Standard Listening Speech - Level 5 Understanding conversations 今回のトピックは「簡単な文章を理解する」です。 文章は最初の主語と動詞のペアの部分で、主要な意味付けがなされます。 分の最初に出てくる主語・動詞の意味をしっかり理解できるようにしましょう。

1. Listening: Level 5

2. Understanding Conversation

3. Understanding Conversation
 Flow of conversation
 Conversational expressions
 How conversation changes with
situations
 How to ask questions
 How to ask for confirmation

4. Flow of English Conversation
English Japanese
A: Greeting (a question)
B: Greeting (a question)
A: Offering a topic to others
B: Offering a topic to others
A: Details about the topic
B: Details about the topic
A: Greeting
B: Greeting
A: Questions to others
B: Questions to others
A: A vague answer
B: A vague answer

5. Types of Sentences
Casual Business
Questions Do you know if/what~? Would you happen to know
if/what~?
Confirmation See you around 7, cool? So I'll be seeing you at 7:00
PM, right? Great.
Opinions Well, that's what I think. It's only an opinion, but ~.

6. Types of Sentences
Casual Business
Agreement (That) sounds good to
me.
What a great idea!
Underlying
Emotions
Can I call you later? We'll be in touch with you.

7. Acquiring Important
Grammar for Conversations
• Break down nominalized words
• Leads to smoother English
• Just translating isn’t enough

8. Acquiring Important
Grammar for Conversations
• Without proper grammar,
expressions wont make sense
• Relative pronouns give detail

9. Acquiring Important
Grammar for Conversations
1. Relative Pronouns
Sentence 1: In this case, we need agreement of all
project related people.
Sentence 2: In this case, we need to have the
agreement of all people who are involved in this
project.

10. Acquiring Important
Grammar for Conversations
2. Prepositions and Infinitives
Prepositions
Example: 私には、赤毛の娘がいます。
Unnatural English: I have a red hair's daughter.
Natural English: I have a daughter with red hair.

11. Acquiring Important
Grammar for Conversations
2. Prepositions and Infinitives
"To ~" Infinitives
Vague English: "Itadakimasu" is a Japanese phrase
for expressing appreciation.
Clear English: "Itadakimasu" is a Japanese phrase
used before eating a meal to express appreciation
for your food.

12. Understanding Conversation

13. Listening : Level 5