NHKラジオ英会話のディクテーション「発言タイプ：提案する①･･･気軽な提案」L41 2023/6/5

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。

今月は、提案・申し出・アドバイス・約束など、相手や自分自身をある行為に動かすタイプの表現を学習していきます。

Roza: Hey everyone. This is Akino Roza. Hey David, why don’t we go to Mt. Takao. I’d like to write haiku there.

David: Wow, I’m a huge fun of haiku so, let’s go to do that soon. Hi everyone. I’m David Evans. June is one of my favorite month because I love to see the hydrangeas. アジサイ、きれいですよね。

Ohnishi: さぁそれでは、さっそく始めましょう。

Roza: In America, most people just use the regular past tense. So, it stopped raining.

Roza: That’s right.

Roza: OK guys. Let’s practice giving suggestions. It’s good if you can use a high tone when you say these sentences out loud.

David: OK, this firstly used “how about”, so you have two options here. One is a quick, “how about a picnic”. The second option is to use “how about” to buy time to think of your suggestion. So, let’s try this slow one first, OK?

• How about a picnic?

OK, now let’s speed it up.

• How about a picnic?

Good. Let’s try a few more.

• How about taking the Shinkansen?
• How about we go to the zoo?

Nice work.

Roza: Excellent. Let’s continue. Here we will use “why don’t we” and “maybe we can”, so keep that in mind. Let’s go.

• Why don’t we split the bill?
• Why don’t we ask your mother?
• Why don’t we meet the station.
• Maybe we can meet at the station.

Excellent.

David: All right. Let’s practice with “let’s”.

• Let’s dance.
• Let’s not fight.
• Let’s not argue.

Roza: Wonderful. And one last example, I’m sure you all have heard.

• Shall we dance?

Let’s try that one more time and focus on smoothness.

• Shall we dance?

Hey David, shall we tell our listeners how great they did?

David: I think that’s a great idea. Let’s do that. Great work every one!

Roza: Fantastic!

Ohnishi: Hey guys. Let’s get out of here. I’m hungry.

David: You are always hungry, aren’t you Ohnishi-Sensei?

Ohnishi: というわけで、今日はこの辺で。

All: Bye.