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A. She lives next door and she's always been really important in my life.
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When we were little and my mum was working, she used to look after us.
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She'd tell us stories about her childhood.
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It was like listening to fairy stories.
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Life was so different when she was a child.
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In her kitchen, she used to keep a special dish with sweets for us.
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and she was always baking cakes and pies now she doesn't bake
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so much she started eating more healthily in her old age salads and vegetables and things it's funny how she's changed
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she also goes to this special gym class for old people it's amazing
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i don't see her so often now but she's always the same person however much her lifestyle changes
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He's four years older than me and that seemed like a huge amount when we were children.
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When we were at the same school we never talked to each other during school hours, but now we're older it's a lot better,
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although I'll always be the little one, and that's annoying sometimes.
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He's taken me to rock concerts that I wouldn't have gone to otherwise, and when he was at uni I went to stay with him sometimes
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that was really cool it was great to see what the real student life was like
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when I was still at school now that he's working he's really busy
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but we still hang out sometimes we go to football matches together
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because we both support our home team it's always good to see him.
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C. We've known each other since we were five, and we've always got on really well.
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Well, apart from that time when we fell out because we both liked the same boy, but he went off with Heather Jenkins,
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so we made friends again quite quickly.
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We both liked the same kind of music and going dancing at the weekend, and when we were younger,
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we went out on our bikes together at school we're good at different things i'm good at languages
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and laura's good at maths that's good though it means that we can help each other with our homework
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next year i'm probably going to study in london and she's going to manchester but i'm sure our
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His family moved in just a few houses down from us when I was about ten,
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and I still remember how excited I felt when I found out there was another boy on the street.
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I'd been the only boy, you see.
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The others were all girls.
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We were good friends from the beginning because we were into the same things, computers and football mostly.
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But we had quite a few of the same hobbies for a while.
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I remember making lots of models of aeroplanes one year.
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Another year we took up fishing.
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We had all the equipment and everything, and we'd spend ages down by the river.
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I never go fishing now.
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His family moved away a couple of years ago.
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We're still friends on Facebook, but we don't really have much contact.
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E. I can remember all the details of when we met.
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I was wearing a red dress and I just had my hair cut.
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I can even remember what music was playing the first time I saw him.
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I knew he was special from the beginning and I was right.
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We've been together ever since.
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Well, it's only been 18 months and some people say that isn't very long, but it seems like ages to me.
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We've got such similar personalities and so much in common.
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I'm sure we'll stay together forever.
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このスピーキングレッスンは、動画「listening important people by British Council」を教材にしています。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が46文、単語が618語あります。 音声の長さは4:25です。 話す速さは1分あたり約140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89%は英語の頻出3,000語に含まれるため、語彙は分かりやすいです。

この動画の重要語彙

動画に出てくる覚えておきたい単語10語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語発音意味
bake 動詞/beɪk/焼く
lifestyle 名詞/ˈlaɪfˌstaɪl/ライフスタイル, 生活様式
dish 名詞/dɪʃ/皿
pie 名詞/paɪ/パイ
mathematics 名詞/mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/数学
salad 名詞/ˈsæl.əd/サラダ
homework 名詞/ˈhoʊmˌwɝk/宿題, 課題
hobby 名詞/ˈhɑ.bi/趣味
vegetable 名詞/ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/野菜, 青物
annoy 動詞/əˈnoɪ̯/煩わす, 騒がす

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語意味
find out 動詞見出す, 調べる

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動画に出てくる短く完結した文です。日常会話でそのまま使えます。

  • She'd tell us stories about her childhood.
  • I'd been the only boy, you see.
  • We've been together ever since.
  • I'm sure we'll stay together forever.

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
「used to」 used to + 動詞 — 今はもう違う過去の習慣や状態used to look · used to keep
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she's always been · We've known · We've been
過去進行形 was/were + -ing — 過去のある時点で進行中だった動作was working · was always baking · was wearing
「will」の未来表現 will + 動詞 — その場の決定、約束、予測I'll always be · we'll stay

注意したい発音

話し手はI'm, we've, we'reなど、短縮形や弱形を21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。

日本語話者が苦手な音:

  • 子音の連続 — 間に母音を入れない: lifestyle /ˈlaɪfˌstaɪl/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/

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  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。bake, lifestyle, dishなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

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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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