シャドーイング練習: 美音连读&语音语调练习American English Connected Reading|Describe the first paid work that you ever did (part2) - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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Hey, what's up?
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It's Alex.
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Today we're going to look at the sentence rhythm and intonation in the IELTS sample answer.
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Describe the first paid work that you ever did.
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Let's have a look.
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The very first paid work I did.
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So we start low, and then we keep going high for the whole rest of the sentence.
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The very first paid work I did, and we kind of stress did,
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was probably, was probably, was probably one night, was probably one night, kind of rise and fall here.
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When I helped out at a restaurant, when I helped out at a restaurant,
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we stress restaurant because it's kind of introducing the topic of the whole section of speech.
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Helped out at a restaurant, that my aunt owned.
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Helped out at a restaurant that my aunt owned.
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Then my aunt owned.
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So we stress aunt and everything else is a little bit quieter and lower.
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When I helped out at a restaurant that my aunt owned.
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I must have been about 15 at the time.
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I must have been about 15 at the time.
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Here the word 15 sometimes has a strong stress on the syllable teen to make it clear
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that I'm not even native speakers sometimes make the mistake between 15 and 50 when they're listening.
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But it's clear that I'm not talking about being 50 years old, so I can say it very casually without having to stress that word.
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I must have been about 15 at the time.
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About 15 at the time.
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At the time.
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We go down at the end of the sentence.
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The restaurant had a bar.
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The restaurant had a bar.
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Kind of go low at the beginning again, and then down when we stress bar.
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We stress bar because we're bringing in new information.
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The restaurant had a bar.
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The The restaurant had a bar, and that night some rich guy, and that night, and that night some rich guy,
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I'm continuing my sentence, and so I'm kind of going up and staying high for a lot of it.
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And that night some rich guy had a birthday party there with a ton of people.
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Birthday party there with a ton of people.
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Birthday party there with a ton of people.
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So we'll kind of go down when we're not stressing with birthday party there with a ton of people, with a ton of people.
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We went down on those words and we stressed birthday and people.
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Some rich guy had a birthday party there with a ton of people, and so my aunt asked if I would help out.
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And so my aunt asked if I would help out.
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I go rising
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and falling over this part of of the sentence to this is actually a really long sentence
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and it even seems a little weird when it's written out.
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Normally in writing you very rarely see sentences this long.
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But it's really common when you're telling a story to continue adding details like this.
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However, this sentence is just about three sections long.
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And if I added more and more sections to four,
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five, six, then it would probably be a little bit too long and probably make the listeners confused.
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So this would be a longer sentence than is normally spoken, but it's still not too long to cause confusion.
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The restaurant had a bar and
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that night some rich guy had a birthday party there with a ton of people
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and so my aunt asked if I would help out.
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I didn't do much, just brought up extra chairs from the basement, just brought up extra chairs from the basement, Just.
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So just is not really a needed part of the sentence.
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It's just really extra words.
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It's padding to make the rhythm of the sentence sound good.
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Because of that, we're going to drop the tone down.
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Just, just brought up extra chairs.
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Just brought up extra chairs from the basement.
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from the extra chairs from the basement and took out the garbage and took out the garbage and took out the garbage.
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Here we have two verbs in the sentence that are both two words long.
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You can see that each of them kind of gets a high tone.
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Brought up, took out, just brought up extra chairs from the basement and took out the garbage.
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Took out the garbage.
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Little things like that.
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I'm stressing little to show that it's really not that important.
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When I was 15, of course, they wouldn't let me do anything important at that restaurant, so I stress little, little things like that.
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Stressing that lets the listener know that I don't think I was that important either.
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I didn't do much, just brought up extra chairs from the basement and took out the garbage.
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Little things like that.
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I actually wasn't expecting to get paid.
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I actually wasn't expecting to get paid.
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Kind of rise and fall, but we're still high during this beginning part.
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That's because it's a little surprising.
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I actually wasn't expecting to get paid.
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I use kind of a high tone to show that I was surprised that I did get paid.
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I actually wasn't expecting to get paid.
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So it was a nice surprise when she handed me some cash.
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Surprise.
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Cash.
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Those words are what I want to express with the sentence, and so they get stressed.
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So it was a nice surprise when she handed me some cash.
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So it was a nice surprise when she handed me some cash at the end of the night.
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Now you can see the rhythm throughout the whole sentence.
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A nice surprise when she handed me some cash at the end of the night.
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Of course, at the end of the sentence like that, you don't want to stress night very heavily.
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At the end of the night.
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Night.
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At the end of the night.
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I actually wasn't expecting to get paid, so it was a nice surprise when she handed me some cash at the end of the night.
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The very first paid work I did was probably one night when I helped out at a restaurant that my aunt owned.
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I must have been about 15 at the time.
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The restaurant had a bar, and that night some rich guy had a birthday party there with a ton of people, and so my aunt asked if I would help out.
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I didn't do much, just brought up extra chairs from the basement and took out the garbage, little things like that.
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I actually wasn't expecting to get paid, so it was a nice surprise when she handed me some cash at the end of the night.
このビデオでスピーキングを練習する理由
このビデオは、最初の有料の仕事について話す際の文のリズムとイントネーションに焦点を当てています。このような実践を通じて、実際の会話で必要なスピーキングスキルを向上させることができます。特に、IELTS スピーキング対策として非常に効果的です。ストーリーテリングの技術を理解し、感情を持って話すことで、英語の理解力が深まります。また、このビデオはYouTubeで英語学習をする際に役立つリソースとして利用できます。自分のペースで繰り返し練習することで、自信を持ってスピーキングを行うことができるでしょう。
文法と表現のコンテキスト
- 時制の使い方：「I must have been about 15 at the time」のように、過去の出来事を振り返るときの表現として適切です。
- 因果関係の表現：「And so my aunt asked if I would help out」というように、出来事の順序を示すのに便利です。
- 詳細の追加：長い文の中で「that night some rich guy had a birthday party」など、詳細を加えることでストーリーに深みを持たせています。
これらの文法や表現を理解し、英語スピーキング練習に役立てることで、より自然な会話ができるようになります。
共通の発音トラップ
このビデオで注意すべき発音トラップには、以下のようなものがあります。
- 「fifteen」と「fifty」の混同：「15」の発音で、特に「teen」の部分をしっかりと強調することが必要です。間違えやすい音のため、注意が必要です。
- 強調すべき単語：「restaurant」や「birthday」のように、新しい情報を提供する際には、これらの単語を強調することが重要です。
- イントネーションの変化：文の途中で上下するイントネーションを理解し、ストーリーテリングの際に活用することで、よりリズミカルで魅力的なスピーチを実現できます。
これらのポイントを意識して練習することで、shadowing siteやshadow speechなど、より効果的にスピーキング能力を向上させることができるでしょう。
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。