シャドーイング練習: IELTS Cambridge 10 test 3 section 2 - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Section 2.
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You will hear a woman called Alice Bussell talking on the radio about the Dolphin Conservation Trust,
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an organization which tries to protect dolphins.
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First, you have some time to look at questions 11 to 15.
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Thank you.
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Now listen carefully and answer questions 11 to 15.
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Today we're pleased to have on the show Alice Bussell from the Dolphin Conservation Trust.
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Tell us about the Trust, Alice.
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Well, obviously its purpose is to protect dolphins in seas all around the world.
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It tries to raise people's awareness of the problems these marine creatures are suffering because of pollution and other threats.
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It started 10 years ago and it's one of the fastest growing animal charities in the country,
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although it's still fairly small compared with the big players in animal protection.
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We're particularly proud of the work we do in education.
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Last year we visited a huge number of schools in different
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parts of the country going round to talk to children and young people aged from 5 to 18.
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In fact about 35 percent of our members are children.
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The charity uses its money to support campaigns for example for changes in fishing policy and so forth.
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It hopes soon to be able to employ its first full-time biologist with dolphin expertise to monitor populations.
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Of course many people give their services on a voluntary basis and we now have volunteers working in observation, office work and other things.
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I should also tell you about the award we won from the charity commission last year for our work in education.
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Although it's not meant an enormous amount of money for us, it has made our activities even more widely publicised and understood.
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In the long term it may not bring in extra members, but we're hoping it'll have this effect.
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Is it possible to see dolphins in UK waters?
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Yes, in several locations.
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And we have a big project in the east part of Scotland.
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This has long been a haven for dolphins because it has very little shipping.
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However, that may be about to change soon because oil companies want to increase exploration there.
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We're campaigning against this because, although there'll be little pollution from oil, exploration creates a lot of underwater noise.
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It means the dolphins can't rest and socialise.
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This is how I became interested in dolphin conservation in the first place.
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I had never seen one and I hadn't been particularly interested in them at school.
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Then I came across this story about a family of dolphins
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who had to leave their home in the Moray Firth because of the oil companies, and about a child who campaigned to save them.
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I couldn't put the book down.
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I was hooked.
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Before you hear the rest of the talk, you have some time to look at questions 16 to 20.
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Thank you.
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I'm sure our listeners will want to find out what they can do to help.
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You mentioned the Adopt a Dolphin scheme.
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Can you tell us about that? Of course.
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People can choose one of our dolphins to sponsor.
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They receive a picture of it and news updates.
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I'd like to tell you about four which are currently being adopted by our members.
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Moondancer, Echo, Kiwi and Samson.
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Unfortunately, Echo is being rather elusive this year and hasn't yet been sighted by our observers, but we remain optimistic that he'll be out there soon.
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All the others have been out in force.
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Samson and Moondancer are often photographed together, but it's Kiwi who's our real character, as she seems to love coming up close for the cameras.
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And we've captured her on film hundreds of times.
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They all have their own personalities.
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Moondancer is very elegant and curves out and into the water very smoothly.
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Whereas Samson has a lot of energy.
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He's always leaping out of the water with great vigour.
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You'd probably expect him to be the youngest.
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He's not quite.
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That's Kiwi.
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but Samson's the latest of our dolphins to be chosen for the scheme.
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Kiwi makes a lot of noise, so we can often pick her out straight away.
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Echo and Moondancer are noisy too, but Moondancer's easy to find because she has a particularly large fin on her back, which makes her easy to identify.
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So, yes, they're all very different.
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Well, they sound a fascinating group.
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And how would you go back...
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That is the end of section two.
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You now have half a minute to check your answers.
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Now turn to section 3.

このレッスンの語彙とスピーキングのポイント

この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が64文、単語が748語あります。 音声の長さは6:33です。 話す速さは1分あたり約114語で安定しており、シャドーイングしやすいペースです。 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。

この動画の重要語彙

動画に出てくるやや難しい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

  • dolphin /ˈdɑlf.ɪn/ (名詞) — 海豚, イルカ. A carnivorous cetacean, typically with a beak-like snout, famed for their intelligence and occasional willingness to approach humans.
  • charity /ˈtʃæɹɪti/ (名詞) — 慈善. An organization, the objective of which is to carry out a charitable purpose.
  • conservation /ˌkɑnsə(ɹ)ˈveɪʃən/ (名詞) — 保存. The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
  • pollution /pəˈluʃən/ (名詞) — 汚染. Physical contamination, now especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances, or by disruptive levels of noise, light etc.
  • exploration /ˌɛkspləˈɹeɪʃən/ (名詞) — 探検, 探査. The process of exploring.
  • carefully /ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/ (副詞) — じっくり, 慎重に. With care; attentively, circumspectly.
  • compare /kəmˈpɛɚ/ (動詞) — 比べる, 比較する. To assess the similarities and differences between two or more things [“to compare X with Y”]. Having made the comparison of X with Y, one might have found it…
  • suffer /ˈsʌfɚ/ (動詞) — 被る. To undergo hardship.
  • awareness /əˈwɛɹ.nəs/ (名詞) — 意識. The state or level of consciousness where sense data can be confirmed by an observer.
  • capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/ (動詞) — 捕獲する. To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
  • hook /hʊk/ (名詞) — 鉤, フック. A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
  • monitor /ˈmɑ.nɪ.tɚ/ (名詞) — モニター. Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
  • volunteer /ˌvɑlənˈtɪɹ/ (名詞) — 有志, ボランティア. One who enters into, or offers themselves for, any service of their own free will, especially when done without pay.
  • enormous /ɪˈnɔː.məs/ (形容詞) — 巨大な. Extremely large; greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.
  • photograph /ˈfoʊ.təˌɡɹæf/ (名詞) — 写真. A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.

動画に出てくる句動詞

  • come up (動詞) — 上がる, 登る. To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly.
  • do in (動詞) — やる. To kill or end; to defeat.
  • find out (動詞) — 見出す, 調べる. To discover, as by asking or investigating.
  • go back (動詞) — 戻る, 帰る. To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time.

注意したい発音

話し手はwe're, can't, couldn'tなど、短縮形や弱形を16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。

  • 「sh」と「zh」の音: conservation /ˌkɑnsə(ɹ)ˈveɪʃən/, pollution /pəˈluʃən/, exploration /ˌɛkspləˈɹeɪʃən/, capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/, observation /ˌɑbzɚˈveɪʃn̩/
  • 長い単語(アクセントの位置に注意): conservation /ˌkɑnsə(ɹ)ˈveɪʃən/, exploration /ˌɛkspləˈɹeɪʃən/, voluntary /ˈvɑ.lənˌt(ɛ)ɹi/, underwater /ʌndɚˈwɔtəɹ/, optimistic /ˌɒptɪˈmɪstɪk/

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. 通常の速度で一文ずつシャドーイングし、話し手のリズムに合うまで繰り返します。
  3. 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。dolphin, charity, conservationなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

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
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was hooked · being adopted · been sighted
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has made · have been · we've captured
関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加えるfour which are · back, which makes

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