Newspaper Discussion-4 (Just in case Somebody is absent)

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Katsuki Fujiuchi

Newspaper Article Discussion

“Hokkaido Bank Produces 100-Million-Yen Lottery Winners Again This Year.” The Hokkaido Shimbun Press 8 January 2009
http://www.hokkaido-np.co.jp/news/english/139439.html?_nva=40

Written Summary:
According to this article, The Hokkaido Bank announced on the 7th that its popular fixed deposit accounts that come complete with Year-end Jumbo Lottery tickets have produced 100-million-yen in prizewinning tickets. This is the third consecutive occasion that the fixed deposit accounts have produced prizewinning tickets worth 100 million yen or more, with a total of 300 million yen in prize-money in the 2007 Year-end Jumbo Lottery and another 300 million yen in the 2008 Summer Jumbo Lottery.
A batch of ten consecutive Year-end or Summer Jumbo Lottery tickets for every 2 million yen deposited into the account are sent to the account holders’ homes when the account matures (currently a 5-year period). This time approximately 687,000 tickets worth a total of 206 million yen were sent.
According to the Hokkaido Bank, the accounts produced one 3rd-prize ticket (5 million yen), forty-six 4th-prize tickets (100,000 yen) and seven tickets with 1st-prize numbers but with different group numbers (100,000 yen). There were also four winners of the Thanksgiving Prize (1 million yen), which was established to commemorate the Year-end Jumbo Lottery ’s 30th anniversary.
Hokkaido Bank is surprised that there are probably no other cases in which multi-millionaires have been produced on three consecutive occasions. The bank is calling for account holders to check their lottery ticket numbers.

Opinion Statements:
I think it is a very unique idea to give a lottery for their customer. Maybe I’ll change my bank account because the bank which I use is inconvenient in my hometown.

Questions:
1. Have you ever won a lottery? How many times?
2. Which bank do you use often?
3. What kind of lottery do you like the best?

Words
1.deposit「預金する」　2. account 「預金口座」　3. consecutive 「（一定順序で）連続した」　
4. lottery 「宝くじ、くじ引き」5.offering「提供」