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Fecha 29 de Junio
Materia : Inglés
Curso: Tercer año avanzado de los días martes
Profesora: Angélica González
JAPAN
Japan is a country in East Asia with a population of around 128 million. It consists of over 3.000
islands, with most of the population living on the four biggest ones: Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and
Shikoku.
The capital of Japan is Tokyo, a huge city on Honshu. Tokyo and its neighbouring cities have a total
population of over 30 million, making them the most populous urban area in the world.
Japan´s “economic miracle” in the second half of the 20th century led to fast economic growth and a
great increase in prosperity. Despite a long recession in recent years, its GDP ( Gross Domestic
Product – a measurement of the size of a country´s economy) is still the second biggest in the world
after the United States.
Prosperity and a healthy diet are two of the reasons why Japan has a higher life expectancy than
almost any other country in the world. However, most experts say the Japanese population will soon
begin to decrease because couples are having fewer children than they used to.
Forest and mountains, including around 200 volcanoes, cover a lot of Japan. The country´s position
on a “fault line” on the Earth´s surface means that earthquakes happen occasionally – the last very
serious one took place in 1995 near the city of Kobe.
Japan is well known for having very advanced technology, and most people would say robots are
among the country´s most amazing products. One of the most recent is the Asimo robot, which is
white, 1.3 metres high, and the same shape as a human – and therefore looks like a small astronaut.
It can walk like a human, dance, and recognize and answer 50 different questions!
HERE ARE SOME DEFINITIONS FOR WORDS OR EXPRESSIONS THAT APPEAR IN THE
TEXT. CAN YOU FIND THE WORDS OR EXPRESSIONS THEY REFER TO?
1………………………………(verb) go down in number or value.
2……………………………….(noun) machine that looks and functions like a human.
3……………………………… (noun) someone who knows a lot about a certain subject.
4………………… ……………(noun) how long you expect a person, or group of people, to live.
5…………………………………(noun) violent movement of the Earth´s surface, often causing
great destruction.
6…………………………………( noun) amazing event, so surprising that people might think it has
supernatural causes.
7………………………………….(adjective) having a lot of people living there.
8………………………………….(noun) the kinds of food people typically eat.
9………………………………..(verb) identify something that you have known or seen before.
10………………………………(noun) period when there is a fall in economic activity and
prosperity.
11……………………………….(adjective) very big.
12……………………………….(adjective) being at a higher level, or further forward, than another
person, group of people, or country.
13……………………………….(noun) two people who are in a romantic relationship – often
married or living together.
14……………………………….(noun) condition in which a person, a group´of people or a country
is doing well financially or economically.
HERE IS SOME MORE INFORMATION ABOUT JAPAN. DECIDE IF THE FOLLOWING
STATEMENTS ABOUT JAPAN ARE TRUE (T) OR FALSE (F)
1. Some experts think the population of Japan will be less than 100 million by 2050
2. Most people in Japan live in urban areas.
3. Life expectancy in Japan is higher than in the United Kingdom but lower than in the United
States.
4. The diet of most Japanese people includes a lot of fish.
5. More than 10% of the people living in Japan were born in other countries.
6. Most experts think Japan will begin another “economic miracle” before 2010, and will start
to have much faster economic growth than other rich countries.
7. The most serious earthquake in Japan in the last 100 years killed more than 100.000 people.
8. More than half of the world´s robots are in Japan.
9. The Asimo robot can walk faster than most people.
10. The Asimo ro bot can recognize the faces of people it has seen before.
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