シャドーイング練習: Rory Stewart MP | Good Morning Britain Interview - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Welcome back to Good Morning Britain.
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The government's announced £10 million to drive out phones and drugs
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and improve security in 10 of the most challenging prisons across the country.
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So there are 121 prisons in England and Wales with the prison population of just under 83,000.
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Of those, the most overcrowded, like Leeds and Wandsworth, are running at 153% capacity,
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with Durham and Preston running at 152% capacity.
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Yeah, attacks in prisons hit a record of over 31,000 in the year to March 2018, up 16% from the year before.
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And within that figure, there were a record over 9,000 attacks on prison staff, up 26% on the year before.
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Well, Prisons Minister Rory Stewart says the money will help deal with the pressing threats to prison safety.
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He joins us from Perth in Scotland.
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Good morning to you.
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So £10 million for governors at each prison will be provided with new scanners capable of detecting packages inside bodies,
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and the sniffer dogs will search out for drugs.
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But what most people are concerned about is that re-offending rates are 30%, so one in three prisoners who come out of prison re-offend.
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What's this £10 million going to do for that?
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Well, as you say, the reoffending rate is far too high, and this ultimately is about protecting the public.
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So, in order to turn around a prisoner's life and make sure that they come back, hopefully with a house, hopefully with a job,
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and certainly not reoffending, we need to have safe prisons
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and to have a safe prison in order to get someone into education you need to tackle the drugs
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and you need to tackle the violence in order to provide those programs.
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So everything we're doing on drugs and violence directly relates to protecting the public.
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It's interesting when you say sort of
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because there's already been I think 30 million announced earlier on in the year by the Justice Secretary
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and of course another 10 million today.
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We're in the summer holidays, there are lots of children, lots of fears that there are children who don't have more than one warm meal a day.
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Lots of parents are going to have to be fundraising in September just for the basics in classrooms.
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I do wonder whether there are lots of parents who just think, hang on a minute, you've got 10 million pounds for prisons, but there are probably 200 schools,
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primary schools, who could do with 50 grand themselves.
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How can you justify where the government decides to spend a sum like 10 million on prisons and not in schools.
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Well, you're right.
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Government has to make difficult choices, but this is a really important thing ultimately for protecting the public.
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If criminals go into prison and come out the other end, either re-offending or even worse, having made new criminal associates,
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that's imposing untold misery on the British population.
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Cost of crime in Britain totals billions of pounds a year.
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So we need to make sure that we really tackle crime.
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That means bringing the criminals into prison
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and it means working with them in prison to make sure they come out the other end
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and they don't commit crime again.
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So every pound spent turning around a prisoner's life ultimately is a pound protecting the public.
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But, you know, the Howard League for Penal Reform's reaction to your announcement today is
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that barbed wire and a bucket of paint isn't really the answer.
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Where is the money for the real sort of emotional support
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for people who may have mental health problems as we hear quite often that is part of the problem in prison?
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You have to start with the fundamentals you have to start with the basics.
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Too many of our prisons as you've heard today are a are awash with drugs and are challenged by violence.
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Unless we can create calm, orderly, disciplined spaces, you can't do all those things that the Howard League is talking about.
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You can't get the prisoners into education.
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You can't get them into work.
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But when a prisoner is running, it's 152%.
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So I'm afraid that the barbed wire and the buckets of paint, yeah.
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But when you've got overcrowding, like the, when we've got overcrowding in the way you're talking, we've heard the statistics this morning.
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And surely what Sean was saying about the reoffending, I mean, dealing with the fact that there are more people going in,
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surely is the way to help the situation from the root cause.
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Well, there are many things that you need to do in prison.
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And you're right, managing population is an important part.
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And as the Howard League was saying, and as you just quoted them, also what you do on education is important.
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But fundamentally, what we're going to be demonstrating through these ten prisons is that we can turn these prisons around.
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Too many of these places that we've seen in recent inspection reports are not reaching the standards we want.
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And what we're seeing in somewhere like Leeds is the way that, by putting some money, relatively modest amount of money, behind a dynamic governor, we can turn around the drugs,
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we can turn around the violence and we can turn around these prisoners' lives.
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So yes, you're right, it's very complicated running a prison.
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But this investment, and above all the investment in the prison officers, those people who are out there day in, day out, outside the cell doors,
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giving them the training, giving them the support, is going to be the key to anything that we can achieve.
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Mr. Stewart, you say there are too many drugs and phones in prisons.
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We've known that for years you all you need to do is pick up a paper every
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so often and you will read
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that where have you been that's what people will be saying why hasn't this been done earlier
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so the answer partly to this is that technology changes all the time
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so there'd be new threats for example drones
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which have been bringing them in we've had absolutely i'm talking about the ways in
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which these things the ways in which these things get into the prisons
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so there have been new threats the ways they get in, they've been carried in by drones, and we've had to tackle that electronically.
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We've now putting up netting in order to deal with thrown overs, but this is also new technology to find things inside people's bodies.
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Too many prisoners we've found have been bringing things in by swallowing them, and that actually includes putting mobile telephones, miniature mobile telephones, inside their bodies.
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So these are the highest grade new airport-style scanners in order to pick up this.
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But you're right, it's a continual fight with criminals
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but we must make these places safe
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and stable in order to turn around lives and as I said in order to protect the public.
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Okay Rory Stewart thank you for joining us from Scotland this
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morning let's talk more about this then with Carl Catamull who is a former prisoner and author.
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Carl what do you make of what you've just heard there from Rory Stewart?

このレッスンについて

このレッスンでは、Rory Stewart氏のインタビューを通じて、英語のリスニングとスピーキングのスキルを向上させることを目指します。特に、発音やイントネーションに焦点を当て、効果的なシャドーイング(英語シャドーイング)を実践します。内容は、英国の刑務所に関する政府の発表や再犯率の問題に関連しており、実用的な英語を学ぶ良い機会となります。

重要な語彙とフレーズ

  • re-offending rate - 再犯率
  • prison safety - 刑務所の安全
  • fundraising - 資金調達
  • emotional support - 感情的サポート
  • overcrowded - 過密状態の
  • public protection - 公共の保護
  • drugs and violence - 薬物と暴力
  • challenging prisons - 難しい刑務所

練習のヒント

このインタビューは、比較的ゆっくりとした速度で進行しますが、論点が明確であるため、shadowspeak での練習に適しています。まず、ビデオを数回視聴し、内容を理解した後、重要なフレーズを繰り返し聞いてみましょう。特に頭に残る発音やリズムを真似することが大切です。

次に、英語の発音を良くするために、音声を一時停止し、自分の声で再現してみましょう。これにより、自分がどのような発音をしているのかを確認できます。特に再犯率に関する話など、数字や専門用語に注意を払うと良いでしょう。

最後に、IELTS スピーキング対策を意識して、パートナーと一緒に練習するとさらに効果的です。相手が質問をしたり、意見を求める際に、学んだフレーズを使いながら流暢に答えることを目指してください。

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。