English for Extremely Busy Professionals 4

超々多忙なプロフェッショナルのための英語 4

このプログラムは、平日1日10分、週末は1日1時間しか学習時間が取れないほど、超々多忙なプロフェッショナルのために設けました。また、プロフェッショナルということで、専門職にある方々が対象ですので、題材は時事とし、分量は音声なら1分、テキストなら 120~180語程度とします。一つの題材を用い、360°どの角度からでも英語をインプットでき、またアウトプットもできるようになることが目標です。

今回は、シリーズ第4回目で、また10分の学習エクササイズをしてみましょう。新教材です。

1. 音声 1は、時事ニュースですがところどころ「ピー」音を挿入しています。何が入るか想像してみて下さい。正解は「詳細を読む」にあります。

お薦めサービス: 英語イッキ総合力

This is AP Newsminute.

President Donald Trump is insisting there's a "great unity" within the Republican Party despite criticism from two GOP senators. Trump said Senators Jeff Flake and Bob Corker are both not running for reelection because they had no chance of being reelected.

Authorities are searching for a suspect in a shooting that killed a Grambling State University student and his friend after altercation on the Louisiana college's campus. The Lincoln Parish Sheriff said the suspect and the victims knew each other to some extent and stressed that the shooting wasn't random or an act of terrorism.

Filipino veterans at World War II had been awarded the Congressional Gold Medal 75 years after they joined the United States to defeat Japan. At the ceremony Wednesday at the Capitol, a group of surviving veterans and family members of those who died belatedly received the medals, the nation's highest civilian award.

And rock 'n' roll pioneer Fats Domino died at the age of 89. Domino sold more than 110 million records with hits including "Blueberry Hill" and "Ain't That A Shame." A coroner's official said he died of natural causes Tuesday. 

Suzanne Yee Gaffney, the Associated Press with AP Newsminute.