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今日の「ラジオビジネス英語」の勉強内容です。
tweet で発信してきたものを、
ブログで、まとめたものです。
(基本的に、テキストに書かれているものは省略しています）
Interview ５ Part ３ 21st-Century Skills (Ben Nelson)
▶︎ラジオビジネス英語では、
毎週木曜・金曜日は、有名人とのインタビューを題材としています。
▶︎８月は Ben Nelson さんとのインタビュー。
– ペンシルバニア大学ウォートンスクール卒業
– 2005年 Snapfish(写真共有サービス)のCEOに就任
– 2014年9月に Minerva Schools at KGI (ミネルバ大学)を開設
Opening
👉ジェニーさんの部分だけです。
▶︎And I’m Jenny Silver.
Welcome to Business English for Global Competence.
▶︎Yes, let’s learn how to communicate effectively
in business.
▶︎So let’s get started!
▶︎OK, let’s listen to today’s interview.
Words and Phrases
● informed ▶︎情報に基づいた
– Educated, having sufficient information to make a decision.
Having knowledge about something.
– Informed decisions are decisions that are made with plenty
of information.
– For example, she did lots of research, and got a second
opinion in order to make an informed decision about her
treatment.
● rigorous ▶︎厳格な
– “Rigorous” is an adjective that can mean accurate or
precise as well as disciplined, rigid and law-abiding.
– Mr. Nelson mentioned rigorous liberal arts education
which would be very strict, precise and detailed.
● far transfer ▶︎違う分野に知識を応用すること
– A “far transfer” is the transfer of knowledge between
contexts that are not similar.
– The opposite of this is “near transfer,” which is the transfer
of knowledge between similar contexts.
– Mr. Nelson describes far transfer as an ability to take something
that you learned in one context, and be able to apply it in another.
● metacognitive ▶︎メタ認知の
– Metacognition is an awareness understanding of your own
thought processes and patterns behind them.
– An example of metacognition is learning about ways that
help you remember the people’s names.
● transferable skills ▶︎転用・応用が可能なスキル
– “Transferable skills” are often known as portable skills, because
you can use them in many different situations.
– Some examples of transferable skills are team work,
leadership, and communication. These are useful skills
in many different jobs.
● non-existent ▶︎存在しない
– Not existing, does not exist.
There’s usually implication that it should exist, or that it’s
surprising that it doesn’t exist.
– For example, in many high schools, coding classes were
non-existent until recently. So programmers learned on
their own or went to special schools.
● strive to 〜 ▶︎〜することを目指す
– To work very hard to achieve, or obtain something.
To try hard to make something happen especially if that goal
is hard, or takes some long time to complete.
– For example, our company strives to have a positive impact
on environment and reduce waste.
これで、
Interview ５ Part ３ は終了です。
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