Pre-reading questions:
- What is your favorite animated movie?
- Do you like history? Why or why not?
Vocabulary:
- animated /AN-uh-mey-tid/
- anniversary /an-uh-VUR-suh-ree/
- bombing /BOM-ing/
- late /leyt/
- professor /pruh-FES-er/
[adjective] a type of film where drawings move
The animated movie I watched yesterday was beautiful.
[noun] a day when an important event happened a year before
Today is our school’s 3rd anniversary.
[noun] an attack on a place using bombs
The bombing at Mary’s town stopped an hour ago.
[adjective] died not long ago
She visited her late grandmother last Sunday.
[noun] a teacher
My science professor is very kind.
The staff of the animated film “Hiroshima – The Last Rose of Summer” plan to finish it by 2020 in summer. It is also the 75th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki’s bombings. Kaiji Kawaguchi, a popular manga artist, drew the characters in the movie. They hope to complete the dream of the late director Jimmy Murakami by finishing the film. This will be done with the help of Shigeaki Mori, a Hiroshima history professor.
True or False:
- Kaiji Kawaguchi drew the characters.
- Summer 2020 is also the anniversary of the Japanese cities’ bombings.
- Shigeaki Mori will not help in making the movie.
- The title of the film is “Hiroshima – The Last Rose of Winter”.
- They want to finish the film to complete the dream of Jimmy Murakami.
Vocabulary Check:
Complete the sentences by using the words in the box.
| anniversary | late | bombing | animated | professor |
- Tom and Chris survived the _______.
- We need to watch the new _______ movie this weekend.
- My mom and dad celebrated their 5th wedding ________ today.
- I want to be an English ________ in the future.
- Annie felt sad when she visited her ________ best friend.