NHKラジオ英会話のディクテーション「可算・不可算で意味が変わる名詞」L194 2023/1/19

Ohnishi: この間さぁ、あんまりテレビ見るもんないなぁと思ってね、1990年代ベストヒットを見てたらさぁ、その時から流行についていってないことが分かりました。

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。

Roza: Hey everyone. Akino Roza here. We’d better get going or will be late for our program.

Chris: Chris McVay here. Actually Roza, I have a dental appointment,  so yeah, we’d better get going indeed.

Ohnishi: それでは、さっそく始めていきましょう。

Chris: ダダン! practice time has come again. Today we are focusing on these unusual words which change their meaning depending on where they’re used in a countable way or a uncountable way. So, let’s look at a lot of examples here.

Here we go.

• We don’t have time to set it up now.
• Time is money.
• Do you have time to talk?
• It took me a long time to get there.
• How many times have I told you that?
• Did you have a good time a the party?

Roza: Let’s continue.

• This is made of glass.
• These are champagne glasses.
• I always wear glasses.

Chris: OK, another set.

• Can you put more paper in the printer?
• This story is in all the papers.

Roza: And our last few sentences with “work” and “works”.

• I did a lot of work today.
• Let’s get down to work.
• after work
• before work
• the complete works of Shakespeare
• This is one of Mozart’s earliest works.

Chris: Well done, everybody.

Roza: You guys did some great work.

Ohnishi: Hey Chris, you say “Red wine should be served in a large glass, right?

Chris: Yeah.

Ohnishi: Why is that?

Chris: Well, you know, in order to enjoy the full aroma and flavor of the red wine, it needs to be exposed to the air. So, you need a large glass and you never fill it close to the top.

Ohnishi: なるほど・・・というわけで、今日はこの辺で。

All: Bye.