１．もんだいのそうだん

1. Context

場所 後藤(ごとう)さんの家(いえ)

話し相手 近所(きんじょ)の順一(じゅんいち)お兄さん

このうちに来てから ３ヶ月

Your host brother was initially friendly towards you but now seems to ignore you. This is a personal problem and you want to discuss it privately with Junichi, the family friend. Junichi is about 30 and you have met and talked with him on many occasions and find him quite approachable. How would you open the conversation?

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2. Language choices	3 O ∆ X	Likely consequences	４教師	５．生の声 お母さん お父さん よしひろ
a) こまっているんですけど、ちょっと話してもいいですか。
b) ちょっと話してもいいですか。
c) ちょっと聞いてください。
d) ちょっとこまっているんだけど、聞いてくれる？
e) ちょっとこまっているんですけど…
f) 今 いそがしいですか。
g) あのう、お話したいことがあるんですけど…
h) わたし／ぼく、お兄さんに何かわるいことをしたのかな。
i) じゅんいち、わたし/ぼく、ちょっとそうだんしたいことがあります。

生の声

6. Vocabulary

You will have heard Etsuko, the mother, Tomihiko, the father, and Yoshihiro, their son, talk about the choices using some very useful words for talking about language in context.

Complete the English sentences with an equivalent of the word in bold.

a. Yoshihiro said: 年上の人だったらなれなれしすぎる = It’s ______________when you’re speaking with someone older than you.

b. Etsuko said: 同じ年ごろの人に言うならいいけど、ちょっと、くだけすぎるかな？=It’s OK if you’re saying it to someone about your own age but, isn’t it a bit____________________?

c. Yoshihiro said: 敬語（けいご）つかえるといい= It’d be better if they could use _____________.

d. Etsuko said: りゅうがくせいという立場（たちば）でゆるされるかも知れません= It’d probably be __________ for someone in the ________of an overseas student.

7. What the Goto family said

a. Etsuko and Yoshihiro’s favourite choices are [ ] and [ ]

b. Towards the end Yoshihiro offers another of the choices using the word 相談（そうだん）What did he suggest?＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿

c. Tomihiko, the father, joins the discussion with another version of Yoshihiro’s suggestion which is:

ごそうだん＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿__________________

d. How would you rate Tomihiko’s suggestion, and why? [ ]

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8. How the Goto family said it

We can tell something about people’s roles and relationships from the way they interact. Body language gives a lot away but the language and intonation people use gives us data about their roles, relationships, or culture(s). For example what people say and how they say it can tell us whether the speakers are confronting with or supportive of each other. Listen again and answer the following questions.

a. From listening to Tomihiko and Etsuko in this discussion with their son, Yoshihiro, what impression do you get of the parent- son relationship at this point in time?

b. Give examples of the linguistic evidence you have to support your answer to a.