即レス英会話リスニング徒然草 Review 11

slug ナメクジ

本日はChit-chat time です。Today the lesson has Chit-Chat time.

Ｈ：So Alisa, uh have you ever got lost very badly?

Ａ：You know what, yes.  

Ｈ： Yeah.

Ａ： So I used to drive in America...

Ｈ： Alright.

Ａ： Yeah, so my friend and I were on a road trip, 　車の旅行

Ｈ： Hmm.

Ａ： We were supposed to go to Utah.

Ｈ： Aha.

Ａ： From Las Vegas.

Ｈ： From Vegas, OK.

Ａ： So I was driving, and the highways are so confusing.

Ｈ： Ah.

Ａ： Yeah, ‘cause the, so many signs, so many changing signs, 

Ｈ： OK.

Ａ： And so I went on the freeway, keep going for about an hour and a half

Ｈ： Aha.

Ａ： I’ve realized I was driving toward a different state.

Ｈ： Hahahaha

Ａ： How about you?

Ｈ： Well, uh it’s about fifteen years ago, going to an audition,  OK?

Ａ： Oh, OK.

Ｈ： And fifteen years ago, we didn’t have smartphones, right?

Ａ： Ah.

Ｈ： So then we have a fax, and I’m trying to get there, just couldn’t find it.

Ａ： Oh.

Ｈ： I’m five minutes late.

Ａ： Oh no.

Ｈ： And ten minutes late. And half an hour late.

Ａ： Ha.

Ｈ： Then I’m an hour late.

Ａ： No.

Ｈ： I get there, my manager are screaming up me down the phone, but somehow I got the job.

Ａ： Really.

Ｈ： Yeah.

Ａ： Oh, congratulations to old Harry さん.

Ｈ： どういうこと？ははは。

Ａ： ははは。

今回は過去の出来事を現在形で表現して”臨場感”を出していましたね。This time they express the past events by using present tense for the “presence.”

勉強になりますね。Good studies, yeah?

では～　Then see you soon.