分詞), museum (博物館)

Questions:

1. When was Joseph Nicephore born?
   (いつジョゼフ・ニセフォールは生まれましたか?)
2. Where was he from?
   (彼はどこの国の出身ですか?)
3. How many photos were taken in all?
   (全部で何枚の写真が撮られましたか?)
4. How many photos were kept in the museum?
   (何枚の写真が博物館に展示されていますか?)
5. What is your opinion?
   (あなたはどう思いますか?)

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In the city of Quito, Ecuador, a light festival is seen every year. Two million people come to see the city. People enjoy the lights and it is so beautiful. This is celebrated for independence from Spain in 1809.

Quito (キート,南米エクアドルの首都), million (百万), celebrate (祝う), independence (独立)

Questions:

1. What does the city of Quito celebrate?
   (キートの人々は何に対して祝いますか?)
2. How many people come to see the lights?
   (何人の人々が光の祭典に訪れますか?)
3. Do you celebrate Independence Day in Japan?
   (日本にも独立記念日はありますか?)
4. What is the major festival in Japan?
   (日本ではどういったフェスティバルがありますか?)
5. What is your opinion?
   (あなたはどう思いますか?)

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Human bones are found in Morocco in north-western Africa. These humans were said to be 300,000 years old. They are 100,000 years older than the previous remains. These bones showed us how people evolved.  People say that humans years ago lived in caves. They hunted animals.

Morocco (モロッコ王国, 大西洋と地中海に面した北アフリカの国), said to be (と言われている), previous (前の), remain (遺骨), evolve (進化する), cave (洞窟)

Questions:

1. Where were the human bones found?
   (どこで人間の骨が見つかりましたか?)
2. How much older were these bones than the previous remains?
   (以前発見された遺骨に比べて新たに発見された骨はどれほど古いものですか?)
3. What did the people learn through these remains?
   (発見された骨は我々に何を教えてくれますか?)
4. Where did the old human live?
   (古代の人類はどこに住んでいましたか?)
5. What is your opinion?
   (あなたはどう思いますか?)

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There are too many problems for farmers in Australia. Floods are seen in a few areas. In other places, wildfires destroy forest and homes. It is very difficult to put out the wildfire. Too many mice have become a problem recently. These mice destroy crops and farmers do not know what to do.

farmer (農民), flood (洪水), wildfire (自然に発生する山火事), put out (消火をする), mice (mouseネズミ の複数形), crops (作物), what to do (対策)

Questions:

1. What are the three problems for farmers in Australia?
   (オーストラリアの農民を苦しめる3つの問題は何ですか?)
2. Are wildfires easy to put out?
   (山火事を消火するのは簡単ですか?)
3. Why do many mice become problem?
   (大量のネズミはなぜ問題になるのですか?)
4. Have you seen a lot of mice? Where?
   (大量のネズミを見たことはありますか?)
5. What is your opinion?
   (あなたはどう思いますか?)

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San Diego Zoo Safari Park had gorillas. They were infected with coronavirus. This was the first case for the great ape in the world. People think gorillas were infected from zoo worker who was infected with coronavirus.

gorilla (ゴリラ), be infected with (感染する), case (症例), great ape (大型類人猿)

Questions:

1. Where were the gorillas?
   (ゴリラはどこにいますか?)
2. What virus did the gorillas have?
   (なんのウイルスにゴリラは感染しましたか)
3. How were the gorillas infected?
   (どうやってゴリラは感染しましたか?)
4. What is your opinion?
   (あなたはどう思いますか?)

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Zookeepers in the zoo give food with ice block to two giraffes named Casper and Floppy in the zoo in North Macedonia. The temperature in summer season in North Macedonia is about 40C. The zookeepers cut vegetables and mix them with water and ice blocks then give to giraffes.

zookeeper (飼育員), ice block (氷のブロック), giraffe (キリン), North Macedonia (北マケドニア共和国), temperature (夏), vegetable (野菜)

Questions:

1. Who gives the ice blocks to the giraffes in the zoo?
   (動物園でキリンに氷ブロックを与えているのは誰ですか?)
2. Where is the zoo?
   (動物園はどこにありますか?)
3. What is the temperature in the summer at zoo?
   (動物園の夏の気温は何度になりますか?)
4. What are given to giraffes with ice block?
   (キリンには氷ブロックとともに何が与えられますか?)
5. What is your opinion?
   (あなたはどう思いますか?)

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Dogs are not only man’s best friends, but they have good noses. Dogs can smell cancer. The dogs were trained by Italian scientists to smell prostate cancer. There is one dog that sniffs the cancer faster than the doctors. An Italian team try to make the device which can smell and detect cancer by studying dogs.

nose (鼻), smell (嗅ぐ), prostate (前立腺), cancer (がん), sniff (嗅ぐ), device (器具), detect (診断する)

Questions:

1. Who trains the dogs to smell cancer?
   (誰が犬にがんを嗅ぎ分ける訓練をしてますか?)
2. What kind of cancer do the dogs smell?
   (どの様な種類のがんを犬は嗅ぎ分けますか?)
3. Which can detect cancer faster, the doctor or the dog?
   (医師又は犬のどちらが早く癌を診断しますか?)
4. What is your opinion?
   (あなたはどう思いますか?)

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Three suns were seen in the sky in Mongolia. Among these, only the middle sun was real, and the other two on the left and right were the reflections. This is seen in very cold conditions at around -30C and when the position of sun is low.

middle (中心の), real (本物), on the left and right (左と右にあるのは), reflection (反射), condition (条件)

Questions:

1. How many suns were seen?
   (いくつの太陽が見えたのですか?)
2. When can three suns be seen?
   (どの様な時に3つの太陽が見えるのですか?)
3. Which sun was real among the three?
   (3つのうちどの太陽が本物なのでしょうか?)
4. What is your opinion?
   (あなたはどう思いますか?)

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A seven years old named Joshua lives in Berlin, Germany. He is sick and can’t go to school. In his place in the classroom, an avatar robot sits. This robot has a light on its head and the light turns on and off when Joshua needs something. The children talk to him, laugh with him and sometimes chat with him during the lesson.

named (という名前の), avatar (自分の分身), light turn on and off (光を付けたり消したりする), laugh (笑う), sometimes (時々), chat (おしゃべりをする), during (の間)

Questions:

1. What is the boy’s name?
   (少年の名前は何ですか?)
2. How old is he?
   (彼は何歳ででしょうか?)
3. What does the robot have on its head?
   (ロボットの頭に何が付いていますか?)
4. What does avatar robot do when Joshua wants to do something?
   (分身ロボットはJoshuaが何かをしたい時にどうしますか?)
5. What is your opinion?
   (あなたはどう思いますか?)

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An Egyptian designed a dress with QR code. The code was put on the sleeve of the dress. This dress was used by tourists who can use their phones to read the code. By doing this, they can get information of the museums, mosques, and pyramids of Egypt. They can travel without a guide. Tourists visit Egypt from all over the world. This dress is very useful for them.

sleeve (袖), tourist (旅行者), mosque (モスク), useful (価値がある)

Questions:

1. Where was the QR code seen on the dress?
   (QR コードは服のどこに付いてますか?)
2. Why was the dress special?
   (なぜこのドレスは特別なのですか?)
3. Why was it useful to the tourists?
   (なぜこの服は旅行者にとって価値があるのですか?)
4. Have you ever been to Egypt? if not, do you want to travel?
   (あなたはエジプトを訪れたことがありますか? もし無ければ、行きたいですか?)
5. What is your opinion?
   (あなたはどう思いますか?)