CNN News 1

CNN News 1

By Evan M.

Open Ended

How are you today? Any questions?

No Longer an Afterthought

Afterthought

後から思いついたもの、付け足し

She added some decorations, but they felt like an afterthought.

No Longer an Afterthought

Listening (slow)

Open Ended

What did you understand?

Listening (natural)

Open Ended

What did you understand?

Q - What will the US men's national soccer team do for the first time?

A - They will split their bonus equally with the US women's team.

Q - What had the US women's team been demanding for decades?

A - They had been demanding the same pay that the men's team got.

News Video

Multiple Choice

1) Why will the US women's national soccer team receive 6.5 million?

• They won the World Cup

• They beat Iran

• Agreement with the Soccer Federation

• Advanced to the knockout stage

Multiple Choice

2) Which of the following resulted in the most money for the women's team?

• Winning the 2015 World Cup

• Winning the 2019 World Cup

• Winning both

• Sharing the bonus

Multiple Choice

3) What did it take to get the US Soccer Federation to pay the women's team fairly?

• A lawsuit settlement

• Winning the World Cup

• Labor solidarity

• The fight against FIFA

Multiple Choice

4) How many times has the US women's team won the Women's World Cup?

• Once

• Twice

• Four times

• They have never won it.

Multiple Choice

Who is the best mascot?

• Hanemarukun

• Kumamon (wrong answer)

• ふなっしー

• いとゴン

Section One

​With its stirring win over Iran and its advance into the knockout stage of the World Cup,...

What has been the most stirring win of your life?

Open Ended

In your experience, what has been the most stirring win of your life?

​...the US men's national soccer team gets a $13 million bonus as a team.

Multiple Choice

What is 13 million dollars in Japanese yen?

• 13,000,000円

• 130,000,000円

• 1,300,000,000円

• 13,000,000,000円

​And for the first time ever, they'll split that bonus equally with the US women's team - 6.5 million for each squad.

"​For decades, it was very difficult to always be shouting at the rain, so it seemed..."

Shout at the rain

かなわないことに精力を費やす比喩。

Sometimes complaining to my teacher feels like shouting at the rain.

After he lost the game, he began to shout at the rain.

Why do you think it is called "shout at the rain"?

Other examples:
When pigs fly
break a leg
dead as a doornail
bees knees

Open Ended

What do you think is the bees knees?

Have you ever shouted at the rain? When and why?

Section Two

In fact, the 6.5 million the US women will make from the men's-team advance is more than the women earned by winning the 2015 and 2019 Women's World Cups combined.

​Two world cups = 6 million

​Top 16 = 13 million

"You know, FIFA has been unfair with the women. We've always been an afterthought to them."

For decades, the US women's team had fought against the US Soccer Federation...

For decades, the US women's team had fought against...

Past perfect tense (過去完了形)

Why use past perfect tense?

Why use past perfect tense?

Past action that happened before a past event.

To fight becomes "had fought"

They fought against the Soccer Federation.

They had fought against the soccer federation.

Multiple Choice

She _______ the house before it started raining.

• had left

• left

• had leaved

• leaved

Multiple Choice

He _____ his homework before dinner.

• finished

• had finished

"You know, FIFA has been unfair with the women. We've always been an afterthought to them."

Section Three

And every step of the way, there's been a different kind of disparity on the field.

In all of US soccer history, the women's team has won four World Cups. The men have won exactly none.

"... women carry soccer in the United States. I love the men's team, but it's the women who have put the sport on the map, who are the pride of the nation."

「アメリカでは女子がサッカーを支えているわけです。私は男子代表チームが大好きです。でも女子チームですよ、サッカーを（アメリカで）広く知らしめ・国の誇りとなっているのは」

Put on the map

The new theme park put the small town on the map.

Her invention put the company on the map.

Please make an example sentence!

_____ put _____ on the map!

Open Ended

______ put ____ on the map.

But while US Soccer has made progress on fair pay, world soccer remains far behind.

Multiple Choice

According to Briana Scurry, the voices of female players calling for equal pay seemed powerless for many years.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

The news report implies that the gender pay gap in world soccer has been successfully narrowed.

• True

• False

1) split
2)
3)
4)
5)

1) split
2) agreement
3)
4)
5)

1) split
2) agreement
3) bonus
4)
5)

1) split
2) agreement
3) bonus
4) earned
5)

1) split
2) agreement
3) bonus
4) earned
5) equal

6) skipped
7)
8)

6) skipped
7) disparity
8)

6) skipped
7) disparity
8) won

Debate

Japan's men's and women's national soccer teams should receive equal pay and share their prize money.