Describe a time when you helped someone.
人を助けた経験（出来事・経験）— Part2のキューカードです。2分間の回答を組み立てる練習に使えます。
キューカード(話すべきこと)
- who you helped
- what the situation was
- how you helped them
- and explain how you felt afterwards
使えるコロケーション
| 表現 | 日本語訳 |
|---|---|
| lend a hand | 手を貸す |
| in a tight spot | 困った状況にいる |
| go out of my way to ~ | わざわざ〜する |
| a small act of kindness | ちょっとした親切 |
| pay it forward | （受けた恩を別の人に）恩送りする |
| visibly relieved | 見るからにほっとした |
| make someone's day | 人を幸せな気分にさせる |
| it cost me nothing | 自分には何の負担でもなかった |
モデル回答 — まず自分で話してから開く
I'm going to talk about a time I helped a foreign tourist during a major train disruption, maybe eighteen months ago.
A typhoon had stopped several lines out of Tokyo, and the station was chaos — thousands of people, announcements only in rapid Japanese, departure boards flashing red. In the middle of it I noticed an elderly couple with suitcases looking utterly lost. They were trying to reach the airport for an evening flight, and the route they knew had just been suspended.
My own train was delayed anyway, so I decided to go all in. I looked up the one remaining route, walked them across the station to the correct platform, wrote down the transfer instructions in simple English, and stayed until they were safely on board. The whole thing took maybe forty minutes. The wife insisted on giving me a small maple-leaf pin from Canada, which I still have on my desk.
What stayed with me was how disproportionate the exchange felt: forty minutes that cost me nothing prevented what might have been a ruined trip for them. It genuinely made my week, not just my day — and it's pushed me to be quicker to offer help since, rather than assuming someone else will.
Part3につながる質問(4問)
- Why do some people enjoy doing volunteer work?
- Should schools teach children the importance of helping others?
- Do people help each other less than they did in the past?
- Whose job is it to help people in need — the government's or individuals'?
モデル回答 — まず自分で話してから開く
質問
Why do some people enjoy doing volunteer work?
モデル回答
I'd say the deepest driver is visible impact. In most modern jobs the connection between your effort and any human benefit is abstract — you improve a spreadsheet, someone somewhere profits. Volunteering collapses that distance: you cook a meal, a hungry person eats it. There's also the community angle; volunteers consistently mention the friendships as much as the cause. And frankly, there's an element of identity — it lets people be the person they'd like to think they are. The motives are mixed, but the good done is real either way.
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