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Ikea Offers Help With Names

מאמר באנגלית לתרגול קריאה. כולל 5 מילים חדשות עם תרגום לעברית, 3 שאלות הבנת הנקרא, 5 שאלות לשיחה. מתאים לרמה בינונית.

Furniture company Ikea is offering to help parents find baby names. Choosing a new child’s name can be challenging and many parents consider several names before finally settling on the name their child is likely to keep for life. With several countries experiencing pandemic-related baby booms, a lot of parents are going through this process.

Enter Ikea’s Norway branch, which has published a list of potential names online. The list is an alphabetically arranged collection of the names of Ikea furniture. Ikea, a piece of giant furniture and home-decorating company from Sweden, often names their furniture after Swedish towns and geographical features, as well as uses names that are traditionally given to people.

The list includes the names of furniture models from as far back as the 1950s, like Balder, up to 2022’s Eirik. Some of the names, for example, Vanessa and Billy, are common names among English speakers. Others, such as Poäng, are known better as furniture models among Ikea fans.

Whether many people will consider naming their child after a piece of furniture is unclear. For people outside Scandinavia, the exact pronunciation of Ikea products is not always obvious, and pronunciation is something parents consider when naming children. One thing is clear - Ikea’s offer has brought them some free publicity.

מילים חדשות מהטקסט

  • Settle on /sɛtəl ɑn/ verb הסתפקו

    to choose by considering a few options

    The group has yet to settle on the new rules.

  • Boom /bum/ noun בּוּם

    a sudden increase

    The real estate boom after the pandemic.

  • Alphabetically /ælfəˈbɛtɪkli/ adverb לפי אלפביתי

    arranged according to the order of the letters in the alphabet.

    The names of the contest winners are listed alphabetically.

  • Pronunciation /prəˌnʌnsiˈeɪʃən/ noun מִבטָא

    the way a word sounds when spoken aloud

    English pronunciation is difficult.

  • Publicity /pəˈblɪsəti/ noun פִּרסוּם

    the attention that a person or product from the media

    I planned an exciting publicity campaign.

שאלות לשיחה

אין כאן תשובה נכונה — אלה שאלות לתרגול דיבור, לבד או מול מורה.

  1. Do you like your name? Why or why not?
  2. What names of other people do you like? Do you have a favorite?
  3. How did your parents choose your name(s)?
  4. What should parents think about when naming a child?
  5. Some people name their children after celebrities or politicians. Would you consider doing this? Why or why not?

בדקו את עצמכם

3 שאלות. בחרו תשובה וקבלו בדיקה מיד.

  1. What is the leading cause of Japan’s decline in population?

  2. What is Japan’s final measure to prevent low birth rates?

  3. Why Japan couples have fewer babies?

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