シャドーイング練習: Chapter 5 - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Chapter 5 News from Mr. Havisham The news went round the village and the farms faster than a carriage with six horses. Did you hear?
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The vicar went up to the castle and spoke to the earl about poor Mr. Higgins.
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And the boy was there, little Lord Fauntleroy.
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Yes, and the earl said to his grandson, You write to Mr. Newick, you tell him.
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And the boy did.
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And the vicar took the letter to Mr. Newick,
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and now Mr. Newick can't put poor Higgins and his family out in the street.
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Yes, and they've got another month to find the rent.
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Days and weeks went past, And by now, everybody knew about Lord Fauntleroy and his mother.
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They loved the boy with his golden curly hair and his happy smile.
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They saw him every day on his new pony.
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And he always had a friendly word for everyone everyone.
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The village people loved Mrs. Errol too, because of her kind heart and her sweet face.
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When somebody was ill in the village, Mrs. Errol was always there to help.
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But the The Earl never saw her,
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never spoke to her, never went to her house.
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Cedric, of course, saw her every day,
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but his heart was sad because his best friend did not live with him in the same house.
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The Earl liked his little grandson more and more every week.
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He often forgot about his painful foot, and he began to smile more.
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Sometimes he even laughed.
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He liked to please his grandson.
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When Lord Fauntleroy wanted new houses for some very poor villagers, the Earl built new houses.
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When the boy wanted to talk about his mother, the Earl listened.
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But he did not like it.
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"'Do you never forget about your mother?
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He said to his grandson one day.
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No, said Cedric.
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Never, and she never forgets about me.
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I don't forget about you, you know, when I'm away.
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The young Lord did not forget his friends in America either.
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Letters went to and from New York,
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and Dick and Mr. Hobbs heard all about Cedric's new life.
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One day, the Earl gave a great party,
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and all the important families for miles around came to it to meet Lord Fauntleroy.
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Mr. Havisham came from London too, but he was very quiet all evening and looked worried.
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At the end of the party, the Earl spoke to him.
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Well, Havisham, what's the matter?
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I bring some bad news, my lord, about your heir.
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My heir?
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Fauntleroy is my heir.
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What do you mean?
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My lord, said Mr. Havisham, Cedric Errol is not your heir.
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He is not Lord Fauntleroy.
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The true Lord Fauntleroy is the son of your oldest son,
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Bevis, and at the moment he is in London with his mother.
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The Earl's face was as white as his hair.
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Bevis, he said, "'This isn't true.
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Havisham, tell me this isn't true.' "'A woman came to my office this morning,' said Mr. Havisham.
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"'Bevis married her six years ago in London.
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"'She has all the papers.
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"'He left her after a year, but she had a son.
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He's now five years old.
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The woman is American.
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She's beautiful, but, well, she can only just write her name,
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and she's only interested in the money.
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The Earl's face was now dark red.
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He jumped up from his chair and began to walk up and down the room.
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Bevis was always the worst,' he said angrily.
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"'I hated him, and he hated me.
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I must stop this.
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Cedric is very dear to me, Havisham, very dear.
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He's a fine boy, and he's going to be a better Earl of Dorincourt than me,
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or any child of Bevis's.
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Far away in New York, two of Cedric's friends sat round a table in a grocery store.
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They ate a supper of bread and cold meat, and talked about Lord Fauntleroy.
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Dick usually came round to the grocery store once a week.
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He and Mr. Hobbs were now good friends,
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and they enjoyed reading the letters from England and talking about them.
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When they wrote back to Cedric, Mr. Hobbs helped Dick with his writing, because writing was difficult for Dick.
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I didn't get much time for school, see, Dick told Mr. Hobbs one day.
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Pa and Ma were dead, and there was no money, so me and my brother worked.
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That was your brother Ben, was it?
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Mr. Hobbs said.
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Yeah, my older brother, said Dick.
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He was good to me, Ben was.
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But then he married this girl, and oh dear, she was bad news.
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She was a good-looking girl.
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Big black eyes, long black hair, but she was always angry about something or somebody.
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Me or Ben or the baby.
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I remember she broke a plate on Ben's head once.
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She hit the baby, too.
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A nice mother she was.
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"'Women,' said Mr. Hobbs.
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"'Best to keep away from them, I say.
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I never married.' "'Well, she didn't stay long,' Dick said.
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"'She was angry with Ben because he didn't make money faster.
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So one day she left with the baby.
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We never saw her again.
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She left New York, someone told us.
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What happened to your brother?
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Mr. Hobbs asked.
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Ben's out in California now, working with horses, on a big farm somewhere.
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He was sad about Minna and his baby son for a long time.
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Poor old Ben.
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After supper, Mr. Hobbs took out a letter.
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This came from our friend today, he said.
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Let's read it together now.
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He opened the letter, and they began to read.
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My dear friend Mr. Hobbs, I have some surprising news to tell you and Dick.
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I am not Lord Fauntleroy,
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because my Uncle Bevis had a little boy,
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but nobody knew about him.
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My uncle Bevis was the oldest son of the earl,
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and so his son is Lord Fauntleroy, and I am just Cedric Errol again.
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My papa was the youngest son, and youngest sons don't have anything,
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so I am not very rich,
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and I am going to learn to work perhaps with horses, because I like them a lot.
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My grandfather is very angry about it, and I never saw him angry before.
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With love from your old friend Cedric Errol,
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not Lord Fauntleroy." "'Well,' said Mr. Hobbs, "'well, I don't know.
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Did you ever hear anything like that before?' "'No, I didn't,' said Dick.
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But I know one thing.
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Young Cedric needs his friends at a time like this.
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Let's write back to him, Mr. Hobbs.
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And let's do it now.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.

このレッスンの語彙とスピーキングのポイント

繰り返し出てくる語は次のとおりです:lord, Fauntleroy, Hobbs, earl, Dick。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が118文、単語が1103語あります。 音声の長さは12:38です。 話す速さはゆっくりで、1分あたり約87語です。一つ一つの音をまねる余裕があります。 単語の86%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

動画の中で特に難しい単語11語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語発音意味
earl 名詞/ɝl/伯爵
grandson 名詞/ˈɡɹæn(d)sʌn/孫息子, 孫
heir 名詞/ˈɛə̯/相続人, 跡取り
litter 名詞/ˈlɪt.ɚ/ごみ
supper 名詞/ˈsʌpɚ/夜食, 夜ご飯
villager 名詞/ˈvɪlɪd͡ʒɚ/村人, 村民
curly 形容詞/ˈkɝli/巻き毛の
pony 名詞/ˈpoʊni/子馬, 仔馬
carriage 名詞/ˈkæɹɪd͡ʒ/キャリッジ, 馬車
grandfather 名詞/ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌfɑðɚ/お爺さん, 祖父
painful 形容詞/ˈpeɪn.fl̩/痛い, 痛みの伴う

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語意味
take out 動詞取り出す

繰り返し練習したい文

動画に出てくる短く完結した文です。日常会話でそのまま使えます。

  • What do you mean?
  • What happened to your brother?
  • Let's read it together now.
  • Hobbs, "'well, I don't know.

この動画の文法

話し手がよく使っている文型を、動画の実際の表現とともに紹介します。

文型動画での表現
最上級 the -est / the most … — グループの中で一番his best · your oldest · the worst
「going to」の未来表現 be going to + 動詞 — 予定や、起こりそうだと分かることhe's going to be · am going to learn

注意したい発音

話し手はdidn't, don't, isn'tなど、短縮形や弱形を12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。

日本語話者が苦手な音:

  • /v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: vicar /ˈvɪkɚ/, villager /ˈvɪlɪd͡ʒɚ/
  • /f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: grandfather /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌfɑðɚ/, painful /ˈpeɪn.fl̩/
  • 子音の連続 — 間に母音を入れない: grandson /ˈɡɹæn(d)sʌn/, youngest /ˈjʌŋ.ɡɪst/, grocery /ˈɡɹəʊ.s(ə.)ɹi/, angrily /ˈæŋ.ɡɹə.li/, grandfather /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌfɑðɚ/

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。earl, grandson, heir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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