シャドーイング練習: Cost of living crisis in one of Britain's poorest areas - YouTubeで英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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Harper Hay, North Manchester, is known as one of the most deprived areas in Britain.
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Harper Hay, North Manchester, is known as one of the most deprived areas in Britain.
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Debt is massive, housing is a big issue.
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It's not just people on benefits, it's the working families.
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And saying sorry when they come in,
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in despair, families in despair, which is frightening.
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Paul Day runs the Harper Hay Neighbourhood Centre.
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He says he's never seen things so bad.
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Rents around here have gone up £600 to £1,200 a month.
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We're doing, sadly, two food banks a week.
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We do free cafe for the local people to make sure they get their feed.
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We have wellbeing classes for the older people.
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We've got youth sessions.
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Grubs up, people.
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Come and get some pizza.
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So, food first.
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but Dean Byrne and Lisa Davenport are here for the weekly meeting run by the charity Debt Justice
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to share stories and look for solutions for people struggling with debt as it collides with the cost of living.
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Somewhere along the line something's gone wrong and we understand,
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I think, that prices do have to rise but it's gone like that and how is anybody able to afford that?
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Lisa runs a youth charity.
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There's no surprise that cost of living is a top issue for voters.
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She says no-one here is immune from hardship.
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People, even my own staff team,
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accessing food banks, you know, our clothing banks.
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Your own staff?
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Our own staff, yeah.
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You know, I run an organisation because everybody's in the same boat.
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I'm struggling myself and I see more and more people struggling.
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I mean, I'm over 60 and,
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you know, I'm looking at trying to get back into work.
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Do you feel a disconnect between what you hear from any
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or all of the politicians and what is happening here to you and to the people you know?
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Absolutely.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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You know, our children, what hope have they got?
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I'm trying to inspire and raise aspirations of young people
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and they see this level of poverty and don't see a way out of it.
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It's like an epidemic of hopelessness for people and they do need hope.
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A few miles away in Rochdale,
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the pressing issue here too is survival.
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I and millions of other people are stuck.
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There is no way to move forward.
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Yeah, can you watch this one as well?
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Jo Barker Marsh once earned a good living,
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travelling the world as an audiovisual producer.
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Right now, she can't work.
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A 15-year-old son, Harry, has additional needs and isn't in full-time school.
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She's on universal credit and,
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at their lowest point, relied on food banks and borrowing.
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If anything hits us like a big bill,
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then the time to recover is really extended and often it means that you might take on another loan.
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Jo says they went eight months without a working boiler.
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It's weird because you kind of just have to layer up.
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I don't know.
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It's not nice.
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Because obviously when it gets to winter and it starts getting colder,
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it's just, I don't know.
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Because everything's colder, like the walls,
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the floor, everything gets colder, not just yourself.
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Decisions whether made by the Bank of England or the government feel done to her rather than for her.
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It's really degrading.
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It's degrading to know that somebody,
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you know, without being political,
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but somebody in government can make a really,
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really, what appears to be a casual decision.
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and I now pay a third more for my mortgage.
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So swimming lessons, football, transport, haircuts, you know, everything.
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Is a haircut a luxury?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, actually, for a lot of people in the UK,
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a haircut is a luxury.
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What is that like for you as a teenager,
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that actually you know there are things that you can't have that maybe your friends can get more easily.
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It's really hard to explain,
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because obviously I'm not jealous,
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I'm happy, but it does make me a bit sad sometimes because it's like,
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sometimes I wish, why can't I?
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Jo hopes Harry will go to a new school in September and that she can go back to work,
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that they'll never have to turn to food banks or go months without heat again.
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Definitely couldn't go back there.
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I wouldn't make it.
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And I just want the last bit of Harry's childhood to be decent,
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do you know what I mean?
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And I want every person who's pushing themselves forward in this general election to have a bit of humility
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and humanity when they're making decisions and when they're making casual statements about what they will and won't do.
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Back at Harper Hay, Paul isn't optimistic.
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Do you get any sense that they understand what the cost of living crisis actually means here?
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No. No, not at all.
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They haven't got a clue.
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Come and live it.
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Come here instead of going on one of your corporate dinners.
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Come here, spend a day with us,
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see what the people are saying.
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Live that.
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So whoever wins has work to do.
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Promises to improve lives are one thing thing,
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convincing people here they will deliver,
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that is a task in itself.
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「Cost of living crisis in one of Britain's poorest areas」というビデオは、現代の英国における深刻な経済的問題について描写しています。この重要なトピックに焦点を当てることで、実生活に基づいた会話のスキルを向上させる絶好の機会を提供します。特に、貧困や経済危機についてのディスカッションは、さまざまな文脈でのコミュニケーション能力を高めるのに役立ちます。このビデオを通して、あなたは感情的なトピックについて話す練習をしながら、英語スピーキング練習を行っていくことができます。自身の意見を述べたり、他者の考えを理解したりする能力は、社会的な会話でも必要不可欠です。
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このビデオには、いくつかの重要な文法構造と表現が含まれています。以下にそれを分析します：
- 過去形の使用：「私は今まで見たことがないほど悪化しています。」というフレーズは、時間を示す文法活用の良い例です。このような表現は、経験を共有する際に非常に便利です。
- 条件文：「もし何かが間違っているとしたら、私たちはどうすればいいのか？」という構造は、仮説的な状況を与えながら問題提起をするために有効です。
- 意見を述べるフレーズ：「…だと思います」という文型は、考えや意見を述べる際によく使用される表現です。このフレーズをマスターすることは、会話での意見交換に大いに役立ちます。
一般的な発音の罠
発音において、特に注意が必要な単語とアクセントがいくつかあります。例えば、“poverty” (貧困)や“crisis” (危機)といった言葉は、英語の学習者にとって発音が難しいかもしれません。このような言葉を正しく発音することで、よりプロフェッショナルな印象を与えることができます。また、地域語やアクセントも重要で、北マンチェスター特有のアクセントに耳を傾けることで、教材を通じた英語スピーキング練習の効果をさらに高めることができます。これらの発音のトラップを克服するために、shadow speakやshadow speechのテクニックを用いることが非常に効果的です。
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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。