Level B2 General English
Lesson 33
Dreams And Nightmares
夢と悪夢

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TOPIC QUESTION
今日のトピック

Do you believe in deja vu or that dreams tell us something?
デジャヴュを信じますか、夢は私たちに何かを教えてくれていると思いますか?

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ARTICLE
記事

Directions: Read the following article aloud.
課題: 以下の記事をはっきりとした声で音読しましょう。
Do Dreams Tell Us Something?

It is the belief of many people that dreams are telling us something and there are people that devote their lives to interpreting them. In some cases, these are professional people such as doctors, while in other cases it is done by people that are untrained. Sometimes when we have a dream it is as if it is trying to tell us that something is going to happen to us in the future.

A person might have a dream that seems to us as if we have experienced it before and this is what is termed as “deja vu”. There are times when we have a dream and then at some point later in our life we have an experience and we think this is very much like a dream that we had. This term simple means this experience is very, very similar to something that happened in the past.

Sometimes it seems as if dreams are a way for our minds to try an experience that we had heard of or read about and which seemed like something we might like to try. The reverse of this is also true where we dream about it first and then hear or read about it later. This is the type of situation that might lead us to see the dream as deja vu.

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VOCABULARY
語い

Directions: First repeat after your tutor and then read aloud by yourself.
課題: 先生の後に続いてくり返した後、今度はひとりで発音してみましょう。

devote
ささげる
interpreting
解釈すること
reverse
逆、反対
deja vu
デジャヴュ、既視体験

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QUESTIONS
質問

Directions: Read the questions aloud and answer them.
課題: 質問を声に出して読んだ後、答えてみましょう。

1. What do some people believe about dreams?
2. What is meant by deja vu?
3. Is it considered deja vu if the dream comes first or later than the event?
4. Tell about a dream that came true for you.