N2 listening practice lesson 1
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 the first lesson: practice N2 listening lesson 1
Contents
How to practice listening
You listen and do exercise as usual. After listening and choosing the answer. After that you can look at the tapescript and translation for reference
In addition, you can apply how to do this exercise in the same way as referencing below for similar types of exercises.
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N2 listening practice lesson 1 – Tapescript
動物園の窓口で、男の人が入園料について聞いています。男の人は、全部でいくら払いますか。
男：大人3人、子ども2人お願いします。えっと、1人は65歳以上です。
女：シニアの方は大人料金1000円の２割引きとなりますので、800円になります。お子様は何歳でいらっしゃいますか。
男：13歳と8歳です。
女：8歳のお子様は、子ども料金ですので、半額の500円ですが、13歳のお子様は大人料金になりますので。。。
男：え？そうなの？
女：申し訳ございません。子ども料金は小学生までということで。。。
男：あ、そう。ふーん。。。とにかく、5人分お願いします。
女：かしこまりました。
男の人は、全部でいくら払いますか。
- 3800円
- 4000円
- 4300円
- 4500円
Difficult vocabulary in the lesson:
シニア : Senior
２割引き （にわりびき）: 20% discount
半額（はんがく）: half price
Translation for Reference :
At the entrance of the zoo, a man is asking about the admission fee. How much will he pay in total?
Man: Three adults, two children. Um, one is over 65 years old.
Woman: The elder get a 20% discount so 1000 yen is reduced to 800 yen. How old are your children?
Man: Thirteen and eight.
Woman: Because 8-year-old child is child price, it is half price 500 yen, but 13-year-old child will be an adult price…
Man: What? Is that so?
Woman: I’m sorry. Children’s fee is applied to primary school students.
Man: Oh, that’s right. Hmm. . . Anyway, please give me five people.
Woman: Certainly. I know it.
Question: How much will a male pay in total?
- 3800 yen
- 4000 yen
- 4300 yen
- 4500 yen
Instruction to practise:
Exercise format: Calculate the amount.
In order to understand and make this type of lesson effectively, you can do the following steps:
1. Catch the topic and the question:
First of all, you need to understand what the situation there is?
動物園の窓口で、男の人が入園料について聞いています。
At the entrance of the zoo, a man is asking about the admission fee.
=> Subject: admission fee (money)
The question is :
全部でいくら払いますか。
How much will a male pay in total?
=> With this format, you will focus on noting words that show the amount, object and vocabulary about money.
2. Note the main ideas:
Basing on the topic and the question, you need to catch the important key world such as the numbers, objects and vocabulary about the price.
Number: 1000円, 800円, 500円, 3人, 2人
Vocabulary about the price:
２割引き （にわりびき）: 20% discount
半額 （はんがく）: half price
Object:
シニア ：senior
大人 （おとな）: adult
子ども （こども）: children
お子様（おこさま）: children (formal )
小学生 （しょうがくせい）primary school student
3. Choosing the answer:
Anwser : 3 ( 4300 yen )
Basing on the key words we have, we proceed with the analysis as follows:
There are a total of 5 tickets needed to buy including 3 adults and 2 children. (大人3人、子ども2人 )
Adult : The one over 65 (1人は65歳以上) is the elder ( シニア) so he will be discounted 20% (２割引き) on the total amount for an adult 1000 yen => two adults ( 2000 yen) + one elder (800 yen) = 2800 yen
Chidren: There are 2 children: one 13, one 8. The 8-year-old child will be charge children’s fee, half price (半額の500円) is 500 yen. The 13 year-old-child will be still charged adult’s fee, because Children’s fee is applied to primary school students (子ども料金は小学生まで – 10 years old ) . Fee is 1000 yen. We have 500 + 1000 = 1500 yen.
The total amount of money a man must pay for 5 people is: 2800 + 1500 = 4300 yen ( anwser 3 )
Above is the content of N2 listening practice lesson 1. Hope you can improve your listening ability effectively. Let’s see more similar posts in category : JLPT N2 Listening practice.
