英会話 - English USA [Lesson L56P2]

English USA
Lesson 56, Part 2

1.	Part 1に引き続き、肩書や敬称をつけて人を紹介する練習をします。マーティンは近隣の住民たちと、自分たちの住む地域の環境をきれいにするためにグループを作ろうとしています。

	This is English USA, on the Voice of America. Now, Lesson 56, Part 2.

	HARVEY:	Pardon me. What did you say Ms. Johnson?
	MS. JOHNSON:	Call me Cynthia, please. I said, What will we call the organization.
	HARVEY:	I don't know. What does everyone think?
	EDITH:	Let's call it Community Led Environmental Action Now.
	MALE:	That's too long.
	MS. JOHNSON:	I like environmental.
	MARTIN:	We can call it CLEAN. C for Community, L for Led, E for Environmental, A for Action, and N for Now.
	LOUIS:	I don't like clean. Our neighborhood isn't dirty. We don't need to clean it. We need to make it--neat.
	MARTIN:	That could be Needed Environmental Action Today. NEAT.
	MALE:	Or maybe Necessary Environmental Action Today. It's still N-E-A-T. NEAT.
	HARVEY:	I like that. Let's vote on that name. NEAT. All of those in favor of NEAT raise your hand. Good. That's everybody. The organization has a name. Now, let's vote on some officers.
	MS. JOHNSON:	Can you tell us what you do? Professor Hill, what do you do?
	EDITH:	I'm Edith Hill. I teach psychology at the university. I also work at the public clinic on the south side of the city.
	MALE:	We need a psychologist. You know how to make people behave.
	FEMALE:	We need Martin too. He's a writer. He can write anything we need.
	MARTIN:	We need Harvey. He's a businessman.
	MALE:	He can pay for it!
	HARVEY:	Oh, no. I can't pay for it, but I can help.
	MS. JOHNSON:	Dr. Sanders can speak about health and the environment.
	FEMALE:	Ms. Johnson is a teacher. She can help Martin write things for children in school.

　

2.

　

大勢の人が集まっている場で人を紹介するときには、名前に肩書や敬称をつけたり、どんな職業についているのか、どんな仕事をしているのかを告げることが多いです。

　

MARTIN:

This is Mr. Harvey Mountain. He's a businessman.

　

　

This is Ms. Cynthia Johnson. She's a teacher.

　

　

This is Professor Edith Hill. She's a psychologist.

　

　

This is Dr. Louis Sanders. He's a medical doctor.

　

3.

　

これからマーティンがあなたにこのレッスンに出てきた人たちの名前を告げます。あなたはその人をThis is +肩書/敬称＋名前というように紹介してください。その後、ストーリーは続きます。

　

MARTIN:

Cynthia Johnson.

　

YOU:

[This is Ms. Cynthia Johnson]

　

　

　

　

MARTIN:

Harvey Mountain.

　

YOU:

[This is Mr. Harvey Mountain]

　

　

　

　

MARTIN:

Edith Hill.

　

YOU:

[This is Professor Edith Hill]

　

　

　

　

MARTIN:

Louis Sanders.

　

YOU:

[This is Dr. Louis Sanders]

　

　

　

　

HARVEY:

Excuse me. Quiet please. We have a lot of work. We must have officers. Then we must decide what to do next.

　

FEMALE:

I nominate Martin for secretary. He can write.

　

MALE:

I nominate Harvey for treasurer. He knows about money.

　

HARVEY:

Martin, can you write these down for us, please. Any more nominations?

　

MARTIN:

We need more. We need a president.

　

MALE:

I nominate Edith for president. We need a psychologist for president.

　

HARVEY:

Any more nominations? I think we need more.

　

MALE:

That's enough. Let's vote.

　

HARVEY:

Can we do that? We have only one nomination for each officer.

　

MS. JOHNSON:

Yes, we only need one.

　

HARVEY:

All right. All in favor of the nominated officers raise your hands. Good. We now have a name, and we have officers. Edith, you are the new president. You go on.

　

EDITH:

Thank you. Let's begin with Webster Park. It's very crowded. It's not very clean.

　

LOUIS:

It's not very neat.

　

EDITH:

It has paper, glass bottles, and trash.

Lesson 56, Part 2はこれで終わりです。

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English USA L56P2
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