シャドーイング練習: Talking about Traffic in English (Must-Know Words and Phrases!) - YouTubeで英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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I'm Teacher Mike and today we are talking about traffic.
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I'm Teacher Mike and today we are talking about traffic.
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Traffic is a noun that means vehicles moving on a road.
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If you don't know what vehicles are,
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vehicles are cars, buses, vans,
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motorcycles, etc. So, if there are no vehicles on a road,
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we can say that there is no traffic.
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And if there are many vehicles on a road,
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we can say that there is a lot of traffic.
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When there is a lot of traffic and it cannot move,
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or can only move very slowly,
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we call this a traffic jam.
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So today we are going to learn some different words
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and phrases that we can use to talk about traffic and traffic jams.
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When I drive places, I like to check the traffic before I leave.
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I usually do this using Google Maps.
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I do this because the amount of time that it takes to get somewhere depends on the traffic.
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For example, taking my wife to work can take anywhere from 10 to 15 minutes,
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depending on the traffic.
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If there's not much traffic,
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it usually takes just 5 minutes.
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But if there's a lot of traffic,
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it can take up to 15 minutes.
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Now, I just said there's not much traffic and there's a lot of traffic.
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Those are two ways that we can describe the amount of traffic on the road.
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But let's also look at some other ways that we can describe the traffic.
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If there's a lot of traffic,
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and this affects how quickly we can get somewhere,
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we often just say bad traffic or heavy traffic.
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Because heavy and bad are adjectives,
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we can put them before the word traffic.
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Heavy traffic, bad traffic, or we can connect them with verb to be.
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So, we can say, there's a lot of traffic.
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There's heavy traffic.
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There's bad traffic.
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Or, the traffic is bad.
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The traffic is heavy.
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Is grammatically correct, but I don't think I would ever say that.
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If there's not much traffic, we often use these.
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There's not much traffic.
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There's little traffic.
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There's light traffic.
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Or, the traffic's not bad traffic's not bad.
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And if there are almost no vehicles at all on the road,
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you can say, there's no traffic.
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And yes, there are other things that you could say as well,
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but I'm just trying to help you understand the basics right now.
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In the beginning of this video,
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I told you that when there's a lot of traffic and it can't move,
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or can only move very slowly,
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we call that a traffic jam.
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So now we're going to look at some more ways to talk about traffic jams.
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As you've probably noticed, traffic jam is a noun,
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and it is an uncountable noun,
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so we always say a traffic jam or traffic jams.
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Lots of English learners want to say the traffic is jammed using jammed as an adjective.
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And although that is grammatically correct,
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I don't recommend saying it.
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So here are some examples to help you better understand how we use traffic jam as a noun.
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Traffic jams are very common in this city.
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Or, this city has a lot of traffic jams.
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I'm stuck in a traffic jam,
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so I'm going to be a bit late.
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There's a bad traffic jam around the intersection of 5th and Main.
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Let's do a U-turn.
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It looks like there's a traffic jam up ahead.
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Also, when there is a very bad traffic jam and none of the vehicles are able to move at all,
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we can say that the traffic is gridlocked.
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This basically just means that no one can move in any direction.
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Everyone is stuck.
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You might also hear about bumper-to-bumper traffic.
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The black things on the front and back of your car are called bumpers.
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So bumper- to-bumper traffic means
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that your bumpers are very close to the bumpers of the car in front of you and the car behind you.
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Basically, it means that that traffic is moving very slowly.
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Also, as you may know,
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we often use the verb get to talk about change.
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So when we talk about traffic conditions changing,
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we also often use get.
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Here are some examples.
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The traffic usually gets pretty bad early in the evening.
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The traffic is fine right now,
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but it's going to get worse soon.
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We might want to wait for the traffic to get better before we leave.
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So yeah, those are the basics for talking about traffic.
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If you have any other questions about traffic,
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please feel free to let me know.
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Thank you for watching!
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このレッスンでは、交通に関する英語表現を学びます。交通とは道路を移動する車両のことを指し、車、バス、バン、バイクなどが含まれます。交通の状況を説明する基本的な言葉やフレーズを理解し、日常生活での会話に活かせるようになることが目標です。特に、交通渋滞や運転中の時間管理に関連する表現をマスターします。
重要な語彙とフレーズ
- 交通 (Traffic) - 道路を移動する車両の数
- 交通渋滞 (Traffic Jam) - 車両が動けなくなること
- 多くの交通 (A Lot of Traffic) - 車両が多い状態
- 少ない交通 (Little Traffic) - 車両が少ない状態
- 悪い交通 (Bad Traffic) - 交通がひどい状態
- 重い交通 (Heavy Traffic) - 交通量が多い状態
- 交通がない (No Traffic) - 車両が全くない状態
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