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最近、桜が咲き始めたというニュースを見るようになりました。
東京の 桜は ２８日ごろ 満開に なるそうです。
日本にいたときは桜を見て、春が来たことを感じていました。
日本で桜を見たいという生徒さんの声をよく聞きます。
この2年はコロナのせいで、外国人は日本に旅行することができませんでした。来年の春は外国人のみなさんも日本で桜を楽しむことができればいいですね。
ところで、みなさんは「花より団子（だんご）」という言葉を知っていますか？
食べられない花より、団子のほうがいいという意味のことわざです。
ちなみに私は両方楽しみたい派（は）です。桜を見て、桜餅（さくらもち）を食べることは私の春の楽しみの一つです。

花より団子 ≈ Bread is better than the songs of birds.

咲き始める：さきはじめる　start blooming
満開：まんかい　full bloom
団子：だんご sweet rice dumplings
ことわざ：proverb
意味：いみ　meaning
両方：りょうほう　both of them
〜派（は）です：I prefer to~
私（わたし）の春（はる）の楽(たの)しみの一つ：one of my pleasures of Spring

Nihongo Short Story by Noriko

桜が咲き始めました!

This May, I want to plant a seed in your brain. I will water this seed during the month of May. This seed is - TO WRITE - in English.

The thought I want to water, nourish and feed - for you, this month - is the idea that this month, this MAY - you START TO THINK about writing in ENGLISH. 

May this May be the month that you begin to write! That is my wish for you. 

Until next time! 

Hear and There

7. May we write in English this May

元の記事/ Original Article↓
https://toyokeizai.net/articles/-/584223

｢吉野家の二の舞｣を避けたい会社に必要な対策という記事を音読しつつ、自分の考えを話しました。ぜひ会社の多様性に関して意見がある方は、教えてください。

☆目次
0:00 オープニング
1:02 (p1) 1-6
2:51 吉野家の件
5:25 (p1) 7-8
6:06 (p2) 1
6:44 年齢のせい？
8:39 (p2) 2-4
9:53 トップの少し下
12:39 (p2) 5-7
13:38 (p3) 1-2
14:17 研修
16:44 (P3) 3-9
18:47 よかれと思って

☆語彙
チェーン店（てん）
女性（じょせい）蔑視（べっし）
経緯（けいい）
横行（おうこう）
要因（よういん）
表面上（ひょうめんじょう）は
厄介（やっかい）
同感（どうかん）
疑（うたが）いを持（も）つ
危機感（ききかん）
自己暗示（じこあんじ）
目（め）を向（む）ける
安易（あんい）に
風通（かぜとお）しがいい
レッテル貼（ば）り

☆引用記事
清水直美. “｢吉野家の二の舞｣を避けたい会社に必要な対策: ｢トップより少し下｣のジェンダー観にリスク”. 東洋経済ONLINE. 2022-04-25. http://toyokeizai.net/articles/-/584223, (参照 2022-04-25).

"After 5" by Japanese Teacher

“The necessary countermeasure to avoid of “the case of Yoshinoya”” ｢吉野家の二の舞｣を避けたい会社に必要な対策

第九课  你儿子在哪儿工作
一、听力  第一部分
1.医院
2.医生
3.椅子
4.小猫

第二部分
5. 男：我的猫呢？
女：在椅子下面。
6. 男：你妈妈是医生吗？
   女：不是，我妈妈是老师，她在学校工作。
7. 男：我的狗在哪儿？
女：在椅子上面。
8. 女：你朋友在哪儿工作？
 男：她是医生，在医院工作。

第三部分
9. 这是我的小猫，在椅子下面。
   问：他的猫在哪儿？
10.他儿子叫李朋，在商店工作。
   问：他儿子在哪儿工作？
11.他爸爸是医生，妈妈不工作。
问：他妈妈在哪儿工作？
12. 她儿子在中国，她女儿在美国。
问：她女儿在哪儿？


hsk1  第九课  你儿子在哪儿工作

       兔子和乌龟要赛跑了。小鸟一叫：“一二三！”兔子就飞快地跑了出去。乌龟一步一步地向前爬。兔子跑了一会儿，回头看不见乌龟，他很得意，就想：“乌龟爬得真慢，我睡一觉，等他追上来我再跑，我仍然可以得第一。”这样一想，兔子就睡起觉来了。
        乌龟在后面不停地向前爬，从兔子身边爬了过去，一直爬到了终点，得了第一名，可兔子还在那儿睡大觉呢！

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In many parts of the world, summer has kicked in, and people are really feeling the heat.

But people in one city in the Middle East may have more reason to complain about the heat than anywhere else in the world.

This place is so hot that birds fall from the sky, some streets are air-conditioned, and, allegedly, fish boil in the sea.

This is Kuwait City, the capital of Kuwait, often called the hottest city in the world.

Temperatures often get as hot as 50 degrees Celsius in the summer — and sometimes even higher. In July 2016, the temperature reached 54 degrees Celsius in the north, which is the highest temperature Kuwait has experienced.

People are rarely seen walking outside in the summer, and many residents leave the city while it's this hot.

Kuwait has always been hot, but climate change has made the summers hotter and longer.

According to the Emirates Policy Center, between 1962 and 1999 there were 18 days when the temperature in Kuwait was 50 degrees Celsius or higher. Between 2000 and 2021, the number of days was 80 — and 64 of those were between 2010 and 2021.

The country is also getting less rain than before. As a result, it's experiencing more frequent and intense dust storms.

Living in these high temperatures is not good for humans. A study by the University of Roehampton in London found that the human body has an upper temperature limit of between 40 degrees and 50 degrees before it starts to malfunction.

At higher temperatures, a person may start to experience "heat stress," which can cause things like confusion, nausea, dizziness and fainting — and can be fatal.

Some may say that Kuwait is contributing to its own problems, since it's one of the world's largest emitters per capita of carbon dioxide, and uses only fossil fuels for energy.

But things may be changing. According to the International Energy Agency, the country plans to generate at least 15% of its energy from renewable sources by 2030.