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

Cyclone Tauktae hit western India in May 2021. It brought heavy rains and was a strong cyclone. The speed was almost 160 km per hour. It destroyed buildings. Thousands of people had to leave their homes and stayed in the shelter.

cyclone (暴風), Cyclone Tauktae (サイクロン・タウテ, 2021年5月に発生した大暴風), brought (bring運ぶ 過去形), heavy rain (大雨), per hour (時速), destroy (破壊する), thousands (何千), shelter (シェルター)

Questions:

1. When did Cyclone Tauktae hit India?
   (いつサイクロン・タウテがインドに被害をもたらしましたか?)
2. What is a cyclone?
   (サイクロンとは何ですか?)
3. How fast was the cyclone?
   (そのサイクロンのスピードは時速何キロでしたか?)
4. How many people did they have to leave home?
   (何人の人々が自宅を離れないといけませんか?)
5. What is your opinion?
   (あなたはどう思いますか?)

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Huawei, a Chinese company, produces a new Android smartphone named Mate X2. The phone opens and closes like a book. It has an excellent camera system. When we open the phone, we can use two applications at the same time.

Huawei (ファーウェイ), produce (製造する), excellent (素晴らしい)

Questions:

1. What is the name of the phone?
   (その電話の名前は何ですか?)
2. Which company produces the phone?
   (何という会社がその電話を製造していますか?)
3. What is the phone like?
   (それはどの様な電話ですか?)
4. What is your opinion?
   (あなたはどう思いますか?)

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A US company, Natural Funeral, provide water cremation. Body is changed to ash by water and small amount of alkali material. Water cremation is nature friendly because it doesn’t make any carbon emissions. Ash made from water cremation is organic and it helps the plants grow.

funeral (葬儀), water cremation (水葬), ash (灰), amount (量), alkali (アルカリ), material (物質), nature friendly (自然に優しい), carbon emission (二酸化炭素排出), organic (有機性物質), plant grow (植物が育つ)

Questions:

1. Which company provides water cremation?
   (水葬を行うのはどの会社ですか?)
2. What is used for water cremation?
   (水葬では何が使用されますか?)
3. Why is water cremation nature friendly?
   (なぜ水葬は自然に優しいのですか?)
4. Is ash made from water cremation good for plant?
   (水葬で作られる灰は植物にとって良いですか?)
5. What is your opinion?
   (あなたはどう思いますか?)

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Tesco, Britain’s biggest supermarket, challenges carbon neutral by 2035. Many customers request Tesco more nature friendly. So Tesco reduce usage of plastic and their waste. The company promised to announce about their activity once a year.

carbon neutral (二酸化炭素を排出量実質ゼロ), nature friendly (自然に優しい), usage (使用), waste (廃棄), announce (公表する), activity (活動), once a year (年に一度)

Questions:

1. Which is the biggest supermarket in Britain?
   (英国で最大のスーパーマーケットは何ですか?)
2. What does the company want to do by 2035?
   (会社は2035年までに何をしたいのですか?)
3. What do many customers request Tesco?
   (多くの顧客はテスコ社に何を要求してますか?)
4. What does Tesco do for carbon neutral?
   (テスコ社はカーボンニュートラルのために何をしてますか?)
5. What is your opinion?
   (あなたはどう思いますか?)

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We all know that Instagram is popular. Teenagers use this a lot and it can be dangerous. Girls take selfies of themselves and edit them and post them. The other girls think they don’t look nice. Many Instagram users have mental problem.

popular (人気がある), dangerous (危険), selfie (自撮り), edit (編集する), post (投稿する), look nice (見映えが良い), mental (精神の)

Questions:

1. Who uses Instagram the most?
   (インスタグラムを最も利用するのは誰ですか?)
2. Why are teenage girls having mental problems?
   (なぜ十代の女の子が精神的な問題を抱えるのですか?)
3. Do you use Instagram? Why?
   (あなたはインスタグラムを利用してますか? 何故ですか?)
4. What is your opinion?
   (あなたはどう思いますか?)

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Around 800 million people do not have safe water to drink in the world. People can normally buy water in a plastic bottle. Bottled water is the most popular drink in the US. This water is not better than water from a tap. It is much more expensive.

million (百万), to drink (飲むための), normally (普通に), bottled water (ボトルに入った水), popular (普及している), better than (よりも良い), tap (蛇口), expensive (高い)

Questions:

1. How many people do not have safe water to drink?
   (世界で安全な水を得られない人々が何人いますか?)
2. Where is bottled water most popular in?
   (ボトル飲料水が最も一般的に飲まれる国はどこですか?)
3. Is bottled water expensive?
   (ボトル飲料水は高いですか?)
4. What is your opinion?
   (あなたはどう思いますか?)

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A fortune-teller is a person who tells someone’s future. Different ways are used to do it. They use tarot cards or palm reading. Many people in Thailand go to fortune-tellers to know about their future. Young people have a lot of problems for their work. Many people lost their job because of covid-19.

fortune-teller (占い師), future (未来), tarot card (タロットカード), palm reading (手相), lost (loose失う の過去形), because of (の理由で)

Questions:

1. What does fortune-teller do?
   (占い師は何をする人ですか?)
2. What does fortune-teller use?
   (占い師は何を利用しますか?)
3. Why do many Thai people go to fortune-teller?
   (なぜ多くのタイ人は占い師のところへ行くのですか?)
4. Have you been to a fortune-teller?
   (今まで占い師に占ってもらったことはありますか?)
5. Do you believe in this?
   (あなたは占いを信じますか?)
6. What is your opinion?
   (あなたはどう思いますか?)

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From 1996 to 2001, the Taliban ruled Afghanistan. Women had to cover their faces outside of the home. Taliban took power again in 2021 August. This rule came back. More rules were made by the Taliban against women’s rights. Women are asking for their basic human rights.

Taliban (タリバン, アフガニスタンを実効支配するイスラム主義組織), rule (統治する), take power (権力を取り戻す), come back (再び戻る), right (権利)

Questions:

1. What was the time period when women covered their faces?
   (女性は外で顔を隠さないといけなかった時期はいつですか?)
2. When did Taliban take power again?
   (タリバンはいつ権力を取り戻しましたか?)
3. What do women ask for?
   (女性たちは何を嘆願してますか?)
4. What is your opinion?
   (あなたはどう思いますか?)

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A NPO in Egypt, El Nafeza Foundation, hires deaf workers. Rice grows in Egypt and after harvest, people burn the straw. The NPO makes paper from rice straw. The paper is made by deaf people. Burning rice straw makes air pollution. Making paper from rice straw is good for the people.

NPO (特定非営利活動法人), hire (雇用する), deaf (耳が不自由な人), harvest (収穫), burn (燃やす), straw (わら, 稲の茎の部分), air pollution (大気汚染)

Questions:

1. Who makes the paper?
   (誰が紙を作ってますか)
2. From what is the paper made?
   (何から紙が作られますか?)
3. Is rice grown in Egypt?
   (エジプトで米を栽培してますか?)
4. Which bad thing is generated by burning rice straw?
   (わらを燃やすとどの様な悪いことが生じますか?)
5. What is your opinion?
   (あなたはどう思いますか?)

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Google builds a new office in Silicon Valley, California. This office has three buildings. 40,000 employees work here. Google’s office looks different from other offices. 90,000 solar panels make energy for the offices. Solar panel generates 40% of the office’s electricity.

Silicon Valley (シリコンバレー,サンフランシスコ近郊に位置), employee (職員), look different from (とは異なる外見), solar panel (太陽電池パネル), generate (うみ出す), electricity (電気)

Questions:

1. Where does Google build its new office?
   (グーグルはどこに新しいオフィスを建ててますか?)
2. How big is it?
   (建物はどれくらいの大きさですか?)
3. How many people work in it?
   (何人の職員が働きますか?)
4. Which point of new office is different from other office?
   (新オフィスのどの様な点が他のオフィスとことなるのですか?)
5. What is your opinion?
   (あなたはどう思いますか?)