シャドーイング練習: Everyday English: Holidays - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Today we're going to talk about one of my favourite topics, holidays.
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A holiday can be one day or several days where you take a break from your usual routine.
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There are lots of reasons for taking a holiday.
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It might be to rest or to spend time with family or friends, or to travel.
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In fact people often use the word holiday to describe travel or a trip.
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I went on holiday to Vietnam last year.
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It was awesome.
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You can also stay at home for a holiday and do something you enjoy.
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For example, I stayed at home for the Easter holidays and just spent time with my family.
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Another word that can be used for holiday is vacation, but that's not that common in Australia.
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It's mostly used in the United States.
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Now if you're working and you want to take a holiday, you might have to apply for leave.
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It could be paid or unpaid.
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Most Australian workers get about 20 days of paid leave a year.
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We call that annual leave.
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Australian students get much longer holidays, especially over summer.
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Summer in Australia happens between December and February.
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We also have public holidays.
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They're days when many businesses in Australia close, like on Christmas Day.
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When people talk about a holiday, we often use the preposition on.
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Like, I wish I was on holiday right now.
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Me too.
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Let's listen to some people talk about their holidays.
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Oh, hey.
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Welcome back, Nick.
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Hey, Dawn Charlotte.
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Good.
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How was your holiday?
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Really good.
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I saved up all of my annual leave and I took the whole month off.
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That's amazing.
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What did you do?
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So, I spent some time with my parents and then my partner and I went to New Zealand to go skiing.
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Do you want to see some photos?
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Yeah.
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Oh.
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Oh.
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It was great and just so relaxing.
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Oh, nice.
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I've used up all my annual leave for the year, so no holidays for me.
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That's a shame.
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I mean, I could take some unpaid leave.
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I think that's what Emma's doing.
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She's on holiday in Barbados at the moment.
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Oh, OK.
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Not all leave is for holidays.
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You can take leave from work if you're ill.
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It's called sick leave.
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It's different to a holiday because you don't really have any fun and you usually spend most of your time in bed.
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There's also the weekend, which is Saturday and Sunday, when most workers get time off.
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Most people work from Monday to Friday, which we call weekdays.
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A long weekend happens when a public holiday falls on Friday or Monday.
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Lots of people go away during the long weekend.
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In English, we often use the verbs do and go to describe weekend activities.
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If we use do, it's usually followed by a determinants like the, some or my.
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For example, I do the washing, I do some shopping, I do my housework, I do some study or I do the gardening.
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The past form of do is did.
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So I do the washing on the weekends becomes I did the washing on the weekend.
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You often use the verb go for sports and activities, especially if they end in ing.
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For example, I might go swimming, go surfing, go skating, go running or go walking.
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Here the past form of go is went, so I go swimming on Saturdays becomes I went swimming last Saturday.
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Hey Charlotte, did you go out to anything fun on the weekend?
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Oh yeah, I went fishing with my dad.
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We usually go fishing about once a month.
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Oh nice, did you catch anything?
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Yeah, we got some squid and it was so much fun.
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But it meant I didn't do any work.
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I haven't done my cleaning, my gardening.
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How was your weekend?
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Pretty good.
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Didn't catch any fish, but I did catch some waves.
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Me and a couple of my mates went surfing up the coast.
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Conditions were perfect.
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You should come along next time.
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Oh, yeah, that sounds great.
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Count me in.
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Well, all that talk of holidays, it's really making me want to go on one.
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Me too.
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We hope you've enjoyed today's lesson and learned how you can talk about your holidays.
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Safe travels.

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