英語を身につけるためには、勉強ではなく英語に接する時間を増やすのがいちばんの近道です。そこで、DCECでは、毎週DCECで起こることをダイアログにしてお伝えしています。英語を読むことになれることに活用しあなたの英語学習のプラスにしてください。

■　I Am Roasting

Characters; C - Chad; S - Suki

A learner and a GV during the lesson...

C: Hey Suki! How’s it going?

S: Not so good. It’s scorching hot, Chad. I am roasting!

C: Oh sorry to hear that. But, yeah, I have heard that the

temperature in Japan is soaring.

S: You bet it is!

C: Wow, you must feel like you are in an oven right now.

S: Chad, my head is so hot you can fry an egg on it!

C: Hahahaha! Oh man, that is such a funny way to describe

the weather. I have never heard that level of exaggeration

before.

S: Oh, I wish I had been exaggerating. I can’t even remember

the last time the weather was like this.

C: Yeah. You may have to stay indoors then to avoid heat

stroke.

S: I may need a portable air-conditioner!

S & C: (Laugh together)

C: I have a question to ask of you.

S: Go ahead.

C: If you had to choose one, would you rather have a burning

summer or a freezing winter for one year?

S: That is a tricky question. Those are two extreme situations

and I have never thought of that.

C: You gotta choose this time!

S: Hmmm, then I would say... a burning summer for one year.

C: Yeah? Why?

S: Well, I just really don’t miss winter at the moment.

Besides, I dislike wearing layers of winter clothes as

much as I dislike doing the laundry.

C: Hahahaha. Well I don’t know what winter is like but I do

dislike doing the laundry as well.

S: That means you must dislike winter!

C: (laughs)

●Vocabulary:

How’s it going?　　　:調子はどう？

It’s scorching hot. :焼けつくように暑いです。

roast　　　　　　　　 :焙る

soaring　　　　　　　 :急上昇する

You bet! 　　　:もちろん！

exaggeration :過言

exaggerating :誇張している

indoors :屋内

heat stroke :熱中症

portable :ポータブルの

would you rather... :（..より）むしろ...ですか？

burning summer :真夏

freezing winter :真冬

tricky :ひっかけの、小難しい