N3 listening practice lesson 14
Hello everyone ! In this series, Learn Japanese daily will introduce to you the N3 listening exercises, with the aim of supporting who are studying N3 exam to listen better and get better grades in the N3 listening section. Let’s start with the first lesson: practice N3 listening lesson 14
Contents
How to practice listening
First, listen and do exercise. After listening and choosing the answer, you can read the translation and the instruction below for reference.
In addition, you can apply the way of taking this listening test for similar types of exercises.
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N3 listening practice lesson 14 – Tapescript:
2人の女の人が田中さんについて話しています。2人は、何について驚いていますか。
女１：ねえ、田中さんってまだ30代だったって知ってた？
女２：うそー！私、50近いと思ってた。
女１：私も。４５は絶対に過ぎてると思ってたんだけど、まだ38なんだって。
女２：へえー、びっくり。まあ、そういえば、子供がまだ小さいだよね。
女１：そう。上は4年生で、下の子はまだ1年生だって。
女２：私、年取ってできた子どもだと思ってた。
女１：私も。
2人は、何について驚いていますか。
Translation for Reference :
Two women are talking about Tanaka. What are they surprised about?
Woman 1: Hey, do you know that Tanaka is still in his 30s?
Woman 2: For real? I thought that he is nearly 50.
Woman 1: I thought he must be more than 45, but he is still 38.
Woman 2: Hey, I’m surprised. Well, speaking of that, his children are still small.
Woman 1: Yes. The older child is fourth grade and the younger child is still first grade.
Woman 2: I thought that they were all grown ups.
Woman 1: Me too.
What are they surprised about?
Instruction to practice:
In order to understand and make this type of lesson effectively, you can apply the following steps:
1. Catch the topic and the question :
The situation taking place here is:
2人の女の人が田中さんについて話しています
Two women are talking about Tanaka.
The question is:
2人は、何について驚いていますか。
What are they surprised about?
2. Note the main ideas:
In this form of listening, you need to pay attention to the words that describe the surprising feelings of two women. And you should also focus on key words instead of trying to hear all the sentences then missing important words.
After listening, we have some key words as follows:
30代 : 30s
50近い: nearly 50 years old
４５は絶対に過ぎ: must be more than 45 years old
まだ38: be still 38 years old
びっくり: surprised
子供: children
3. Choosing the answer:
According to what we have noted, we can deduct:
We should focus on the previous clauses to find out why these two women are surprised.
First, they talked about Mr. Tanaka’s age. The woman 2 thought that Mr. Tanaka is nearly 50 years old (50近い) and the woman 1 said that he must be more than 45 years old (４５は絶対に過ぎ). But his real age is only 38 years old (まだ38).
They were surprised because Mr. Tanaka’s real age is lower than the age that what they thought. Only answer 4 has the same meaning as this.
So we choose answer 4. 田中さんが見た感じよりずっと若いこと。
Above is the content of N3 listening practice lesson 14. Hope you can improve your listening ability effectively. See more similar N3 listening practices at category : JLPT N3 Listening practice.
