4, School Life 2 
ネイティブスピーカー（ALT）によるＲＥＡＤＩＮＧ English Essay by Brian Southwick
4, School Life 2 ネイティブスピーカー（ALT）によるＲＥＡＤＩＮＧ
| Hello again, everyone. Did you enjoy my first essay about school life?
Today I will tell you more about my junior high school days. Do you eat school lunch, or do you bring a box lunch from home? Every day I take a homemade lunch to school and eat it in the teachers’ room. At my junior high school, all of the students have lunch in the cafeteria, not in the classrooms. We can choose a main dish, for example, pizza, a hamburger, or hot-dog; and there is a vegetable, some fruit, milk (plain or chocolate), and a dessert. Lunch is very cheap, too. It is about $1.50, or \180. And, if we want to have breakfast, we can have fruit, bread, and milk for free. In Japanese schools there are many festivals. There is Sports Day, the Culture Festival, and so on. At my junior high school, we don’t have these festivals. And there is no school trip for third graders. But we take field-trips (ensoku) to museums and other interesting places. And we sometimes have dance parties in the school gym on Friday nights. School dances are very popular with students. When I was a junior high student, we did not have to wear a school uniform. So, we could wear jeans, shorts, and t-shirts to school. But for P.E. class, we had a gym uniform. On hot days, we could take a shower after P.E. And, we could wash our dirty gym clothes at school!. |
注）a box lunch（弁当箱），main dish（主となる料理），vegetable（野菜）
dessert（デザート），for free（無料で），Sports Day（運動会）
the Culture Festival（文化祭），and so on（～など），third grader（３年生）
museum（美術館，博物館），dance party（ダンスパーティ），gym（体育館）
jeans（ジーンズ），shorts（半ズボン），gym uniform（体操着）
take a shower（シャワーを浴びる），dirty（汚い）
Questions and Answers: Please answer in English, with a subject and a verb.
Q1. Do the students at Mr. Brian’s school have lunch in the classrooms?
A1.
Q2. How much is school lunch at Mr. Brian’s school?
A2.
Q3. Where did Mr. Brian go on field-trips?
A3.
Q4. What could Mr. Brian wear to school?
A4.
Q5. What do you like about Mr. Brian’s junior high school?
A5.
解答例
A1. No, they don’t. They have lunch in the cafeteria.
A2. It is about $1.50, or \180.
A3. He went to museums and other interesting places.
A4. He could wear jeans, shorts, and t-shirts (to school).
A5. 以下のような答えで可。他の答えでも英文として合っていれば可。
① If they want to have breakfast, they can have fruit, bread, and milk for free.
② At his junior high school, all of the students have lunch in the cafeteria, not in the classrooms.
③ They can choose a main dish, (for example, pizza, a hamburger, or hot-dog;) and there is a vegetable,
some fruit, milk (plain or chocolate), and a dessert.
④ Lunch is very cheap. It is about $1.50, or \180.
⑤ They sometimes have dance parties in the school gym on Friday nights.
⑥ They did not have to wear a school uniform.
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