シャドーイング練習: How the world learned to love fast food ⏲️ 6 Minute English - YouTubeで英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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This is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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I'm Phil.
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And I'm Beth.
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Love it or hate it, there's no doubt fast food is popular.
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Are you a fast food fan, Beth?
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Erm, not really, no. I think sometimes it can be quite convenient, obviously because it's quick, but not really.
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Well, whatever you think about them, fast food brands like KFC, Domino's and of course the big one, McDonald's, are incredibly successful.
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In this programme we'll be discussing the global spread of fast food from its beginnings in 1950s America.
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As usual, we'll be learning some useful new words and phrases.
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But first, I have a question for you Beth.
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Roughly how many fast food restaurants are there in the UK?
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Is it a 4,000 b 42,000 or c 4 million?
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I'm going to go for b 42,000.
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OK, well later on we'll find out the answer.
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In the United States, cheap and easy food like hamburgers, french fries and milkshakes have been popular since the 1950s.
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Listen as Adam Chandler, author of the book Drive-Thru Dreams, which traces the history of american fast food tells bbc world service program the food chain how it all got started
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At the heart of the story of fast food is a very anyone-can-do-this sense.
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A lot of the company founders didn't have a college degree, who didn't have a high school degree in a lot of instances, didn't come for money, were oftentimes just people who were ready to plug themselves into a system that would work for them.
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And it did.
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it made opportunity very, very easy in a time when that was a new part of the American experience.
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So it was the American dream in a very small way that became the American dream in a very big way.
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The rise of fast food reflected the rise of American economic power after the Second World War.
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When Adam says that this lies at the heart of the story, he means it's the most important part of the story.
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In the 1950s, when the famous brands we know today were just beginning, anyone with a can-do attitude could sell fast food.
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A can-do attitude describes someone who is confident and determined to fix problems and achieve results.
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Which is exactly what happened at successful restaurants like Kentucky Fried Chicken and McDonald's.
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For many, these fast food brands symbolised the American Dream, The idea that anyone in the United States can achieve success through hard work and determination.
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The success of KFC, McDonald's, and the rest wasn't limited to America.
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Nowadays you can visit two McDonald's on opposite sides of the planet and eat exactly the same meal.
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But not every country opened its arms in Welcome, the tiny island of Iceland for one.
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Andy Sophia Fontaine, who used to work in McDonald's, now edits the Iceland Review.
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she tells BBC World Service programme The Food Chain how McDonald's got a frosty reception when it started selling burgers in Iceland's capital, Reykjavik.
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There's been a long-standing burger culture in Iceland.
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They have their own take on the hamburger, wherein they'll use lettuce and raw cucumbers and a type of fry sauce.
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That's called a the Schallpulbúrgari or shop burger and that's been around for ages.
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Yeah, so McDonald's, they struggled to try to maintain a market.
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The final nail in the coffin was the global financial crisis in 2008-2009.
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Iceland already had a long-standing tradition of eating burgers, a tradition that had existed for a long time.
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For example, the Schallpull Bulgari, or shop burger, was a take on, or variation of, the American hamburger.
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McDonald's weren't as successful in Iceland as they'd been elsewhere, and the global financial crash of 2008 was the final nail in the coffin, an event which caused the failure of something that had already started to go wrong.
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To this day, there are no McDonald's in Iceland, unlike Britain, which reminds me of your question, Phil.
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Yes, I asked you how many fast food restaurants there are in Britain.
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I asked you if there were 4,000, 42,000 or 4 million, and of course the answer is 42,000, so you were right.
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Well done.
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OK, let's recap the vocabulary we've learnt, starting with at the heart of, meaning the most important part or the cause of something.
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If you say that someone has a can-do attitude, you mean they are confident to take action, fix problems and deal with new challenges.
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The American dream is the belief that everyone in the USA has the opportunity to be successful and happy if they work hard.
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The adjective long-standing means having existed for a long time.
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A take on something means a variation or new way of presenting it.
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And finally, the idiom the final nail in the coffin refers to an event that causes the final end of something that had already started to fail.
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Once again, our six minutes are up.
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But why not head over to the BBC Learning English website where you'll find a worksheet and quiz, especially for this programme.
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See you there soon!
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Goodbye!
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このビデオでは、ファーストフードの歴史やその人気の理由について語られています。ファーストフードはアメリカの文化の一部として発展し、多くの国に広まっています。英語を学ぶ際、こういった話題を通じて意見を交換することは、言語能力の向上に役立ちます。特に、「アメリカンドリーム」や「カン・ドゥ・アティテュード」などのフレーズを練習することで、自信を持って自分の考えを表現する力を養えます。こうした文脈で学ぶことで、日常会話でも使える表現が増え、言語の運用能力が向上します。さらに、ビデオを視聴し、その内容についてディスカッションすることは、シャドースピーク（shadow speak）やシャドーイング（shadowing）の練習にも最適です。
文法と文脈における表現
- at the heart of: 最も重要な部分、または事柄の原因を指す表現です。このフレーズを使うと、特定の事象の核心に迫ることができます。
- can-do attitude: 自信を持って行動し、問題を解決できる姿勢を表します。この表現を使用することで、決意や自己信頼を強調できます。
- long-standing: 長い間存在してきたことを示す形容詞で、歴史や伝統に触れる際に記述するのに役立ちます。
- a take on: 何かの変形や新しい表現を指すフレーズです。異なる視点から物事を捉えるために便利です。
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このビデオに出てくるいくつかの言葉やフレーズには発音で注意が必要です。例えば、「fast food」で使用される短い「a」の音に気をつけます。この単語を早口で発音する際、一部の人々は音をはっきりと区別できないことがあります。また、「American Dream」の「Dream」の「r」の音も注意が必要です。正しい発音を身に付けるためには、シャドースピーチを活用して、ネイティブの発音を真似することが効果的です。シャドーイングサイトや「shadowspeaks」を利用して、スピーキングスキルを向上させましょう。
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。