シャドーイング練習: Intermediate Level Lesson 1 Practical English Drama - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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Practicing English.
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- Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Okay.
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Okay, so my students are reading about this holiday that you have in North America called Halloween.
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But we don't celebrate that.
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so I didn't know how to answer their questions.
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They talked about wearing costumes, monsters, and Stuff like that.
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You guys, help!
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Tarek, do you mean you don't know anything about the best and most fun holiday ever?
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No, really, I didn't know about it at all.
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Well, it's a really great holiday that involves a lot of fun and scary things for kids and adults too.
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Tell me more.
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Well, on October 31st, kids and young people dress up and
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scary or funny costumes and go from door to door in their neighborhoods and show their neighbors their costumes.
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Uh -huh.
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What else happens?
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Well, the kids say trick or treat.
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and the neighbours give them chocolate or candy, which the kids collect all night from all the houses they go to.
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Hmm.
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So the kids dress up like monsters, like Dracula, werewolves, mummies and ghosts, stuff like that?
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Yeah, and don't forget, there's also pirates, witches, superheroes and fairy princesses.
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David, Monica, you guys are from North America too.
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Did you do that as well when you were kids? Of course.
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Halloween is great fun.
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I love dressing up and...
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collecting big piles of chocolate and candy from my neighbors.
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What about you, Monica?
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Sure, Halloween's my favorite holiday.
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I have a bunch of pictures of all these costumes I wore when I was a kid.
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Okay, I'm getting it now.
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Kerry, you said Adults like this holiday too.
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What do they do?
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Well, many adults have parties too and they enjoy the dressing up part of the holiday.
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Of course the costumes are different and the parties can be really fun.
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As the adults can get really creative about what they wear, Hey, this is October, and this Halloween thing is coming up on the 31st, right?
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Yeah.
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Well, what will you do for this Halloween?
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Well, I like to start Halloween off by watching a lot of scary movies.
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You know, really scary movies like The Exorcist, The Sixth Sense, Bram Stoker's Dracula and The Blair Witch Project.
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David, what do you do for Halloween?
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I like to watch horror films too, but...
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Year -round, not just on Halloween.
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In fact, I think there's a new horror film opening this weekend
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and I'll probably see it on Saturday night after I teach.
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And for Halloween?
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Well, since I have a lot of scary movies, I've recorded a lot of those screams on a cassette tape and I played them at my front door all night.
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It's really scary and it annoys the neighbors a lot.
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I see.
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Well, Monica, what about you?
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well back home in boston we really enjoy halloween both kids and adults Before the holiday, I think about the most outrageous costume I could wear.
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One year I went as a snowman, and the next year I went as the mad scientist.
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and the following year I went as Cruella de Vil, you know from the Disney movie 101 Dalmatians.
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Okay, this Hollywood seems like it could be fun no matter what country you come from.
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I think I'll rent some of these movies you guys have mentioned
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and think about what I can tell my class tomorrow about Halloween.
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Hey!
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What do you think of this idea?
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On October 31st we could all have a Halloween party in my class. And...
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We could all dress as characters and wear costumes and eat chocolate.
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Let's do it.
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Sounds great.
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Yeah.
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I want to be a table.
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文脈の中の文法と表現
会話の中で使われているポイントを3つ紹介します。
- 「I didn't know how to answer their questions」:疑問詞+to不定詞の構造。「~する方法がわからない」という日常的な表現で、理由や方法を説明する時に便利です。
- 「What about you?」:相手の意見を聞く際のフレーズ。会話をスムーズに進めるために必須で、「あなたはどうですか?」という意味で使われます。
- 「I like to start Halloween off by watching...」:「~して始める」という表現。by+動名詞で方法を示し、イベントの始め方を説明する時に使えます。
発音の注意点
英語の発音を良くするために、注意が必要な単語やアクセントがあります。
- 「costumes」:/ˈkɒstjuːm/(コスチューム)と発音し、最後の「s」は軽く発音します。
- 「Dracula」:/ˈdrækjʊlə/(ドラキュラ)で、「kju」の部分をはっきりと発音しましょう。
- 「screams」:/skriːmz/(スクリームズ)と発音し、「ea」は長音で、最後の「s」はズーとなります。
これらのポイントを意識してシャドーイングを練習すれば、自然な発音と会話力が向上します。
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。



















