シャドーイング練習: Rolling a Reliant Robin | Top Gear | BBC - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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Here we go.
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Reliant robin.
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Oh, no. I've crashed it.
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I've crashed it almost immediately.
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I mean, literally, 20 feet.
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I can't get out, obviously.
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I'm completely stuck.
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Luckily, people in the north of England are friendly and keen to help out.
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Excuse me.
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Boop, boop, boop.
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Excuse me.
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Oh, heavens, look who it is.
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It's Phil Oakey.
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Do you think you could push me back on my wheels?
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Yeah, certainly.
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Thanks very much.
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No way back, sir.
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You're.. thank you so much.
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Thank you very much, Phil Oakey, out of the human league.
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Pleasure.
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I suppose, as a Sheffield boy, Phil Oakey spent a lot of his youth putting Robin Reliance back on their wheels,
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when he wasn't rescuing waitresses from cocktails.
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Help!
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Again, help!
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Where's Martin Frye?
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Out of ABC when you need him.
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That's a useful feature.
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In the early days, the Robin had a 750cc engine.
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With 32 brake horsepower on tap, 0 -50 took 22 seconds.
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0 -60 wasn't really possible.
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In 1975, though, Reliant fitted an 850cc engine.
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This improved the acceleration enormously, but the consequences were catastrophic.
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The big engine increased the top speed, too.
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It would now do 85, and that was catastrophic as well.
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Oh, not again!
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Oh, no. I'm 50 years old.
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I'm on the side on a street in Sheffield.
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Oh, is that the sound of somebody?
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Hello?
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Hello.
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Peter Stringfellow.
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Were you just walking by, or...?
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Oh, nearly.
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Yes.
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Thank you so much, Peter Stringfellow, out of lap dancing clubs.
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My pleasure.
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Really, I can't thank you enough.
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To try and understand why the robin was so popular up north, I pulled over to chat to some enthusiasts.
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How do you drive a Reliant?
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Straight lanes.
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You don't go round roundabouts.
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You get to it and you see where you're coming off and you go straight across.
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Right.
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Try to avoid the middle.
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Right.
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Sack of cement on passenger seat helps.
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Cement?
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Sack of cement on passenger seat helps balance.
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Why do you think Reliant owners have big toolboxes? To weigh it down.
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I was going to say, your teeth.
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Did you lose these in a Reliant accident?
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You did, didn't you?
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Why do you think, everybody, Reliance was so popular at North?
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A lot of miners used them.
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Yeah, but why?
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Because they were more expensive than minis.
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No, because a lot of miners originally started with motorbikes, and they didn't have a full driving licence.
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So to get out of weather in winter, when it were absolutely siling it down, they bought a Reliant.
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So, it was just because miners didn't have a driving licence?
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Some of them, but other ones, also in winter, with them being light, you'll get your normal car stuck in snow or whatever.
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These just simply glide over the top of it.
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Until you get to a corner.
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Well, as long as you live somewhere with a straight line to a pit.
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Soon, I was back on my perilous journey.
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In this, it feels like I'm driving through South Yorkshire in the 1970s again.
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Because I grew up not far from here, so did James May for that matter.
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But now we're a lad round here.
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Whole rich people, them's as good a food.
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It's all wheels on the car.
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They all had larders, lardy -dars, we called them.
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You didn't want to hit one of them, I'd tell you that for no. They were built like tanks.
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One of the best ways to protect your robin was to lavish it with an exotic paint job, such as this Starsky and Hutch homage.
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The idea was that having spent many hours with the spray cans and the masking tape, you'd drive more carefully.
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But this didn't always work.
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It really is a wonder how anyone in the north survived the 1970s.
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Of course, a lot didn't.
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In 1971, the population of Sheffield was 573 ,000.
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Since then, it's dropped to just 513 ,000.
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Some of the lost 60 ,000 moved down south, of course, but many, many,
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many more were wiped out by their three -wheelers.
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Today, of course, most of the Robins are gone and people up here drive Kias and Hyundai's instead.
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And this means the local TV news channel has to think of things other than reliant crashes to put in its bulletins.
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OK, to Braithwell in South Yorkshire now and a blooming mystery that's baffling its green -fingered residents.
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Harry is there for us.
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Harry, what's going on?
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Welcome here to beautiful Braithwell.
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You can see the sun exploding on a kaleidoscope of colour.
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And I have to say, there's been a real area of controversy here because...
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Oh, well, that's been big.
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My God!
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Are you all right, sir?
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Are you all right?
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Yeah, I'm getting used to it now, thanks.
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Oh, all right.
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Thanks very much.
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If you could just plop me back on the wheels.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you, Harry Grayson, out of Luke North.
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Pleasure.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you.
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このレッスンの語彙とスピーキングのポイント
この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が111文、単語が823語あります。 音声の長さは7:29です。 話す速さは1分あたり約110語で安定しており、シャドーイングしやすいペースです。 英語の頻出3,000語に含まれる単語は80%だけなので、語彙は難しめです。
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15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。
| 単語 | 発音 | 意味 |
|---|---|---|
| robin 名詞 | /ˈɹɑ.bɪn/ | ヨーロッパコマドリ |
| cement 名詞 | /səˈmɛnt/ | セメント |
| miner 名詞 | /ˈmaɪnə(ɹ)/ | 鉱夫, 坑夫 |
| passenger 名詞 | /ˈpæs.ɪn.d͡ʒɚ/ | 乗客, 旅客 |
| sack 名詞 | /sæk/ | 袋, サック |
| finger 名詞 | /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/ | 指 |
| rescue 動詞 | /ˈɹɛs.kjuː/ | 救う, 助ける |
| carefully 副詞 | /ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/ | じっくり, 慎重に |
| mystery 名詞 | /ˈmɪs.t(ə.)ɹi/ | ミステリー, 不思議 |
| resident 名詞 | /ˈɹɛzɪdənt/ | 居住者, 住民 |
| mask 名詞 | /mæsk/ | 仮面, 覆面 |
| controversy 名詞 | /kənˈtɹɒv.ə.si/ | 論争 |
| spray 名詞 | /spɹeɪ/ | スプレー |
| consequence 名詞 | /ˈkɑn.sɪ.kwəns/ | 結果 |
| wipe 動詞 | /waɪp/ | 拭く |
動画に出てくる句動詞
| 単語 | 意味 |
|---|---|
| get out 動詞 | 出て行く |
| grow up 動詞 | 成長する, 大人に成る |
| wipe out 動詞 | 一掃する |
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 |
|---|---|
| 現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係している | I've crashed |
| 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 | were built · were wiped |
注意したい発音
話し手はdidn't, I'm, can'tなど、短縮形や弱形を24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。
- 「sh」と「zh」の音: acceleration /əkˌsɛl.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, homage /(h)oʊˈmɑʒ/, lavish /ˈlævɪʃ/
- 長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: catastrophic /ˌkætəˈstɹɑfɪk/, controversy /kənˈtɹɒv.ə.si/, acceleration /əkˌsɛl.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, enthusiast /ɪnˈθuːziˌæst/, kaleidoscope /kəˈlaɪ.dəˌskoʊp/
この動画での練習方法
- 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。
- 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。
- 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。robin, cement, minerなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。
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。