教え子の１年目教師から、教科書の英文をどう英語で説明したらよいか質問された、その回答を載せます。
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教科書の文： On the back cover of the final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on.
On the back cover of the final issue was a photograph.On the back over of the final issue (=last issue), there was a
photograph (=picture)
A photograph was on the back cover of the final issue.
It was a photograph of what?
a photograph of a road.
What was the time? Morning or evening?
Yes, morning.
It was a photograph of a country road, not a city road, taken in the morning.
What kind of a road was it?
A road that you want to run along?
A road that you want to drive on in a car?
A road that you want to hitchhike on?
If you hitchhike, you walk on the road, waiting for a car to pick you up.
It was a road that you might be hitchhiking on. ヒッチハイクしたくなるような感じの道路、だよ。
You might find yourself hitchhiking on the road. であるような感じの道路、だよ。
教科書本文： Steve Jobs, who started Apple, is one of those whose road to success has had many turns.
Steve Jobs, who started Apple, was one of those people.
Those people? What kind of people?
Those people whose road to success has had many turns.
We are talking about people who succeed in life. People who become rich and famous.
Among those people who succeed in life, there are two types of people.
Type 1 is people who succeed immediately. (と言って、しゅっ、というジェスチャー） those
people who begin their job and become famous and rich very soon,
without any turns (といって、曲がりくねる様子を手で表現）
These people's road to success is very straight, without any turns.
They just go straight and they succeed. They are lucky people!
Type 2 is people who succeed after many troubles, many ups and downs
（と言ってジェスチャー）. They get into troubles, and they may want to give up
sometimes, but they keep trying, and after many ups and downs and
turns (といってジェスチャー）、they succeed at last （といって、おおげさにガッツポーズ）.
Jobs was once fired by the company he started himself. His life was
not an easy life. He succeeded in the end, but his road to success
was not a straight road. It had may ups and downs, many turns.
He was one of that type of people. . people whose road to success had many turns.
