PTA English Class November Notes -- Simple Everyday English

Here are the notes for November's class:

"I'd Walk a Thousand Miles" is a popular song by Vanessa Carlton. It was released in 2001 and 2002, and was very popular in the USA, Europe, and Australia, but not in Japan.
[I'd Walk a Thousand Miles:  一千マイル歩くわ！（ポピュラーソング）]
[Vanessa Carlton: ヴァネッサ・カールトン（歌手）]
[release: 解放させる => 登場させる]


ONE OK ROCK performed a live cover of the song in September 2014, at Yokohama Stadium.
[ONE OK ROCK: ワンオクロック（日本のロックバンド）]
[live: 生（演奏）]
[cover: ]

The name of the band, "ONE OK ROCK", is a pun. It can be read as "one o'clock", the time, or as "one okay rock", meaning "a good rock (sound/music)". The band used to practice at one o'clock in the morning, when it was cheap.
[pun: 駄洒落（だじゃれ）]
[be read: （受動態の「ビー　レッド」）]
[mean: 意味する]
[used to ...: （昔は）…する習慣があった]
[when ...: …の時]
[cheap: （価格が）安い、特価の]

A pun is a "play on words", or playing with words.
[play: 遊び、しゃれ、作戦など]
[play on words: 言葉上の遊び]

We listened to "A Thousand Miles" and talked a little about the meaning:
[talk about ...: …について話し合う（しゃべり合う）]

(Poetry is always subject to personal interpretation, and mine is not the only interpretation.)
（詩だって、個人の解釈によるものです。いろんな解釈がいいでしょう。）

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Phrases from "A Thousand Miles"

making my way
[（道を作って=>）道を辿っていて]

home bound
[家に向かっている]

staring blankly ahead
[ぼんやりとじっと前を見て]

making a way through
[通る道をあけて行って]

miss
[さみしく思う、懐かしく思う]

wonder
[戸惑う、「何かしら？」のように不思議に考える]

fall into the sky
[「空に落ちる」とは何の意味でしょう？]

pass by
[通り残される]

I'd walk a thousand miles
[一千マイル歩くわ！]

I wonder if ...
[（こういうことが）あるかしらと戸惑う]

everything's so wrong (everything is)
[すべてが間違っている（感じ）]

I don't belong
[（こういうところに）居るはずはない]

living in ...
[…の中に生きていて、住んでいて]

let you know
[（あなたに）知らせる、知ってもらう]

drown
[おぼれる]

let this go (let it go, let go)
[（これを）手放す、開放する、そのままに放っておく]

(You can find the whole lyrics via Google or Yahoo, etc.)
（その元の歌詞はグーグルやヤフーなどで調べることができます。）

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make your way through life
[自分の人生の道を開拓する（切り開く）]

Parlor game (game that can be played at home without special equipment)
[パーラーゲーム（「居間の遊び」？）特別な道具や備品を使わず、家で遊べるゲーム、という感じかな？]

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Never have I ever! (Non-drinking version)

[non-drinking version: ビールなどを飲まないバージョン]

I have never done that.
[それをやったことは全くありません。]

never ever
[生涯に一切にない]

(1) Players hold up ten fingers.
[hold up: 上げる]

(2) The first person says something that he or she has never done.
[he or she: 性別がわからなければ両方を指摘します。]
[something that ...: …の何か]
[A has never done B.: AはBをやったことがない。]
[say: 言いあげる]

For instance,
[例えば、]

• Never have I ever swum in the Osaka Castle moat.
  「大阪城の堀に泳いだことは絶対にない。」
• Never ever have I been to the moon.
  お月様に行ったことは一切にない。
• I have never ever flown like a bird.
  小鳥のように飛んだことは一度もありません。
• Never have I ever cheated on a test.
  テストをズルうしたことは絶対にありません。
• etc.

(3) Everyone who has done that thing puts one finger down.
[everyone who ...:  …の皆さん]
[A has done B: AはBをやったことがある。]
[put down: 下す]

(4) Then the next player tells something he or she has never done.

The winner is the most boring.
[most boring: もっとも面白いことやっていない人]

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Can you help me with this job?
[with ...: …で]
[job: 仕事、作業、家事など（の一コマ）]

yummy (casual word for "delicious")
[「うまい」のように、「美味しい」の砕けた言い方]

The (homestay) everyday English example will be posted separately, later.
[（ホームステーの）毎日英会話例文はしばらくして、別に投稿します。]