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買い物をするときに店員に商品について尋ねる表現を学びます。マーティンは娘のスーのため小さなラジオを買いに電器店に来ています。

CLERK:

Hello.

MARTIN:

Can you help me? Do you have radios?

CLERK:

We certainly do.

MARTIN:

I want to buy my daughter a radio.

CLERK:

What kind of radio?

MARTIN:

I'm looking for a small radio.

CLERK:

How old is your daughter?

MARTIN:

She's fourteen.

CLERK:

Do you want a CD player?

MARTIN:

No. Only a radio.

CLERK:

Excuse me. Look at these radios. I'm going to answer the phone.

CLERK:

Sorry.

MARTIN:

That's OK. Can you help me now? This radio is twenty-nine dollars. This one is thirty-seven. And this one is fifty-eight.

CLERK:

That's right.

MARTIN:

What's the difference?

CLERK:

The twenty-nine and the thirty-seven dollar radios are about the same. This one looks better. The more expensive one plays with batteries and with electricity.

MARTIN:

And the twenty-nine dollar one?

CLERK:

It only plays with batteries.

MARTIN:

I see. Tell me about the fifty-eight dollar radio.

CLERK:

It sounds better. It has better speakers. Does your daughter listen to music?

MARTIN:

She likes music very much.

CLERK:

It's better for music. Listen to this.

CLERK:

Isn't that nice? Also the tuning is easier.

MARTIN:

What do you mean?

CLERK:

The expensive radio has large dials for tuning. See how easy it is. The other radios have very small dials. They aren't easy to turn.

MARTIN:

She has smaller fingers.

CLERK:

That's right.

MARTIN:

May I try?

CLERK:

Of course. Excuse me a moment. I'm going to help these people. Look at the larger radios too.

CLERK:

Do you like that?

MARTIN:

It's good. Show me what this does.

CLERK:

That's for an antenna. But you won't need it. It has an antenna inside. That's for an antenna outside.

MARTIN:

Can you show me some larger radios?

CLERK:

Of course.

MARTIN:

Are they more expensive?

CLERK:

Some larger radios are not expensive. Some are expensive. How much do you want to pay?

MARTIN:

I don't know. I don't want to pay more than a hundred dollars.

CLERK:

OK. Let's look at these three radios. This one is forty-six dollars. This one is fifty-nine dollars. And this one is ninety-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents.

MARTIN:

Ninety-nine ninety-nine is too expensive.

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人に手助けを依頼する表現を覚えておくと旅行や買い物そのほかいろいろな場合に便利です。これまでのレッスンでも"Please show me. Tell me please. Please write it for me."（見せてください。教えてください。書いてください。）などを学びました。 買い物などの際に使う最も簡単な頼み方は次のような表現です。

MARTIN:

I want to buy a radio. Can you help me?

I want to look at this radio. Can you help me now?