NHKラジオ英会話のディクテーション「発言タイプ：指示①･･･命令文」L61 2023/7/3

Ohnishi: ラジオ英会話、ハートでつかめ英語の極意、講師の大西泰斗です。

今月取り上げる発言タイプは、指示そして依頼。先月に引き続き、人を動かすタイプの表現を学んでいきます。

Roza: Hey everyone. This is Akino Roza. I really appreciate you joining us today.

David: And I’m David Evans. It’s July already. Wow! all right guys, let’s have a great month.

Ohnishi: さぁそれでは、さっそく始めていきましょう。

David: OK everyone. It’s time for practice, are you ready to go?  OK, let’s listen to a few examples as I give you strong intonation versus light and soft intonation, maybe you can hear the difference. “Take off your shoes.” “Take off your shoes, please.” OK, now let’s practice together.

• Take off your shoes, please.
• Wash your hands, please.
• Empty your pockets, please.

Roza: Let’s do a few more. Here the endings to the sentences that we add like “OK?” or “will you?”, “yeah?”. They act to lighten the sentence. Let’s try together.

• Make sure to lock the door, OK?

Do you see how that immediately lighten the phrase? Let’s continue.

• Pass the soy sauce, will you?
• Pass the soy sauce, can you?
• Pass the soy sauce, yeah?
• Pass the soy sauce, would you?

David: OK, these next few use “don’t” for something you want to avoid them doing, so let’s practice these.

• Don’t play with your food.
• Don’t sit in this area.
• Don’t run with scissors.
• Don’t talk back.

Roza: OK, let’s try one last one. This one will user “never”, so let’s try with the serious tone.

• Never Leave the knife out like this.

One more time.

• Never Leave the knife out like this.

David: Hum, it’s scary.

Roza: Excellent work, guys.

David: Great work.

Ohnishi: Hey David, do you cook?

David: Oh yeah,  you know, in Japan they have the さしすせそ of cooking. I have the four essays S’es of David’s cooking, soup, salad, sauce and scrambled eggs, that’s about it.

Roza: Only one of those is the actual cooking, you know.

David: ???

Ohnishi: Good point, Roza. というわけで、今日はこの辺で。

All: Bye.