シャドーイング練習: Part 2: Using Photography to Inspire Young Learners - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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You know, I think photos can help inspire all kinds of emotions.
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You know, they can be beautiful.
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They can also help inspire wonder in people.
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So this is a photo of a tiny chameleon from the island of Madagascar.
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Do we have anybody from Madagascar here today?
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That would be really neat.
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This is a chameleon that is a fully grown adult.
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So it's really, really small and I put it on a human finger so you can see just how tiny it is.
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Amazingly, it's not even the smallest species in Madagascar.
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The smallest one can actually fit on the head of a match.
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Photos can also make us care about species and places that are really far away from our homes.
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Like this photo of a Sulawesi crested black macaque from Indonesia.
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And I saw earlier that we had somebody from Indonesia on this webinar, So that's wonderful to see.
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Photos can also make us aware of environmental issues, like the overfishing of sharks and other big fish that are found in our oceans.
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And this is an issue that's happening worldwide.
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So it was really this understanding of the power of photographs that inspired me to apply to National Geographic
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for a Young Explorers Grant to go to the country of Peru to photograph conservation efforts in the Amazon rainforest.
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I actually, I just got a great question.
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Do I get scared?
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Yeah, sometimes I get a little nervous when I'm out in the forest, but it's absolutely worth it every time.
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But I really love being out there in the forest.
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And in this case, I spent 10 months in the Amazon rainforest.
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And I was photographing these conservation efforts from the high Andes Mountains,
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seen here, all the way to the lowland Amazon rainforest.
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To make photos like this one, I would have to get up at 4 o'clock a.m in the morning
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and drag myself out of bed
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and go into the dark forest in the middle of the night
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and to climb a radio tower that was about 60 meters high
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or 180 feet high so I could be above the canopy at dawn.
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But I wanted to do those things to really show how beautiful these landscapes are and to make people care about them.
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And Peru is full of adventures.
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In this case, we had to trek for a couple of hours through the forest.
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We crossed rivers 11 times, and then we camped in the forest for 10 days in Peru.
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I was working with these park rangers who were monitoring wildlife, but we went out there so that we could really show some of the animals that were living in this forest.
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I got to photograph some pretty cool critters like mustache monkeys in the Peruvian Amazon on,
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scarlet macaws soaring above the canopy, and even some smaller creatures,
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because I really love to not just show the big charismatic animals, but the more rare creatures, the ones that are overlooked.
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So like monkey frogs, these really cute little frogs that are found in the understory and are a little bit camouflaged.
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And I'm telling you about Peru because it was a really great learning experience for me.
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Of course, it was an adventure, but more than that, it was a learning experience because I got to work with students.
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As part of my project in Peru, I was able to give presentations and photo workshops to students in schools.
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And these are some of those students out bird watching in one of the forests.
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And as I shared my photos of wildlife with these students, like the mustache monkey or the scarlet macaw,
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what I realized is that these students had almost never heard of these animals.
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They actually knew more about elephants and giraffes
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in faraway Africa than they did about the incredible animals that are found essentially in their backyards.
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And that was a very important moment for me as a photographer,
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because I really realized that we have to connect kids with nature in the places where they live.
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Kids are not going to care about protecting wildlife if they don't even know that these species exist.

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英語学習を楽しみながら自然や環境に興味を持ちたい初心者から中級者まで!特にshadowing siteやshadow speechで会話力を上げたい人に最適。動物や冒険の話題は誰でも楽しめるので、勉強が苦手な人でも続けられます。YouTubeで英語学習を効率的に進めたい方にぴったりです。

覚えておきたいフレーズとイディオム

  • inspire wonder:驚きを抱かせる。「写真は人にinspire wonderする力がある」のように使います。
  • overfishing:乱獲。「海洋のoverfishingは深刻な問題」と環境問題でよく出ます。
  • charismatic animals:魅力的な動物。「シロナガスクジラはcharismatic animalsの一つ」などと使います。
  • in their backyards:身近なところ。「子供たちはin their backyardsにいる動物を知らない」と地域の自然を指します。

アクセントと発音のコツ

この動画のスピーカーは自然なスピーチで、shadow speakの練習に最適です。特に節々のポーズに注目しましょう。「I spent 10 months in the Amazon rainforest」のような長い文は、「10 months」や「Amazon rainforest」で少し止まり、アクセントを置くと自然に聞こえます。また、「tiny chameleon」や「scarlet macaw」のような固有名詞は、発音を確認してshadowspeaksで繰り返し練習しましょう。軽いイントネーションが鍵で、驚きや感動を表すときは声を上げると、よりリアルな表現ができます。

shadowingの練習法

この動画を使ったshadowing siteの練習は簡単です。まず10秒ずつ再生し、すぐに続けて話します。「Photos can also make us care about species...」の部分は、スピーカーのリズムに合わせて口を動かし、発音とアクセントを真似ます。何度も繰り返すと、自然なスピーチが身につきます。小さな進歩から始めて、徐々に長い文に挑戦しましょう。YouTubeで英語学習を楽しみながら、実践的な会話力を養いましょう!

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are found · are overlooked
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 photographing · was working
最上級 the -est / the most … — グループの中で一番the smallest
義務:must / have to / need to 何かが必要であることを伝えるhave to get · had to trek · have to connect

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。

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