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There is some rubbish going around on the internet about how the numbers on these toaster dials are actually minutes.
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And it is completely, utterly untrue, and I shall now prove it.
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All these four toasters are set to two on each of their dials.
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We have the cheap toaster, beloved students everywhere.
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We have the not -so -cheap toaster, beloved of people who have just stopped being students and thought, I shouldn't buy the cheapest toaster.
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And we have the slightly more expensive toaster, for people who think that adjustable, removable crumb tray is a good feature.
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We also have the office toaster, which I've nicked from the office next door.
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All of them set to tomb, and I guarantee you none of them will pop up in exactly two minutes.
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Why?
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Because toasters don't have timing chips on them.
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They're far too cheap for that.
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What these have is a bimetallic strip.
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Two bits of metal, back to back, that heat up and expand at different rates, so the strip slowly curves.
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What you're changing with these dials is how far
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that strip has to curve before it triggers the thing that pops the toast up again.
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There we go, nowhere near two minutes, and at a completely different time to all these other toasters.
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Two minutes on the toaster's arms is absolutely rubbish, and here's the thing, it doesn't even make sense, because even if there were minutes,
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what would that do to help you?
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You still have to experiment through trial
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and error to find out how many minutes your particular type of bread needs to be in there for,
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and I'll tell you, it's way more than we've currently got.
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The office toaster?
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The one that is apparently this kind of enterprise -grade thing designed to toast your factory?
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Toast your toast quickly?
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No. Nothing at all.
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What we have here are four completely different toasters, all set to the same dial number, none of them popping up in two minutes.
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Someone is wrong on the internet, and now you can correct them.
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Where anyone like some toast?
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That's not very well done.
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It's not actually done so, is it?
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That's parable.
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Well, I'm still wrong, this toaster still hasn't popped up.
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That's how different the the dials are.
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We are literally waiting for toast to pop up now.
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There we go.
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Tom?
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Yeah?
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I think that one was two minutes.
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What, on the nose?
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I think so.
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Okay, so maybe expensive ones do have chives in them.

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このレッスンの語彙とスピーキングのポイント

このスピーキングレッスンは、動画「Do The Numbers On Toaster Dials Mean Minutes?」を教材にしています。 繰り返し出てくる語は次のとおりです：toaster, toast, dial, strip, cheap。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が41文、単語が423語あります。 音声の長さは2:10です。 話す速さは速く、1分あたり約196語です。音のつながりや弱く発音される音が多くなります。 単語の83%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。 全41文のうち10文が疑問文なので、疑問文のイントネーションや短い受け答えの練習に向いています。

この動画の重要語彙

動画に出てくる覚えておきたい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語発音意味
toast 名詞/toʊst/トースト
strip 動詞/ˈstɹɪp/剥ぐ, 外す
beloved 形容詞/bɪˈlʌvd/最愛, 愛しい
curve 名詞/kɚv/曲線
rubbish 名詞/ˈɹʌbɪʃ/くだらないこと, ばかばかしいこと
guarantee 名詞/ˌɡæɹ.ənˈtiː/保証
nowhere 副詞/ˈnoʊ.(h)wɛɹ/どこにも, どこへも
enterprise 名詞/ˈɛntəˌpɹaɪz/企業, 事業
experiment 名詞/ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/実験
expand 動詞/ɪkˈspænd/広げる, 拡大する
trigger 名詞/ˈtɹɪɡɚ/引き金, 鉷
tomb 名詞/tum/墓, 墳墓
tray 名詞/tɹeɪ/盆, トレイ
toaster 名詞/ˈtəʊ̯s.təː/トースター
chive 名詞/t͡ʃaɪv/チャイブ, 西洋浅葱

動画に出てくる句動詞

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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
現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係しているhave just stopped · I've nicked · hasn't popped
関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加えるpeople who have · people who think · one that is
義務：must / have to / need to 何かが必要であることを伝えるhas to curve · have to experiment · needs to be
現在進行形 am/is/are + -ing — 今まさに、または最近起きていることyou're changing · are literally waiting

注意したい発音

話し手はdoesn't, don't, hasn'tなど、短縮形や弱形を10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。

  • 長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/, adjustable /əˈd͡ʒʌstəbəl/, bimetallic /baɪmɪˈtælɪk/

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: beloved /bɪˈlʌvd/, curve /kɚv/, chive /t͡ʃaɪv/
  • 子音の連続 — 間に母音を入れない: toast /toʊst/, strip /ˈstɹɪp/, beloved /bɪˈlʌvd/, experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/, expand /ɪkˈspænd/

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. まず0.75倍速で一文ずつシャドーイングし、慣れてきたら通常の速度に戻します。
  3. 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。toast, strip, beloved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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