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8/26/2024 (#14 this year)
Last week was fairly1 hard for teachers and students. The first week back after thesummer vacation always seems tough2. Still, it is great to be back amongst our friends
again. And we have many activities coming up over the next few months. You have yourtests next week, of course, but let’s try not to think about those. Then the junior highschool festival is coming up. And we have our sports day in October. It is going to bevery interesting having it here at school. I am excited to see what kind of things we do.
We’ll also start collecting food for the Sapporo food bank so you can start thinking aboutthat and stocking up.
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Last week’s answer

Something you didn’t know about unexploded bombs3
1. Approximately 3 million tons of bombs were dropped by the Allies4 on Germany andJapan during World War 2. Germany only dropped about 100,000 tons on the UK.
2. Between 1947 and 2018, 1.3 million unexploded bombs have been destroyed in thearea around Berlin.
3. It is estimated that 100,000 tons of bombs are in the sea around France and the UK.
4. Bombs can survive for over a hundred years, but they become more dangerous as
they get older because the chemicals5 start to leak6.
5. In 2022, 1,372 unexploded WW2 bombs were destroyed in Japan. 500 of those were
found in Okinawa.

2nd World War Bomb Found in my Step-sister’s Garden
It is not very often that my family is in the news, but my step-sister7 and herhusband were in the news last week. They have a house not far from my dad’shouse and they decided to have their garden landscaped8. They hired acompany to do the work. The landscapers brought in a lot of equipment towork on the garden and one of the things was a digger9. While they weredigging, one of the men noticed something they had dug up. He thought it wasan old Coca-Cola bottle that had been buried in the garden. Just to be safe,
they used Google Lens to identify10 it. You have probably used Google Lens
yourself. You take a picture, and Google searches for information about thepicture. The result that came back said that they had found an unexploded
World War 2 bomb. They were very surprised and they called the police. Thisis quite a common thing in the UK because a lot of bombs were dropped by
the Germans during World War 2 and a lot of them didn’t explode. However,even after 79 years, the bombs are still live. The police called the army andtheir bomb disposal11 people took the bomb away and destroyed it. They had
to close down all of the nearby streets for the morning, but everyone was ok.
I wonder if the landscape gardeners raised their fees after to get some extra“danger money”.

1.fairly かなり 2.tough きつい 3.unexploded bomb 不発弾 4.Allies 連合国 5.chemicals 化学物質
6.leak 漏れる 7.step-sister 異母姉妹る 11.bomb disposal 爆弾処理

8.landscape 造園する 9.digger 掘削機 10.identify 特定すAn Unusual Job\World record
Here is a record that I think we could beat if we tried. There are records for the fastest
time to solve1 a Rubik’s cube and the fastest time to assemble LEGO models, but there isalso a record for the fastest time to assemble2 a Mr. Potato Head. Do you know that toy?
It is very famous in the UK and USA, but maybe not so much in Japan. I think it became
more popular after Toy Story was released because one of the characters is Mr. PotatoHead. I got one for my daughter when she was younger. All of the features of his face
come off and the game is to put themback on again. The world record isheld by Lim Kai Yi from Malaysia andhe managed to assemble his Mr.
Potato Head in 5.43 seconds. You
have to put on two arms, two eyes,two ears, his mouth, his nose, hismoustache, his hat, and his glasses.
What do you think? Can you beat 5.43
seconds? I’m sure that some of you
can because you are young but I am
getting older and my reactions3 seemto have slowed down a lot. If you wantto try, let me know.

Futurist
Do you like thinking about the future? Are you good at guessing what isgoing to happen in the next few weeks, or months, or years? If you are, thenthis might be a good job for you. You could be a futurist. A futurist is
someone who thinks about the future and tries to predict6 what it might belike. They look at trends7 in technology, society, and the environment toimagine how things could change over time. For example, a futurist might
study how new inventions like robots or artificial intelligence could affectjobs, or how climate change might change the way we live. Futurists don’t
just guess, they use research and data to make informed8 predictions. They
often work with companies, governments, or schools to help them prepare
for the future. This could mean planning new products, creating better
policies9, or even thinking about what skills people will need in the years tocome. Futurists try tohelp us understandwhat the world isgoing to be like.
Futurists need a lotof knowledge in awiderangeof10
fields , and they arepeople who are very
interested in theworld. They can earna lot of money. Whatdo you think? Do you
think you could do it?

2.assemble
3.reactions
4.sum“Success is the sum of small efforts, 1.solve
5.day in and day out 毎日毎日 6.predict 予測する 7.trend 傾向
repeated day in and day out .”— Robert Collier 8.informed 情報に基づいた 9.policy 政策 10.field 分野
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