シャドーイング練習: 6 Where Is My Pen - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Story 6.
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Where is my pen?
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Amy is not happy.
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She cannot find her favorite pen.
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She looks all over the house.
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She looks under the bed.
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She looks in her desk.
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She looks in the kitchen and in her book bag.
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but she cannot find it.
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Amy is really upset.
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Amy wants to cry.
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She cries to her mother.
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Mom, my pen is lost.
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Mom says, "Don't cry." I will help you look for it.
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When Mom goes downstairs, she laughs.
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Why are you laughing, Mom?
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Mom says.
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Check behind your ear.
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and as Amy checks her ear, She finds her pen.
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She had put it there earlier.
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Now she is happy.

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “6 Where Is My Pen”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: Mom, Amy, pen. This video has 21 sentences and 112 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:10. The speaker talks slowly, about 95 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound.

Key vocabulary in this video

8 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
desk noun/dɛsk/A table, frame, or case, in past centuries usually with a sloping top but now usually with a flat top, for the use of writers and readers. It often has a…
downstairs adverb/daʊnˈstɛɹz/Down the stairs.
laugh verb/læf/To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and…
kitchen noun/ˈkɪt͡ʃ(ə)n/A room or area for preparing food.
upset verb/ʌpˈsɛt/To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
cry verb/kɹaɪ/To shed tears; to weep, especially in anger or sadness.
favourite adjective/ˈfeɪv.ɹɪt/Most-liked. (In other words, [person]'s favorite [noun] = the [noun] that [person] likes the most.)
earlier adverb/ˈɝliɚ/previously; before now; sooner

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like desk, downstairs, laugh.

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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