シャドーイング練習: 12 - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 1 Young Animals by Rachel Bladen Read by Claire Willey Introduction
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Young animals grow up from babies into adults.
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Some young animals grow up very fast.
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Some young animals grow up slowly.
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What are these young animals?
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What young animals do you like?
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Discover!
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Now read and discover more about young animals.
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Chapter 1.
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Babies Some babies hatch from an egg.
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A mother duck makes a nest by the water.
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She lays her eggs in the nest.
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She sits on the eggs so they stay warm.
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Then the ducklings hatch.
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Some babies don't hatch from an egg.
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They are born from their mother.
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A baby zebra is born from its mother.
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The mother cleans the baby, and then it can stand up and walk.
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It can run when it's one hour old.
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Discover!
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A baby zebra has brown and white stripes.
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Chapter 2.
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Parents.
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Many young animals look the same as their parents.
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Look at these baby seahorses and their parent.
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Some young animals look very different from their parents.
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A caterpillar is a butterfly's baby.
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Some young animals live with their parents for weeks.
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Some young animals live with their parents for years.
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Parents feed and protect their babies.
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Some young animals don't meet their parents.
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A mother sea turtle lays her eggs in the sand.
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Then she goes into the ocean.
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Baby sea turtles hatch from the eggs.
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They don't meet their mother.
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Chapter 3 Help Many adult animals help young animals.
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A young elephant lives with its mother and other elephants.
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The mother feeds the young elephant.
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She cleans it and she gives it water.
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Adult elephants protect the young elephant.
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They help it to walk too.
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A mother chimpanzee carries her babies everywhere.
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A young ostrich lives with its mother and father.
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They help it to feed.
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They also protect it from the rain and the hot sun with their wings.
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Chapter 4 Danger There's danger for young animals.
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Other animals want to eat them.
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How do young animals stay safe?
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Young kangaroos live in their mother's pouch.
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It's safe there.
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Discover!
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Baby kangaroos are very little.
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You can put a baby kangaroo on a spoon.
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This young shark has spots.
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Other animals can't see the shark on the ocean floor.
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This caterpillar has poison in its body.
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Other animals touch the caterpillar and poison goes into them.
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Chapter 5 Food Some young animals drink milk from their mother.
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The milk is good and it helps them to grow.
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A young seal drinks its mother's milk.
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Discover!
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A young seal can grow from 10 kilograms to 30 kilograms in three weeks.
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A young owl doesn't drink milk.
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Its parents feed it frogs, fish, and other little animals.
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A toad eats insects and other little animals.
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A baby toad is very different.
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A baby toad is called a tadpole, and it eats plants.
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Chapter 6 Homes Young bears are born when the weather is very cold.
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The mother makes a home called a den.
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She puts branches and grass in an old tree or under a rock.
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The young bears are warm in the den, and they're safe from other animals.
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Beavers make a home called a lodge.
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They cut down trees and branches, and they make a dam in a river.
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The beavers make a lodge in the water, with branches and mud.
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A young beaver is safe in the lodge.
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Chapter 7 How Animals Learn Young animals learn many things.
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A young eagle learns to fly when it's about ten weeks old.
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The parents help the young eagle to fly.
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Young cheetahs watch their mother hunt.
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This helps them to learn to hunt.
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The mother cheetah gives little animals to her young cheetahs too.
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The young cheetahs learn how to hunt and eat the little animals.
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Discover!
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A cheetah can run more than a hundred kilometers per hour.
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That's very, very fast.
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Chapter 8 How Animals Grow Up A young lion lives with its mother and other lions in a pride.
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When it's about two years old, a young male lion moves to a different pride.
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A young beetle is called a larva.
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The larva looks very different from its parents.
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It grows a pupa.
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When it comes out of the pupa, it's an adult.
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Then it looks the same as its parents.
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Young animals grow up into adults and have babies.
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Their babies have babies too.
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Every day, young animals are born.

このレッスンの語彙とスピーキングのポイント

この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が95文、単語が732語あります。 音声の長さは9:00です。 話す速さはゆっくりで、1分あたり約81語です。一つ一つの音をまねる余裕があります。 単語の79%は英語の頻出3,000語に含まれます。残りは練習の前に確認しておきましょう。

この動画の重要語彙

動画に出てくる覚えておきたい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語発音意味
discover 動詞/dɪˈskʌvə/発見する, 見つける
elephant 名詞/ˈɛlɪfənt/象, ゾウ
egg 名詞/ɛɡ/卵, 玉子
hatch 動詞/hæt͡ʃ/孵化する, 孵る
lion 名詞/ˈlaɪən/ライオン, 獅子
lodge 動詞/lɑd͡ʒ/泊まる, 宿泊
beaver 名詞/ˈbivɚ/ビーバー, 海狸
kangaroo 名詞/ˌkæŋ.ɡəˈɹu/カンガルー
seal 名詞/siːl/印章, はんこ
eagle 名詞/ˈiːɡəl/鷲, 鵰
poison 名詞/ˈpɔɪ.zən/毒
nest 名詞/nɛst/巣, ネスト
turtle 名詞/ˈtɝtl̩/亀, カメ
sand 名詞/sænd/砂
grass 名詞/ɡɹɑːs/草, 雑草

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語意味
grow up 動詞成長する, 大人に成る
stand up 動詞立ち上がる

注意したい発音

話し手はdon't, can't, doesn'tなど、短縮形や弱形を6回使っています。聞こえたとおりの短い形で発音しましょう。

この動画での練習方法

  1. まず声を出さずに動画を最後まで聞き、知らない単語をメモします。
  2. 通常の速度で一文ずつシャドーイングし、話し手のリズムに合うまで繰り返します。
  3. 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。discover, elephant, eggなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

シャドーイングとは?英語上達に効果的な理由

シャドーイング(Shadowing)は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的:ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影(shadow)」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。

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