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 your favorite food?
- How often do you eat at restaurants?
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。
- menu /MEN-yoo/
- encourage /en-KUR-ij/
- information /in-fer-MEY-shuhn/
- control /kuhn-TROHL/
- useful /YOOS-fuhl/
[noun] – a list of the food that you can eat in a restaurant
Can I have the menu?
[verb] – to make someone more likely to do something, or to make something more likely to happen
Rewards encourage students to study harder.
[noun] – facts about a situation, person, event, etc.
Please go to this website for more information.
[verb] – to order, limit, or rule something, or someone’s actions or behavior
You have to learn how to control spending too much money.
[adjective] – effective; helping you to do or achieve something
These materials may be useful. Don’t throw them out.
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。
Several restaurants have started listing the carbon emissions on their menus. This might encourage people to choose foods that are good for the environment.
Thomasina Miers explains that calorie counting is not the most accurate way to check how nutritious or environmentally friendly food is. Miers founded a chain of Mexican restaurants after winning a UK television cooking talent competition. She claimed that the restaurant has introduced carbon labeling to give customers full information about their choices. People learn from this that they have the ability to control what they eat. A “low-carbon” food has a CO2e (or “CO2 equivalent”) level of 0.6 kg or less. A “medium-carbon” food has a carbon footprint of between 0.6 kg and 1.6 kg of CO2e. Meanwhile, a higher carbon footprint of 3.04 kg CO2e is referred to as “high-carbon.”
Despite the fact that carbon labels only give us a limited amount of information, Miers believes they are a useful tool for motivating customers to consider how their food choices influence the environment.
Thomasina Miers explains that calorie counting is not the most accurate way to check how nutritious or environmentally friendly food is. Miers founded a chain of Mexican restaurants after winning a UK television cooking talent competition. She claimed that the restaurant has introduced carbon labeling to give customers full information about their choices. People learn from this that they have the ability to control what they eat. A “low-carbon” food has a CO2e (or “CO2 equivalent”) level of 0.6 kg or less. A “medium-carbon” food has a carbon footprint of between 0.6 kg and 1.6 kg of CO2e. Meanwhile, a higher carbon footprint of 3.04 kg CO2e is referred to as “high-carbon.”
Despite the fact that carbon labels only give us a limited amount of information, Miers believes they are a useful tool for motivating customers to consider how their food choices influence the environment.
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。
- Thomasina Miers believes that calorie counting is the best way to check how environmentally friendly food is.
- Miers founded a chain of Mexican restaurants after winning a UK cooking contest.
- Carbon labeling will not help people choose what they eat.
- A “low-carbon” food has 0.7 kg of CO2e.
- A higher carbon footprint of 3.04 kg CO2e is called “high-carbon.”
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。
| menu | encourage | information | control | useful |
- All students are _______ to learn foreign languages.
- Do you have any _______ on the concert tickets?
- Your knowledge of history may prove _______.
- This restaurant’s _______ offers many choices.
- It took the firefighters about two hours to _______ the fire.