シャドーイング練習: Personal Best A2 Learning Curve Unit 6 pt. 1 - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Hello and welcome to Learning Curve.
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Today we're talking about unusual homes.
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Where do you live?
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We want to know.
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Simon is with us from the studio in the UK.
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Hi Simon.
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Hello Penny.
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First let's look at a very interesting place to live in the Czech Republic.
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Here's a very unusual house.
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It turns and moves.
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A man named Bromil Lótoj built this round house.
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When it's cold, the house turns and moves up and gets a lot of sun to stay warm.
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It goes down into the ground when it's hot outside to stay cool.
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It's a very modern house.
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On Mindanao Island in the Philippines, some people live in tree houses.
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These traditional houses are high above the ground.
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The air on Mindanao Island is hot and wet, but it's dry up in the trees.
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And when the tree grows, people change the house and add more rooms.

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Personal Best A2 Learning Curve Unit 6 pt. 1”. This video has 18 sentences and 152 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:15. The speaker talks at a steady 121 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 88% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

8 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
unusual adjective/ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/Not usual, out of the ordinary.
studio noun/ˈstudi.oʊ/An artist’s or photographer’s workshop or the room in which an artist works.
tree noun/tɹiː/A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches.
hello/hɛˈloʊ/A greeting (salutation) said when meeting someone or acknowledging someone’s arrival or presence.
welcome/ˈwɛl.kəm/Greeting given upon someone's arrival.
grow verb/ˈɡɹəʊ/To become larger, to increase in magnitude.
traditional adjective/tɹəˈdɪʃ.ə.nəl/Of, relating to, or derived from tradition.
warm adjective/wɔɹm/Of a somewhat high temperature, often but not always connoting that the high temperature is pleasant rather than uncomfortable.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordMeaning
move up verbTo promote, put onto a higher level.

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
現在進行形 am/is/are + -ing — 今まさに、または最近起きていることwe're talking

Pronunciation to watch

  • The “sh” and “zh” sounds: unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, traditional /tɹəˈdɪʃ.ə.nəl/
  • Long words — get the stress right: unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, traditional /tɹəˈdɪʃ.ə.nəl/

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like unusual, studio, tree.

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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