１日１題リスニング：history of flight attendants

03/14/202403/27/2024

Numerous requests by airline passengers.
The lack of men becoming flight attendants.
A plan recommended by an airline pilot.
The efforts of a female nurse.

They had to do a lot of physical work.
They had to sleep in the plane hangars.
They were trained to repair the planes.
They could fly planes in an emergency.

DICTATION

Many people don’t know that the earliest flight attendants were men. The first airlines ( ) offer commercial passenger flights – such as Boeing Air Transport – had only male staff. It ( ) until Ellen Church, a nurse who also wanted to fly, proposed to Boeing’s personnel manager ( ) women should be able to join the flight crews. Church argued that if there were nurses ( ), passengers would be less afraid to fly. She won the argument and was hired. A few years later, all of Boeing’s fright attendant crews were female nurses.

These days, the job of a flight attendant is often considered glamorous. In the early days, however, female flight attendants ( ) luggage, transported ( ), and sometimes even pushed planes into the hangars at night. But their biggest achievement was ( ) the service they provided. They made passengers feel more relaxed, and therefore safer, which encouraged people to fly more often.

内容真偽問題　：準１は難しいので速読としてやってみたらどうですか？

The History of flight Attendants

Many people don’t know that the earliest flight attendants were men. The first airlines to offer commercial passenger flights – such as Boeing Air Transport – had only male staff. It wasn’t until Ellen Church, a nurse who also wanted to fly, proposed to Boeing’s personnel manager that women should be able to join the flight crews. Church argued that if there were nurses aboard, passengers would be less afraid to fly. She won the argument and was hired. A few years later, all of Boeing’s fright attendant crews were female nurses.

These days, the job of a flight attendant is often considered glamorous. In the early days, however, female flight attendants loaded luggage, transported fuel, and sometimes even pushed planes into the hangars at night. But their biggest achievement was in the service they provided. They made passengers feel more relaxed, and therefore safer, which encouraged people to fly more often.

Question 1.What led to the introduction of female flight attendants?

Numerous requests by airline passengers.
The lack of men becoming flight attendants.
A plan recommended by an airline pilot.
The efforts of a female nurse.

Question 2.According to the speaker, what was surprising about the first female flight attendants?

They had to do a lot of physical work.
They had to sleep in the plane hangars.
They were trained to repair the planes.
They could fly planes in an emergency.

語彙チェック

Staff：「スタッフ」は不可算名詞

Personnel：「人事の」

there were nurses aboard

aboard：副詞で、船舶や航空機などの乗り物に乗っている状態を示します。

win the argument：「議論に勝つ」

glamorous：「華やかな、魅力的な、」

load luggage：「荷物を積み込む」

transport：「を運ぶ」

hangar：「飛行機や他の航空機を格納するための建造物」

achievement：「功績」

解説「なぜ間違えたのか？」

英検でよくあるのですが、人の名前だと認識しにくいといことがあります。

今回のchurchさんもアレ？って思ったのではないでしょうか？

The first airlines to offer commercial passenger flights

不定詞の形容詞的用法で名詞を修飾するのは文法的にはわかるのですが、聞き取りで理解できましたか？

It wasn’t until Ellen Church, a nurse who also wanted to fly, proposed to Boeing’s personnel manager that women should be able to join the flight crews.この部分を聞き取ることはできましたか？

「エレン・チャーチは、看護師でありながら飛行もしたいと考えていたが、女性も乗務員になれるべきだとボーイングの人事マネージャーに提案したまで、女性が飛行クルーに加わることがなかった。」

「看護師でありながら飛行もしたかったエレン・チャーチが、ボーイングの人事マネージャーに女性も乗務員になれるべきだと提案してはじめて、女性が飛行クルーに加わりました。」

Q2　According to the speaker, what was surprising about the first female flight attendants?　を、本文中の具体的な描写：female flight attendants loaded luggage, transported fuel, and sometimes even pushed planes into the hangars at night.に気づき、抽象的に言い換えた1. They had to do a lot of physical work.と考えることができましたか？