Everyday English

  • ๐Ÿงธ Playdate

    Would you like to have a playdate sometime?์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์•„์ด๋“ค ์–ธ์ œ ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด๋ฐ์ดํŠธ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ํ• ๊นŒ์š”? Would your son/daughter like to come over for a playdate?์•„์ด๊ฐ€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ง‘์— ์™€์„œ ๊ฐ™์ด ๋†€๋ž˜์š”? Are you free sometime this week?์ด๋ฒˆ ์ฃผ์— ์–ธ์ œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ์„ธ์š”? How about Friday afternoon?๊ธˆ์š”์ผ ์˜คํ›„๋Š” ์–ด๋•Œ์š”? I can drop him off if that’s easier for you.๊ทธ๊ฒŒ ํŽธํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด…

  • Small Talk – ๋ฐ–์—์„œ ๋†€๊ธฐ ๋”ฑ ์ข‹์€ ๋‚ ์”จ๋„ค์š”.

    Perfect weather for the kids to play outside.์•„์ด๋“ค์ด ๋ฐ–์—์„œ ๋†€๊ธฐ ๋”ฑ ์ข‹์€ ๋‚ ์”จ๋„ค์š”. At least the kids can burn off some energy today!์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ์•„์ด๋“ค์ด ์‹ค์ปท ๋›ฐ์–ด๋†€ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒ ๋„ค์š”. Hopefully it stays dry for school pick-up.ํ•˜๊ต ์‹œ๊ฐ„๊นŒ์ง€๋Š” ๋น„๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ ์™”์œผ๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ๋„ค์š”. Great day for a walk.์‚ฐ์ฑ…ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ข‹์€ ๋‚ ์ด๋„ค์š”.

  • Small Talk โ€“ ํ•™๊ต๋Š” ์–ด๋•Œ์š”?

    ํ•™๊ต ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ How’s school going?ํ•™๊ต๋Š” ์–ด๋•Œ์š”? Is your child enjoying school?ํ•™๊ต ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋‚˜์š”? Who’s your child’s teacher this year?์˜ฌํ•ด ๋‹ด์ž„ ์„ ์ƒ๋‹˜์ด ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ์„ธ์š”? Are they settling in okay?์ž˜ ์ ์‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”? Have they made many friends?์นœ๊ตฌ ๋งŽ์ด ์‚ฌ๊ท€์—ˆ๋‚˜์š”?

  • Small Talk โ€“ ๋ฐฉ๊ณผํ›„ ํ™œ๋™

    What after-school activities does your child do?์•„์ด๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ค ๋ฐฉ๊ณผํ›„ ํ™œ๋™์„ ํ•˜๋‚˜์š”? Does your child do any sports?์šด๋™ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑฐ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”? Is your child into swimming?์ˆ˜์˜ ๋‹ค๋‹ˆ๋‚˜์š”? Do they play football?์ถ•๊ตฌ ํ•˜๋‚˜์š”? Do they take any music lessons?์Œ์•… ๋ ˆ์Šจ ๋ฐ›๋‚˜์š”? Have you tried gymnastics?์ฒด์กฐ ํ•ด๋ณด์…จ์–ด์š”? What does your child enjoy doing?์•„์ด๊ฐ€ ๋ญ˜ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋‚˜์š”?

  • Small Talk – ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์€ ์ˆ˜์˜ ํ•™์› ์•„์„ธ์š”?

    Do you know any good swimming lessons?๊ดœ์ฐฎ์€ ์ˆ˜์˜ ํ•™์› ์•„์„ธ์š”? (Do you know) Any good holiday programmes?๋ฐฉํ•™ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ ์ถ”์ฒœ ์žˆ์œผ์„ธ์š”? Can you recommend a good playground?์ข‹์€ ๋†€์ดํ„ฐ ์ถ”์ฒœํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. Do you know any good kids’ activities (happenings) nearby?๊ทผ์ฒ˜์— ์•„์ด๋“ค ๋ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐˆ ๋งŒํ•œ ๊ณณ ์•„์„ธ์š”? Where do you take your kids on rainy days?๋น„์˜ค๋Š” ๋‚ ์—” ์•„์ด๋“ค์ด๋ž‘…

  • Small Talk – ๋‚ ์”จ

    ๋ง‘์€ ๋‚  Beautiful day today, isn’t it?์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋‚ ์”จ ์ •๋ง ์ข‹์ฃ ? Hopefully the rain stays away.๋น„๋งŒ ์•ˆ ์™”์œผ๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ๋„ค์š”. Perfect weather for the kids.์•„์ด๋“ค ๋†€๊ธฐ ๋”ฑ ์ข‹์€ ๋‚ ์”จ๋„ค์š”. Beautiful day, isn’t it?์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋‚ ์”จ ์ •๋ง ์ข‹๋„ค์š”. Lovely weather today.์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋‚ ์”จ ์ฐธ ์ข‹๋„ค์š”. It’s such a nice day.์ •๋ง ์ข‹์€ ๋‚ ์ด๋„ค์š”. What a gorgeous day!์ •๋ง ๋ฉ‹์ง„ ๋‚ ์ด์—์š”. ๋น„ ์˜ค๋Š”…

  • Small Talk – ๋งํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ๋” ๋งŽ์•„์š”.

    He is still learning English.โ†’ ์•„์ง ์˜์–ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๋Š” ์ค‘์ด์—์š”. He understands more than he can speak.โ†’ ๋งํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ๋” ๋งŽ์•„์š”. He doesnโ€™t speak much English yet.โ†’ ์•„์ง ์˜์–ด๋ฅผ ๋งŽ์ด ๋งํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•ด์š”. What can we do at home to help him?โ†’ ์ง‘์—์„œ ๋„์™€์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? Are there any words or phrases he should practise?โ†’ ์—ฐ์Šตํ•˜๋ฉด ์ข‹์€ ๋‹จ์–ด๋‚˜ ํ‘œํ˜„์ด ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? Did he have any moments today when he seemed upset or overwhelmed? โ†’ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ํ•˜๋ฃจ๋™์•ˆ ์•„์ด๊ฐ€ ๋‹นํ™ฉํ•˜๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‚˜์š”?…

  • Small Talk – Pick-up

    How was his day today?โ†’ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ํ•˜๋ฃจ ์–ด๋• ๋‚˜์š”? โ€“ ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ํ•˜๋ฃจ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ. How did he do today? โ†’ย ์˜ค๋Š˜ย ์ž˜ย ์ง€๋ƒˆ๋‚˜์š”? โ€“ย ์•ฝ๊ฐ„ย ๋‰˜์•™์Šค๊ฐ€ย ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์š”.ย ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์ธย ์งˆ๋ฌธย ๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š”ย ๋ญ”๊ฐ€ย ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œย ํ–‰์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ย ์žˆ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜,ย ๊ทธย ์ „์—ย ๋…ผ์˜๋œย ์‚ฌํ•ญ์ดย ์žˆ๋Š”ย ๋‚ ์—ย ์“ฐ๋ฉดย ์ข‹์•„์š”. Did he enjoy himself today?โ†’ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์›Œํ–ˆ๋‚˜์š”? Did he make any friends?โ†’ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ๊ท€์—ˆ๋‚˜์š”? Was he able to join some activities today?โ†’ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์–ด๋–ค ํ™œ๋™์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ–ˆ๋‚˜์š”? Is there anything I should know?โ†’ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์•Œ์•„์•ผ ํ•  ๊ฒŒ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?

  • Small Talk – Drop-offย 

    ํ˜น์‹œ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์•„์ด์˜ ์ฒซ ๋“ฑ๊ต๋‚ ์ธ๊ฐ€์š”? ์•„์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ ค๋‹ค ์ค„ ๋•Œ ์„ ์ƒ๋‹˜๊ณผ ๋‚˜๋ˆŒ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํ•„์ˆ˜์ ์ด๊ณ , ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•œ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋“ค ์ ์–ด๋ณผ๊ฒŒ์š”. ์•„์ด๋ฅผ ํ•™๊ต, ๋ ˆ์Šจ ๋˜๋Š” ์Šคํฌ์ธ  ํ–‰์‚ฌ์— ๋ฐ๋ ค๋‹ค ์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ฑธ Drop-off๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”. ์„ ์ƒ๋‹˜๊ณผย ์ธ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ธฐ Good morning, Kimberly. How are you?โ†’ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์–ด๋– ์„ธ์š”? [childโ€™s name] is a little nervous today. โ†’ [์•„์ด]๊ฐ€ย ์˜ค๋Š˜ย ์กฐ๊ธˆย ๊ธด์žฅํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. It’s his first day today. โ†’ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ฒซ๋‚ ์ด์ž–์•„์š”. This is his/her…

  • Property manager์—๊ฒŒ ๊ผญ ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ด์•ผํ•˜๋Š” ์งˆ๋ฌธ๋“ค (๋ ŒํŠธ)

    ์•„๋ž˜ ์งˆ๋ฌธ๋“ค์„ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•ด๋‘์…จ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ํ”„๋Ÿฌํผํ‹ฐ ๋งค๋‹ˆ์ €์—๊ฒŒ ๊ผญ ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ณด์„ธ์š”. ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ด๋„ ๊ทธ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋“์ด ๋˜๋Š” ๋ง๋งŒ ํ•˜๊ฒ ์ง€๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์‹œ๊ณ  ์•ˆ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ณด์‹ ๋‹ค๋ฉด ํ›„ํšŒํ•˜์‹ค๊ฑฐ์—์š”. ์ƒ๊ฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ์†”์งํ•œ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๋‹ต๋ณ€์„ ๋“ฃ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์‹ค๊ฒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์™œ๋ƒํ•˜๋ฉด ํ”„๋Ÿฌํผํ‹ฐ ๋งค๋‹ˆ์ €๋“ค์€ ์ •๋ง ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”. ๊ทธ๋“ค๋„ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ช…๋ฃŒํ•œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ์ฃผ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ํŽธํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ณ„์•ฝ์ด ์„ฑ์‚ฌ๋˜๋“  ์•ˆ๋˜๋“  ๋น ๋ฅธ ์†๋„๋กœ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๊ธธ ๋ฐ”๋ž„๊ฑฐ์—์š”. Hi, /name/, thank you for showing us the property today! 1.…