4．英語のてつだい
1. Context
場所 甲府市の後藤さんのうち
話し相手 弟のよしひろ
来てから ４ヶ月
Your younger brother, Yoshihiro, is having
trouble with his English homework. You have established an elder brother/sister
relationship with him (but not, of course, as close as he has with his brother Takaki) and when you see him battling with the homework you
make an offer to help.
What would you say?
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Likely consequences |
４教師 |
５．生の声 お母さん よしひろ 2nd
opinion池田（いけだ）ケン |
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てつだってあげる。 |
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てつだってあげましょうか。 (てつだってあげよう か。) |
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てつだってやる。 |
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ぼく/わたしてつだってやろうか。 |
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ぼく/わたしやってもいいよ。 |
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ぼく/わたしにやらせて。 |
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g)
ぼく/わたし、てつだおうか。 |
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生の声
We asked the Goto family (The mother, Etsuko, the second son, Yoshihiro,
and the father, Tomihiko) what they thought about the
above choices. Their conversation focused mainly on the use of ageru and yaru.
The use of ageru and yaru being so controversial, we also asked
two men in their late twenties. Ikeda is
a computer engineer who likes fast cars. He is the one who leads the
conversation and speaks often. Ken is Laotian of Chinese background who has
lived in
6. Vocabulary
a. You will have heard the
speakers use the following words when talking about the relationships between
speakers. Join the word with what it means.
1. 自分と同じクラスの人 えらいようにふるまう
2. えらそう 自分より年が上の人
3. 他人行儀（たにんぎょうぎ） 自分より年が下の人
4. 日本人同士（にほんじんどうし） 同級生（どうきゅうせい）
5. 日本語のたっしゃでない人 日本語があまりできない人
6. 年上 日本人と日本人の関係
7. 年下 知らない人のようにふるまう
b. Select the correct
explanation(s) of the following words you heard in the discussions. There may
be more than one correct answer.
a. come to a
conclusion
b. notice
c. take care
d. get worried
a. causative form ofやる
b. means “make me”
c. means “let me”
d. means “allow me”
e. is the passive form of やる
f. means “I’m made to”
3. The meaning of the word すごいrelies
heavily on the context. What Tomihiko would have
meant by ものすごくwhen he said ものすごくしたしい人must have
been
a. extremely
b. amazing
c. awful
d. really
4. The word ニュアンス
a. refers to a
delicate difference in or shade of meaning
b. means the
same as the English or French nuance.
c. refers to
onomatopoeia
7. What people said
and 8. how they said it
Listen
again and select the correct answer or complete the sentences as the case
demands. Keep notes of the linguistic evidence for your decisions.
1. What did they finally decide was appropriate
for a ryuugakusei?
Write the choice number(s) in the space: ( )
a. やる
b. あげる
c. やらせる
3. Etsuko
initially thinks that やる is
a.
OK because the student is talking to the younger
brother
b.
an impossible choice
c.
Ok for the younger brother to say to the student
4 What strategy does
Etsuko use when she is insisting on asserting her opinion?
5 Who made the others laugh
and what was the joke?
6 Fill in the gaps in Tomihiko’s final suggestions with the words in the box
below :
「手伝ってやろうか。」は(
)の中で、それかものすごくしい友だちの中で、それからお父さんが(
)に、「何これ、手伝ってやろうか。」でも、「いっしょに(
)..だね。「いっしょにやってみよう。」( )。
むすこ
もいいかなー どうきゅうせい やろうよ
8 Second
opinion (Extension) What Ikeda and Ken said and how they said it.
The use of ageru and yaru being so controversial, we also asked
two men in their late twenties. Ikeda is
a computer engineer who likes fast cars. (He is the one who leads the
conversation and speaks often.) Ken is Laotian of Chinese background who has
lived in
a. Which choice does
Ikeda suggest isn’t so bad if there’s a reasonable difference in age between
the two speakers?
b. Which choice does Ikeda suggest isn’t too
bad if the student has learnt “correct Japanese” but could sound too unfamiliar
if said by Japanese people to each other.
c. About which choice does
Ikeda say the following:
これ、やっぱり日本語のたっしゃでない外人、それで、ま、むこうもね日本語もあまり、日本語しゃべれないし、でもその「手伝ってくれる。」という気もちがあるから、そんなことを言っていたわけだから、そのことばだけ見ると、うう、なんとなく、ううん、えらいそうにも聞こえるけど、ね、その人間（にんげん）のキャラがすごいフレンドリーだったら…
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d. What was Ikeda
talking about when he said:
すごいいい家庭で育ったあれでもないかぎり…
（limited to those who’ve been raised in a really good home）
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e. To what choice was
Ikeda referring to when he said:
これからこの年下とね、したしくなりたいという時に、これは一番だよ、やっぱり。
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