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。
- Do you currently have a job?
- What was your dream job?
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。
- unlucky /uhn-LUHK-ee/
- employment /em-PLOI-muhnt/
- immediately /ih-MEE-dee-it-lee/
- benefit /BEN-uh-fit/
- method /METH-uhd/
[adjective] – not lucky
This has been an unlucky year for me.
[noun] – the fact of someone being paid to work for a company or organization
My sister was offered employment in the sales department.
[adverb] – now or without waiting or thinking
He fell asleep immediately after coming home from school.
[noun] – (usually plural) something such as a pension or health insurance that an employee receives in addition to their salary
The company offers medical benefits to all its workers.
[noun] – a particular way of doing something
What’s the best method to grow tomatoes?
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。
About 900 employees of a digital mortgage company lost their jobs through a three-minute Zoom call meeting on Wednesday, December 1. “I come to you with not great news. We are laying off about 15 percent of the company for a number of reasons — the market efficiency and performances, and productivity,” CEO Vishal Garg said at the beginning of the meeting. “If you’re on this call, you are part of the unlucky group that is being laid off. Your employment here is terminated effective immediately,” Garg continued. Employees who have been laid off will receive one month’s pay and three months’ worth of benefits that will be in an email from human resources delivered to their personal email accounts. A laid-off employee from the Zoom call considers Garg’s method of terminating hundreds of employees as “harsh.” He shared that Garg “could have had a better way to go about it” and preferred it to be in individual rooms with human resources.
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。
- The 900 employees were laid off in a Google Meet call.
- The meeting was five minutes long.
- The 900 employees were terminated immediately on Wednesday, December 1.
- The employees who have been laid off will receive one month’s pay and three months’ worth of benefits.
- One of the laid-off employees preferred to have individual meeting rooms during the termination.
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。
| unlucky | employment | immediately | benefit | method |
- I’m currently looking for _______. I badly need a job.
- The management is cutting employee _______. They’re short on budget right now.
- The new _______ is better than the old one.
- We were a bit _______ during our trip to Scotland. The weather was bad.
- We need to leave _______. The store will close in a few minutes.