シャドーイング練習: (Reading Practice (Improve your pronunciation in English - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Protect your body Eat food that's good for you.
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Good food helps your bones to grow.
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It makes you strong, and it stops you getting sick.
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There's lots of water in your body.
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You lose water when you go to the toilet and when your body makes sweat.
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Drink water every day to protect your body.
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Go to the doctor when you get sick,
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and go to the dentist every year. Do exercise every day.
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It's good to do exercise, and it makes you happy.
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It's good to sleep when you are tired, too.
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It's important to protect your body.
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Food for Life Everyone needs food to live.
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It gives you energy to work and play.
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It also gives you nutrients to grow well and stay healthy.
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Do you eat a balanced diet with lots of different nutrients?
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Your body needs proteins to build muscles.
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Proteins are also important for healthy hair and fingernails.
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You can get lots of proteins from meat, fish, and eggs.
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Dairy products like milk, cheese, and yogurt also contain proteins.
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Many people don't eat animal products, but they can get proteins from plant products.
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Pulses, like beans and lentils, are rich in proteins.
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many grains nuts and seeds have proteins too which of these foods do you eat carbohydrates
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Carbohydrates give your body energy.
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You can get carbohydrates from grain products like rice, bread, and pasta.
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Your body digests these foods slowly, so they give you energy for many hours.
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Some vegetables, like potatoes, also have lots of carbohydrates.
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What grains and vegetables do you eat?
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Sugar is also a carbohydrate.
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Your body digests sugar quickly, so it gives you energy right away.
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Don't eat too many sweet foods like candy or ice cream, and remember that you can also get sugar from naturally sweet foods.
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bowl of fruit with a little honey fats
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you need to eat some fats to grow well
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and stay healthy your body also stores fats for extra energy and to keep you warm in winter.
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Some types of meat and fish have a lot of fats.
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Dairy products like butter and cheese have fats too.
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You can also get fats from plant products like nuts, seeds, and vegetable oils.
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Be careful, too many fats can make you fat!
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Your body needs vitamins to stay healthy and fight diseases.
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Vitamin A keeps your skin healthy.
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You can get vitamin A from orange fruits and vegetables like carrots or pumpkins,
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dark Green vegetables, like spinach, have lots of vitamin A, too.
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Dairy products give you vitamin B for healthy blood.
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You can also get vitamin B from meat, fish, and eggs.
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Vitamin C helps your body fight diseases.
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You can get vitamin C from citrus fruits like oranges and lemons.
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Minerals Your body also needs minerals.
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You need calcium for strong bones and healthy teeth.
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Dairy products, like milk and yogurt, are good sources of calcium.
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You also need iron for healthy blood.
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You can get iron from red meat and eggs or from vegetables like broccoli and spinach.
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Salt is also an important mineral, but be careful.
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Too much salty food is bad for you.
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Too much waste In some countries,
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one person can make about 5 kilograms of waste every day.
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Where does all this waste go?
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Most waste goes to a landfill.
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At a landfill, people put the waste under the ground.
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Landfills are very big because we make so much waste.
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Most waste materials decompose.
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They break down into very small pieces.
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Food waste decomposes fast, but some waste materials decompose slowly.
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Paper materials take from 2 to 5 months to decompose.
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Some metal materials take from 80 to 100 years,
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and plastic materials take maybe up to 1,000 years.
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Some materials, like glass, never decompose.
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We are making more and more waste.
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We need more landfills, but there's no more land on Earth for landfills.
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Our waste stays in landfills for too long, and this is bad for Earth.
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So we should make less waste.
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We should recycle more things.
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Around the world, people make up to 4 billion metric tons of waste every year.
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Stop germs Do you get sick?
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Germs are things that can make you sick.
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Germs can get in your body when you breathe and when you eat.
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Germs can get in your mouth from your fingers, too.
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Some germs get in your body when you get a cut in your skin.
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Wash your hands with soap and water to get germs off your fingers.
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Wash your hands when it's time to eat, after you go to the toilet,
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after you touch animals, and after you play outside.
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Stop germs There are germs in a sneeze.
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Catch sneezes in a tissue.
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Then throw the tissue in a wastebasket.
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Maya I volunteer three times a week after school.
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I go to an elementary school in an underdeveloped neighborhood and help students with their homework.
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They don't have private tutors and their parents are usually busy working.
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The kids look up to me and ask me for advice.
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I try to set a good example and I encourage them to study hard.
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Roberto When I think about things,
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I try not to think too much about the negative side of things.
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I try to focus on the positive.
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I think things will work out for the best, and they usually do.
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Some of my friends are just the opposite, and that can be hard on me sometimes.
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I guess I prefer to be around people who also focus more on the positive.
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But I get that not everyone is the same.
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The sun is a star.
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It's very, very hot.
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The sun has lots of heat and light.
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Heat and light from the sun come to earth.
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The heat and light make Earth warm so we can live here.
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Light from the sun comes to Earth in eight minutes.
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Some places are warm and sunny all year, and they have no seasons.
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Some places have seasons.
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In summer, there's more light from the sun, so it's warm.
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In winter, there's less light from the sun, so it's cold.
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Is it warm and sunny where you live?

この動画で身につけるスキル

この動画は、英語スピーキング練習に最適で、特に発音の正確性とリズム感を養います。「food that's good for you」のような短いフレーズの連続から、自然な発話の流れを学び、IELTS スピーキング対策にも役立つ明確な発音を身につけることができます。また、栄養に関する単語(protein, carbohydrateなど)の発音を覚えながら、日常会話での語彙力も向上します。

聞き取るべき音の特徴

動画の音声には、連結音(リンキング)や弱めの発音(リダクション)が多く含まれています。例えば、「it's good to」は「its good ta」のように発音され、「and it stops you」は「an' it stops ya」となります。これらの音の繋がりを聞き分けることで、英語の発音を良くするだけでなく、リスニング力も向上します。特に「fats you need」のような子音と母音の繋がりに注意してください。

ネイティブのように話すコツ

ネイティブスピーカーのリズムとアクセントを真似るには、ストレスの置き方に注目します。「proteins to build muscles」では「PRO-teins」と「MUS-cles」にアクセントがあり、「carbohydrates give your body energy」では「carbo-HY-drates」と「ENER-gy」が強調されます。shadowing siteやshadowspeakのような方法を使い、動画の音声に合わせて即座に繰り返すことで、自然なリズムを身につけることができます。また、長い文を息継ぎの位置で区切ることで、流れるような発話が可能になります。

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。

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