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 activities do you avoid doing?
- Have you ever tried fasting?
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。
- interest /IN-ter-ist/
- limited /LIM-i-tid/
- pleasure /PLEZH-er/
- attention /uh-TEN-shuhn/
- take away /TEYK-uh-wey/
[noun] – the feeling of wanting to give your attention to something or of wanting to be involved with and to discover more about something
Her interest in art was from her father.
[adjective] – kept within a particular size, range, time, etc.
The room is only limited to 4 people.
[noun] – enjoyment, happiness, or satisfaction, or something that gives this
He wrote an article on the pleasures and pains of hiking.
[noun] – notice, thought, or interest
Don’t pay any attention to what they say.
[verb] – to remove something
I’ll give you some tablets to take away the pain.
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。
Does this nerdy-sounding interest, which may be the newest wellness trend in Silicon Valley, have any actual evidence?
According to a news website, “dopamine fast” practitioners abstain from anything that makes them feel good, including but not limited to eating, exercising, using social media, playing video games, and becoming involved in conversations. By avoiding tiny pleasures, fasting aims to “reset” the reward system in the brain, which is programmed by the neurotransmitter dopamine. As per another news website, people give a lot of attention to the jobs they had previously avoided. Dr. Anna Lembke, associate professor and medical head of addiction medicine at Stanford University, claims that patients suddenly reacquaint themselves with life without screens or other distractions.
It’s not intended to cause any kind of mental illness or to lower dopamine levels. On the other hand, people who fast from dopamine spend less time engaging in bad conduct. Fortunately, you can’t entirely “fast” or take away dopamine from your body by diet or lifestyle because doing so would probably have bad effects.
According to a news website, “dopamine fast” practitioners abstain from anything that makes them feel good, including but not limited to eating, exercising, using social media, playing video games, and becoming involved in conversations. By avoiding tiny pleasures, fasting aims to “reset” the reward system in the brain, which is programmed by the neurotransmitter dopamine. As per another news website, people give a lot of attention to the jobs they had previously avoided. Dr. Anna Lembke, associate professor and medical head of addiction medicine at Stanford University, claims that patients suddenly reacquaint themselves with life without screens or other distractions.
It’s not intended to cause any kind of mental illness or to lower dopamine levels. On the other hand, people who fast from dopamine spend less time engaging in bad conduct. Fortunately, you can’t entirely “fast” or take away dopamine from your body by diet or lifestyle because doing so would probably have bad effects.
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。
- Dopamine fast practitioners avoid anything that makes them feel good.
- Fasting aims to “reset” the reward system in the brain.
- Dr. Anna Lembke is an associate professor and medical head of addiction medicine at Stanford University.
- Dopamine fasting is a kind of mental illness.
- People who fast from dopamine spend less time engaging in bad conduct.
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。
| interest | limited | pleasure | attention | take away |
- Taking a vacation may ______ your pain.
- Can I have your ______ please?
- This subject is of great ______ to me.
- It’s always a ______ to see you.
- The problem of stress is not ______ to people who work.