1. Answer the question:
Do you have playgrounds like this one in your city/town? Are they popular?
2. Read the article and aswer the question: What is Fantasy Kids Resort?
Japan's children play safe
When Ryosuke and Taemi Suzuki take their 18-month-old daughter to Fantasy Kids Resort in Japan, they are guaranteed total peace of mind. Fantasy Resort is one of several similar playgrounds in Japan that provides for the growing number of parents who constantly worry about possible dangers threatening their children such as disease and accidents.
First-time visitors to the playground must provide proof of identification before they enter, and shoes must be removed at the door, because they carry germs. Even the wheels of baby-buggies are sprayed with an antibacterial solution.
Inside, children are watched over by about 20 staff dressed in bright yellow uniforms and more than a dozen security cameras are mounted on the ceiling. Although pets are banned from the playground, its large sandpit contains sterilized sand which is cleaned daily to remove any potentially harmful objects. Most of the bigger toys are inflatable to reduce the risk of injury. This is to protect the resort as much as the children, because parents of a child injured while at the playground might easily sue the resort.
'We've been here before and we'll definitely come again,' says Mr Suzuki. 'This place has everything under one roof, but most importantly, it puts absolute priority on safety.'
Mr and Mrs Suzuki are not alone in wanting to remove just about every element of risk from their children's lives.
3. Match the words from the text with their definitions.
to sue peace of mind a playground a germ a baby-buggy a solution a dozen to mount a sandpit inflatable to put absolute priority safety
- ... to formally ask for something, especially in court
- ... absence of mental stress
- ... an outdoor area provided for children to play in, especially at a school or public park
- ... a very small organism that causes disease
- ... a small folding seat with wheels, which a young child can sit in and which can be pushed around
- ... a liquid in which a solid substance has been dissolved
- ... a group or set of twelve
- ... If you mount an object on something, you fix it there firmly
- ... a shallow hole or box in the ground with sand in it where small children can play
- ... an object that you fill with air when you want to use it
- ... to consider as the most important
- ... the state of being safe from harm or danger
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