Good question

Here's a good question I received:

日本語訳をしてみたのですが、合っているのか自信がありません！
先生に添削してもらおうと思い、メールしました！

42 It is the job of the judge to
43 make sure that the jurors have had the
44 relevant laws read to them and that the laws
45 have been explained properly.

陪審員に適切な法を理解してもらい、法が正しく説明されるのを確かめることが裁判員の仕事である。

have had the relevant laws read to them の部分が、適切な法を彼らに理解してもらう、で合っているでしょうか？
よろしくお願いします！！

Here's my answer:

I think your translation is good (but "陪審員の仕事" should be "裁判官の仕事").

Let's think about "have had the relevant laws read to them" using other sentences.

In the following sentences, Joe is the father, Sally is Joe's five-year-old daughter, and Mary is Joe's ten-year-old daughter.

Bedtime stories

Joe had Mary read Sally a bedtime story.
(Joe to Sally): Have Mary read you a bedtime story.
(Joe to Sally): Make sure you have Mary read you a bedtime story.
Joe made sure that Sally had a bedtime story read to her each night.
Each night before he goes to bed, Joe makes sure that Sally has had a bedtime story read to her.
Each night before he went to bed, Joe made sure that Sally had had a bedtime story read to her.

Brushing your teeth

Joe had Sally brush her teeth each night before bed.
(Joe to Sally): Have you brushed your teeth?
(Joe to Mary): Make sure you have Sally brush her teeth before she goes to bed.
(Joe to Mary): Have you had Sally brush her teeth tonight?

Finishing "12 Angry Men"

先日の授業で"12 Angry Men"の最後の部分を見ました。次回の授業で次のこうをしようと考えています。

• いくつかの重要な場面の解説
• 裁判員・陪審員制度に関するビデオを見せて、制度の意義およびアメリカ文化との関係について考える
• Reasonable doubtのテキスト解説の続き（最終回）

なお、はっきりと覚えていませんが、今週の授業の後に、２週間前の授業で「次回はquizなし」と言ったのに、そのことを忘れてしまい、quizをしたのでは、ということが気になりました。次回はこのことについても皆さんと少し話したいと思います。

English Lounge

課題ではありませんが、受講生の皆さんにEnglish Loungeの利用をお勧めします。

How to study

Last semester, we talked about how to use this blog to study. Please click here to look at that page.

Interpret

Here's one of the lines that we are studying in this movie:

You've had the law read to you and interpreted as it applies in this case.

In this situation, "to interpret the law" means to "explain the meaning of the law." I'll talk about this in class.

I can tell by . . .

Last week I introduced part of a couple of songs that have the phrase "I can tell by . . ." in the lyrics.   I put the video on YouTube so you can all watch it whenever you want.



Also, you can download an mp4 version of the video (for your iPods and other mobile devices) by right-clicking here.

Make sure you understand the expression that I explained in class. I may test you on them.

VLC

If you are using a Windows machine, it might be necessary to download iTunes or another program in order to play the mp4 files I put on my blog.  Here's the address for VLC, which I think is a very useful program:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html

VLC is free and can play almost any kind of video or audio file.