中高生の基礎英語 24/5/13(月) T4-D1 How do you get to school? どんな方法で学校に通っていますか?
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中高生の基礎英語 24/5/13(月) T4-D1 How do you get to school? どんな方法で学校に通っていますか?
-New Words, New Phrases
just in time
at the last minute
as long as possible
-Conversation Strategy
in other words
to put it another way
いずれも I’ll say the same thing again using different words. と同じ意味で、 その前に言ったことを相手にわかりやすく説明したいときに使えます。
例)
I’m a movie buff. In other words, I love movies.
I’ma bookworm. To put it another way, I love to read books.
get to
to arrive at, to reach
on the way
while going from one place to another; = along the way
hurry
to do something or move quickly
improve
to make something better, to become better at something
disagree
to have a different opinion or idea
buff
fan, maniac
give it a go
to try it
format
way
♪ Topic 4, Day 1.
Let’s warm up by chatting about this week’s topic, which is: How do you get to school?
How do you get to school?
There are many different ways that a student might get to school and home again after school.
And there’re many different things that they might do on the way to school.
So, this week, listeners, we’ll talk about this topic: How do you get to school?
Moeno, on Day 5, you’ll tell us how you get to school, how long it takes, and what you usually do on the way.
Okay.
Okay. Now, let’s move on to this week’s dialogue.
At school, classes are about to begin. Jake hurries into the classroom and takes his seat at the desk in front of Ayaka.
Let’s listen to what they say.
-Dialogue
Moeno, what words did you catch?
“Train.”
Mm-hmm, good.
“A bus.”
“A bus.”
Uh-huh, yes.
Yes.
And “study.”
Ah. “Study.” Good job.
Yeah. Good. Jake says, “Ta-da!” when he arrives. You can say or sing, “Ta-da!” when something special happens. It’s supposed to sound like the music you might hear at the end of a magic trick.
Right. Ta-da! And Jake also says, “Nah.” “Nah” is a casual way of saying “no.”
Right. Okay. We’ll find out more about the things Jake and Ayaka say on Day 2 and Day 3.
-New Words, New Phrases
Today’s first phrase is: just in time.
just in time.
Yeah. “To be just in time” means “to be almost late – but not late.”
For example, if classes start at 8:30, and you arrive at 8:29 or right at 8:30, you are just in time.
Yeah. In the dialogue, Jake hurries into the classroom just before the start of classes, and Ayaka says…
“You’re just in time.”
