シャドーイング練習: Phrasal Verbs For Meetings - Business English - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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Hi everybody!
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Hope you're all doing well.
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In this short lesson I'm going to show you eight useful phrasal verbs that are often used in business meetings.
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Welcome back to English for Professionals.
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I'm Derek and I'm here with another short lesson for you busy people.
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And now let's get started.
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For each phrasal verb, you'll see two example sentences.
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To practice your speaking and pronunciation skills, repeat each example sentence with me after you hear 1, 2, 3.
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And our first phrasal verb is get through.
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Get through.
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If you get through a task or an amount of work, you complete it.
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The first example sentence is something that you would hear at the start of a meeting.
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We have a lot to get through today, so let's begin.
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One, two, three.
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We have a lot to get through today, so let's begin.
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And the second example is something you would hear at the end of a meeting.
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Thanks for a great meeting, everybody.
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We got through a lot of important business today.
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One, two, three.
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Thanks for a great meeting everybody we got through a lot
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of important business today one two three thanks for a great
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meeting everybody we got through a lot of important business today
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and the second phrasal verb is knuckle down knuckle down
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and this means to focus and work hard on the task or job to be done
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we'll have to really knuckle down if we want to finish the project on schedule 1, 2, 3.
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We'll have to really knuckle down if we want to finish the project on schedule.
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The start of the month was hard, but we knuckled down and hit our sales targets in the end.
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1, 2, 3.
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The start of the month was hard, but we knuckled down and hit our sales targets in the end.
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Up next we have go over.
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Go over which means to carefully check or review something.
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This proposal is very important so let's go over it one more time.
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One two three.
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This proposal is very important so let's go over it one more time.
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Alex please go over the report and make sure there are no mistakes.
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One, two, three.
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Alex, please go over the report and make sure there are no mistakes.
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The next phrasal verb is bring up.
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Bring up, which means to start discussing a topic.
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That's a very interesting point.
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I'm glad you brought it up.
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One, two, three.
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That's a very interesting point.
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I'm glad you brought it up.
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I'm sorry, but I don't think we have time for that.
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Maybe you should bring it up at the next meeting.
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One, two, three.
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I'm sorry, but I don't think we have time for that.
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Maybe you should bring it up at the next meeting.
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Up next, we have go on.
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Go on.
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And this means to start talking again after a pause or interruption.
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Please go on.
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I'm sorry for interrupting.
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One, two, three.
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Please go on.
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I'm sorry for interrupting.
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And the second example is a little more formal.
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You would use this after you've been interrupted in a formal meeting.
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May I go on?
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One, two, three.
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May I go on?
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Up next we have break something down.
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break something down and this means to separate something into smaller parts
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so that it's easier to do
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or understand the process sounds quite complex could you break it
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down for us please one two three the process sounds quite
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complex could you break it down for us please there's a lot involved in this task
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so it might be better to break it down into smaller tasks.
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One, two, three.
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There's a lot involved in this task so it might be better to break it down into smaller tasks.
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And the next phrasal verb is point something out.
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Point something out.
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Which means to tell someone something that they did not already know or had not thought about that's completely new to me.
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Thanks for pointing it out.
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One, two, three.
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That's completely new to me.
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Thanks for pointing it out.
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I'd just like to point out that these results are from last year, not this year.
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One, two, three.
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I'd just like to point out
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that these results are from last year not this year
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and our last phrasal verb is to think something through think something through
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which means to carefully think about the possible result of doing something I'm afraid
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that wasn't our best decision we just didn't think it through one two three I'm afraid
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that wasn't our best decision we just didn't think it through I'm sorry
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but I don't think this plan will work you
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and your team need to think it through again one two three I'm sorry
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but I don't think this plan will work you
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and your team need to think it through again so
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that brings us to the end of another short lesson I hope you found it helpful and
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if you'd like to learn more phrasal verbs for business check
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この動画がスピーキング練習に最適な理由
ビジネスミーティングでよく使われる句動詞を8つ紹介するこの動画は、IELTS スピーキング対策や日常の英語スピーキング練習にぴったりです。会議場のリアルな会話が自然なスピードで展開され、例文も短くて覚えやすいため、動画で英語学習するのに最適な教材です。特に、発音の抑揚やリズムがネイティブらしく、英語の発音を良くする練習にも役立ちます。
自然な会話の秘密を解き明かす
動画の中の例文を分解してみましょう。まず、「We have a lot to get through today, so let's begin.」は、会議の始まりによく使われる表現で、「get through」が「完了する」という意味で自然に入っています。次に、「That's a very interesting point. I'm glad you brought it up.」は、相手の意見に応答する場面で、「brought it up」が「話題に出す」という意味で、会話をスムーズに進めるのに役立ちます。もう一つ、「Alex, please go over the report and make sure there are no mistakes.」は、指示を出す場面で、「go over」が「徹底的にチェックする」という意味で、ビジネス英語らしい表現です。これらの例文は、文の構造が単純でありながら、実際の会話で頻繁に使われるため、自然な英語を身につけるのに最適です。
効果的な練習ルーティンを作る
英語シャドーイングの基本は「リピート&レコード」です。この動画を使った練習方法は簡単です。まず、動画を1文ずつ止め、1,2,3の合図に合わせて例文をリピートします。その際、ネイティブの発音やリズムを真似て、声の高さや抑揚も注意しましょう。次に、自分の声を録音して、ネイティブの発音と比較し、英語の発音を良くするためのポイントを見つけます。このループを毎日10分続けると、英語スピーキング練習の成果が実感できるでしょう。特に、IELTS スピーキング対策をしている方は、ビジネス関連の語彙とともに、自然な会話の流れを身につけることが重要です。
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。