1, What’s the news about Madeleine McCann? Has she been found?
→ポルトガル南部の保養地アルガルベで英国人のマデリン・マクカーン（４つ）が行方不明になっている事件です。その行方不明になった女の子はまだ見つかっていません。
2, What does “bread and circuses” mean in Japanese? Who first used that expression? Write your answers on your blog.
→パンとサーカス
This phrase originates in Satire X of the Roman poet Juvenal of the late 1st and early 2nd centuries CE. In context, the Latin phrase panem et circenses (bread and circuses) is given as the only remaining cares of a Roman populace which has given up its birthright of political freedom.
3, Find an example of “bread and circuses” in today’s news: the news story must be in English. Writ the URL of the story. Explain on your blog why you think this story is an example of “bread and circuses”.
→URL : http://www.answers.com/topic/bread-and-circuses
4, On your blog, list 10 words or expressions that you learned in this news story.
→populace / birthright / reference / wheat / popularity / instigation / populist / contention / contempt / intellectuals
5, Find another news story that you think is NOT “bread and circuses”. Explain your reason on
your blog Write the URL. List 10 words or expressions that you learned in this story.
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6, Visit some classmates’ blogs and write about them on your blog. Always give the URL of any website you write about.
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