Describe a website or app you use often.

よく使うアプリ・サイト(社会・メディア)— 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)

  • what it is
  • how you found out about it
  • what you use it for
  • and explain why you use it so often

使えるコロケーション

表現日本語訳
a lifesaver救世主のように便利なもの
seamless継ぎ目なく滑らかな
a subscription定額課金・サブスク
check ~ religiously〜を欠かさず確認する
curated厳選された
kill time時間をつぶす
go down a rabbit hole気づけば延々と見続けてしまう
a well-designed interfaceよく設計された画面
モデル回答 — まず自分で話してから開く

The app I'd like to talk about is a podcast app that I use every single day — realistically for over an hour, if I'm honest.
I found it through word of mouth about four years ago, when a colleague noticed me struggling with boredom on my long commute and insisted I try podcasts instead of music. I downloaded the app that evening, subscribed to two shows, and that was the beginning of what I can only call a habit transplant.
I use it in all the dead zones of the day: the commute, cooking, folding laundry, walking. My subscriptions have grown into a curated mix — an English news podcast for my language study, a history series, a couple of comedy shows for tired evenings. The app itself deserves credit too: it remembers my position across devices, speeds up playback slightly, and cuts silences, which sounds trivial but saves me hours a month.
Why so often? Because it converts my most useless time into my most interesting time. Commuting used to be forty-five minutes of staring at advertisements; now it's a lecture, a story, or a laugh. Frankly, half of what I talk about at dinner parties, I first heard on that app. Of all my subscriptions, it's the only one I'd call a lifesaver.

Part3につながる質問(4問)

  1. How have apps changed people's daily lives?
  2. Do people rely too much on their smartphones?
  3. Should there be more regulation of big tech companies?
  4. What kinds of apps will people need in the future?
モデル回答 — まず自分で話してから開く

質問

How have apps changed people's daily lives?

モデル回答

The headline change is that friction has vanished from daily logistics — a taxi, a meal, a bank transfer and a date can all be arranged before your coffee cools. That's genuine progress; nobody misses queuing at banks. The deeper change is subtler: apps have colonised the in-between moments. Waiting rooms, bus stops, even elevators used to be small pockets of thinking time; now they're all scrolling time. So I'd say apps gave us back hours through efficiency, then quietly took them again through distraction — the net is surprisingly close to zero.

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