無料で読める英語記事から作成する語彙強化教材

　TIME,NEWSWEEKのやさしい記事からの英検１級対策語彙に、本日以下の単熟語を追加しました。

anthithesis, apprehension, arcane, brace, culinary, dovetail, gusto, hedge, incursion, indignantly, infect, jolt, monolithic, sclerotic

　語彙増強にはさまざまな方法があります。私のおすすめする方法のひとつは、実力相応の英文をたくさん読んで自分に合った形で教材化することです。
　たとえば、女性イスラム教徒が被るベールについて論じたCultural FabricというTIME誌に掲載された記事の冒頭は以下のようになっています。

For Muslim immigrants in the U.S., the days following 9/11 were a harrowing encounter with American hate. iPod-bearing, second-generation techies faced insults in Silicon Valley parking lots; schoolgirls in headscarves were attacked; mosques across the country were vandalized. For many months, it seemed unclear whether America's Muslims — from the cocktail-swilling secular to the mosque-attending pious — would ever live again without apprehension.

　これをコピーして以下のような教材を作れます。個人的に使う限り、著作権上の問題が生じることはまず考えられません。

For Muslim immigrants in the U.S., the days following 9/11 were a ●●rrowing encounter with American hate. iPod-bearing, second-generation techies faced insults in Silicon Valley parking lots; schoolgirls in headscarves were attacked; mosques across the country were ●●●dalized. For many months, it seemed unclear whether America's Muslims — from the cocktail-swilling secular to the mosque-attending pious — would ever live again without apprehe●●●●●.

この記事はおおむね英検１級の長文レベルです。同レベルの記事を３００本位読んで頻出語彙を覚えれば、１級の長文と語彙に関しては合格ラインをクリアーできると思います。