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Hi, I’m Sarah. Welcome to The Daily English Show.

Today’s guest is Nick. He’s from somewhere near Philadelphia, in the United States. He’s been teaching English in Japan for five years. And he currently teaches young children at an English school in Hokkaido.

I met him at the JALT conference last month and I asked him what he enjoyed most about teaching.

At its best moments I, I enjoy watching students, ah, get to goals that we’ve set together. Um, or, actually, the most rewarding is watching the student get to the goals that they set by themselves. Um, when you’re lucky enough to have two or three years with the same student – cause I teach mostly young kids - you’re actually watching, um, their growth not only as an English speaker, but as a human being, which is very rewarding.

 　一番の楽しみは、生徒たちと一緒に決めた目標を達成した時です。　いや、それより最高の褒美は、生徒たち自身が決めた目標を達成したときです。　私は低学年を受け持っているので、幸運にも同じ生徒を２年３年見られた時は、英語だけではなく人としての成長過程を見られるので、それは最高の報いです。








STICK NEWS

Kia Ora in Stick News today Three Greedy Old Men and a Pretty Princess have just won lotto in New Zealand.


Four people in Dunedin, New Zealand formed a lotto syndicate. They called themselves, “Three Greedy Old Men and a Pretty Princess”. They all work in a factory for a company called Fisher & Paykel. In April, the company announced it would be closing the factory and 430 workers would lose their jobs – including the Three Greedy Old Men and the Pretty Princess. Last Saturday, the Pretty Princess brought a lotto ticket for the group. They’ve been playing lotto with the same numbers for seven years. This time they won. They said they planned to pay off mortgages, upgrade cars, travel and semi-retire with the money.

And that was Stick News for Monday the 24th of November.
Kia Ora.

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conversations with sarah

　Why did you come to this conference?

Sarah
Why did you come to this conference?
　この会議の参加目的は？

Nick
Ah, well, I’m teaching young children English and I’d like to get my way back up the age scale. So, I’m kind of curious in developments, particularly in the self-access. Self-access is something that I have a strong interest in and I wanted to see this keynote speaker.
　私は低学年の子供に英語を教えていますが、これから大人に教えていきたいと考えています。　そこで今興味があるのは独学についてです。　独学には何か強い興味を抱いていて、キーノートの話が聞きたかったのです。

Sarah
What advice do you have for people who are studying English?
　英語学習者にどんなアドバイスがありますか？

Nick
Ask yourself why you want to learn English. I don’t think most people really have a concrete idea, aside that it’s a class that they’re required to take. And the difference between students I’ve seen succeed and students I’ve seen flounder, is a clear sense of what they want to do with, ah, with English, so …
　英語をなぜ学ぶのかを自分自身に問いかけましょう。　ほとんどの人は具体的な考え無しに、ただ授業だから受けていると思います。　英語学習で成功する学生とそうでない学生の違いは、英語を使って何をしたいかにかかってるのです。

Sarah
What songs or movies do you recommend for studying English?
　英語学習にふさわしいお勧めの歌、または映画はありますか？

Nick
Well, personally favourite singers are Simon & Garfunkel. Um, they, I think Paul Simon, their diction is rather clean, so it’s relatively easy even for non-native speakers to understand. And the content of the songs, I think, is kind of meaningful for older students.
Um, as for movies, ah, I got a kick out of Batman, the recent Batman series. Um, I don’t know, movies are a little different because, ah, although I think they’re valuable, ah, different people enjoy different genres, and so it’s really hard … I mean personally I like the, the hero type of, you know, difficult, difficult crisis resolved by the end. So that for me is very meaningful. Whereas, for someone who’s not interested in that, they won’t get much English out of that.
Ah, but the main thing I say with, with movies is … I always tell students, “avoid science fiction”. Ah, just too many words you’ll never use. And, ah, and, ah, avoid, um, 24 which also has too many words they’ll never use. Try to think of something … for example, when I study Japanese, one of the better movies I’ve watched is, ah, is となりのトトロ　(Tonari No Totoro). And because the majority of the movie is about a family spending time, you know … and so you don’t really get lost in words that you’ll never … the core of the movie is that family. And in the same … I just don’t know many movies off the top of my head in English like that, because I like Batman, so …
　個人的に好きなのはサイモン＆ガーファンクルです。　ポール・サイモンの言い回しはとてもキレイなので、ノン・ネイティブにとっても比較的理解しやすいでしょう。　それに歌詞の内容も成熟しているので、高学年の生徒にも良いと思います。
　映画ですが、私自身は最近のバットマン・シリーズにはまっています。　人それぞれ映画に対する価値観や好みのジャンルが異なるので、お勧めの映画を紹介するのはとても難しいです。　個人的にはヒーロー物語の、数々の困難を最終的に乗り切るのが好きです。　私にとってこのような映画はとても有意義です。　が、人によっては映画から英語をあまり学べないかもしれません。　お勧め映画の一番のポイントは、生徒に良く言っていますが「SF映画を避ける」ことです。　ほとんど使わない言葉が多すぎるからです。　加えて「２４（トゥエンティーフォー）」も同じく、普段ほとんど使わない言葉が溢れています。　こう考えてみてはどうでしょうか。　私は日本語を勉強しているとき「となりのトトロ」という良い映画を観ました。　なぜなら家族を描いた大衆映画なので、言葉が完全に分からなくてもチンプンカンプンにならずに済みます。　まあ私はバットマンで頭がいっぱいになっちゃうような人間だから、良い映画はよく分かりません。









サラのメモ：
flounder v. have trouble doing or understanding something

diction n.
1. the choice and use of words in speech or writing
2. the style of enunciation in speaking or singing

get a kick out of something idiom
to enjoy something very much









knfの独り言：
ニックは落ち着いた思慮深い人でした。










Show 896 Monday 24 November
The Daily English Show
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