Pre-reading questions:
- Do you like trains?
- How do we prepare for natural disasters?
Vocabulary:
- after /AF-ter/
- capital /KAP-i-tl/
- per /pur/
- between /bih-TWEEN/
- since /sins/
[preposition] following in time, place, or order
They met again after 10 years.
[noun] a city which is the center of government for a country or other political area
Manila is the capital of the Philippines.
[preposition] for each
She earns three dollars per hour.
[preposition] in or into the space that separates two places, people, or objects
They have to choose the winner between the two finalists.
[preposition] from a particular time in the past until a later time, or until now
She hasn’t eaten pork meat since last year.
East Japan Railway Co.’s (JR-EAST Train) train service on the Joban Line resumed its services on March 14 nine years after the disaster in March 2011 that hit northeastern Japan. The 344-kilometer Joban line that connects Tokyo and Miyagi Prefecture was the last line to fully reopen because of the high level of radiation in the area. The railway company had provided bus services for the closed part of the Joban Line before opening the line again. Limited express trains connecting Tokyo to Sendai, the capital of Miyagi, will make three round-trips per day. JR-EAST Train service on a 20.8 kilometer stretch between Tomioka and Namie near Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant had been stopped since the disaster.
True or False:
- The Joban Line opened again after 12 years.
- JR-EAST Train provided bus services for the closed part of the Joban Line before.
- The capital of Miyagi is Tokyo.
- Limited express trains will make three round-trips per day.
- On March 11, 2011, northeastern Japan was hit by a magnitude-9.0 earthquake.
Vocabulary Check:
Complete the sentences by using the words in the box.
| capital | per | between | after | since |
- The ticket costs 10 dollars _____ person.
- Yuzu will practice _____ lunch break.
- They have been planning for their trip _____ August.
- I have to choose _____ New York and San Francisco for my next trip.
- Tokyo is the _____ of Japan.