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

The giant killer salamander lived 200 million years ago in lakes and rivers. It looked like a crocodile. The length of it was as long as a small car. It had a large head and a mouth with full of teeth and ate fish.

killer (肉食の), salamander (サンショウウオ), million (百万), crocodile (ワニ), length (長さ), as long as (同じの長さ), mouth (口), full of teeth (多くの歯), ate (eatの過去形)

Questions:

1. What did giant salamander eat?
   (巨大サンショウウオは何を食べましたか?)
2. How long was the salamander?
   (そのサンショウウオはどれほどの長さでしたか?)
3. When did the salamander live?
   (そのサンショウウオはいつ生息していましたか?)
4. Have you seen the salamander and where?
   (あなたはサンショウウオ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?)   

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

There was an old church in Peru. Priest of the church wanted to make it look better once again. So, they started the restoration work for the church. They found 50 years old 32 human bones inside the crypt. A painting of baby Jesus was also found on the wall.

priest (牧師, 聖職者), make look better (よりよく見えるようにする), restoration work (改修工事), found (find発見する の過去形), crypt (聖堂の地下室), painting (絵画), Jesus (イエスキリスト)

Questions:

1. How many human bones were found?
   (何体の人骨が見つかりましたか?)
2. How old were the human bones?
   (その人骨は何年前のものですか?)
3. Apart from the bones, what else was found?
   (人骨以外には何が見つかりましたか?)
4. Where was the human bone and painting found?
   (どこで人骨と絵画が見つかりましたか?)
5. What is your opinion?
   (あなたはどう思いますか?)   

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

Franziska and her friend get an idea to recycle bottles by making sand from them. People lend them money to get a machine that breaks glass into small pieces. Metal, plastic and paper is taken out of the machine. Sand is used a lot by people so, by breaking bottles into small pieces to make sand is a useful way to make more sand.

get an idea (アイデアを得る), recycle (再利用する), lend (貸す), machine (機械), metal (金属),take out (取り出す), useful way (効果のある方法)

Questions:

1. Who get an idea to recycle bottles?
   (誰がボトルのリサイクルのアイデアを思いつきましたか？)
2. What did the people give them to buy the machine?
   (機械を買う為に人々は彼らになにをしましたか?)
3. What was taken out of the machine?
   (機械から何を取り出しますか?)
4. What is your opinion?
   (あなたはどう思いますか?)   

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

Mushrooms were grown from the coffee grounds. This was grown by a Belgian company. This company gets 5.5 tons of coffee grounds every month. The mushroom is used to make tiles. The coffee grounds are mixed with the spores of the mushrooms and are grown in small bags. The company wanted to make 13 tons of tiles by 2025.

grown (grow栽培する の過去分詞), coffee ground (コーヒーのかす), Belgian (ベルギーの), ton (トン), spore (胞子), tile (建材用のタイル)

Questions:

1. Where were the mushrooms grown?
   (マッシュルームはどこで育ちますか?)
2. With what were the coffee grounds mixed with?
   (コーヒーのかすは何と混ぜられますか?)
3. How many tons of tiles did the company want to make by 2025?
   (2025年までに会社は何トンのタイルを作りたいと思ってますか?)
4. What is your opinion?
   (あなたはどう思いますか?)   

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

Two French professors made a flying boat called JetCycle in 2020. A foil is put in front and back of the boat. It makes boat fly and can move at 9 kilometers per hour. Price of one boat is 12,000 euros. 100 boats were sold in two years.

professor(教授), call～(～と名付ける), foil (フォイル：水中翼。ボードの下に取り付けられたフィン状のアタッチメントが海中を進むことで揚力を生み、まるで飛行するかのようにボートが浮く仕組み。), in front of (前面に), make ～fly (～を浮揚させる), euro(ユーロ), sold(sell売る の過去分詞)

Questions:

1. Can the boat fly?
   (このボートは浮遊しますか?)
2. What was the boat’s name?
   (ボートの名前は何ですか?)
3. How many boats were sold in two years?
   (いくつのボートが過去2年間で売れましたか?)
4. What is your opinion?
   (あなたはどう思いますか?)   

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

A big robot that can lift things up to 40 kilograms is used by a Japanese railway company to fix a railway line. This robot has two hands and is on a crane. The robot is controlled remotely by a person who has a VR headset. As of now, the robot helps only a few places in Japan.

lift (持ち上げる), thing (物), up to ～(～まで), railway (線路), line (送電線), fix (修理をする), crane (クレーン), remotely (遠隔で), VR (ヴァーチャルリアリティ), as of now (現時点では), a few (いくつかの)

Questions:

1. How many kilograms can the robot lift?
   (ロボットは最大何キログラムのものを持ち上げられますか?)
2. Who controls the robot?
   (誰がそのロボットをコントロールしますか?)
3. What does the robot fix?
   (ロボットは何を修理しますか?)
4. What is your opinion?
   (あなたはどう思いますか?)   

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

In order to help a children’s hospital, an England bakery makes a big cake that looks like a cake making machine.  All parts of the cake making machine are the parts of a big cake and those can be eaten. 2000 people can eat this cake. This big cake is displayed in the hospital and many people enjoy to see.

in order to ～(～のために), bakery (パン屋), look like ～(～に見える), eaten (eatの過去分詞), display (展示する)

Questions:

1. Where was the bakery?
   (パン屋はどこにありますか?)
2. How did the cake look like?
   (ケーキは何に見えますか?)
3. How many people can eat this cake?
   (何人の人がそのケーキを食べることができますか?)
4. What is your opinion?
   (あなたはどう思いますか?)   

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

Martinis is the second biggest trawler in the world. It spilt fish in the sea. Its net break and more than 100,000 dead fish float in the Atlantic Ocean off the French coast. Such big ships catch too many fish.

Martinis (マルティニス=漁船の名前), trawler (トロール漁船), spilt (spillの過去形, こぼした), net (網), float (漂う), Atlantic Ocean (大西洋), off the coast (沿岸に)

Questions:

1. Which is the second biggest trawler?
   (世界で2番目のトロール漁船の名前は何ですか?)
2. What happened when the net broke?
   (網が破けたことで何が起きましたか?)
3. How many dead fish floated in the water?
   (何匹の死んだ魚が海に流れましたか?)
4. What is your opinion?
   (あなたはどう思いますか?)