2009 Feb Course Material

下記16の記事は、今月の記事一覧です。(VOAの2008年11月の記事より)

今月の記事とは、先生が事前に予習をし、ディスカッションや授業では皆さんをリードしてくれるので安心して受講できる記事です。

Let's try!

The format is

Article Title ( Genre, minutes required to finish reading by 100 wpm)

6分以下で読める記事

Too Much Time Watching TV? You May Be a Couch Potato (Words and Their Stories, 4.4mins)

Web Site Brings Attention to Wildlife and Wild Places (Development Report, 4 mins)

Obama Faces Difficult Financial Choices (Economics Report 3.8 mins)

Food for Thought: Starting a Fish Farm (Agriculture Report 4.5 mins)

Obama, Bush Meet at the White House (Other 5.7 mins)

Obama Team Reviews Bush's Order on Stem Cells (Health Report 4 mins)

Foreign Student Series: Thanksgiving in the US (Education Report 4.1 mins)

Obama Chooses Economic Team for 'Historic' Crisis (Economics Report 4.1 mins)

Similarities, but Also Big Differences, Between Today's Crisis and 1930s (In the News 5.6mins)

Challenge!

※こちらの記事は長いため、準備を行わずに授業を受けるのはお勧めできません。

授業時間を有効活用するために、予習されてからの受講をお勧めします。

Fat Cell Gene May Reduce Colon Cancer Risk (Science In the News, 14.5 mins)

Diamonds Are a Multi-Billion Dollar Business Around the World (Explorations, 14.5 mins)

Learning Business English, and a Little Philosophy, in Tough Economic Times (WORDMASTER, 9 mins)

American History Series: Debating the Powerful Bank of the US (American History, 14.1 mins)

Batman, Spider-Man Face a Growing Crowd in Comics, Graphic Novels (This Is America, 15.7 mins)

More and More Americans Bike Their Way to Work (American Mosaic, 11.6 mins)

Henry Loomis, 1919-2008: Director of VOA Had Idea to Create Special English (People In America, 14.6 mins)