Special Week（９月）

NHKラジオ英会話 9月
Week 4 Special Week
Old News Is New Again
9月24日　Part 1
A volunteer group that raises honeybees in a city has held an event in
a bid to encourage urbanites to take more interest in nature...
honeybee　ミツバチ
in a bid to ～　～しようと、～する目的で
urbanite　都会人
in a heart of ～　～の中心地、真ん中で
nectar　花の蜜
within a few kilometer radius　半径数キロの範囲で
beehive　ミツバチの巣、巣箱
extract honey　蜜を取り出す
Part 2
Workers have finished building the world's longest cable-stayed bridge,
connecting Russian Far East city of Vladivostok to Russky Island about
two kilometers away...
cable-stayed bridge　斜張橋（斜めに張ったケーブルで橋桁を支える吊り橋の
一種）
diagonally extended　斜めに張った、のばされた
bridge girder　橋桁
central span　塔と塔の間の中央の長さ
surpass　記録を破る、超える、抜く
Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum Summit　アジア太平洋経済
協力首脳会議
Russian authorities　ロシア当局
enhanced role in Asia　アジアでの強化された役割、アジア進出
9月25日　Sing Along with Us!
For He's A Jolly Good Fellow
American version
British version

The Bear Went Over The Mountain

9月26日　A Song 4 U
Connie Stevens - Sixteen Reasons

9月27日　Grammar for Better Conversation
大きな数字を英語で
thousand
10,000　ten thousand
11,000　eleven thousand
50,000　fifty thousand
99,000　ninety-nine thousand
100,000　a(one) hundred thousand
502,000　five hundred (and) two thousand
999,000　nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand
1. About thirty-five thousand people flocked to the stadium.（35,000人）
2. My round trip air ticket cost one hundred twenty-three thousand yen.（123,000円）
3. We raised three hundred one thousand five hundred yen.（301,500円）
million
百万　one million
一千万　ten million
一億　one hundred million
The population of Japan is about one hundred twenty-eight million now.
billion
十億　billion
The world's population is about seven billion now.（70億人）
The world's population is estimated to reach ten billion about 2080.（100億人）
trillion
一兆　one trillion
十兆　ten trillion
百兆　hundred trillion
Our national budget for the year 2011 to 2012 was ninety-two trillion.
quadrillion
千兆　one quadrillion