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N2 listening practice lesson 6

Hello everyone ! In this series, Learn Japanese daily will introduce to you the N2 listening exercises, with the aim of supporting  who are studying N2 exam to listen better and get better grades in the N2 listening section. Let’s start with lesson: practice N2 listening practice lesson 6.

N2 listening practice lesson 6

How to practice listening

First, listen and do exercise as usual. After listening and choosing the answer, you can read the translation and struction below for reference.

In addition, you can apply the way of taking this listening test for similar types of exercises.

N2 listening practice lesson 6

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N2 listening practice lesson 6 – Tapescript

男の人が話しています。

男:皆さんは、最近の車をどう思いますか。ぼくは、つまらないと思うんです。みんな、四角くなっちゃって…。人を運ぶもの、荷物を運ぶ道具になっちゃってる。確かにそれもそうなんですが、昔は、車にあこがれとか夢があったんですよね。かっこいいものだった。特に、男にとっては。今の男の子は、車にあまり興味がないらしい。だから、スポーツカーも売れない。道具だから、できるだけたくさん、人や荷物が入ったほうがいい。だから、四角くなるわけで…。

男の人にとって、車はどういうものですか。

1.人や荷物を運ぶもの

2.かっこいいもの

3.四角いもの

4.興味がないもの

Difficult words in lesson :

四角い (しかくい)square

あこがれ  desirable

道具 (どうぐ)tool

スポーツカー Sport car

Translation for Reference :

A man is talking.

Man: Everybody, how do you think about recent cars? I think they are boring. Everyone makes it become square… It is used to carry people and luggage. It’s certainly true, but in the old days, car is people’s desire or dream. It was an attractive thing. Especially for men. The men now seem not to be interested in cars. So even sports cars can’t sell. Because it is a tool, it is better to carry as many people and luggage as possible. So it becomes a square …

Question: According to men, how is a car?

1.Carrying people and luggage tool

2.Cool thing

3.Square thing

4.A thing he is not interested in

Instruction to practice:

Type of lesson: Catch detail description

In order to understand and make this type of lesson effectively, you can apply the following steps:

1. Note the main ideas

In this type of lesson, you need to get important key words about objects and topics to catch the content of the listening.

最近の車 (さいきんのくるま)recent cars

つまらない :  boring

四角い (しかくい): square

人を運ぶ (ひとをはこぶ)carry people

荷物を運ぶ (にもつをはこぶ)carry luggage

かっこいいもの :  attractive thing

男 (おとこ): men

今の男の子 (いまのおとこのこ): the men now

2. Choosing the answer:

Answer: 2. かっこいいもの

Basing on the key words, we know that the main content of the talk about the car, and perform the analysis as follows:

We grasp the objects that appear in the post : Author, 皆, 男, 今の男の子. And these 4 objects have different opinions about cars as follows:

Author : つまらない ( boring)

皆:  四角くなっちゃって (square thing)

男:  かっこいいもの (attractive thing)

今の男の子:  車にあまり興味がないらしい (not interested in car)

The object of the question is men, so the correct answer is answer 2. かっこいいもの (attractive thing)

Above is the content of N2 listening practice lesson 6. Hope you can improve your listening ability effectively. See more similar N2 listening practices at category: N2 listening practice

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