"What is it 130"について
＜辞書調べ速度向上＆難語文の読解（意味推理）トレーニング自主教材＞
辞書引きは面倒！辞書に慣れていない人にはもっと面倒！そこで作ることに...。
市販の辞書練習ワークシートは「辞書を調べる」ことが主眼なので、辞書自体が学習の主役になりがち。肝心の「辞書を使った問題解決」の点で達成感が味わいにくいようです。辞書自体が語学の主役になっては本末転倒！。辞書は、言葉で意志の疎通が完成することをゴールとする時の単なる「便利な武器」という役割にとどまるべきです。
辞書調べが遅いと辞書は面倒。だから速いほうが良いに決まっている。速くするためとはいえ、リストアップされた単語を調べるだけの作業では、単に速度向上しか見込めない。もっとも、そんな「調べ速度のための調べ」をストイックにハングリー精神の鬼となって、日々打ち込むことにどれだけの意味があるのでしょう。
速度向上が目的であっても、「武器」を無駄に使うことはありません。せっかく調べるなら「ことば」の本来の目的にその労力を生かすべきです。そこでクイズをやろう！となりました。１年間の毎回の授業のために作り続けて153問。どの生徒も辞書に頼らざるを得ないような難しい語をわざと用いて、回りくどく、しかし極身近なものが答えとなるようにしました。生徒全員が辞書を本来の目的で用いる瞬間を目の当たりにして、圧倒されました。「新出単語だよ」と言われて調べる受動的取り組みではなく、自ら答えに辿り着くために必要な単語を、自分で選んで実際に自分で調べる。大切にすべき活動のあり方を見たような気がします。
153問のうち、Nativeの点検を受けたのは次の130問です。実施半年で、１語あたり１分３０秒だった辞書引き時間が３０秒台に短縮！１年後にはそんな生徒が７割を越えました。１語に３分以上かかっていた数人の生徒も一人残らず１分前後に…。数ヶ月に１度、辞書引きスピード計測をやって、実際に速くなっていることを実感させられると更に生徒は頑張ります。「辞書引きを速くさせたい」、「辞書嫌いを少しでも減らしたい」なんて方、よかったらどうぞ。使っても使わなくても感想・意見・批評などありましたらお教え下さい。また、他の実践例や妙案などもお待ちしています。
授業で用いる要領（例）
・１授業に２問ずつプリントし、辞書を用いて行わせる。
・答えはわかり次第用紙に書いて挙手させる。（答えが聞こえてしまうと、他の生徒はやる気を喪失するので）
・机間巡視が大切！。挙手しなくても答えを書いてる者には正誤を教える。
・基本的にたくさん調べるのが目標！
・辞書を使わずに解答した者には「勘がいい」と褒める。
・辞書に慣れていない者には、答えに辿り着いたかよりも、調べた語数の多さを褒める。
辞書引きトレーニングだけじゃなく...
学力の高い層の集団には推理力を高める教材になるが、この教材が生まれた背景には、あまりにも幅が広い学力層のクラスで、生徒それぞれが自分の学力に合わせて別々の目的で取り組める教材の必要性がありました。高学力の生徒も本気で取り組める！
では、ご検討＆お試しください。
（もちろん営利目的でない限りcopyright-freeです。もっとも、売り物になるとは思いませんが。）
"What is it? 130"（答えは一番下にあります）
1.
We can make beautiful documents and handouts etc. with
this thing. We can also play compact discs and games with it. It allows us to
communicate with a lot of people all over the world.
2.
When you go somewhere quickly, you can use this. You
don't have to pay any fee to go. But you have to get a license to use this.
People under 18 are not allowed to get the license in Japan.
3.
If we didn't have this, we would die in a couple of days.
You can find a lot of this in rivers and the ocean. But it is also found in the
sky, the earth and plants. It is very hard to find this in the desert.
4.
Most teachers use this in class. Students can understand the
teacher's explanation visually when the teacher uses this. It makes a lot of
dust.
5.
You can't touch any exhibits in this. This place has
various beautiful works of art but you can't touch any of them.
6.
Many people use this to keep valuable things and money
in. It is not portable and you can't move it by yourself.
7.
Without one, sometimes you can't enter your own home. If
you have a copy of it, you can always enter your house even when no one is
home.
8.
You use this when the air in the room is dusty, stinky or
too humid. You can discharge such uncomfortable air and get new one.
9.
Most of you use these every day to get various daily informations. Some of them catch waves from satellites to
give you different programs.
10.
You use this to keep your recollections visually. You can
operate this easily. You only have to press a button. Now you can get throwaway
or recycle one.
11.
You put this on top of pieces of paper. You also use this
for calligraphy. It is heavy enough to keep paper from moving in the wind or
because of a writing brush.
12.
You use this when you have to know the exact length of
something on the ground. You can't draw lines on the ground for athletic games
without this.
13.
You sometimes use this to record TV shows or movies to
watch them later in your spare time. You have to put this in a special gadget
and operate it to record them.
14.
This gives you a lot of information about where
buildings, roads, parks, houses, rivers, mountains, etc. are located. This is
often printed on pieces of paper or in books for traveling.
15.
If you take this, you usually feel better from illness or
sickness. They say that the better ones taste bitter. This sometimes doesn't
work if taken with green tea.
16.
Many teachers sometimes give this to you. You have to
complete this before the class. If you don't do this, you will lose some marks
from your final score.
17.
You buy this at a stationery store. You use this to
record your teacher's instructions in class. It is best to keep it study from
it for examinations.
18.
You cannot create this by yourself. If you need this, you
have to get it from nature. This is the best material for most plant to be
planted in. They say worms make this better.
19.
You can see this at various places, especially on shops
and along roads. They give you a lot of information. It is an advertisement, a
caution or a direction.
20.
You sometimes use these to protect your eyes from bright
light or ultraviolet rays. Opticians have a lot of choices at their shops and
you can choose ones which suite your taste.
21.
You use this to prepare Japanese stock. You have to put this
in the water and boil it. This is a kind of seaweed and is dark green or black.
It is usually dried.
22.
Some of you keep this to record daily memories, stories,
impression of events and everyday happenings. If you read this later you will
remember the past. Nobody else should read it.
23.
This is a kind of electrical appliance. You turn the
switch on and it takes in air with dust. It is able to keep the dust inside and
you have to take it out as a combustible.
24.
You have to put a oval shaped object (or a circle)
outside of your house to enjoy these television programs. Also you have to pay
extra money in order to enjoy the additional programs.
25.
This is a kind of bomb that is put just under the
ground's surface or in the sea. It explodes when it is touched. It takes many
years to remove them all.
26.
They are a group of men and women. Their job is to
protect people and property and to make sure that everyone obeys the law.
27.
This is a machine that carries people or things between
the floors of a tall building. You have to press a button that says the number
of the floor where you want to go.
28.
This is a small stick of wood that produces flame when
you rub the end against a rough surface. Recently, this isn't used as often as
gas or oil lighters are used more frequently.
29.
This is a path. It is made of flat stones at the side of
a road for pedestrians to walk on. Cara are not allowed on it.
30.
This is a vehicle for traveling over snow and ice. It is
usually pulled by animals. It is said that reindeer pull this on the night of
December 24th, Christmas Eve.
31.
This is the period of time when people choose the person
they prefer for an official position. You hear terrible noise from speakers on
cars. The noise usually says "please vote for me."
32.
This is a natural phenomena. A lot of steam, gas, ash and
melted rocks burst out of a mountain. This usually happens in unison with an
earthquake.
33.
You cannot heat or move something in your daily life
without this. This is usually generated with a flow of water or power of steam.
Nuclear power is used in only one place in Hokkaido.
34.
Only specific vehicles are allowed to use this. The speed
limit is 100 kilometers per hour. You have to pay some money to use this. Ikeda
has a junction of this.
35.
Nothing can burn and you cannot live without this. Only
plants can produce this. So it is said that we have to stop excessive land
development.
36.
This kind of uncomfortable weather condition is common to
Japan. But it usually does not occur in the northern areas of Japan. It causes
high humidity and temperatures which annoy people for almost a month every
year.
37.
This is a chart of days and dates of the year. You can
write your daily events on it as a memorandum. You usually rip one sheet out of
it at the turn of each month.
38.
This is the most popular container for liquid foodstuffs.
This is made of polyethylene terephthalate. You
usually call it by its acronym. This is recycled more and more now.
39.
This regulates traffic automatically for 24 hours every
day and you must obey it. It indicates three different color signs for
automobiles and two for pedestrians.
40.
You use this when you listen to something with a playback
option. It is best to use this when you have to keep silent or when there is a
lot of noise.
41.
If you do not have this in your house, anybody can see
you from outside. It also works as a sunshade. A heater should not be put
beside it.
42.
This is usually white and the shape is rectangular. You
project pictures with a machine against it. Theaters usually have this over the
stage.
43.
This comes from the sea in the tropics. It grows bigger
and stronger as it advances to northwards. When it strikes the land, it
sometimes brings destruction by wind and floods.
44.
This has a lot of information on a community of people.
This executes every scheme made in the assembly of the community. Any business
of this is based on taxes and duties.
45.
This indicates the weather condition. This also shows the
weather forecast for the near future. You can draw this with the help of NHK
Radio.
46.
This is a liquid in a tank. It will be a gas outside and
is very flammable. This is used at home and for domestic cabs. This is called
liquefied petroleum gas.
47.
This makes bubbles when you rub it with water. It usually
contains perfume and makes you smell good. The liquid type is now becoming
popular instead.
48.
You can operate audio-visual equipment from a distance
with it. This uses infrared rays to send and receive signals with the
equipment.
49.
This gives us light and heat from about a hundred million
miles away. At night, it shines on the opposite side of the globe.
50.
You become warmer when you take one. This comes from deep
below ground and has minerals which are good for your health. Noboribetsu is famous for it, for example.
51.
You can record your important information in this. You will
remember what you are going to do each day when you look at it. You can carry
it in your pocket or in your bag.
52.
This creates a breeze when it is turned on. You can
change the strength of the breeze by pressing or turning a switch. This cannot
make the air cooler or colder.
53.
This is usually made of metal. You put something in this
to heat it up. A shallow one is mainly for frying, and a deep one is mainly for
boiling.
54.
This usually has more than one revolving drum-shaped tank
to clean fabrics. Recently new good concepts make changes among industries.
55.
You use this to find out the length of something and to
draw a straight line. If you have two triangler ones,
you can draw parallel lines.
56.
It would be difficult for you to pick up a tiny object
without this. This is a part of your skin, not your bone. You can scratch an
itch with this.
57.
You can measure how long it takes between moments by
pressing buttons. You just have to press once when it starts and press once
again when it finishes.
58.
Documents have to be written in this style, instead of
written style, for blind people. Such people feel its swelling dots with their
fingers and understand the documents.
59.
Any vehicle has this. You cannot change direction without
this. Round or stick type is popular for most vehicles.
60.
You use this to stick a piece of paper to another. You
only have to spread this on the place and press another piece against the
place. When it dries, it sticks.
61.
This is a set of wooden objects. Each of them has at
least two plains. Therefore infants can stack them to create something original
as they like.
62.
This is the place in public conveyances for old or
handicapped people to sit. Only a few countries have this because common social
custom makes people give up their seats to such people automatically.
63.
This is an insect. Nowadays it is very rare to see this
because of our water pollution. You can see it only around clear streams on hot
summer nights. The imaginal ones glimmer.
64.
Differences in atmospheric pressure cause this. It flows
from higher pressures to lower ones. If the difference is big, it will be
strong. You want this on hot days.
65.
You will get this from the sponsor of the competition or
the contest when you win a prize. This is a certificate of your victory and is
written on a piece of paper.
66.
You use this to tie up something, to tug something heavy
or to hang something on. This is long, narrow and very flexible. You cut this
in convenient length and knot it to fasten something.
67.
This has force of gravitation from the beginning. The
force influences only ferrous metals. A company has created a way to use this
to cure muscle pains.
68.
Without this, it is impossible to see your looks and complexion
clearly by yourself. The range of view is the same as the shape of this. You
use this mainly to see your hair, face and its parts.
69.
This is a wooden instrument for a sport. It is not
allowed for professional players to use metallic one. A player throws a ball
and you hit it with this.
70.
You fix something to another with this. This is usually
made of a hard metal and the shape is similar to those of nails but the shank
has a helical groove.
71.
Some of you hang this on the window or from the eaves in
summer. This makes a lovely sound in the breeze and the sound makes you a
little comfortable when it is very hot.
72.
This is a small piece of paper. The print on this is too
complex for anybody to fake it. You can get something if you give this enough
to a clerk.
73.
Some people test their courage by trying this. An elastic
cable attached to your ankles prevents you from smashing into the ground. This
is done as an initiation rite in a tropical island.
74.
He is a fictitious character of a cartoon. He is a
guardian of the right and sometimes delivers buns. His head contains bean jam
and he can give a part of it to hungry fellows. He is the infants' hero.
75.
You produce this every day. We dispose of this in many
ways. If you burn this, before that, you should make sure that this does not
contain any chlorides; they may produce toxic materials.
76.
This has a needle at one end and a piece of graphite at
the other. You fold this until the distance between two ends become the same as
the radius of the circle that you need.
77.
This has no color and is clear. This is hard enough to
scratch glass easily. This is made of carbon and burns up rapidly under heat.
78.
You bind some sheets of paper together with some tiny
metallic pins loaded in this. The pins are stuck together and easy to be
loaded.
79.
You hit keys of this to hammer the strings inside and
this makes musical sounds. They say that its register is the widest of all
acoustic instruments.
80.
This produces a lot of energy with no exhaust. So this is
used for submarine, for example. We have to handle it very carefully because
this emits radiation that causes serious damage to Nature and us.
81.
This supplies electric power to gadgets. You have to
choose suitable one from various sizes, shapes and voltages. Industries are
producing good original rechargeable ones nowadays.
82.
This makes a long, low and loud sound when you strike
this. This is made mainly of bronze. Strictly, this should be struck several
times a day by bonzes at the fixed time.
83.
Though this is a kind of paper, you don't write or draw
anything on this. This is thin and soft enough for you to feel comfortable when
you wipe your skin with this. This sometimes works as a towel.
84.
Athletes who achieved ultimate level compete with each
other at this meet. The number of countries to enter this is the largest of all
meets in the world. You can see this every four years.
85.
Most of foreigners in Japan hesitate to try this. This is
a kind of processed soy. This is sticky and healthy. But it's not salty or
spicy at all.
86.
You can mine this in the upriver area of Tokachi. Sometimes you can find this by the river, but it
is rare now. If you grind or break this, you get black luster.
87.
Scientifically speaking, a stronger type of oxidation
emits this. This gives us a lot of light and heat. This is necessary for our
daily life.
88.
If you do something against the law and are convicted,
you may be put in this place for a specific period of time. If you escape from
this, you will get arrested.
89.
If your community, group or party has this, you have to
follow this to be one of it. If you can't, you have to solve the problems
through negotiations with it or leave it.
90.
This is usually made of a fabric and serves you a private
space in the fields. You sleep and take a rest inside. You strike it and fold
it up to carry.
91.
This is a convenient way for you when you need no
deliberation to choose one from your group. Each shows one out of three
different signs with your hand all at once. And you well know the rule of this.
92.
You don't have to make steps to move between floors but
have to watch your step not to fall while you are on this service. This usually
appears in big commercial facilities.
93.
The color of this is usually orange and the shape is
round. The best and cheapest one appears on the market only in winter. This is
loved across the nation in Japan.
94.
You may have this. Sometimes this hurts. Remaining food
in your mouth, especially sugar, is used for a chemical change into acid that
melts the hard surface and makes this.
95.
This is a sort of prepaid ticket. You can sometimes pay
with this instead of money. This is mainly used for mail. You have only to
stick this on the addressed side.
96.
You receive this when you are needed for some gathering.
This asks you to attend the gathering at the time and place described. This is
usually sent to you through the mail.
97.
It tends to be hard for us, or pleasure for some people,
to create a new design for this and address this annually. Even if you post
this on the first day of a specific period of time, this will be kept at the
post office until the last day of the year.
98.
This is a famous Japanese plant. The leaves of this also
turn red in autumn. They say that the shape of the leaf is often expressed
figuratively as a palm of the infant.
99.
This is a Japanese saying. This means "if you do
something with your efforts continuously, you will get a great deal of ability
and power yourself."
100.
This is a category of the motion picture. You never see
any actors or actresses in this but hear their voices. They use a great number
of pictures created with paint or computers to make this.
101.
This is a small rectangular sheet of paper. You exchange
this when you meet a stranger who is going to have some connection with you.
You should keep this because the address and name are on this.
102.
You should keep this to prove yourself to have paid an
amount of money. You have to show this when it is doubted that you haven't
paid.
103.
This is made of fabric. Mainly men wear this on duty and
formal occasions. There are various patterns and designs for this. You have to
make a knot in some special way.
104.
In this game, each player advances the piece as many as
the dice or roulette shows. Every time you stop, you have to follow the
direction written on there. Monopoly is the most famous as this sort of game.
105.
This is a field of study. You learn the importance of
analyzing the "process" of working with figures, not just finding out
the numeric answers.
106.
These were used as agricultural tractors a hundred years
ago in Japan. Some of these are carefully raised to be a competitive racers.
You can see a lot of them in western movies.
107.
These enable you to see. You have to wear them on your
eyes. You should avoid dust and keep the surface of your eye wet.
108.
This is H2O crystallized. This is also the name of a
woman who once died by eating a poisonous apple in a Disney film.
109.
This popular animal is modeled into wooden ornaments,
which are sold at the souvenir shops throughout Hokkaido. In a famous
children's story, this animal is a well-known honey lover.
110.
This is an apparatus for modern computer operations;
pointing, selecting and visually moving things on the screen. It was named after
a living thing that it resembles.
111.
He has an infinitely large pocket on his abdomen and
keeps a great many convenient tools in it. He loves bean-jam pancakes. He is so
afraid of an animal that ate his ears.
112.
Some use this to keep their pants from falling down. It
consists of elastic belts and clips. The clips at the both ends hold your
pants. It is rarely used for skirts.
113.
This is a city. It has some tallest buildings in the
world And also has a statue that faces the direction of France. This is the
center of the global economy.
114.
They say that this brings you good fortune if you find
it. It is a mutation of a weed, but is edible for livestock. The color of its
flower is white or red.
115.
This is in your body. It flows with various substances
essential to your body. Your heart makes this flow throughout your body.
Broadly speaking, it is grouped into four types.
116.
This has a hollow body modeled after women's shape to
amplify the sound of its strings. But the volume of its sound is not loud
enough to be played with a symphony orchestra.
117.
This contains medical equipment for emergencies. You call
for it when you have no other means of safely getting to a medical facility. In
an emergency, this has priority over other traffic.
118.
This is made from rice or glutinous rice. First you pound
steamed rice and divide it into small or flat pieces. Then you toast or fry
them to make them crispy. This is also made from rice flour instead.
119.
This earthenware vessel is used in Japanese daily life.
It is used for drinking hot liquid. It usually has no handles on its sides.
120.
This prevents you from getting wet in the rain. But if
you have a gale, this is of little avail and may actually break. Many people
accidentally leave these in public transportation.
121.
This is an amusement show in Japan. Only one storyteller
enters the stage with his/her own musical accompaniment. Every storyteller
always has a fan and a towel with him/her on stage.
122.
This non-artificial material is used to make various
things for daily use. It is thin and soft but durable. It is used for shoes,
bags, jackets, wallets, etc. We get it from various animals.
123.
This is an activity to collect a great number of people
to support an opinion. If you agree with the opinion, you can express your
agreement by writing your name in a list.
124.
You can find this at the cape or entrance of a port. This
helps boat crew find out their location at night. Its light blinks in rhythm
one cycle.
125.
This is the language about 150 million people uses in
their daily life. It takes three different types of characters to write it.
Only one country has adopted this as their official language.
126.
Food processing companies add this to their products to
color, season and keep them fresh. Sometimes it is artificial and dangerous for
your health.
127.
This is a piece of cloth or paper worn between the logs
and fastened around the waist of a baby to hold its excreta. Recently, with the
help of technology, this can avoid getting hot and stuffy inside.
128.
This is one way to communicate with people who live far
away. You write on sheets of paper and send it by the postal service.
129.
This is a set of many thick books. In them, there is a
lot of information about the whole world. If you have them, you may be able to
answer almost any questions.
130.
This is an object that produces oxygen that helps water
creatures in a fish tank live. So it is better to put this in the tank in which
you keep them.
Answers
1: personal computer
2: automobile
3: water
4: blackboard
5: museum
6: safe
7: key
8: ventilating[extractor] fan
9: television
10: camera
11: paperweight
12: tape measure
13: videocassette
14: map
15: medicine
16: homework / assignment
17: notebook
18: soil
19: signboard
20: sunglasses
21: konbu / kelp
22: diary
23: vacuum cleaner
24: satellite broadcasting
25: land mine
26: police
27: elevator
28: match
29: sidewalk / pavement
30: sled
31: election
32: eruption
33: electricity
34: freeway (of Japan)
35: oxygen
36: baiu / rainy season
37: calendar
38: PET bottle
39: traffic signal
40: headphone
41: curtain
42: screen
43: typhoon / hurricane
44: town office
45: weather map
46: LPG
47: soap
48: remote controller
49: sun
50: hot spring
51: pocketbook
52: electric fan
53: pan
54: washing machine
55: ruler
56: nail
57: stopwatch
58: Braille
59: steering wheel
60: glue
61: toy building blocks
62: *silverseat
63: firefly / glowfly
64: wind
65: commendation
66: string / rope
67: magnet
68: mirror
69: baseball bat
70: screw
71: wind-bell
72: (bank) note
73: vangee jump
74: ampanman
75: trash / garbage
76: compasses
77: diamond
78: stapler
79: piano
80: nuclear power
81: battery / dry cell
82: (temple) bell
83: tissue paper
84: Olympic games
85: natto
86: obsidian
87: flame / fire
88: jail
89: rule / law
90: tent
91: paper, stone and scissors
92: escalator
93: mandarin[satsuma] orange
94: bad tooth
95: (postage) stamp
96: invitation card
97: New Year's card
98: Japanese maple
99: 継続は力なり
100: animation
101: visiting[calling / business] card
102: receipt
103: tie / necktie
104: sugoroku
105: mathematics
106: horse
107: contactlenses
108: snow
109: bear
110: mouse(for computer)
111: Doraemon
112: suspender
113: New York
114: four-leaf clover
115: flood
116: guitar
117: ambulance
118: rice cracker
119: Japanese teacup
120: umbrella
121: Japanese comic story / 落語
122: leather
123: signature
124: lighthouse
125: Japanese language
126: food additive
127: pampers / paper diaper
128: letter
129: encyclopedia
130: water weed
Produced by Ogitsu Ken
Specal thanks to Ms.
Lynn Porteous & Mr. Mark Kelly