Haruto, Kenta, and Shiho are second-year high school students in Tokyo.
Mary is a high school student from Australia.
They are members of the *Clean-up Committee this year.
One day in April, they are talking in a classroom
just before the second meeting of the *committee. |
| Haruto: |
At the meeting today, we are going to talk about the activities we will do to reach our
main goal for this year.
I hope we can have a good discussion about that. |
| Mary: |
Yes. We didn’t have school cleaning activities in my school in Australia.
I’m looking forward to talking about the activities. |
| Kenta: |
Do you remember the main goal of our committee for this year? |
| Shiho: |
It’s “making our school a comfortable place.”
That sounds *worthwhile. |
| Kenta: |
(1)I think so, too.
I will work harder for my school than last year. |
| Shiho: |
Among us, only you were a member of the committee last year. |
| Kenta: |
Yes. Ask me anything if you have any questions about the committee’s activities in our
school. |
| Mary: |
Sure, I’ll do that.
I’m just trying to think of ways to reach our main goal. |
| Haruto: |
We can do something to keep our school clean. |
| Mary: |
Our school is always clean because of the work of the committee members. |
| Kenta: |
(2)I’m happy to hear that from you. |
| Haruto: |
The leader of our committee said that *encouraging students to clean their classrooms
was one of our activities. |
| Shiho: |
The committee members work very hard on that every year. |
| Haruto: |
I cleaned my classroom carefully with my classmates last year. |
| Kenta: |
And I want to do something new this year. |
| Mary: |
What’s that? |
| Kenta: |
You know that telling students to *separate trash in the right way is also one of our daily
activities. |
| Haruto: |
That is important. Many students said that it was difficult to separate trash in the
right way. |
| Kenta: |
Yesterday, I made this new poster to show how to separate trash.
I hope that it will be put on the wall in the entrance hall. |
| Haruto: |
Oh, I remember that the Clean-up Committee made a poster last year.
Its message was clear and easy to understand. |
| Shiho: |
That poster helped students learn how to clean better.
Your new poster will also be helpful, Kenta. |
| Mary: |
Exactly. Students will learn from it. |
| Kenta: |
Thank you. |
| Mary: |
Let’s share the idea of Kenta’s poster at the meeting. |
| Shiho: |
Yes, let’s do that. And I have another idea.
How about putting some flowers in each classroom? |
| Haruto: |
What do you mean?
We don’t do that as a daily activity of our committee. |
| Shiho: |
(3)I think it can be a new way to reach our main goal. |
| Haruto: |
That isn’t a clean-up activity. |
| Kenta: |
Haruto, you should change your point of view.
Shiho, you want to say that “making our school a comfortable place”
does not only mean “cleaning up,” right? |
| Shiho: |
Yes. Seeing something beautiful helps students feel comfortable. |
| Haruto: |
I see. |
| Kenta: |
We can get some flowers from the school garden. |
| Haruto: |
One of my friends, Takuya, is a member of the *gardening club.
I can ask him about that later. |
| Mary: |
That sounds nice.
(4)Now I think I have another way to reach our main goal, too. |
| Kenta: |
What’s that? |
| Mary: |
We have a school *lounge, right?
We should help students enjoy listening to music there. |
| Haruto: |
In the lounge?
Tell me more about that. |
| Mary: |
We can play relaxing music there.
We should collect CDs to do that. |
| Shiho: |
Our music teacher will help us.
Maybe we can *borrow some CDs from the music room. |
| Mary: |
I didn’t think of that.
Let’s do that. |
| Haruto: |
Yes, let’s.
I think Mary’s idea is helpful. |
| Kenta: |
I think so, too.
But some students want a quiet place.
They read books to relax there. |
| Mary: |
Oh, I never thought about that. |
| Shiho: |
How about playing *classical music?
It is often played in cafes to help people relax. |
| Haruto: |
That’s true.
Let’s talk to the teacher tomorrow. |
| Kenta: |
Now I realize that there are many ways to make our daily school life more comfortable.
We can do our usual activities and new things, too. |
| Mary: |
Yes. Let’s explain our ideas to the other committee members at the meeting.
They may give us some advice. |
| Shiho: |
We can improve our ideas together. |
| Haruto: |
(5)I’m looking forward to doing that. |
〔注〕
Clean-up Committee 美化委員会 committee 委員会 worthwhile やりがいのある encourage ~ to … ~に…するように促す separate 分別する gardening club 園芸部 lounge 休憩室 borrow 借りる
classical music クラシック音楽 |