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Welcome toAustralia.

What do you know about Australia?
(city names, famous animals, etc.)
あなたはオーストラリアについてどんなことを知っていますか。
（都市の名前、有名な動物等）

Visual Warm-up
オーストラリアの主要都市名を聞いて発音しましょう。その後１～５の英文を聞いて、オーストラリアの地図内にある○に適切な数字を書きましょう。

1. Sydney

2. Melbourne

4. Darwin

5. Hobart

6. Perth

7. Brisbane

3. Adelaide

go to Mindil Beach7
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see a famous opera house

visit Kangaroo Island
see the Tasmanian Devil
enjoy nature from the train
ペアまたはクラス全体で、例にならって対話文を練習しましょう。

A. What can we do in (Sydney)?
B. We can ~.
有名なオペラハウスを見る

汽車から自然を楽しむミンディルビーチへ行く

タスマニアデビルを見る

021 │Lesson 3

カンガルー島を訪れるGrammar
1i

分詞の形容詞的用法

A. 現在分詞

B. 過去分詞

1. Today is relaxing.

1. The couple is relaxed.

2. The party is exciting.

2. The people are excited.

3. The class is boring.

3. The students are bored.

ii

iii‘~ing’で終わる形容詞 (relaxing, exciting, boring, etc.) は、人や物事に対する感想を述べる場合（印象）に使われ、‘~ed’で終わる形容詞 (relaxed,excited, bored, etc.) は、感情を表現する場合（人の気持ち）に使われます。
A1. 今日は落ち着いた日です。/ B1. カップルはくつろいでいます。
A2. パーティーはわくわくします。/ B2. 人々はわくわくしています。

（A3. 授業は退屈です。/ B3. 生徒は退屈しています。

）の中から適切な方に下線を引きましょう。

1. The book that I’m reading now is very (interesting / interested).
2. I used the computer all day. My eyes are very (tiring / tired).
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関係副詞 - how（方法）, why（理由）2A. I don’t know how I can improve my English.
SV

O

Listening to music is how I relax.
SVC

2B. You are very nice. That is (the reason) why I like you.
I’m a vegetarian. That’s (the reason) why I don’t eat any meat or fish.
2A. 私は、どのように自分の英語を上達させればよいか分かりません。 / 音楽を聞くのは、私のリラックス方法です。
2B. あなたはとても親切です。それは、私があなたを好きな理由です。/ 私はベジタリアンです。それは、私が肉や魚を食べない理由です。

次の英文の内容に続くように、下線部の語句を正しい順に並べかえましょう。

3. I’m shy. → I want to know / I / people / how / can meet_________________________________________________________________
4. You should use social media. → how / met / my best friend / I / that’s____________________________________________________________________
5. EXILE are great dancers. → why / like / that’s the reason / I / them___________________________________________________________________

Welcome to Australia.

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Reading - Welcome to Australia.
Kumi and Linda are talking about Australia and looking at pictures.
Let’s read their conversation.

Part 1 (L = Linda, K = Kumi)
3 - [a] continent

K: Tell me about Australia, Linda.

/ˈkɑːntənənt/

8 - sunshine/ˈsʌnˌʃaɪn/

8 - per/pər/

12 - [a] laser

L: Let’s see… Australia is the sixth largest
country in the world, and it’s also a continent.
K: Really? One country, one continent?
L: That’s right. This is Perth. It’s the city where I was born.

5/ˈleɪzər/

K: It’s beautiful.
12 - [a] light show/ˈlaɪt ˌʃoʊ/

12 - amazing/əˈmeɪzɪŋ/

L: And it’s very sunny, too. The city has about eight hoursof sunshine per day. People enjoy the sun in Kings Park.
It’s one of the biggest parks in the world.

13 - advanced/ədˈvænst/14 - aboriginal/ˌæbəˈrɪdʒnəl/

15 - [a] wind
instrument

K: Where is this?

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L: That’s Brisbane.
G-1A
It’s famous for its laser light show. The show is amazing.
G-1B

K: Brisbane looks modern and advanced.

/ˈwɪnd ɪnstrəmənt/

16 - [a] didgeridoo/ˌdɪdʒəriːˈdu/

L: Yes, but it also has many aboriginal people. They have
lived there for hundreds of years. Some play a wind
instrument called the didgeridoo.

151a. What does Linda say about the Brisbane laser light show?
She says that it ___________________
1b. What does Kumi say about Brisbane?
She says that it ____________________________________
1 - tell me about ~ - 私に～について教えて
9 - one of the biggest ~ in the world - 世界で最も大きい～の１つ023 │Lesson 3

2 - let’s see... - えーと…
15 - for (hundreds) of years - 何（百）年もの間

PerthKings Park is about 7.5 times bigger than Ueno Park in Tokyo.

Hours of sunshine per day

Perth (avg. ~ 7.9 hours)

Tokyo (avg. ~ 5.3 hours)

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Sources: Living in Australia (2014) / ClimaTemps.com (2014)

We can enjoy the Brisbane Laser Light Show every September.

a didgeridoo

Welcome to Australia.

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2 - [a] rainforest

K: Where is this?

/ˈreɪnˌfɔːrəst/

3 - [a] field trip

L: This is one of Australia’s rainforests. I went there on/ˈfiːld ˌtrɪp/G-1Aa field trip. It was fascinating. But we also learned

3 - fascinating

G-2A

how people have destroyed 75 percent of Australia’s/ˈfæsəneɪtɪŋ/

rainforests.

4 - destroy ~We have cut down many trees for5/dəˈstrɔɪ/

logging and farmland. These rainforests are precious.
6 - logging/ˈlɔɡɪŋ/

They are some of the oldest in the world. They are

6 - [a] farmland

home to plants and animals which are endangered.

G-1B/ˈfɑːrmlænd/And many medicines, such as antibiotics, come from
6 - precious

G-2B

there. That’s the reason why we must protect the/ˈpreʃəs/

10rainforests.

8 - endangered/enˈdeɪndʒərd/

9 - [an] antibiotic/ˌæntibaiˈɑːtɪk/

2a. What did Linda learn when she visited an Australian rainforest?
She ______________________________________________________
2b. Why must we protect the Australian rainforests? Because ___________________________________________________________________

Interesting Data
80% of the flowers in theAustralian rainforests are notfound anywhere else in theworld. About one fourth of all
the ingredients in our medicinecomes from plants that exist in
rainforests around the globe.

7 - some of the (oldest) in the world - 世界で最も（古い）もののいくつか
8 - (be) home to ~ - ～の生息地

025 │Lesson 3

Listening, Writing, Speaking
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はじめに、Greek の単語の意味を調べてから、それぞれの対話を読みます。その後、英文を聞いて空所を埋めましょう。ペアで答えを確認し練習しましょう。

1A. What is interesting about Australian people?
1B. ______ percent of ______________________________________________
2A. How many languages can you hear in Australia?
2B. More _________________________________________________________
3A. What kind of TV shows are popular in Australia?
3B. Australian people ________________________________________________
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右の写真を見ながら、箱の中から適切な語を選んで下線に書きましょう。

interesting / scared（怖がっている）/ tired / tiring
4. The little dog is ________
5. The ants’ job is ________
6. The raccoon is so ________
7. Your cat is very ________
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最初に（ ）の中から好きな語句を１つ選び、文をはじめましょう。自分の言葉を使って文をはじめても構いません。次に、（ ）の後ろの語句を正しい順に並びかえて文を完成させましょう。 出来上がったら、グループかクラス全体で答えを確認しましょう。

8. (Drinking coffee - Listening to music - Watching TV...) how / I relax / is_____________________________________________________________ I relax.
9. (The price - The taste - The fast service...) the reason why / is / people eat fast food___________________________________________________________________
10. (Singing English songs - Watching English movies - Reading English books...)is / we can improve our English / how___________________________________________________________________
11. (To earn money / To meet people / To get work experience...)why / some high school students have a job / is___________________________________________________________________
1A. オーストラリア人について、何が興味深いですか。
2A. オーストラリアではいくつの言語を聞くことができますか。
3A. オーストラリアではどんなテレビ番組が人気ですか。

Welcome to Australia.

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