China, Europe, Africa, and the US experience worst drought

admin 2022年10月3日

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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 month gets the most rain in your country?
What do you do when the weather is too hot?

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。

temperature /TEM-per-uh-cher/

[noun] – the measured amount of heat in a place or in the body
The town reached its highest February temperature yesterday.

worst /wurst/

[adjective] – of the lowest quality, or the most unpleasant, difficult, or severe:
The weather forecast says that this will be the worst storm this year.

continent /KON-tn-uhnt/

[noun] – one of the seven large land masses on the earth’s surface, surrounded, or mainly surrounded, by sea and usually consisting of various countries
Asia is the largest continent in the world.

warn /wawrn/

[verb] – to make someone realize a possible danger or problem, especially one in the future
Some of these animals are very deadly, so I must warn you.

dry /drahy/

[adjective] – used to describe weather or periods of time when no rain falls
The chances of forest fires have increased due to the dry weather.

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。

High temperatures have been recorded in parts of China, Europe, Africa, and the US this summer. According to the EU’s Copernicus environmental program, the drought that Europe has been experiencing this summer may be the worst the continent has seen in 500 years. Meanwhile, China’s biggest river, the Yangtze, has shrunk as a result of too much heat and a lack of rainfall. But in addition to eight notices about the drought in July, the Chinese government also issued 13,000 warnings of heavy rain. In eastern Ethiopia, northern Kenya, and Somalia, the UN has warned that 22 million people may be in danger of going hungry because of drought conditions. Due to years of drier and hotter weather, high temperatures are now common in the western US. The dry, hot weather this summer also contributed to a drop in water storage levels and forest fires in a number of states.

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。

Parts of China, Europe, Africa, and Asia have experienced high temperatures this summer.
The drought this year has been the worst Europe has seen in 500 years.
The Yangtze is China’s largest river.
The Chinese government also issued 10,000 warnings of heavy rain.
Some US states have experienced forest fires due to the dry, hot weather this summer.

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。

temperature

worst

continent

warn

dry

It should be a sunny, _______ day tomorrow.
The _______ dropped by five degrees.
I already _______ you not to eat the fish, but you still did!
Hoshino traveled the entire African _______.
That was the _______ food I’ve ever had. I’m never going back to that restaurant again.