Tip 179 ”Show them what you’re made of.”無料ビジネス英語学習

無料ビジネス英語学習 Words & Phrases 第179弾は、”Show them what you’re made of.” です。

昇任試験を受ける同僚を激励する機会ってありますよね。
今回はそんな場面で役立つ表現をご紹介します。

ヒカは今日、昇任試験を受けるようです。そこで同僚のタロウに言いました。

“Taro, I I have my promotion test this afternoon.
I’m gonna take an interview with the HR manager”
「今日の午後、昇任試験を受けるんだ。HRのマネージャーと面接をするんだよ。」

「頑張って!」とヒカを勇気づけたい場合、
あなたがタロウなら英語で何と言いますか?

“Good luck. Do your best.”

これでも伝わりますが、こんな表現もあるんです!

“Show them what you’re made of.”
(君の能力を見せてやれ!!)

と言ってみましょう!とても自然な表現です。

発音もビデオでチェック!
ぜひこの表現を使ってみて下さい。

Hello and welcome to this Bizmates words and phrases video series

and today's phrase:

Show them what you're made of.

I like this.
Words of encouragement.

Shown them what YOU are made of.

You're made of courage. You're made of...
power. Positivity.

OK, we'll talk about what this
means in just a minute

but first let's do our test.

So remember last time I'm your boss
and I say:

Hey, you should review your costs. They seem high.

You understand my point, but you don't really agree.
You say...

There you go.

Point taken.
OK, good hope you got that.

OK, let's go on to today's phrase
Show them what you're made of.

Great, positive, positive phrase.
If you want to give

encouragement to someone
you can use this.

But here's what I sometimes hear.

OK, so let's imagine Taro is my
colleague and I say:

Taro, I I have my promotion test this afternoon.

I'm gonna take an interview with the HR manager

and if I pass I can become...
I don't know, the next rank up.

I have my promotion test.

And Taro says:

Do your best.

OK, this phrase is okay, we often hear this
it's like gambatte. But, you know

instead of just "Good luck. Do your best."
A different expression, this one

you can use instead of always saying
Good luck. Do your best

so this is another expression like that

but one that I don't hear so often from students.

OK, so let's look at this.

So I say:
I have my promotion test this afternoon.

And you can say:
Show them what you're made of.

OK, it's like "do your best" but it's just
a different way of expressing it.

Very natural. So show the HR manager and your boss or whoever

what you are capable of doing.

Show them the skills that you have.
The abilities that you have.

That's what this means. But basically it means
do your best or "good luck"

I think there was a song that had these words.

Show 'em you're a tiger.
Show 'em what you can do. The taste of...

Sorry that was a TV commercial. That was a cereal commercial.

Forget about that. But anyway it's a common phrase "Show them what you're made of."

OK let's look at pronunciation.
It's not show them but it's

Show 'em...
Show 'em what you're mad'ov.

The D and the OV connect.
...mad'ov.

Show 'em what you're mad'ov.
You try.

OK with my sentence:
I have my promotion test this afternoon.

OK, I will. Thanks for the encouragement.

OK like this. So for
homework next time I will say:

I have my promotion test this afternoon.
and you say...


That's right.
Show them what you're made of.


Please remember this and we will see you
next time. Thank you.

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