シャドーイング練習: CAM 20 | IELTS LISTENING TEST | TEST 2 - SECTION 3 #english #listeningpractice #ielts #education - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Part 3 You will hear two students, called Rosie and Colin, discussing their Human Geography assignment.
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First, you have some time to look at questions 21 to 25.
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Now listen carefully and answer questions 21 to 25.
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Colin, I'm really struggling to think of a topic for our human geography assignment.
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Me too, Rosie.
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I'll tell you what.
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Let's think about the different aspects of human geography and see
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if we can narrow the topic down a bit to help us decide.
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OK, so one aspect is population.
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That would be all about population density and migration and so on.
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Lots of facts and statistics.
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Maybe a bit boring?
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Yeah, but quite straightforward to find on the internet.
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I suppose so.
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How about health?
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I'd never thought about the links between that and geography until Professor Lee gave us that lecture on cholera.
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How in the 19th century, a physician used street plans and plans of water supplies to find the source of a cholera epidemic.
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Yes, fascinating, wasn't it?
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Or we could do something more general, like economies.
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So how financial and commercial factors are linked to the physical environment?
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Yeah.
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I thought that had been taken off the syllabus for this year. Has it?
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I'm not sure.
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But it might be best to avoid it.
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OK.
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Maybe we could do something on culture.
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We had that lecture about culture and geography last week.
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I didn't get much out of that.
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It was also general, and the lecturer didn't give any useful examples.
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Yeah, I hardly took any notes.
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It didn't seem worth it.
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Me neither.
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We could focus on poverty.
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That's something that's a global problem.
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The trouble is, Dr Lee was saying, that you have to be careful with some of the figures relating to poverty.
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They're sometimes deliberately manipulated.
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You mean the information gets changed for political reasons?
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That sort of thing, yes.
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Before you hear the rest of the discussion, you have some time to look at questions 26 to 30.
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Thank you.
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Now listen and answer questions 26 to 30.
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So what are we going to do our assignment on?
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I'll tell you what, one of the possibilities we haven't discussed is urbanisation, and now over half the world's population lives in cities.
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That's really important.
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OK, good idea, Rosie.
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Let's do that.
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I love living in a big city, but of course there are problems.
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Things like theft and robbery?
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Yes, but where I come from, that's linked to another more serious issue, which is that a lot of people don't have jobs.
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That's getting worse and worse.
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And we also still have quite a lot of people who are homeless, though that's not quite so bad as it was.
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It'd be nice to talk about some positive developments, like some of the new developments on the outskirts of cities.
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Yeah, they've opened some massive new shopping centres outside my city.
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Yeah, the same with mine, but it's meant a lot of the shops in the city centre are closing down.
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But the outskirts are ideal for buildings that need a lot of space, like for conferences.
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They've opened a couple of big ones.
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Yes, we've got some too.
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It'd be nicer to have more facilities for things like football too, but that's not happening where I live.
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Same in my area.
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We could include something about developing disused industrial sites.
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It seems like a good idea because you're not doing any harm to the natural environment.
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Yeah, but aren't the buildings architecturally significant?
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Not really.
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And what people forget is that they often used quite dangerous materials, chemicals and things, which haven't been properly cleared away, so the whole site has to be made safe.
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Hmm, that can't be cheap.
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And I bet it's often not budgeted for.
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You're right.
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Have you read about Mazdar City?
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In Abu Dhabi?
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Yes.
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It was designed to be a green city, wasn't it?
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That might be a good example of a city which set out to depend entirely on renewable energy.
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Yes, we should say something about that.
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It was designed to be totally pedestrianised too, wasn't it?
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With the transport underground.
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Yes, and they had big plans for recycling to reduce waste to the lowest possible level.
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But let's stick to talking about power sources.
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Then there's that ecotown in England, Green Hill Abbots.
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It set out to conform to the usual principles – sustainability and so on.
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A lot of people were against it at first.
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They said the plans were unrealistic.
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I'm not sure how far they've got with it.
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I'll check.
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Right.
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So it looks as if we have a sort of plan.
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And we can work...
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That is the end of part three.
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You now have 30 seconds to check your answers to part three.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.

コンテキストと背景

このセクションでは、2人の学生、ロージーとコリンが人間地理学の課題について話し合っている様子が描かれています。彼らは多くのトピックを検討していますが、特に人口、健康、文化、貧困、都市化などの側面について具体的な議論を交わします。この対話は、実際の学術的な環境を模しており、学生たちの思考過程やコミュニケーションの取り方を理解するのに役立ちます。特に、IELTSのリスニングテストにおける過去の問題としても利用できる内容です。

日常コミュニケーションのためのトップ5フレーズ

  • 「トピックを絞り込む」 - 課題について具体的に考えるときに役立つ表現です。
  • 「それは面白いですね」 - 他者の意見を尊重しながら、賛同する際に使えるフレーズです。
  • 「ちょっと退屈かもしれない」 - 提案されたアイディアに対する否定的な感想を表現します。
  • 「政治的理由で情報が操作されることがあります」 - 批判的な思考を促し、情報に対する注意を喚起します。
  • 「半分以上の人口が都市に住んでいます」 - 都市化に関する重要な統計を述べる際に役立ちます。

段階的シャドーイングガイド

このビデオの内容は、特に英語のスピーキングを改善したい学習者にとって、良い練習素材となります。以下の手順を参考にして、効果的にシャドースピーキングを行いましょう。

  1. リスニング前の準備: まず、各質問を読み、テーマやコンテンツに対する予備知識を持つようにしましょう。
  2. 初回リスニング: 一度ビデオを通して聴き、全体の会話の流れを理解します。内容を把握することで、より深い理解につながります。
  3. 段階的シャドーイング: クリンチョが話す部分を止めながら、自分の声で繰り返してみましょう。このとき、英語の発音を良くすることを心がけ、イントネーションやリズムに注意します。
  4. フレーズの反復練習: 日常コミュニケーションのために取り上げたフレーズを特に練習し、自然に使用できるようにしましょう。
  5. 復習とフィードバック: 自己録音も活用し、聞き返してみて改善点を見つけます。そして、自分の進捗を適宜確認しながら、IELTS スピーキング対策に取り組むことをお勧めします。

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。