「to」を使いすぎないで、動詞を直接使うと自然になる

次回のフォーカス

動詞の前に「to」をつけないで直接使ってみて

理由「to」を多用すると不自然な表現になることがあるから

達成動詞を直接使って、より自然なフレーズが言えるようになる

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今日のいちばん良かった一文

I totally agree with you, so many Japanese people should take a nap.

良かったポイント

◆相手の意見をしっかり受け入れている
◆「so many Japanese people should take a nap」で具体的な提案をしている
◆フレーズが流れるように自然

定着させたい型: 「I totally agree with you, [具体的な提案]」の型

改善ポイント

(1件)

文法· 動詞の使い方気になる

あなたが言った

“people shouldn't to use smartphone”

言いたかったこと

人々はスマートフォンを使うべきではない

課題

動詞の前に「to」をつける必要がない

✨ こう言えば自然

People shouldn't use smartphones.

他の言い方

中立
“People shouldn't use smartphones.”
標準的で自然な表現

なぜ間違えやすいか

日本語では「〜すること」という表現が多いため、英語でも「to」を多用しがち。

覚えておきたい原則

動詞を直接使うことで、より自然な英語になる。

次回のアクション

次回は「to」を省いて動詞を直接使う練習をしてみて。

関連する例文

· I want to sleep. → I want sleep.
· He needs to eat. → He needs eat.

もっとこう言えた場面

間違いではなく、より自然に言えたはずの瞬間

日本の夏休みの話をしていた時

あなたが言った

“It is July to August, July to August is the normal summer vacation in my country, yeah.”

こう言うとより自然

· In my country, summer vacation is usually from July to August.
· Summer vacation in my country typically runs from July to August.

より自然で流れるような文構造になり、情報が整理されて伝わるから。

今日のまとめ

会話の流れは良かったけど、動詞の使い方で少し引っかかるところがあったね。「to」を使いすぎると不自然に聞こえることがあるから、次回はそこを意識してみて。全体的には、話しやすい雰囲気を作れていたのが良かったよ。

良かった点

◆質問を返すことで会話を続ける力があった。これで相手の話を引き出せたね。
◆「I totally agree with you」などのフレーズで、相手の意見をしっかり受け入れていたのが良かった。

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294 発話

先生Good morning, nice to see you again.

自分Oh, good morning.

自分Can you hear me?

先生I can, can you hear me?

自分Yeah, I can hear you clearly, yeah.

先生Oh, but I'm in my parents house now.

先生I'm in my hometown.

自分Oh, you are visiting your hometown.

先生Yeah.

先生I've been staying here for, I think one month because it's, um, uh, how

自分Yeah.

先生does a summer vacation for kids?

自分Wow.

先生They didn't go to school.

先生So yeah.

自分Oh, with your family, kids, and that?

先生Uh, yeah, only me and my kids.

自分Ah, I see, I see, so nice summer vacation, yeah.

先生Yeah.

先生We're staying here.

自分When will you come back to your house?

先生Yeah.

先生Hopefully next month.

先生Yeah.

自分Oh, next month.

先生Yeah.

自分Yeah, so long time.

先生Yeah.

先生It's been a long time, actually.

先生Last lesson was, let me check.

自分Yeah.

先生Um, yeah.

先生Last February.

先生It's been like almost two months.

先生Yeah.

自分Yeah, almost two months, yeah.

自分Oh, I see, I see.

先生Yes.

自分So, you usually visit to your hometown sometimes, sometimes.

先生Yeah.

先生When we have, um, when there's like special occasions or yeah, when we have

先生time, yeah, just like summer vacation.

自分Yeah.

自分Oh, so nice, so nice.

先生Yeah.

先生This is actually our second time to be here in this year.

自分Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, I see.

先生I can try.

自分So, it is common.

先生Yes.

先生Close.

自分Is it common to have summer vacation in this season?

先生Yeah.

先生Usually.

先生So especially, um, students do summer vacation going through their relatives.

自分Oh.

先生Yeah.

先生Or spending their summer vacation with their relatives, grandparents, or even

自分Yeah.

先生some are trying to do like starting a summer job.

自分Ah.

先生Yeah.

自分Yeah, in Japan, in Japan, so we have also summer vacation.

先生Yeah.

自分It is July to August, July to August is the normal summer vacation in my country, yeah.

先生Yeah.

先生Hmm.

先生I see.

先生All right.

先生Oh, are you going to work today?

先生Shaw?

自分Ah, yes, yes, exactly, I will work after this lesson, yes, it's normal work, normal weekday,

先生That's great.

先生Yeah.

自分normal weekday, yeah.

先生Yeah.

先生I see.

先生Okay.

先生Thank you.

先生Again, let's start the lesson.

先生Okay.

自分Okay.

先生Yeah.

先生Let's do the topic you have here.

先生Five minute discussions, sleep and stress.

自分Yeah.

先生Okay.

先生Let's start with the first topic.

先生Sleep.

先生I'll have the questions.

自分Okay.

先生Okay.

先生Why is sleep important?

自分Oh, so, I think, I definitely, sleep is so important things, because if we don't have

自分enough time to sleep, people couldn't control on motivation and on engagement, on engagement,

先生Hmm.

自分and people couldn't focus working and doing on self.

自分So, it is so hard who don't have enough time to sleep.

自分So, it will become stressful, so stressful, people don't enough time sleeping.

自分I think so, yeah, that's why.

先生Yeah.

先生Yes.

先生All right.

先生So I can agree with what you said.

先生So when you don't get enough sleep,

先生it makes you feel tired the next day, sleepy.

自分Yeah.

先生You feel so unproductive.

先生You're not motivated to do such things or to work, right?

先生So it can cause a bad effect to your health as well, yeah,

自分Yeah.

自分Yeah, exactly, yeah.

先生and your daily activity, yeah.

自分Yeah, yeah, yeah, so people can protect on health life, health life, good, for good health.

先生Yeah.

先生Okay.

先生Hmm.

先生I see.

自分Yeah, and people couldn't, people can't concentrate, concentrate, can't concentrate on task, on job.

先生I see.

先生Okay.

先生How much sleep do you think everyone should have?

先生Hmm.

自分It's so hard, yeah.

先生Hmm.

自分Ah, so, in my case, it's for seven to eight hours in a day, yeah, it's my cycle, yeah.

先生Hmm.

自分How about you, how about you, how many times do you usually take sleeping?

先生So you mean?

先生Yeah, at night, usually six to seven.

自分Yeah, yeah, yeah.

先生Sometimes I get enough sleep, but I also take a nap on daytime,

自分Ah.

先生yeah, for two or three hours, yeah.

自分Oh, I see, so you define to take a nap every day.

先生Yeah.

先生Especially the summer vacations, I don't have to send and pick my daughter to school,

自分Yeah, yeah.

先生so I have more time to relax than, how do you say, if my daughter is going to go to

先生school, yeah.

自分Ah, I see, I see, so, you know, in my country, people don't have enough time to sleep, to sleep,

自分and people don't take a nap, don't take a nap, many people, many people, but I noticed that,

先生Oh yeah.

先生Hmm.

自分I noticed that non-Japanese people, many people take a nap every day, yeah.

自分So, but I think it is important thing to take a nap in the afternoon, in the afternoon, yeah,

先生Hmm.

先生Yeah.

自分so if people take a nap after that, people can concentrate, concentrate, yeah, I think so.

先生Yeah, yeah, yeah.

先生Yes, but not everyone can take a nap.

先生Especially those who only have like one hour lunch break and some also,

自分Oh, yeah,

先生especially Japanese,

先生they have to work overtime like 12 hours or over 10 hours a day.

先生So they don't have much time to relax.

自分yeah, yeah.

先生So, but when you take a nap, like you feel so good,

自分Yeah, exactly, yeah, yeah, exactly, yeah, I totally agree with you, so many Japanese people

先生you get more energy and you feel like you're motivated enough.

先生And yeah, you regain energy and also boost your mood after waking up.

先生Yeah.

自分should take a nap, yeah, during lunchtime, yeah, in the morning, ah, sorry, in the afternoon, yeah.

先生Yes.

先生Yeah.

先生Okay.

先生What makes a good sleeping environment for you?

自分Ah, so, ah, in my case, it is, ah, can keep, can keep lifestyle, can keep lifestyle,

自分eating healthy food, exercising, so it is affect to good sleep, affect to good sleep,

先生Hmm.

自分so if I, if I don't, if I don't exercise or running and going to gym, I couldn't, I couldn't,

先生Yeah.

自分ah, sorry, I couldn't sleep, I couldn't sleep soon, after, after go to bed, as,

自分ah, after go to bed, I couldn't sleep as soon, yeah.

先生I see.

先生All right.

先生Some people would improve their sleeping habit by, yeah,

先生some would prefer a dark room.

先生Of course, peaceful, not noisy environment.

自分Yeah, yeah, exactly, yeah, so nice, important things, yeah, yeah, yeah, so,

先生Yeah.

先生You can have it.

先生Yeah.

自分ah, I saw, I thought, ah, near, ah, near will sleep, near will sleep, ah, I, I shouldn't, I shouldn't

先生Hmm.

自分to use the smartphone, you should use smartphone, so, ah, it is, ah, bad habit to sleep, people want to

先生Hmm.

自分sleep, ah, as soon, as soon, people shouldn't to use smartphone, yeah.

先生Hmm.

先生I see, I see.

先生Okay.

先生Next here, do you talk in your sleep or sleepwalk?

自分Yeah.

先生Hmm.

自分Ah, so, so, could you, could you explain more, please? Do you talk? Yeah.

先生Okay.

自分Yeah, do you talk in your sleep? Ah, okay, ah, okay, okay, yeah, I understand, yeah, yeah.

先生Do you talk in your sleep?

先生Yeah.

先生In the chat box, I put the question there.

先生Some people like, yeah, murmuring while they are sleeping.

自分Ah, I don't talk, I don't talk, ah, in my sleep time, yeah, so, but my wife sometimes,

先生Hmm.

自分sleep, ah, sometimes, sometimes talk in sleep, yeah, yeah, yeah, how about you, yeah?

先生Hmm.

先生While sleeping.

先生Do you snore?

先生Yeah.

先生My husband tells me, yeah, I talk while I'm sleeping,

自分Yeah.

先生but I don't actually agree with him.

自分Yeah.

先生Like, I feel like I'm not doing it, but he always told me that, yeah,

先生I did that when I was, yeah, during sleeping time.

自分Yeah, yeah, yeah.

先生Yeah.

先生But maybe it's possible, but I don't know what's the reason with talking,

自分Yeah, yeah, I see, I see, so, what kind of topic, ah, in sleep, ah, in your sleep? Yeah, let me see, yeah.

先生yeah, while sleeping.

先生Anything.

先生Yeah.

先生I don't actually know why it happens.

自分Yeah, yeah, ah, yeah, you are thinking about this topic too much, maybe?

先生I don't have any idea.

先生Yeah.

先生Maybe, maybe.

先生Maybe it's the reason.

自分Yeah, yeah, yeah.

先生Yeah, but I don't really know.

先生Yeah, but maybe it's true because I think he wouldn't say that if I'm not doing,

先生yeah, that.

自分Yeah.

先生But I snore a lot while I'm sleeping.

先生Yeah, I snore a lot.

自分Ah.

先生So loud.

先生No time.

自分Yeah, yeah, ah, oh, we don't have time, yeah, thank you very much, yeah,

先生Thank you, Shlo.

先生Have a nice day.

自分have a nice day, have a good vacation, yeah, bye.

先生Yeah.

先生Thank you.

先生Bye.

先生Yeah.

先生Thank you.

先生Bye.

自分Bye.