シャドーイング練習: B2 English Listening Practice - Idioms in English - YouTubeで英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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Hey everybody, welcome to this B2 English listening practice video.
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Hey everybody, welcome to this B2 English listening practice video.
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You can use this video to train your listening and comprehension as I speak.
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You ready?
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So today I'm going to talk about a few common idioms that we use in English.
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Idiomatic expressions play such an important role in any language, and so it's good to always be learning new ones.
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So without further ado, let's look at our first one.
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Once in a blue moon.
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I'm sure some of you have come across this expression at some point in your life, but But maybe you didn't quite understand it when it was said.
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If we say that something happens once in a blue moon, it means that this thing very rarely happens.
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So, for example, I could say, this type of event only takes place once in a blue moon.
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That just means that this type of event almost never happens.
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Alright, here's another idiom.
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To feel under the weather.
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This is an essential one that you should definitely learn.
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It simply means that you're feeling a little sick.
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You wouldn't use this expression if you were really sick or you had some really serious medical condition or something, but you can use it if you have a cold or something like that.
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So I might say, I'm going to have to skip tonight's party because I'm feeling a little under the weather.
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In fact, I'm actually feeling a little under the weather right now, because I've been having some issues with my throat and sinuses.
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Okay, the third idiom that we're going to look at is this one, stab someone in the back.
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This is another expression that you'll want to get down.
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It's universal, and I'm sure the expression is pretty similar in other languages, but it might be worded a little differently.
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So when you stab someone in the back, you betray them, more often than not in a pretty dramatic or brutal way.
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So for example, let's say I tell a really embarrassing personal secret to my good friend
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and then my good friend goes and tells a bunch of other people my secret.
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This would be considered him stabbing me in the back.
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Pretty straightforward, right?
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Alright, the next idiom is cold turkey.
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This is one of my personal favorites.
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The phrase cold turkey is used to show
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that someone quits a harmful habit immediately without any program or weaning off process to help.
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So if a man's been smoking a pack of cigarettes every day for the last 30 years and then just stops immediately, he quit cold turkey.
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Or if a drug addict suddenly throws away all his drugs and quits completely, he quit cold turkey.
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Don't ask me where this expression came from though.
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Alright, one more idiom.
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Born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
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Of course you can substitute his with any other possessive pronoun here.
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This idiom is often used to negatively describe someone who was born into a wealthy family.
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You wouldn't want to say this to somebody's face though.
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People usually say this when they're making disparaging remarks about somebody else.
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So you might hear someone say something like this.
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He doesn't even know what work is.
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He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
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So hopefully some of these idioms were new for you, so now you've got a few more native phrases in your arsenal.
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Okay, that's all for today.
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Leave a comment and try to use one of these idioms in your own sentence.
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I'll see you next time.
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このレッスンについて
このレッスンでは、英語のリスニングと理解力を高めるための効果的な練習方法を紹介します。特に、英語でよく使われるイディオムを学び、実際の会話の中でどのように使われるかを理解することが目的です。イディオムは、ネイティブスピーカーとのコミュニケーションにおいて非常に重要な要素です。これを通じて、英語スピーキング練習やIELTSスピーキング対策に役立てましょう。
重要な語彙とフレーズ
- once in a blue moon - 非常に稀に起こること
- to feel under the weather - 少し体調が悪い
- stab someone in the back - 裏切ること
- cold turkey - 急に有害な習慣をやめること
- born with a silver spoon in his mouth - 裕福な家庭に生まれること
練習のコツ
この動画のスピードとトーンに合わせて、効果的なshadow speech（シャドースピーチ）を行うことをお勧めします。まずは、話者の音声をよく聞き、発音やリズムを感じ取りましょう。その後、リスニング後に同じ内容を繰り返す練習を行います。これは、英語スピーキング練習に非常に効果的です。また、イディオムを実際に使ってみることで、自分の語彙を広げることができます。YouTubeで英語学習を行う際には、映像を見ながら発話することで、より効果的に学べます。日常生活でもこれらの表現を使用することで、友人や同僚との会話をより豊かにすることができます。ぜひ、このレッスンで学んだイディオムを使った文を作成し、コメント欄でシェアしてみてください。
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。