Greetings, students. Now that you’re in Year 3 of your American English studies, you will be able to read, and listen about one of VOA’s “Arts and Culture” articles, which explore music, pop culture, society, and life in the United States of America as well as in countries all over the world. You are encouraged to carefully read the article and the vocabulary words, as well as listen to the article. Finally, you are invited to share what you learned by discussing why this article is important and meaningful in the comments section below.
Directions: Read the article and study the vocabulary below.
Directions: Listen to the audio recording of the article.
Directions: Share your insights about why this article is meaningful and important by writing in the comments section below.
About the Author
Lesson 3.35.4: Year 3
Arts & Culture
”Meet the 10-year-old,85 Kilograms Sumo Wreslter ”.
Sumo is form of full- contact wrestling, where the wrestlers try to push each other out of a circular ring or make them touch the ground with any body part other than their feet.
Kyuta Kumayar is a 10-year- old Sumo Wrestler from Tokyo, Japan. He is the world champion in under 10 category and weighs 85 Kilograms. He trains six days a week and eats a high calorie diet to gain more weight. Although his training and diet is very much expensive, but his father says, he does not gamble. Instead, he is betting everything on his son. he hopes to become a Yokozuna or grand champion in the future. He is a talented and dedicated young athlete, who loves to beat older opponents.
Kyuta is a shy boy of few words, when the reporter of association press asked him, he likes to wrestler, his answer was simple,” It is fun to beat people older than me”.