３学年英語では、単元のまとめてして教科書本文の英語長文の内容を要約し英語で分かりやすく伝えたり、英文を読んで自分自身が考えたことを英語で述べたりする活動を行っています。

※リテリング(retelling)：学習した教科書の英文を再構築して自分の言葉で正確に分かりやすく伝える活動のことです。

Summary in English
The rain forest of the Amazon has many unique animals.
Between the 1970s and 2010, about 740,000 square kilometers of the forest disappeared.
The Amazon is important for the world.
Ricardo wants to be a scientist.

The Amazon produces about eighty percent of Brazil's electricity.
The rain forest produces about twenty percent of the world's oxygen.
The Amazon has many unique animals.
The rain forest has been destroyed for many years.

The trees of the rain forest have been cut for many years.
That's almost twice the size of Japan.
He trees of the rain forest produces oxygen.

My own opinion
I think that I will not destroy plants.
I think that people should save the Amazon. Because the Amazon is a treasure of the world.
I think we should protect the rain forest. Because rain forest is important.
I think that we should save nature.

英語で考えたり伝えたりすることに難しさを感じていた生徒達も、次第にその面白さに気づきはじめているようです。