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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。
- Do you love going to the ocean?
- Are you familiar with shipwrecks?
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。
- century /SEN-chuh-ree/
- sink /singk/
- filmmaker /FILM-mey-ker/
- terrible /TER-uh-buhl/
- rescue /RES-kyoo/
[noun] – a period of 100 years
The painting must be centuries old.
[verb] – to (cause something or someone to) go down below the surface or to the bottom of a liquid or soft substance
The Titanic sank in 1912.
[noun] – someone who is in charge of making a film
My uncle has worked as an independent filmmaker for over 10 years.
[adjective] – very unpleasant or serious or of low quality
We weren’t able to go out yesterday due to the terrible weather.
[noun] – the act of helping someone out of a dangerous or unpleasant situation
The rescue operations of the trapped villagers were successful.
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。
HMS Endurance of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton has been located south of the Falkland Islands, more than a century after it sank off the coast of Antarctica. The Falklands History Hit, a multimedia platform co-founded by historian Dan Snow, and the Maritime Heritage Trust worked together on the discovery. A team of scientists, historians, and filmmakers were on board to create a video for an upcoming documentary about the Endurance search. In 1914, the Endurance set sail from the United Kingdom for Antarctica, arriving in McMurdo Sound the following year. But due to the terrible weather, the ship became trapped in thick, unbreakable ice in the Weddell Sea and sank 3,008 meters below the surface. Shackleton and the other 28 men on board abandoned the ship and built basic camp facilities on ice floes heading northward. Despite the expedition’s failure, the team’s survival and rescue months later, with no casualties, was praised as a success of their bravery and Shackleton’s great leadership qualities.
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。
- HMS Endurance has been located south of the Falkland Islands.
- The ship was found 50 years after it sank off the coast of Antarctica.
- The Endurance set sail from the United Kingdom for Antarctica in 1915.
- Due to the terrible weather, the ship sank 3,008 meters below the surface of the Weddell Sea.
- Shackleton and the other 28 men on board abandoned the ship.
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。
century | sink | filmmaker | terrible | rescue |
- _______ are working on a documentary about Japanese culture.
- The city has changed in over a _______.
- I can’t go to work today. I have a _______ headache.
- I was trapped in the house. Luckily, a firefighter came to my _______.
- It is said that many ships _______ in this part of the ocean.