おじぎ草さんの おぼえた日記 - 2024年3月29日(金)

Swimming
When I was a boy, I liked swimming very much. One year my two brothers and I spent the summer holidays with my uncle and aunt in their house by the sea. It was only twenty meters from the water. Every day we put on our swimming-shorts before breakfast, ran down to the sea across the sand and jumped in. From then until late at night, we were in the sea or on the beach most of the time. When our aunt rang a bell, we went back to the house for food, but we ate it in our swimming-shorts and were soon back in the sea again.
The water was warm, the sun shone every day, and on most days there were no waves. In the middle of the day a wind always began to blow, but it was not strong and did not make the sea rough.
Three times during our holidays we had strong winds. They blew the sand against our legs when we ran down to the sea, and made big waves with white tops. We were all very good swimmers. We dived through the waves or rode towards the beach on top of them until we were tired and hungry.

Exercise1
Find words in the story which mean the opposite of:
(a)smooth →rough
(b)full →hungry
(c)weak →strong
(d)little →big
(e)cold →warm


今日はOXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS の“Elementary Comprehension Topics “をテキストに使用しました。難しい単語もなくスラスラ読めました。
英文解釈のテキストは英語の理解よりも日本語の説明が難しい、日本語が難しいなというのが実感です。
時々、break time で簡単な英文をはさんでみようと思います。