| ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ◆◆ 桃太郎と考える 中学生の英語 ◆◆ 中３用 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 第２４日目 （最終回） ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 【目次】 １．塾長ご挨拶 ２．桃太郎の冒険・全文 ３．今日のポイント ４．塾長からのメッセージ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ━＜１．塾長ご挨拶 ＞━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ みなさん、今日は最終回です。これまでに少しずつ書いてきた桃太郎の 英作文・全文をこれから一緒に読んでみようと思います。せっかくですから 声に出して読んでみましょう。 ※都合により、英文を少し変えてあるところが１，２カ所あります。 ━＜２．桃太郎の冒険・全文 ＞━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Once upon a time there were an old man and his wife in a village. The husband went to the mountain to get firewood and the wife went washing in the river. One day when the wife was washing as usual, a big peach floated down from above to her. "Oh! What a big peach that is!" She brought it back to her home. When the husband came home in the evening, the wife showed him the peach. The husband said, "This is wonderful. Let's eat it now." When the wife cut the peach with a knife, a crying baby boy came out of it. The old man and his wife were surprised at the baby. But they were very glad to get a pretty son because they had no child. The husband named the baby Momo-Taro, or Peach Boy. Time passed, and Momo-Taro became a nice young man. One day a merchant came from the town. He said sadly, "These days, bad monsters do violence in our town. So we are in trouble very much. A lot of people were killed and a lot of houses were broken." Momo-Taro said, "What bad monsters! Well, I will kill them. Where are they?" "They are in Oni-ga-shima, the monsters' island." "How many monsters are there?" "More than twenty. The red monster is the strongest of all. He is the boss." "Ok. Father and Mother, I will leave tomorrow." Taro began to prepare with the help of his father. The old woman, or Taro's mother, made a lot of Kibi-balls for her son. ──────────────────────────────── The next morning, Momo-Taro left home with a sword and theKibi-balls on his waist. On the way he came accross a dog. The dog said, "Hi, Momo-Taro. Please give me one of the Kibi-balls on your waist." "Ok, Dog. I will give you a ball if you go to Oni-ga-shima with me." "Sure. I will go together as your man." The dog ate one ball and said, "I feel I am stronger than before." "You are right. A Kibi-ball makes you stronger.Now let's go." Taro and Dog began to walk together. After a while, they met a monkey. The monkey also asked Taro to give a Kibo-ball. Taro gave one ball to him and said, "Listen, Monkey! We are going to attack the monsters' island. So I want you to help us." The monkey said, "Sure! I would be glad to go with you." Then Taro began to walk again with Dog and Monkey. After a while, a pheasant came from the sky. The pheasant asked Taro to give him a ball, too. Taro gave one ball and the pheasant became Taro's third man. Then Momo-Taro began to walk again with his three men ── Dog, Monkey and Pheasant. When the sun set, they arrived at a beach . Momo-Taro got his three men together and said, "Now, listen to me, everyone. It has already got dark. We will stay here tonight. Then tomorrow , I am going to take you to the monsters' island. We must go there to kill all the bad monsters. Any question?" " Yes, sir," Monkey said, "How do we get to the island? I can't swim." Taro answered, "We will have to take a boat. But of course, Pheasant may fly in the sky. Pheasant asked, "What can we do for you tomorrow?" "Ok, my men! First, you, Pheasant! I want you to look for the island from the sky. Next, you, Monkey! When we begin to attack the enemy's fortress, you must open the gate from inside. You can climb over the wall easily. And last, you, Dog! You must always act with me. I will need your help when I fight against the red monster, the boss of the enemy. He is the strongest of all. Do you all understand? Ok! Now let's eat Kibi-balls for dinner and get a good sleep." Taro and his three men slept on the beach that night. ──────────────────────────────── The next morning, they got on a boat and headed for Oni-ga- shima. Pheasant flew high and looked for the island from the sky. Monkey stood on the bow and led his boat as the pilot. Dog ate Kibi-balls again and rowed the boat powerfully. It was about noon. Pheasant found the island at last. Taro said to the bird, "Go first and see what the monsters are doing now." "Yes, sir." Pheasant answered and flew away. ......................... After an hour, he came back and said, "Good news! The monsters are having a drinking party now." "How many monsters? " "Twenty-one. But there is no guard at the gate." 」 "Good job, Pheasant! Take a rest." Taro continued, "Now everyone, it's time to attack. Let's be brave, and we will win." A few hours later they reached the shore and landed quietly. In the fortress all the monsters were sleeping after the party. Taro and his men began to attack. First, Pheasant went up and watched the enemy from the sky. Next, Monkey opened the gate from inside. Then Taro and Dog rushed into the fortress. The monsters were surprised at the sudden attack. The red monster, the boss of the enemy, shouted, "They are just a boy and a few animals! Kill them all!" But thanks to the Kibi-balls, Momo-Taro and his men were a hundred times as strong as usual. On the other hand, the monsters were too drunk to fight well. Some monsters were killed and others were captured. The red monster also gave up at last and said, "Please, please forgive me. I will never do anything wrong. You may take all my treasure." Then all the monsters promised to work for people in the town. So Momo-Taro forgave them. After that Taro and his men went back home with the treasure. And they lived happily ever after. ──────────────────────────────── I have a question here. Who got the treasure at last? Did Taro give it back to the people in the town? Did he share it with his three men? Or did he get all the treasure to himself? What do you think? ━＜３．今日のポイント ＞━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ●英語は声に出して読んで初めて自分のものになります。教科書を暗記 しろとは言いませんから、「暗記するくらい」繰り返し音読しましょう。 それは高校に入ってからもそうです。 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ━＜４．塾長からのメッセージ ＞━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 長い間この講座におつき合い頂き有難うございました。桃太郎の冒険は これで終わりですが、みなさんの冒険（受験）はこれからが本番です。 英語だけでなく他の教科もしっかり勉強して、栄冠を勝ち取ってください。 また中学１年生２年生の皆さんには、難しい内容だったと思いますが、 来年再来年まで取っておいて、もう一度読んでみるといいかも知れません。 【お願い１】よかったらこの講座の感想をお聞かせ下さい。今後の参考にしたいと思います。 【お願い２】この講座の転載はご遠慮下さい。 |