シャドーイング練習: Band 7 | IELTS Speaking test sample – Part 3 (Mauricio) - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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We've been talking, Mauricio, about a person that you like or admire, and I'd like to discuss with you one or two more general questions related to well-known people.
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Let's consider, first of all, famous people in Colombia.
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What kind of people become famous in your country?
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Well, there is a singer.
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His name is Juanes.
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He's a particular singer because he's famous, he has very, very good songs.
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But lately he has been working for peace in Colombia.
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Maybe you know, but in Colombia we have a very, a problem, internal problem.
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Yeah.
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So he's also working for peace, working for people in need, trying to get in touch with other countries.
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Why did you get to the president of Venezuela?
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Because our president and Chavez, who is the president of Venezuela, they weren't so friendly to each other.
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So this singer, Juanes, sang in a border city and he brings people from Venezuela and from Colombia.
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And they sang there like for four or five hours.
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And they bring more singers as well.
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People from Cuba, from venezuela so people who are singers
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and people who are in politics they're famous are there any
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other types of people who are famous in your country um
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gabriel garcia marquez he's a writer he won the nobel prize in 1982
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if i'm not wrong i'm not exactly sure do you think
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that most people feel that writers are very famous people no
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that wasn't my first choice actually so But that depends on each one,
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because if I would like to read, I would find this person very interesting and very famous.
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Do you think that the people
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that we think are famous today are similar to the types of people who were famous in the past?
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No, they have changed a lot.
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Really?
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In what way?
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The way that everyone can know them from the internet.
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So internet brings more communication and more things around.
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So I can know someone from another country more easily right now than before.
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So that could change a little bit.
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Do you think it's easier for people to become famous now?
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Yeah, even you can upload something on YouTube, for example, and you can be famous for 15 seconds or 15 minutes or maybe,
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I don't know, we'll take it up to one month.
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So what will happen in the future?
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What kind of people will become famous in the future, do you think?
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Well, that depends on what they do.
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I can be famous, I don't know, if I do something very weird right now, I can be famous.
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I can be famous.
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Or, but mainly politicians are famous.
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Let's go on and talk about people in the public eye.
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Do you think that there are more advantages or disadvantages to being famous?
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Well, I think it's disadvantages.
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What are they?
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Because they don't have private life.
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They have to socialise with people from their own area.
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Singers with singers, writers with writers, things like that for themselves.
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They can socialise, socialise in a proper way.
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They have to socialise with people from their own area.
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Singers with singers, writers with writers, things like that.
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What about the advantages?
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Advantages?
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Well, the huge one, money.
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Money and they can be treated in a different way sometimes.
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Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?
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No. In my opinion, I prefer my privacy.
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I prefer to go to a restaurant.
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I prefer to be a normal person, to be in between everyone and meet people from different places without being treated differently.
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Thank you very much, Mauricio.
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That's the end of the speaking test.
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Thank you.

この動画でスピーキングを練習する理由は？

この動画では、アイエルツのスピーキングテストのサンプルが紹介されています。特に、著名な人物に関する質問が取り上げられており、具体的な例が豊富に用いられています。これは、英語スピーキング練習にとても役立ちます。学習者は、自分の意見を述べたり、他者の考えを理解するための言語能力を高めることができます。この文脈では、話すことの重要性を実感し、実際の会話での使用シーンを想定しながら練習すると効果的です。

文法と表現の文脈

この動画では、特に注目すべき文法と表現がいくつか使われています：

  • 過去形の使用: 「1982年にノーベル賞を受賞しました」など、過去の出来事について話す際の文脈が示されています。
  • 条件文: 「もし私が珍しいことをしたら有名になれるかもしれない」という表現は、仮定の状況を話す際に非常に役立つ構造です。
  • 疑問文: 特に「どう思いますか？」というフレーズは、相手の意見を引き出すために有効です。これにより、より深い対話が可能になります。

これらの構文は、shadow speechの一環として練習するのに適しています。英語の発音を良くするための練習も含まれており、実際の発話に役立つでしょう。

一般的な発音の罠

この動画では、いくつかの発音に関する注意点があります。例えば：

  • 「famous」の発音: 「フェイマス」と聞こえるかもしれませんが、正しくは「フェイムス」です。これは、特に影響力のある人物について話す際によく使われる語です。
  • 「singer」は「シンガー」と発音されますが、＜em>スィンガーと間違えられることがあります。このように、音の変化を意識することで、より自然な発音ができるようになります。
  • 「politics」の発音: 「ポリティックス」と正確に発音することが求められます。この単語は討議や意見交換の際によく出てきます。

これらの発音は、shadowing siteを使って繰り返し練習することができ、shadowspeakの技術を用いると効果的です。特に、様々なアクセントを聞くことができるので、理解力が向上します。

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。