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Daytime students in night schools

2016年11月18日

  Pre-reading questions: Have you ever thought of attending night classes? Do you think night classes are safe for teenagers? What can you say about a class consisting of students of different ages?   In 1947, night facility assembly for junior high school students started after World War II. It was the time when everything was in turmoil. Recently, the government is in progress with their latest policy. The government will soon acknowledge junior high school students to attend night facilities. The said junior high school students were the ones who declined going to or are unable to go to daytime facilities. The ministry has requested additional funds for this…
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Daytime students in night schools

2016年11月18日

Education - B

  Pre-reading questions: How long do you study at night? Would you like to go to night school?   Around 97,000 junior high school students don’t go to school. The government asked the students to attend night schools. These night schools use the same textbooks as regular schools. At Kyoto’s Rakuyu Junior High School, they study with older students. The ministry said that this will help them attend classes, yet students must be careful when traveling at night.   Vocabulary: night school – 夜学校 [noun] a school that gives evening classes. textbook – 教科書 [noun] a book used for the study of a particular subject regular – 普通の [adjective] ordinary…
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Beginner

US Inmates Uses Instant Ramen as Currency

2016年11月18日

  Tobacco was the preferred currency that inmates use in prisons before. Nowadays, the chosen currency of inmates is ramen. Jailbirds were no longer happy with the food’s quality and quantity inside the prison that they have begun depending on ramen noodles as a form of cash in the subterranean economy. Ramen turned into an invaluable product used to trade for other goods inside the prison as it is economical, palatable and rich in calories. 60 inmates were interviewed as a part of the study to learn how the inmates responded to the declining services in prison. The food received by the inmates is either inedible or too little to…
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Programming, a new fun way of learning

2016年11月18日

  The number of classes that teach programming to children is amplifying. This is in accordance to plans on having programming as an elementary school subject by academic year 2020. These kinds of classes are expected to induce creative and logical thinking among students at an early age. Last September, around 60 elementary school students assembled in a room to study programming. A second-grade student made a computer game about a parrot that rescues the monkey on a cloud by sprucing up on-screen commands such as changing the X coordinate by 10. CA Tech Kids, Inc. runs classes for elementary school students in eight locations since its foundation in 2013….
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Programming, a new fun way of learning

2016年11月18日

  Pre-reading questions: Do you like using computers? What comes to your mind when you see or hear the word “programming”? What is your most favorite subject in school? Why?   The number of classes that teach programming to children is increasing. This is in accordance to plans making programming a mandatory elementary school subject by academic year 2020. These kinds of classes are expected to promote creative and logical thinking at an early age. Last September, 60 elementary school pupils gathered in a room, their eyes glued on their computer screens. A second-grade pupil made a computer game about a parrot that rescues the monkey on a cloud by…
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Researchers Announced the Countries with Tallest Man and Woman

2016年11月18日

  Dutch men and Latvian ladies are the planet’s tallest individuals , as indicated by the biggest ever investigation of stature around the globe. Americans, once among the world’s tallest individuals, have dropped from having men and ladies at third and fourth in the worldwide tallness rankings, a 100 years prior to setting 37th and 42nd separately in 2014. The exploration, initiated by researchers at Imperial College London and distributed in the diary eLife, likewise discovered a few countries have quit staying in the course for the last 30 to 40 years. The United States was one of the main well-off nations to date, trailed by others including Britain, Finland,…
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Researchers Announced the Countries with Tallest Man and Woman

2016年11月18日

  Pre-reading questions: What’s the average height of Japanese people? Did you eat healthy food when you were younger to be taller? What food did you eat? How tall are you?   A research conducted by the Imperial College of London identified that the tallest men in the world came from Netherlands and the tallest women are from Latvia. The researchers evaluated height charts of 18 year olds over a 100 year period. The study shows that Dutch men has an average height of 182.5 centimeters and Latvian women has an average height of 170 centimeters. Over 800 scientists participated in the said research. They observed that in some countries…
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Researchers Announced the Countries with Tallest Man and Woman

2016年11月18日

World News - Beginner

  Pre-reading questions: How tall are you? Do you think Japanese people are tall?   A research by Imperial College of London found out that the tallest men in the world are from Netherlands, and the tallest women are from Latvia. More than 800 scientists joined the research. Other scientists believed that people grow because of their genes. The Imperial College of London says that nutrition is also important. Scientists say that people in Netherlands are the tallest because they eat protein-rich food like milk and cheese.   Vocabulary: research – 研究 [noun] a study about a subject found out – 発見した [verb] a result nutrition – 栄養 [noun] can…
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