2014.12.22
Tip 125 ”show someone the ropes”無料ビジネス英語学習
無料ビジネス英語学習 Words & Phrases 第125弾は、”show someone the ropes” です。
仕事等で誰かに進め方や方法を教わることってありますよね。
今回はそんな時に使えるフレーズを紹介します。
例えば、トレーニング担当のヒカは同僚のタロウにある仕事を教えています。
“OK, that’s all for our training.” OK。これでトレーニングは終了です。」とヒカが言いました。
「やり方を教えてくれてありがとうございます。」と伝えたい場合、あなたがタロウなら英語で何と言いますか？
“Thank you for teaching me how to do this work.”「この仕事、教えてくれてありがとうございます。」
でも全く問題なく伝わりますが、より英会話上級者向けの自然な言い回しがあります。
そこで
“Thank you for showing me the ropes.”「やり方を教えてくれてありがとうございます。」
と言ってみましょう。自然なフレーズです。
ぜひビデオを見て発音のチェックもしてみてください。
Hello and welcome to this Bizmates
words and phrases
video series for business people. And
today's
idiom is show someone
the ropes. Ropes.
What does this mean? We will find out but
first let's do
our test. So tell me someone
who is on the ball
at your office. Who's sharp. Who knows.
Who understands the situation well.
So he's on the ball. You ask them a question and they have a good answer
because they know. Tell me someone like
that. OK. I hope you picked someone good.
OK maybe your boss, your colleague ,the
president.
All right now let's go on to today's idiom.
Show someone the ropes. What does this
mean?
OK, well here's what I often hear. Let's
imagine
I'm a trainer. OK and I'm training
Taro to do some kind of task.
OK maybe it's too write a report. To
use a machine.
Something OK, I'm teaching him something basic. And I say
OK so that's all for our training. You
are ready.
We're finished. And Taro says thank
you for teaching me how to do this work.
Hey no problem. It's a perfect sentence.
You know thank you for teaching me how
to do this work. It's okay.
But if you want to make it sound a
little bit natural with a cool
idiom, you could say show someone
the ropes like this. OK so I say
OK Tarol that all for our training.
You're ready. And he says ah thank you
for showing me the ropes.
Oh wow. Taro your English has
improved.
OK it's a really natural phrase or idiom.
Thank you for showing me the ropes.
Teaching me
some kind of task or like the basics.
Something basic.
OK teaching the basics. OK.
So let's look at pronunciation.
It's not showing good me, but it's thank
you for showing me.
Thank you for showing me the ropes. You
try.
Excellent. OK with my sentence. OK.
Good job. No problem.
OK so for homework, tell me
who showed you the ropes
when you joined your company. OK when you were
a first-year first-year employee.
You didn't know anything. Who trained you and showed you all the basic things?
Who showed you the ropes? OK think of
someone.
And we'll see you in the next lesson.
Thank you.
words and phrases
video series for business people. And
today's
idiom is show someone
the ropes. Ropes.
What does this mean? We will find out but
first let's do
our test. So tell me someone
who is on the ball
at your office. Who's sharp. Who knows.
Who understands the situation well.
So he's on the ball. You ask them a question and they have a good answer
because they know. Tell me someone like
that. OK. I hope you picked someone good.
OK maybe your boss, your colleague ,the
president.
All right now let's go on to today's idiom.
Show someone the ropes. What does this
mean?
OK, well here's what I often hear. Let's
imagine
I'm a trainer. OK and I'm training
Taro to do some kind of task.
OK maybe it's too write a report. To
use a machine.
Something OK, I'm teaching him something basic. And I say
OK so that's all for our training. You
are ready.
We're finished. And Taro says thank
you for teaching me how to do this work.
Hey no problem. It's a perfect sentence.
You know thank you for teaching me how
to do this work. It's okay.
But if you want to make it sound a
little bit natural with a cool
idiom, you could say show someone
the ropes like this. OK so I say
OK Tarol that all for our training.
You're ready. And he says ah thank you
for showing me the ropes.
Oh wow. Taro your English has
improved.
OK it's a really natural phrase or idiom.
Thank you for showing me the ropes.
Teaching me
some kind of task or like the basics.
Something basic.
OK teaching the basics. OK.
So let's look at pronunciation.
It's not showing good me, but it's thank
you for showing me.
Thank you for showing me the ropes. You
try.
Excellent. OK with my sentence. OK.
Good job. No problem.
OK so for homework, tell me
who showed you the ropes
when you joined your company. OK when you were
a first-year first-year employee.
You didn't know anything. Who trained you and showed you all the basic things?
Who showed you the ropes? OK think of
someone.
And we'll see you in the next lesson.
Thank you.
