シャドーイング練習: CAMBRIDGE IELTS 17 LISTENING TEST1 PART 3 - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Part 3.
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You will hear two veterinary science students called Diana and Tim discussing their work placements and their course modules.
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First you have some time to look at questions 21 to 26.
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Thank you.
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Now listen carefully and answer questions 21 to 26.
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So, Tim, we have to do a short summary of our work experience on a farm.
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Right.
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My farm was great, but arranging the work experience was hard.
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One problem was it was miles away and I don't drive.
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And also, I'd really wanted a placement for a month, but I could only get one for two weeks.
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I was lucky.
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The farmer let me stay on the farm, so I didn't have to travel.
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But finding the right sort of farm to apply to wasn't easy.
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No, they don't seem to have websites, do they?
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I found mine through a friend of my mother's, but it wasn't easy.
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No. My farm was mostly livestock, especially sheep.
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I really enjoyed helping out with them.
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I was up most of one night helping a sheep deliver a lamb.
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On your own?
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No, the farmer was there, and he told me what to do.
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It wasn't a straightforward birth, but I managed.
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It was a great feeling to see the lamb stagger to its feet and start feeding almost straight away, and to know that it was OK.
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Then another time, a lamb had broken its leg, and they got the vet in to set it, and he talked me through what he was doing.
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That was really useful.
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Yes, my farm had sheep too.
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The farm was in a valley and they had a lowland breed called Suffolk's, although the farmer said they'd had other breeds in the past.
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So were they bred for their meat?
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Mostly, yes.
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They're quite big and solid.
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My farm was up in the hills and they had a different breed of sheep.
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They were Cheviots.
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Oh, I heard their wools really sought after.
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Yes, it's very hard wearing and they use it for carpets.
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Right.
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I was interested in the amount of supplements they add to animals' feed nowadays.
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Like, even the chickens got extra vitamins and electrolytes in their feed.
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Yes, I found that too.
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And they're not cheap.
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But my farmer said some are overpriced for what they are, and he didn't give them as a matter of routine,
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just at times when the chickens seemed to particularly require them.
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Yes, Mai said the same.
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He said certain breeds of chickens might need more supplements than the others, but the cheap and expensive ones are all basically the same.
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So did your farm have any other livestock, Diana?
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Yes, dairy cows.
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I made a really embarrassing mistake when I was working in the milk shed.
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Some cows had been treated with antibiotics, so their milk wasn't suitable for human consumption and it had to be put in a separate container.
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But I got mixed up and I poured some milk from the wrong cow in with the milk for humans, so the whole lot had to be thrown away.
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The farmer wasn't too happy with me.
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I asked my farmer how much he depended on the vet to deal with health problems.
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I'd read reports that the livestock's health is being affected as farmers are under pressure to increase production.
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Well, he didn't agree with that, but he said that actually some of the stuff the vets do,
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like minor operations, he'd be quite capable of doing himself.
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Yeah, my farmer said the same, but he reckons vet skills are still needed.
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Before you hear the rest of the conversation, you have some time to look at questions 27 to 30.
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Now listen and answer questions 27 to 30.
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Now we've got to give a bit of feedback about last term's modules, just short comments apparently.
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Shall we do that now?
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OK.
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So, medical terminology.
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Well, my heart sank when I saw that, especially right at the beginning of the course, and I did struggle with it.
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I thought it'd be hard, but actually I found it all quite straightforward.
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What did you think about diet and nutrition?
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OK, I suppose.
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Do you remember what they told us about pet food
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and the fact that there's such limited checking into whether or not it's contaminated?
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I mean, in comparison with the checks on food for humans, I thought that was terrible.
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Hmm.
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I think the module that really impressed me was the animal disease one.
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When we looked at domesticated animals in different parts of the world, like camels and water buffalo and alpaca,
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The economies of so many countries depend on these, but scientists don't know much about the diseases that affect them.
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Yes.
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I thought they'd know a lot about ways of controlling and eradicating those diseases, but that's not the case at all.
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I loved the wildlife medication unit.
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Things like helping birds that have been caught in oil spills.
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That's something I hadn't thought about before.
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Yeah, I thought I might write my dissertation on something connected with that.
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Right.
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So, actually, I was thinking something along the same lines...

このレッスンの語彙とスピーキングのポイント

この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が78文、単語が856語あります。 音声の長さは6:44です。 話す速さは1分あたり約127語で安定しており、シャドーイングしやすいペースです。 単語の82%は英語の頻出3,000語に含まれます。残りは練習の前に確認しておきましょう。

この動画の重要語彙

動画に出てくるやや難しい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

  • farmer /ˈfɑɹ.mɚ/ (名詞) — 農夫, 農家. A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm.
  • breed /ˈbɹiːd/ (動詞) — 育てる, 育成する. To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
  • sheep /ˈʃiːp/ (名詞) — 羊, ヒツジ. A woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis.
  • lamb /ˈlæm/ (名詞) — 子羊, 小羊. A young sheep; especially, one younger than nine months.
  • module /ˈmɑd͡ʒul/ (名詞) — モジュール. A self-contained component of a system, often interchangeable, which has a well-defined interface to the other components.
  • depend /dɪˈpɛnd/ (動詞) — 依存する. To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition
  • cow /kaʊ/ (名詞) — 雌牛, 牛. An adult female of the species Bos taurus, especially one that has calved.
  • livestock /ˈlaɪvstɑk/ (名詞) — 家畜. Farm animals; animals domesticated for cultivation.
  • straightforward /ˌstɹeɪtˈfɔː(ɹ)wə(ɹ)d/ (形容詞) — 率直, まっすぐ. Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating.
  • carefully /ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/ (副詞) — じっくり, 慎重に. With care; attentively, circumspectly.
  • skill /skɪl/ (名詞) — 腕, 技. A capacity to do something well; a technique, an ability, usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities that are regarded as innate.
  • connect /kəˈnɛkt/ (動詞) — 繋げる. To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.
  • suitable [ˈsjuː.tə.bɫ̩] (形容詞) — 相応しい, 相応な. Having sufficient or the required properties for a certain purpose or task; appropriate to a certain occasion.
  • routine /ɹuˈtin/ (名詞) — 日課, ルーティン. A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.
  • summary /ˈsʌm.ə.ɹi/ (名詞) — 要約, 概要. An abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.

動画に出てくる句動詞

  • put in (動詞) — 入れる. To place inside.
  • throw away (動詞) — 棄てる, 捨てる. To discard (trash, garbage, or the like), to toss out, to put in the trash.

注意したい発音

話し手はwasn't, didn't, don'tなど、短縮形や弱形を21回使っています。聞こえたとおりの短い形で発音しましょう。

  • 「sh」と「zh」の音: sheep /ˈʃiːp/, consumption /kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/, medication /mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/, nutrition /njuːˈtɹɪʃ.ən/, dissertation /ˌdɪsəˈteɪʃən/
  • 長い単語(アクセントの位置に注意): medication /mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/, veterinary /ˈvɛtəɹɪnɛɹi/, dissertation /ˌdɪsəˈteɪʃən/, terminology /ˌtɝ.məˈnɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, antibiotic /ˌæn.taɪ.baɪˈɑ.tɪk/

この動画での練習方法

  1. まず声を出さずに動画を最後まで聞き、知らない単語をメモします。
  2. 通常の速度で一文ずつシャドーイングし、話し手のリズムに合うまで繰り返します。
  3. 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。farmer, breed, sheepなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

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。

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