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)
- How have apps changed people's daily lives?
- Do people rely too much on their smartphones?
- Should there be more regulation of big tech companies?
- 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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