狩場東校 高3生Ｏさん（横浜平沼高校）が
明治大学（政治経済学部）合格の喜びを語ってくれました！
合格体験記をどうぞ。
「単語・熟語・基礎英文法のテストが毎授業ごとにあったので
私は毎回合格することを目指してやっていました。
自分の分からない単語が、何度もやっていくうちに減っていくことが実感できて英文を理解するのがだんだん速くなりました。
すぐに結果は出ませんが積み重ねていくことで 力が本当につきます！！
また、単語大会や基礎英文法セミナー（現・英文法トレーニング）に参加することで自分の実力のレベルを知り、さらに頑張ろうと思うことが出来ました。
「次こそ○周したい！」と目標を立て行っていくことで達成感が生まれ自信にもつながりました。
英語をずっと得意科目として自分の武器にできたのはウィングローブのおかげです。
ありがとうございました。
狩場東校 高3生Ｏさん（横浜平沼高校）が
明治大学（政治経済学部）合格の喜びを語ってくれました！
○品詞・文型の学習
○単語・熟語・文法の自己学習
○前からの同時通訳式訳
○個別対応指導
入会する前は「なんとなく」で英語の問題を解いていたのでウィングローブに入って文法の仕組みが分かるようになって理解しながら答えを導けるようになった。
何をやるべきかを明確に伝えてくださったのでいろいろなものに手を出して迷うことがなかった
以下のエッセイを読んで、文末にあるComposition Topic（作文テーマ）で
英作文を書いてみませんか？ 1か月先着3本まで（お一人3本までではありません）無料でお受けします（1本100語まで）。
ウィングローブサイト「問合せ」よりご応募ください。
https://www.winglobe.jp/contact/
ウィングローブのネイティブスタッフ・ロジャー先生がすばらしい添削をしてくれます！
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【ロジャー・ノースリッジ先生】 英国オックスフォード大学卒業 |
現在、長野在住。山の家の改造がライフワーク。
PLASTIC
It is difficult for us to imagine that there was a time, just three generations ago, when virtually nothing was made of plastic. Today, it is all around us. Being soft and easily molded, it is the ultimate convenience material. Most consumer items are now at least partially made of plastic, and a great deal of what we eat and drink comes wrapped in it. A million plastic bottles are used and discarded every minute, and nearly all the plastic used for food containers and packaging is single-use plastic. So what happens to it after it is thrown away?
About half of all plastic PET bottles are collected for recycling, but in practice only about 7% of those collected are made into new bottles. The remainder are either buried in landfill sites or washed into the ocean, where they do not just disappear. Plastic takes hundreds of years to break down. In other words, nearly all the plastic that has ever been manufactured, equivalent in weight to one billion elephants, still exists somewhere in the world. 10 million tonnes of it finds its way into the sea every year. By 2050, there will be more plastic in the world’s oceans than fish. Our precious sea is becoming a chemical soup, full of small fragments of plastic, which are eaten by seabirds, fish and many other creatures. Since the plastic cannot be digested, it accumulates in their bodies and eventually kills them.
If we really cared about the future of our planet, we would not allow this to happen. The consequences of dumping all this unnatural material into the environment will be catastrophic, and yet the solutions are very simple. Plastic bags could be outlawed, as in some countries, or at least customers could be made to pay for them. In the UK, when supermarket customers started to be charged the equivalent of 7.5 yen for bags, their use fell immediately by 80%. Again, we could probably make all plastic packaging materials biodegradable. And many plastic items, such as the 500 million plastic straws that are used in the United States every day, could easily be made of safer materials like paper. Urgent action needs to be taken, or the convenience of our modern lifestyle could end up costing us the earth.
COMPOSITION TOPICS
1.
In your opinion, what actions should the Japanese government take to solve the problem of plastic pollution?
2.
Give some examples of plastic items that you use in your everyday life. Which of them do you think are really necessary, and which of them could be made from materials other than plastic?
QUESTIONS （内容理解にご利用ください）
1. What is one of the main uses of plastic?
2. Where does most of the plastic we use end up?
3. What happens to sea creatures when they eat plastic?
4. Does the writer think it is difficult to solve the problem of plastic pollution?
5. What will happen if we don’t take action?
以下のエッセイを読んで、文末にあるComposition Topic（作文テーマ）で
英作文を書いてみませんか？ 1か月先着３本まで無料で受け付けています！（1本100語まで）（お一人3本まで、ではありません・・・）
ウィングローブサイト「問合せ」よりご応募ください。
https://www.winglobe.jp/contact/
ウィングローブのネイティブスタッフ・ロジャー先生がすばらしい添削をしてくれます！
|
【ロジャー・ノースリッジ先生】 英国オックスフォード大学卒業 |
現在、長野在住。山の家の改造がライフワーク。
CHILD POVERTY
Foreign visitors to Japan are impressed by its prosperity and high standard of living. People are well dressed, their homes are clean and well-equipped, and we do not see slums in the cities, or people begging for money on the streets. Yet recent statistics show that the gap between the rich and poor in Japan has been quietly growing for years. In terms of income equality, Japan now ranks 34th out of 41 OECD countries, and 16% of all children, including around half the children of single parents, are growing up in poverty.
Single mothers often have unstable, irregular, and low-paid jobs. This means they may not have enough money to keep their children healthy or feed them adequately, let alone pay for school lunches. Neither can they afford all the extra expenses, for things like uniforms, equipment for club activities, or field trips and excursions, that might enable their children to have normal school lives. Poor children do less well at school than their classmates, and this affects their job prospects, which then perpetuates a cycle of poverty.
It is not only Japan that is experiencing a widening wealth gap. In the UK, for example, one in four children are now living in poverty. One reason is that, although people’s wages are not rising, the government is cutting welfare payments and laying off public servants, in a policy called “austerity”. But famous economists like Joseph Stiglitz say that such policies do not make economies grow. Is it not possible to have an economy which works for everyone, rather than one which makes only some people richer, while consigning so many others to poverty?
COMPOSITION TOPIC
How do you think the government could make it easier for people on low incomes to raise their children? Make some policy suggestions.
QUESTIONS （内容の理解にご利用ください）
1. Is the wealth gap in Japan obvious to foreign visitors?
2. Why is the poverty rate so high among single-parent
families?
3. Give some reasons why poor children may do less well at
school than their better-off classmates.
4. Is the proportion of children living in poverty higher in the
UK, or in Japan?
5. Does the writer agree, or disagree, with Joseph Stiglitz?
