World News June 15th

１．What’s the news about Madeleine McCann? Has she been found?





　　イギリスの少女が誘拐され、まだ見つかっていない。








２．What does “What does “bread and circuses” mean in Japanese? Who first used that expression? Write your answers on your blog.





パンとサーカス：世の中を馬鹿にする表現


詩人ユウェナリス


http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki





３．Find an example of “bread and circuses” in today’s news: the news story must be in English. Writ the URL of the story. Explain on your blog why you think this story is an example of “bread and circuses”.





"Beijing's hot springs are full of bacteria ."


A hot springs resort becomes a boom in Beijing, but about two-thirds institution fails it by bacteria inspection and, receives an improvement order of a health code.


http://dailynews.yahoo.co.jp/fc/world/china_economy/





人体に影響はないとはいえ、バクテリアでいっぱいの温泉に入らせるなんて、利用者を馬鹿にしていると思った。







4.
On your blog, list 10 words or expressions that you learned in this news story.


・eijing


・bacteria


・gathered


・without harm in the human body


・institution





・ inspection


・investigation


・the hygiene inspection authorities


・Xinhua News Agency


・about two-thirds






５．Find another news story that you think is NOT “bread and circuses”. Explain your reason on your blog. Write the URL. List 10 words or expressions that you learned in this story.





Oprah 'most powerful celebrity'


Oprah Winfrey is the world's most powerful celebrity, according to business magazine Forbes.





http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6753847.stm





この記事は、馬鹿にしているというより、むしろ彼女のことを褒めていると思う。
・celebrity
・ launched
・ beat
・annually
・earnings

・presence
・press
・coverage
・respectively
・estimated


６.Visit some classmates’ blogs and write about them on your blog. Always give the URL of any website you write about.

「パンとサーカス」の意味を少し取り違えていたことに気がついた。
みんなそれぞれ違う「パンとサーカス」なニュースを取り上げていたので、
実は意外と多いんだなと思った。

http://l-ucy-l-ucy.blogspot.com/2007/06/blog-post.html

http://yukinkosworldnews.blogspot.com/2007/06/todays-class.html

http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs