シャドーイング練習: Comparative adjectives for kids | Adjective + er than | Reading - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Mary is taller than Solly.
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Sally is shorter than Mary.
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The frog is smaller than the horse.
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The horse is bigger than the frog.
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The tortoise is faster than the snail.
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The snail is slower than the tortoise.
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Planes are faster than cars.
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Sam has longer hair than Henry.
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Harry has shorter hair than Sam.
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My grandfather is older than my father.
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My father is younger than my grandfather.

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 11 sentences and 69 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:19.

Key vocabulary in this video

8 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
grandfather noun/ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌfɑðɚ/A father of someone's parent.
snail noun/sneɪl/Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.
sally noun/ˈsæli/A sortie of troops from a besieged place against an enemy.
tortoise noun/ˈtɔɹ.təs/Any of various land-dwelling reptiles, of the family Testudinidae (chiefly Canada, US) or the order Testudines (chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland…
tall adjective/tɔl/Having great vertical extent (usually reckoned from the bottom of the feet to the very top of the head) when standing. (For instance, somebody with a height of…
horse noun/hoɹs/A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
harry verb/ˈhæɹi/To plunder, pillage, assault.
plane noun/pleɪn/An airplane; an aeroplane.

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like grandfather, snail, sally.

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
比較級 -er than / more … than — 二つのものを比べるtaller than · shorter than · smaller than

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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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