“Step it up”の意味と使い方 Bizmates初級ビジネス英会話 Point 201

Hello everyone, Justin here and I am
back with another video for our Bizmates

for Beginners video series. And, this week
everyone we are going to learn the

expression "step it up." So let's find out
what it means but first let's make sure

all of you are up to speed with our most
recent expression, so let's do a quick

review, alright everyone?
So imagine I say: The boss said we did a

great job with our last project! And of
course you agree, you want to celebrate,

you want to congratulate me. So, what do
you say? What do you do? I'll give you

five seconds, okay everyone? You ready?
Alright go!

And time is up if you said

"Yeah! Give me five!" then that's exactly
right. Good job everyone

and thanks for remembering last week's
class. OK so moving on to "step it up."

Now this is what I sometimes hear -- OK
I'm talking to Taro, my colleague, and

Taro, he's a manager now so he's managing a team of five or six people and in his

team, there's a guy named Ken. And Ken's
project isn't going so well, so I say:

Taro, you know I hear Ken's project is
behind schedule. Is everything okay?

And Taro, he says: Yeah, Ken. He really
needs to effort more. OK I understand.

So yeah, Ken needs to try harder. He needs
to, you know, give a little bit more effort.

Now I understand what he
wants to say, but he can use our new

expression today to make it more natural,
which is...

that's right. Yeah, he needs to step it up.

Okay? So whenever you need to
up the amount of energy to achieve

something, whenever you need to give more
effort to accomplish your tasks -- whether

it's to finish a project
on time or to improve your language or

communication skills -- if you need to put
in more effort and put in more energy to

achieve your goal, you need to "step it up"
OK everyone? Alright so now

pronunciation, it's fairly easy. It's what
you see here. However, whenever you see a

word -- short word -- especially beginning
with a vowel, so an a, an i, e o or u, okay

so here and here, it's really easy to
join this together. So this becomes

"stepitup." OK it sounds like one word, okay?
It's not step... it... up; it's stepitup, alright?

So it's really easy to join a consonant

here and a vowel here, consonant here and
a vowel here... so we squish it together

and it becomes step it up, okay? Alright,
so please repeat after me: Step it up.

That's exactly right, good job!
Now after my sentence: Ken's project is

behind schedule. What does he need to do?

That's right, he needs to step it up, okay?

Alright, so remember this for next time.
Our bonus question this week everyone is

another way to say: "has a trouble." If you
know what the answer is leave it in the

comments below; if you don't know what
the answer is you can find it in one of

our previous Bizmates for Beginners
video lessons. Alright, everyone, so that

is it for me. Thank you so much for
watching, have a great weekend

see you next time. Thank you.