panku/パンク


Preview(腕試し)

Panku is the shortened form of an English word. What's the word?

My bicycle tire has a ____________ , so I can't ride it until I get it fixed.


A. punk

B. puncture

C. punkie

D. punctuation

 


QuickGlossary (用語辞典)

rear = 後ろの 

inner tube = チューブ


Examples(例文)

In Japanese, a tire puncture is called a panku (it sounds like "punk"). In English, a punk is either a very bad young man or a person who plays punk music--a punk rocker.

Atsushi's rear bike tire got a puncture when he was halfway to Kyoto. He had to push his bike ten kilometers before he found a bicycle repair shop.

Note that it is also quite common to say that a tire has a hole in it.

My back tire had a large hole in it, so I had to replace the tire and the inner tube.


Exercises (練習)


1. Please choose the best answer.

What is the adjective for "puncture"?

Atsushi: My rear tire has lost all of its air.

Kazuko: Maybe it is ____________ .

A. punk

B. puncture

C. punctured

 


2. Put the underlined words in the proper order in the box below.

(次の文章の下線の部分を正しい順番になおして下のボックスの中に入力して下さい。)

 

Satoshi: Would you like to take a bike ride today?

Mitsuko: Sorry, I can't. tire front bicycle a hole has my in it

 

Right?

 


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