According to Japanese Health Ministry research, by 2025 around 30% of Japan's population will be aged over 65. This percentage may continue to rise to as much as 40% by 2050, along with a likely increase in the number of elderly people who need long-term personal and medical care. However, as birthrates fall and families get smaller, families will be less able to care for their oldest members.
そしてそのあとに Instructions: Write a well-developed paragraph in English consisting of around 100 words, answering the following question: What can Japanese society do to support older people who will need care in the future? Give clear examples and details to support your answer.
論理のキーストーンを踏みながらいくと100語くらい容易に書けそうです。出題のなかに、Give clear examples and detailsとありますが、中盤に用意した介護離職について語数をかけて述べることでクリアできるでしょう。
英文にするとこちら。
If birthrates should continue to fall, (1)fewer people will have to support older people in the future. (2)( While schoolchildren and students may have little time to care for ofler people, )(3) it is desireble that middle-age people should be responsible for the care while they are continuing to work. Currently it is difficult (4) to work full time and care for old parents at the same time. Some people quit their job and (5) live an economically tough life. Then they cannot are for their old parents enough (6)until some of them will die together. Companies in Japan should think of a mixture of working, housekeeping, child-rearing and caring for the old as natural and possible.
(1)...日本語では「少ない人数で」ですが、英語では「より少ない人数が」という構造。
(2)...これを書くと110語を超えましたので削ってもよいと思います。
(3)...現状は必ずしもそうなっていないがこうなることが望ましい、という文脈なので仮定法現在になります。middle-age people should beとなっていますね。
According to Japanese Health Ministry research, by 2025 around 30% of Japan's population will be aged over 65. This percentage may continue to rise to as much as 40% by 2050, along with a likely increase in the number of elderly people who need long-term personal and medical care. However, as birthrates fall and families get smaller, families will be less able to care for their oldest members.
そしてそのあとに
Instructions: Write a well-developed paragraph in English consisting of around 100 words, answering the following question:
What can Japanese society do to support older people who will need care in the future? Give clear examples and details to support your answer.
We usually decide what to wear according to weather in the morning. However, it is not rare that it feels nice and warm in the morning but later, in the evening, it chages drastically and so eventually we feel cold enough to need an overcoat or a jacket.
ポイントは以下の通り。 ○冒頭の We usually は Most of us tend to と増やすのもアリです。 ○「何を着ていくか→何を着るべきか」は不定詞で習う超定番表現ですね。増やして what we should wear としてもよいのですが人称代名詞や助動詞に注意して使いましょう。 ○暑い・寒いをあらわすには代名詞 it を使う。中学レベルの知識。 ○drastically （ガラッと）や eventually（結果的に）といった副詞を適切に使えるようになると語数調整だけでなく、言いたいことが明確に伝わりやすくなります。 ○ものごとの帰結・展開を述べていくのに、接続詞 and を連続して使う人がいますが、それは英語運用力の不足を露呈するだけなので工夫してください。ここでは「午後には寒くなってその結果上着が必要になる」を「上着が必要になるくらい寒くなる」と読みかえて enough to を使いました。文法問題だけにしか通用しない知識は無意味でーす！
