Reading N2–N1 · Lesson 16 · N2

News report: a local railway, keep it or not

かえで線せんの今後こんごをめぐって、沿線えんせんの町まちと鉄道会社てつどうがいしゃの話はなし合あいが続つづいている。

A mountain line losing riders: the company wants buses, the towns want trains. Lead, background, who said what; 「〜をめぐって」「〜ざるを得えない」.

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In this lesson

  1. 01The text
  2. 02Vocabulary
  3. 03Key sentences
  4. 04Reading tips

Practice

  • Content and the main points of the report
  • What does it refer to?
  • True or false?
  • How the report is built and what happened
  • Match the words to their meanings
  • Choose the right expression

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