2016.07.18
Tip 207”a wake-up call” 無料ビジネス英語学習
無料ビジネス英語学習 Words & Phrases 第207弾は、”a wake-up call” です。
体調を崩し数日間入院していたタロウ。本日が仕事復帰です。
久しぶりに出勤してきたタロウに、同僚ヒカが言いました。
“I heard you were in the hospital. Are you OK? ”
「入院してたんだって？！大丈夫かい？」
「ああ、もっと健康に気を付けなきゃと気付かされたよ。」
と言いたい場合、あなたがタロウなら英語で何と言いますか？
“Yeah I realize that
I need to take better care of my health.”
これでも良いのですが、こんな時もっと感情を込めた表現があるんです。
そこで
“it was a wake-up call.
I need to take better care of my health.”
と言ってみましょう！
より説得力のある表現です。
※It was a wake-up call.：「それで目が覚めたよ。」
発音もビデオでチェック！
ぜひこの表現を使ってみてください。
Hi everyone.
Welcome to this Bizmates words and phrases video series.
And today's idiom is "a wake-up call"
now maybe you've heard of you know this idiom before,
a wake-up call.
Right? You go to a hotel and you want to
wake up early the next morning,
so you make a request to the front desk. And
they call you in the morning and wake you up,
a wake-up call. But it has another
meaning which I will introduce today.
OK but first let's do our test.
OK so I say to you,
you know I'm going to e-mail a long
complaint to HR to Human Resources. I'm not happy.
"I'm going to write a complaint"
and you say, "yeah Hika, Hika, relax."
That's right.
"It'll just add fuel to the fire.
You'll just make the situation worse. Don't do it."
OK, I hope you got that idiom. OK well,
let's go on to today's idiom.
It's a wake-up call. OK so let's imagine that
my colleague, Taro, my good friend
Taro was in the hospital for a few days.
OK. And he just came back to the office
so I say to Taro.
I heard you were in the hospital. Are you OK?
And Taro says
"yeah I realize that
I need to take better care of my health."
OK perfect sentence. Nothing's wrong with this
"I realize that I need to take better
care of my health."
Maybe I've been working too hard lately
so I need to sleep earlier, eat more healthy.
You know just be have a healthier life.
Perfect. OK but you know this I realize
you know there's not a lot of emotion in that word,
you know. We want to express a little bit of emotion like
yeah this is a big change in my life.
I can't believe I was in the hospital.
You know.
So if you want to express that part, a little more emotion,
you could say this. So I say Taro
I heard you were in the hospital. Are you okay?
And Taro says
"it was a wake-up call.
I need to take better care of my health."
OK much stronger, a wake-up call.
So his experience of going to the hospital,
being hospitalized, was a
wake-up call.
He..., it's a big change in his life. OK so
now he's going to take better care of his health.
So if you want to express that emotion.
Some like wow I realized something
I didn't know. That's a wake-up call.
OK it's a great idiom that you could
use in many situations.
Let's look at pronunciation.
So it's it was a it was a wake-up call.
I need to take better care of my health.
It was a wake-up call. I need to take
better care of my health.
You try. Good. OK with my sentence.
I heard you were in the hospital. Are you OK?
it was a wake-up call.
Perfect. OK so for homework, next time
I will say I heard you were in the hospital.
And you just say that's right
I need to take better care of my health.
OK please remember this and we'll see you next time.
Thank you
Welcome to this Bizmates words and phrases video series.
And today's idiom is "a wake-up call"
now maybe you've heard of you know this idiom before,
a wake-up call.
Right? You go to a hotel and you want to
wake up early the next morning,
so you make a request to the front desk. And
they call you in the morning and wake you up,
a wake-up call. But it has another
meaning which I will introduce today.
OK but first let's do our test.
OK so I say to you,
you know I'm going to e-mail a long
complaint to HR to Human Resources. I'm not happy.
"I'm going to write a complaint"
and you say, "yeah Hika, Hika, relax."
That's right.
"It'll just add fuel to the fire.
You'll just make the situation worse. Don't do it."
OK, I hope you got that idiom. OK well,
let's go on to today's idiom.
It's a wake-up call. OK so let's imagine that
my colleague, Taro, my good friend
Taro was in the hospital for a few days.
OK. And he just came back to the office
so I say to Taro.
I heard you were in the hospital. Are you OK?
And Taro says
"yeah I realize that
I need to take better care of my health."
OK perfect sentence. Nothing's wrong with this
"I realize that I need to take better
care of my health."
Maybe I've been working too hard lately
so I need to sleep earlier, eat more healthy.
You know just be have a healthier life.
Perfect. OK but you know this I realize
you know there's not a lot of emotion in that word,
you know. We want to express a little bit of emotion like
yeah this is a big change in my life.
I can't believe I was in the hospital.
You know.
So if you want to express that part, a little more emotion,
you could say this. So I say Taro
I heard you were in the hospital. Are you okay?
And Taro says
"it was a wake-up call.
I need to take better care of my health."
OK much stronger, a wake-up call.
So his experience of going to the hospital,
being hospitalized, was a
wake-up call.
He..., it's a big change in his life. OK so
now he's going to take better care of his health.
So if you want to express that emotion.
Some like wow I realized something
I didn't know. That's a wake-up call.
OK it's a great idiom that you could
use in many situations.
Let's look at pronunciation.
So it's it was a it was a wake-up call.
I need to take better care of my health.
It was a wake-up call. I need to take
better care of my health.
You try. Good. OK with my sentence.
I heard you were in the hospital. Are you OK?
it was a wake-up call.
Perfect. OK so for homework, next time
I will say I heard you were in the hospital.
And you just say that's right
I need to take better care of my health.
OK please remember this and we'll see you next time.
Thank you
