英会話上達研究会オンライン/テキスト

• What day is today?
• Ummm... Today is January 15.
• Thanks! Oh! It's Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday.
• What? What's that?
• You don't know the famous ‘‘I have a dream’’ speech?
• Let's see... Oh yes, I do remember that speech.
• He is the guy who called for non-violence and equality for all people. In 1963, a quarter of a million people marched in Washington, D.C., and he gave that famous speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial. He also won the Nobel Peace Prize.
• Oh, he was a great man.
• Yes, he truly was. However, he was assassinated when he was 39 years old.
• How sad that he died so young...

Grammar Check

【1】

What day is today?

 

What's the date today?

What date is it today? 

What day of the month do you get paid?　

 

【2】

Let's see...

 

Let's see... I'm afraid we're fully booked for that flight.　

 

【3】

I do remember that speech.

 

I do think you should go. Do start at once.

 

【4】

call for ～

 

This calls for another trip to the U.S.