Activity 24

ざっと読みするために文章を読むときは同時にリスニングを行う。音声を途中で止めたりせずに、話されるスピードについていこう。これはあなたにいくつかの単語をスキップさせることになるだろう。それは実は大事なスキルだ。章は短いので、１０分費やすために何度も同じ章を繰り返しざっと読みすることになるだろう。

Listen to HNT Chapter 4 on YouTube (download it, or open another window) and follow along with the text below (you'll listen as you read).
 
Don't pause. Just allow the audio to continue smoothly.
Repeat until the 10 minutes are up.  Your job is simply to spend the time, not to understand every word.

Listen softly, lightly. 

HNT Chapter 4

I like to walk. I like to run. I enjoy writing haiku. I teach English. I also like to read books.
 
I have hundreds of books. Many of them are about travel. I like travel books where the people walk, run, ride bicycles, and ride horses. I don’t like books about traveling in cars, ships and planes so much.
 
More than one hundred years ago, walking was a sport. People walked for days without sleeping. There were walking champions of the world. These days, there are marathons, ultra-marathons, mega runners, journey runners, transcontinental runners and so on.
 
Mami and I both like reading. When we travel, we like to read. But books, even paperbacks, are heavy, so we should read the same books. They should be in English, because I can’t read Japanese. But English books are sometimes hard to find in Japan. What should I do?
 
Perhaps I should write a book instead. It could be about our trip in Japan. That would keep me busy. Perhaps this is the book.