「楽しい英会話」の会記録(20221019)

1.Today’s lesson is the text book, 'Touchstone3'  unit5 'Food choice’

(1) A question of taste

What is the difference of 'full' and 'filling'?

That's whether the subject is person or thing.

- I ate fries, and I was full.  

- I ate salad, but it was not filling enough.

(2)Whatever you’re having

- Either one is fine,  Either way is fine.

- What kind of character do you think Kayla has? I think she looks modest.

2.Here a talk from Radio Eikaiwa

Topic is preposition, to, between and into. 

Mr.Emori and Cindy are talking about Ogikubo.

a Mr. Emori, I want to take you on a tour of Ogikubo today.

b It`s my first time here. What a nice little town.

a  Yes, it`s a quiet place. First, I want to show you a historical landmark to the left here.

b Is this it? It`s a very old Japanese gate.

a That`s right. This is the place where the Meiji Emperor rested while traveling.

b Wow! TO my surprise, you know more about Japanese history than I do.

Key sentence to my surprise, you know more about Japanese history than I do.

To my disappointment   to my disgust   to my relief  to my satisfaction  to my regret  to my delight  

To a certain extent   to the best of my knowledge  to my heart`s content  It`z a quater to seven   ten days to Christmas    

To my delight, sbe accepted my propozal.I avree with you to a certtain extent.

Leg`s meet at 10 to 12..

 

A boy and a parm reader are talking about his problem.

a Oh, it`s you again. You must really believe in parm reading.

b Hi, it`s been a while. A lot has happened.

a Please, sit down. Do you want another reading?

b Yes, I `m having problems again.

a Just between you and me, I knew that already.

b How?

a I know.  I can read between the lines. You and your girlfriend broke up.

b Yes, we did! Anything else?

a There is another woman.

b No, you are wrong. That`s over.

a I don`t know about that.

Key sentence just between you and me, I knew that already.

He divided the money equally between his two sons and three daughters.

Read between the lines.

It`s tough to choose between the two oc you.

Sharing aninheritance between shiblings can  be difficult.

I`m not very good at reading between the lines.

I`m standing at the border between the USA and Canada.

 

Astronaut Akira and commander Megun are talking about green crystal egg. 

a Akira, you said some computers were severely damaged by the alien ship. Is there any other damage?

b I went into the other  rooms to check. There was no other damage, but I found this stra.ge round object.

a What`s it? Some kind of green crystal egg?

Where did it come from?

b It must have come from the aliens. It`s not part of our equipment.

b Why would they leave us an egg?

a I cant say for sure yet, but I think It`s a message to us.

Key sentence I went into the other rooms to chech.

Come i.to the living room.

He somersaulted into the poor.

I can`t go into detail yet.

Get into trouble

Take into consideration account

What`s gotten into you?

Don`t come into my room without knocking.

After graduating, she wants to get into teaching.

He has been acting strangely. I don`t know what`s gotten into him.

 

Two colleagues are talking about one`s son.

a Hi, Will. Good morning. 

b Good morning, Rico. Did you have a nice weekend?

b It was OK. I heard you bumped into my son, Rengi on Sunday.

a Yes, I did. He`s grown into a fine young man.

b I`m not sure about that, but thank you.

a  He`s very handsome. So, he must be popular with the girls.

b Too popular. He spends too much time on his phone. He needs to get into his studies more.

Key sentence you bumped into my son Rengi on Sunday.

He`s grown into a fine young man.

Change into   put into practice   burst into   translate into English   

Who talked you into doing such a thing.

Be needs to get  into yoga.

My wife and I are into the same sport.

Could you translate this mail into English for me.

You have to put the English you`ve learned into practice.