シャドーイング練習: For Beginners| One Story A Day| Book 3 - 29 Tomato Plants - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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Story 29 Tomato Plants In early spring,
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Uncle Ted planted a few tomato plants in his garden.
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A few weeks passed.
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The plants were still the same.
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Uncle Ted said to me, My tomato plants are not growing.
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For the last two weeks, they're just sitting there, waiting.
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Waiting, I asked.
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What are they waiting for?
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My uncle said, the sun, the heat.
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Keep growing, plants.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “For Beginners”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: plants, tomato, uncle, waiting. This video has 10 sentences and 65 words to shadow. The speech runs for 0:41.
Key vocabulary in this video
8 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| uncle noun | /ˈʌŋ.kl̩/ | The brother or brother-in-law of one’s parent. |
| tomato noun | /təˈmeɪ.toʊ/ | A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit. |
| plant noun | /plɑːnt/ | An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis, and typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a… |
| grow verb | /ˈɡɹəʊ/ | To become larger, to increase in magnitude. |
| spring noun | /ˈspɹɪŋ/ | An act of springing: a leap, a jump. |
| sit verb | /sɪt/ | To move oneself into such a position. |
| heat noun | /hit/ | Thermal energy. |
| garden noun | /ˈɡɑː.d(ə)n/ | An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes. |
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 |
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| 動詞 + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — 後ろに-ing形が続く動詞 | Keep growing |
| 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 | are not growing · they're just sitting |
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like uncle, tomato, plant.
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。





























