シャドーイング練習: DVD1.2 Guide 03. Sample Lesson Plans - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Now, keep in mind that this series is organized like a reference work.
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It's organized by sound.
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While there is a certain logic to proceeding from disc 1 beginning to disc 5 end, your best advantage is to mix things up,
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experience the benefits of cross-training.
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A good analogy here is how athletes train alternating running, swimming, and bicycling.
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By training different muscle groups in different patterns, you experience improvements in all areas without overexerting in any one area.
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People have often asked me, for example, well shouldn't I just be practicing to feel the difference between SH and CH,
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since that's a particular problem area for me.
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Yes, give that area regular practice, but also practice, for example,
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more sustained N and M consonants.
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Why they'll ask, I already do N and M very well.
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Yes, I'll say, but learning to really excel at some things you already do well will raise
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your skills in these problem areas because speech is synergistic.
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It's an organic process.
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You're not just a machine where you can put oil on the squeak.
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It's the same reason I suggest alternating among the three energies,
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tonal energy , structural energy and consonant energy .
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Each is a different type of vocal dynamic and is an organic process.
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Each improvement in one dynamic is going to bring better performance in the other dynamics.
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Often sudden, unexpected and wondrous improvements when suddenly the synergy happens.
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So a typical cross-training session might include one tonal vowel like one structural vowel like
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one legato consonant like one staccato consonant like linking practice intonation practice
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consonant clusters, and a movie scene.
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This kind of session might take 30 minutes in self-study, 50 to 90 minutes in a classroom setting.
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Initial training sessions include work on tonal vowels,
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structural vowels, neutral vowels, consonant energy, connected speech, intonation.
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Random training sessions.
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Now, you could let the DVD player select lessons in random order.
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These three steps are how a number of DVD players work for setting up a random session.
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Look for the shuffle or random keys.
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Your DVD player may work differently.
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Consonants not only shape and articulate our speech,
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they have great musical values that are often overlooked by untrained speakers.
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Realizing these musical values makes your speech not only more understandable,
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but more sonorous, more persuasive and impressive.
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Just learning to sustain the legato qualities in the N and the M is very pleasing and musical,
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and brings a fullness to your speech.
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Consonant Clusters, DVD 4.
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These tongue-twisting monologues are meant to be fast-moving.
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Grasp what you can, as you get familiar with the linked phrases, and eventually master these.
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If you can grasp only one phrase, or even one vowel, or one consonant, that's progress.
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With practice, you'll pick up more and more, and when you can go through an entire scene with all the vowels,
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consonants, linking, and intonation in proper play, you will have accomplished a very demanding exercise.
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Don't feel bad about taking this step by step.
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When you're still grasping at pieces of scenes, it's not important to keep in sync with the speaker.
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You can be a little behind.
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It is important that you feel the focus of your points of vibration.
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As you get to know the scene, try to stay in sync with the speaker and mirror the form and feeling of the speaker.
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For beginning students, you may want to write on the blackboard the linked phrases, blue underlined on the video,
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or use the pause to stop and work through phrases with a careful deliberation.
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There is some fun in discovering the rhythms of longer dialogues as you master the linked phrases
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and a sense of accomplishment in being able to repeat these articulate and fluent.
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Intonation Preparation.
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Review the Y-Buzz siren on DVD 1.
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This This teaches how to feel pitch change.
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Foreign students should go for extremes in feeling a jump up, step down in pitch patterns.
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Later, after feeling the extremes, it's much easier to modify intonation to more subtle expressions.
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Note all of the variety in pitch and rhythms used throughout the program.
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Practice Scenes DVD 5.
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You could start a session with a movie scene, then go back and work technique from earlier in the series.
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As time goes by and the areas that need more work come into focus, you can select the sounds and techniques that you know need more work.
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The most advanced approach, after students have learned the scene completely, is to walk through the scene,
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the way we walk through the scene on the video at the end of each work through section.
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This will reinforce the intentions in the scene.
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Followers of Total Physical Response will favor this approach.
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Right before you play a program, go to the blackboard and quickly outline the main ideas, just to reinforce what's coming.
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Discuss key phrases like feeling,
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vibration, sensation, stretch stage one, two, and three.
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Advice like work at your own pace, just grab as much as you can.
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During faster moving scenes, especially from DVDs four and five,
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each student should just do as much of the scene as he can do completely with energy.
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Even one One vowel or one consonant or one connecting link executed correctly marks progress.
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This is different from whole language learning.
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Whenever you are reviewing any English materials from your curriculum, reintroduce techniques learned here and let the training carry over.
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For instance, read this using intonation to make the main ideas stand out.
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Or read this in three stages of energy, playing the structural vowels.
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Or read this twice, playing the consonants, first for full musical value, then to convey meaning.
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Or read this making all the connecting links and underplaying weak forms.
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Here's the thing about vocal energy and this kind of work.
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You can and often must spend a long time practicing without feeling like you're making progress.
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Instant gratification comes only so far as feeling the energy while you practice.
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Then one day, you begin to notice a different quality and clarity creeping into your speech.
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More and more without even thinking about it, the synergy is setting in, and your speech has made a dramatic and permanent improvement.

この動画のスピーキング目標

この動画は、英語スピーキング練習において「相乗効果を活かした総合的な上達」を目指しています。単一の音やフレーズを徹底的に練習するのではなく、トーン、構造、子音など異なる要素を組み合わせて訓練することで、スピーチ全体の質を高める方法を教えてくれます。特に、shadowspeaks(シャドーイング)の技術を使いながら、発音の明瞭さや音楽的な響き、さらには説得力を養うことがミリストーンです。

実用フレーズバンク

  • 「cross-training session」(クロストレーニングセッション)- 異なる要素を組み合わせた練習時間
  • 「linked phrases」(リンクされたフレーズ)- つながりのある文節
  • 「points of vibration」(振動点)- 発音時の振動する箇所
  • 「consonant clusters」(子音クラスター)- 子音が連なる部分
  • 「stay in sync with」(同期を保つ)- 話者とリズムを合わせる

弱点を克服しよう!

動画で英語学習をする際、多くの人が「特定の音(例えばSHとCHの違い)だけを練習すればいい」と思いがちですが、この動画はその考えを覆します。スピーチは有機的なプロセスで、得意な部分(例えばNやMの発音)をさらに磨くことで、苦手な部分も自然と上達するのです。これが「相乗効果」の魔法です。

特に子音の「音楽的価値」に注目しています。NやMを伸ばして発音すると、スピーチが豊かで説得力のあるものになります。また、子音クラスターの練習では、最初は一つのフレーズや音だけでもいいので、焦らずステップバイステップで進めましょう。shadow speechの練習では、最初は話者より少し遅れても大丈夫ですが、振動点を感じることが重要です。慣れてきたら同期を保ち、話者の形や感情を真似ることで、より自然な発音が身につきます。

英語スピーキング練習には、このようなクロストレーニングが効果的です。トーン、構造、子音のエネルギーを交互に練習し、ランダムな順番でレッスンを行うことで、全身の「スピーキング筋肉」を鍛えることができます。ぜひ動画を使って、シャドーイングを楽しみながら上達を目指しましょう!

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 often asked · have accomplished · have learned
受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てるis organized · are often overlooked · are meant
「might / may」による可能性 might/may + 動詞 — 起こりうるが確実ではないことmight include · might take · may work
「should」による助言 should + 動詞 — したほうがよいことを伝えるshouldn't I just be · should go · should just do

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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