マイチューターのTEDで英会話　ライブラリー

Part 1　　 (Comprehension Questions with Sample Answer):

1. What age did the she started to sail?
2. What did she me made up in her mind at the age of four?
3. What age did she begin to go apprenticeship?
4. What is the name of the ship that used in sailing at the age of 24?
5. What day did she first encounter storm at sea?
6. What’s the definition of the speaker about the word “finite”?
7. In the background of the speaker what is the job of her great-grandfather and how many years that he spent his life in the underground?
8. What was the speaker found out as she went to the World Coal Association website? 9. “Can the circular economy decouple growth from resource constraints?

10.What is she referring to about her questions” So could we achieve this in their lifetimes? Is it actually possible?
 

Part 2 　　(Express Yourself Questions):

1. Do you think changes in the economy are predictable?
2. Are you interested in the economy?
3. How important is the economic situation to your daily life?
4. Do you think it is important to be knowledgeable about the economy?
5. What do you think are the main economic problems in the world today?
6. Do you worry about the world economy?
7. Do you have any ideas about how the problems could be solved?
8. What can assist economic growth?
9. What do you think will happen 20 years from now?
10. Do you think there would be lot of inventions in the near future?
11. What are the best and the most useful inventions of the mankind in the 20th and 21st centuries?
12. What famous inventors do you know?
13. How did the Internet influence such things as communication, correspondence, access to information?
14. Do you think that the Internet is the good or the evil?
15. What do you think is the worst invention of the mankind? (weapon, atomic energy, cigarettes, television, mobile phones, cars, genetically modified products etc)
16. Can you name some inventions are you looking forward to? (human cloning, time traveling, eternal-life-pill, AIDS\cancer vaccine, teleportation)
17. Just like what the speaker did have you tried to go sailing around the world?
18. Do you have interest in sailing?
19. How many countries have you been to? How many states?
20. How many times have you traveled abroad?

Part 3　(Activity): Multiple Choice:

Part 1   (Comprehension Questions with Sample Answer):

1. Who invented the automobile in 1885?
2. What does the speaker talks about the topic?
3. How many people are killed on the world’s roads every year?
4. In America alone how many people are killed each year in a car accident?
5. What is the kind problem that is getting worse in our roads today?
6. What does the conventional wisdom says?
7. What year they had the first test of a self-driving car where they let regular people use their car?
8. What invention does the speaker is introducing?
9. What year do they first test a self-driving car and let regular people use it?
10. What statement they thought after letting the people used the self-driving car?

Part 2   (Express Yourself Questions):

1. What will driving be like in the future?
2. How safe do you think is the self-driving cars?
3. Do you want to have self-driving car in the future?
4. Do you think self-driving cars will be use in the future? Why or why not?
5. In your own idea do you think that self-driving cars could lessen traffic jam?
6. Can you drive a car?
7. Are you a good driver?
8. Have you ever been in a car accident?
9. Are the drivers in your area where you live good drivers?
10. Do you know anything about repairing or maintaining a car?
11. Do you prefer driving or riding public transportation?
12. What kind of car do you prefer?
13. What are the advantages/disadvantages of buying a car?
14. If you were going to get a new car, what kind of car would you get? A luxurious car? A sports car? A hybrid or electric car?
15. What kind of cars do you think look the best?
16. What is the fastest you have gone in a car?
17. Do you think cars are safe?
18. What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of driving versus public transportation?
19. What do you think cars will be like in the future?
20. Do people drive well in your country?

Part 3   (Activity): Multiple Choice:

Questions

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TED　Talk　オリジナル
How a driverless car sees the road
統計的に自動車おいて信頼性の最も低い要素が何かというと、それは運転手です。現在進められている運転席から人間をなくそうという企ての１つ、Googleの自動運転車プログラムを率いるクリス・アームソンが自動運転車の現状について語り、自動運転車はどのように道路を見、次にどうすべきか自律的に判断しているのか、興味深い映像を使って紹介します。

Part 1   Reading Comprehension     TRUE OR FALSE

Instruction: Write T if the answer is True, and F if the answer is False,

then change the underline word to make it correct.

1. The name of the Public school teacher that he is talking about is Pam More.

2. Pam Moran Lives in Argentina County, Virginia, the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
3. It all started back in 1987. He was a young man, and he had been dropping in and out of college. And my parents were very patient, but I had been doing intermittent sojourns to Africa on a mystical quest.
4. I went in for a job interview in the Richmond Public Schools in Virginia, the capital city.
5. Chris Farinya is a film maker that was introduce to him by a friend.

Part 2   (Express Yourself Questions):

1. What is peace?
2. What does peace mean to you? Is it important?
3. Do you want peace or money?
4. Peace or love?
5. What is peaceful?
6. Where can you go to have some peace & quiet?
7. What parts of the world have peace?
8. Is your school a peaceful place?
9. What does it mean to have peace of mind or inner peace? Do you have them now?
10. What are some synonyms for peace & quiet? Calm, tranquility,….
11. What are some symbols of peace? What is the color of peace? What are the gestures? 12. What can you do to create a peaceful and quiet atmosphere?
12. Are you a peaceful person?
13. Who are more peaceful? – Men or women? -Adults or children? -Boys or girls? -Religious people or atheists? -Poor or Rich?
14. Is there peace in your life?
15. Are you at peace with your neighbor? – Your workmates? -Your classmates?
16. Who is the most peaceful person you know?
17. What images come to mind when you hear the world peace?
18. What is the opposite of peace? Conflict, war, violence,…
19. Is there peace in your family?

 Part 3   (Activity):   VOCABULARY

Part 1 　　Reading Comprehension 　 TRUE OR FALSE

 Instruction: Write T if the answer is True, and F if the answer is False,

then change the underline word to make it correct.

1. Larry said: our mission we defined a long time ago is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.

2. Deep Eyes is a company we just acquired recently. It’s in the U.K. First, let me tell you the way we got there, which was looking at search and really understanding, trying to understand everything, and also make the computers not clunky and really understand you — like, voice was really important.

3. The guy who started this company, Dennis, has a neuroscience and a computer science background. He went back to school to get his Ph.D. to study the brain.

4. Zack Matere planted a crop of corn.

5. They release a project called Loon Project which is using balloons to do it.

Part 2　　(Express Yourself Questions):

 
1) What springs to mind when you hear the word ‘company’?
2) What are your favorite companies?
3) Which company would you love to work for and why?
4) Which companies do you dislike most?
5) Have you ever written a letter of complaint to a company?
6) Which companies do you think provide the best customer service and best products?
7) Do you prefer bricks-and-mortar companies or Internet companies?
8) Amazon.com founder and boss Jeff Bezos said: “A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person.” What do you think of this?
9) Mary Kay Ash said: “People are definitely a company’s greatest asset.” Do you think this is true all over the world?
10) Andrew Grove said: “In the future, all companies will be Internet companies.” Do you agree? Would this be good?
 

Part 3 　　(Activity): VOCABULARY

Part 1    Reading Comprehension:

1. What is the First thing to do to become a leader?
2. What does the First follower do in his speech?
3. What does the 2nd follower do too?
4. How about the 3rd Follower?
5. What is the biggest lesson in his speech?

Part 2    (Express Yourself Questions):

1. What is a leader?
2. Who are the first leaders who come to your mind?
3. What makes those people great leaders?
4. What are the qualities or characteristics that every leader should have?
5. Are some people natural leaders and other people natural followers? Why?
6. What are some of the biggest challenges of leading a country like Japan?
7. Would you like to be a leader in Japan? Why or why not?
8. Why do some people think it’s a bad thing to always follow other people?
9. What characteristics does a bad leader have?
10. If you were the leader of your school, what changes would you make?

Part 3     (Activity)   : READING COMPREHENSION

Questions 

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Stephen Petranek: Your kids might live on Mars. Here’s how they’ll survive
SFのように聞こえるかもしれませんが、ジャーナリストのスティーブン・ペトラネックは、20年以内に人類は火星に住むようになると考えています。この刺激的な講演で、ペトラネックは人類が宇宙に広がる種になることを示し、火星を第２の故郷に変える方法の興味深い詳細を語ります。彼は言います。「地球に何が起ころうと人類は生き続けるでしょう。我々が最後の人類になることはありません」
 

Part 1   ( Comprehension Questions with Sample Answer):

1. How many people are going to colonized Mars?
2. How big is planet Mars?
3. How’s the atmosphere in Mars?
4. What about its temperature?
5. How’s the days , seasons and years in Mars?
6. What is Stephen afraid of that may happen to earth?
7. For those who dream of flying one day, what Mars could offer?
8. What is the most livable planet?
9. What is the distance between Moon and Mars?
10. When can we land Mars based on the speaker’s theory and how?

Part 2   (Express Yourself Questions):

1. What do you know about Mars?
2. Do you think there was/is life on Mars?
3. Martians are from Mars; do you know what life forms on other planets might be called? 4. Are you interested in the secrets Mars holds?
4. Would you like to go to Mars one day?
5. Why are scientists so interested in Mars?
6. Do you think it’s possible that one day, many people will live on Mars?
7. What do you think of the idea often described by scientists that life started on Mars and moved to Earth, which means we are Martians?
8. What would you like to know about Mars?
9. Why is Mars red?
10. When do you think people will visit Mars?
11. Do you think it is possible that humans could ever live on Mars?
12. What will happen to the travelers during their trip to Mars?
13. Do you want to go to Mars forever? Why/not?
14. Do you want to go to Mars but come back to Earth? Why/not?
15. Where do you want to go for a long time? How long do you want to go there?
16. What will we need, and how can we get all these things? Health & Terra forming?
17. Why would we want live on Mars?
18. What facts do you know about the planet Mars? Share with the class.
19. If life is found on Mars, how does that change our views on life? What are the implications for politics, religion, philosophy and other human institutions?

Part 3   (Activity): Vocabulary Match

Questions 

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10 ways to have a better conversation
仕事の成功がいかに上手く人と話せるかにかかっているとしたら、会話の仕方について多くを学ぶことでしょう。でも、実際にはほとんどの人があまり上手く会話をしていません。長年ラジオ番組の司会をしてきたセレステ・ヘッドリーは、優れた会話の要素が何か知っています。正直に、簡潔に、明確に話すこと、そして適切な量の聞くことです。この鋭い洞察に満ちた講演で、彼女がより上手く会話するための10の方法を紹介しています。「出かけていって人と話し、耳を傾けること、そして何より大切なのは、感心させられるのを期待することです」
 

Part 1   ( Comprehension Questions with Sample Answer):

1. What are the 10 ways to have a better conversation?
2. Why do we need to listen?
3. Why multi-tasking is bad for us?
4. What is pontification?
5. How can we avoid it?
6. How can we benefit from leaving an open-ended questions?
7. What is the implication of going with the flow?
8. Why is it that there’s no sense for us to try to repeat ourselves?
9. Is it essential for us to speak briefly?
10. Why Celeste gives emphasis on don’t equate your experiences with theirs?

Part 2   (Express Yourself Questions):

1. What traits do you look for in a conversation partner?
2. What makes it easy to talk to someone?
3. Tell about your favorite types of conversations to have?
4. What do you talk about?
5. What is your role in a conversation?
6. Do you dominate? or subordinate?
7. Who communicates better: men or women?
8. How do conversations between men and women differ?
9. Do you have better conversations when you are drinking?
10. How do your conversations change after you have been drinking?
11. Have you ever said something to someone that you wish you hadn’t said? What was it?
12. How do you feel about being frank? Explain
13. How do you feel about blunt people?
14. How do you feel about conversations with people older than yourself?
15. Do you like to eavesdrop on other people’s conversations?
16. If you had to choose, would you rather marry a partner who is handsome/beautiful and sexy, but who is a terrible conversationalist, or a partner who is a wonderful conversationalist, but who is lessattractive-than-average?
17. What was a difficult conversation you had to have in your life?
18. How can you improve your conversation skills?
19. If you could have a conversation with any famous living person, who would you talk to?
20. In your experience, which country’s people are the easiest to talk to? Explain.

Part 3   (Activity):　　 Vocabulary Match