NHKラジオ英会話のディクテーション「条件を表すフロー②：そうしなければ」L224 2023/3/2

Ohnishi: へぃいらっしゃい、ゆで卵マヨネーズサンドイッチ、いかがですか？

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: はーい、いっこお願いします。

Ohnishi: 毎度！

Roza: Hi everyone. Akino Roza here.

Chris: Hi everyone. Chris McVay here, just finishing slurping my noodles.

Roza: Well, well that’s normal in Japan, it’s not normal on Radio Eikaiwa.

Chris: Sorry.

Ohnishi: さぁそれでは、さっそく始めていきましょう。

Chris: OK guys, are you ready to practice? Today, let’s focus on ways to express negative conditions like “if not” or “unless” or “else”, “otherwise”.

OK, let’s go,

• Unless you wear a jacket and tie, you cannot enter this hotel.

Hum, this was happen to me a few times.

• Unless you wear a jacket and tie, you cannot enter this hotel.

And one more,

• Let’s meet outside the entrance, unless it’s raining.

Roza: Let’s continue,

• I’ll be surprised if you don’t pass the exam.

Let’s try that one more time,

• I’ll be surprised if you don’t pass the exam.

Chris: OK, continuing on,

• Hurry up, or we’ll miss the last train.
• Hurry up, or else we’ll miss the last train.

And the final one using “otherwise”,

• You’d better start right now. – Otherwise, you’ll never finish in time.

Once more for a good luck,

• You’d better start right now. – Otherwise, you’ll never finish in time.

Great job.

Roza: That was a wonderful practice session.

Ohnishi: Hey guys, what did you eat for breakfast today?

Chris: Well, I’m rather boring because I have almost the same thing everyday. I have cereals with banana, strawberries and blueberries, there you go.

Ohnishi: Luxurious, isn’t it?

Roza: Well, I don’t usually eat breakfast. Today, I had a light smoothie. What about you, Sensei?

Ohnishi: I always eat … たまごマヨネーズサンドイッチ、たまごマヨネーズサンドイッチいかがですか？

というわけで、今日はこの辺で。

All: Bye.