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Pre-reading questions:
I will read each question. Then, please answer them.
講師がそれぞれの質問を読むので答えましょう。
- What is the best pizza place in your city?
- What is your favorite pizza topping?
Vocabulary:
I will read the words, meanings, and sample sentences. Then, repeat after me.
単語、意味、例文を読みます。講師に続いて音読しましょう。
- historic /hi-STAWR-ik/
- charming /CHAHR-ming/
- mood /mood/
- enough /ih-NUHF/
- region /REE-juhn/
[adjective] – important or likely to be important in history
Meiji Jingu is a historic shrine located in Tokyo.
[adjective] – pleasant and attractive
My grandma has a small but charming garden.
[noun] – the way you feel at a particular time
She’s not in the mood to eat spicy food.
[determiner] – as much as is necessary; in the amount or to the degree needed:
There is enough dessert for everyone.
[noun] – a particular area or part of the world, or any of the large official areas into which a country is divided
We would like to tour the Kanto region next month.
Article reading:
Please read the whole article. Then, I will check your pronunciation and intonation.
記事を音読しましょう。講師はあなたの発音とイントネーションを確認します。
Rome, the capital of Italy, is famous for its historic sites, but for food lovers, it is also the land of pizza. If you are looking for the best pizzerias in the city, you should visit the charming village of Trastevere, or you can try Mr. Go, a vending machine pumping out four types of pizza for whenever you’re in the mood for a slice. The 24/7 pizzaiolo (pizza-maker) is located in a busy area of Rome, around 15 minutes drive from the Colosseum.
Mr. Go is a vending machine that makes freshly baked pizza in three minutes. The machine can hold enough dough for up to 100 pizzas. Customers can watch their pizzas cooking behind a small glass window. The pizza costs around $7. “For that same $7, we could have got a “nice big woodfired Margherita” in Trastevere” says Gianni, a taxi driver in Rome who has tried Mr. Go.
Bucolo says that what Mr. Go offers is not even a real pizza. He calls it a “cross between a pizza and a piadina” — the pizza-sized flatbreads from the Emilia-Romagna region. For Bucolo, true pizza is “tossed by hand and seared in a wood-fired oven”. Whether you get it from a vending machine or a five-star restaurant, pizza is a truly satisfying dish.
Mr. Go is a vending machine that makes freshly baked pizza in three minutes. The machine can hold enough dough for up to 100 pizzas. Customers can watch their pizzas cooking behind a small glass window. The pizza costs around $7. “For that same $7, we could have got a “nice big woodfired Margherita” in Trastevere” says Gianni, a taxi driver in Rome who has tried Mr. Go.
Bucolo says that what Mr. Go offers is not even a real pizza. He calls it a “cross between a pizza and a piadina” — the pizza-sized flatbreads from the Emilia-Romagna region. For Bucolo, true pizza is “tossed by hand and seared in a wood-fired oven”. Whether you get it from a vending machine or a five-star restaurant, pizza is a truly satisfying dish.
True or False:
Read the sentences and identify if they are true or false based on the article.
文章を読んで、記事に基づいて正誤を答えましょう。
- Rome is famous for its historic sites.
- You can find the best pizzerias in the village of Trastevere.
- Mr. Go makes freshly baked pizza in three minutes.
- The machine cannot hold enough dough for up to 100 pizzas.
- For Bucolo, true pizza is “tossed by hand and seared in a wood-fired oven”.
Fill in the blanks:
Choose the correct word from the table then fill in the blanks.
適切な言葉を選んで空欄を埋めましょう。
| historic | charming | mood | enough | region |
- She has a very ______ smile.
- We are all in the _______ for ice cream!
- We have ______ rice for all the guests.
- The Eiffel Tower is a ______ landmark.
- I bought a travel magazine about the Tohoku ______.