シャドーイング練習: Story Structure: Act 1 - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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In the last two videos, we talked about our theme and how to break your story into beats using the story spine.
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The next step is to divide your story spine into larger sections, which we call acts.
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Throughout history, storytellers have experimented with everything from one act to eight acts or more.
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But the most common structure for film is the three -act structure.
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Act 1 consists of the first three steps of our story spine.
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once upon a time, This is where we meet our main character, known as the protagonist.
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And we find out when and where the story takes place.
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For example, in Finding Nemo, we're introduced to Marlin and Nemo who live in the safety of the reef
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And we learn why Marlin worries about the dangers lurking in the open ocean.
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The first act also tells the audience what type of movie they're about to see.
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Is it a science fiction, a romantic comedy, a historical drama, or something else?
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Every day.
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This is where we learn more about how the world works.
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For example, in Finding Nemo, we learn about the other creatures who inhabit the reef and what life is like there every day.
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Until one day.
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This is often called the inciting incident.
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It's an event which leads to a key obstacle your protagonist faces and sets the rest of the story in motion.
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In Finding Nemo, Nemo ignores his father's instructions, swims out to touch the boat, and is captured by a scuba diver.
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In order to save him, Marlin is forced to face his biggest fear, the open ocean.
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The first act can also introduce something called the antagonist.
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You probably know this as a character we sometimes call the villain, but it can take many forms.
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Generally, the antagonist is a force that gets in the way of your character's wants and needs.
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Marlin's antagonist is something, something that stands in his way.
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The ocean? and his fear of it.
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Getting this first act figured out is critical, so let's ask our storytellers for some more information.
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In Act One, we want to introduce our characters, introduce the story, and get a landscape of where the story is trying to go.
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What's essential in the first act is that you meet the main character in her or his world.
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and you understand their place in the world, and you understand their problem in the world.
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you learn enough about this character that you like this character and you want to go on this journey
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with the filmmaker and the character.
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It's very important to two.
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hook your audience in Act One.
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For our movies, I think, um, WALL -E has one of the strongest first acts.
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The world is set up, it's a tra-- I mean, it's a trash planet.
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And it's an abandoned dystopia.
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And yet, you have an idealist.
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You have Wally who believes as a robot that love is possible, in an environment where he's meant to clean up the remnants of the opposite world view.
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And it's beautiful that he doesn't, he has almost no evidence other than a little green leaf, that what he believes and feels is real.
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And then Eve comes in and confirms to him his idealistic tendencies, that we can rise above our programming, and that we can be more than we're told,
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and we can be more than what's around us.
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Sometimes the inciting incident will introduce a conflict
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that will launch the main character into a journey that will take place throughout the film.
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In most cases I can think of, the inciting incident comes toward the end of the first act.
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You've spent the first act setting up who the characters are, what's important, what the status quo is in the world,
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and the inciting incident that's going to pull the rug out from under that status quo
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is gonna launch you into act two.
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In Wall -E, the inciting incident is when Eve is taken off of Earth into the Axiom, and Wall -E follows her up to the Axiom on the rocket.
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He now has a goal, which is to get Eve back.
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even though he's a robot and he could not be further from me,
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I completely empathize with him and I want for him connection and love and the things that he aspires to.
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To me it's an elegant beautiful heartbreaking first act.
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And I think a successful first act gets you to invest in your character, care about your character, care about what they care about.
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So when the thing they care about is threatened or the rug is pulled out from under them in some way,
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you're rooting for them to launch into the second act and solve that problem.
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Ultimately, the first act is the setup for the story.
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It's where we learn everything we need to know about our main characters and the world, and we find something out which gets us invested in the journey which follows.
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In the next exercise, you'll have a chance to identify the first act in your favorite films, as well as start developing a first act for the story you want to create.
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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B2レベルのスピーキングレッスンは、動画「Story Structure: Act 1」を教材にしています。 繰り返し出てくる語は次のとおりです：character, inciting, Nemo, incident, learn。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が57文、単語が872語あります。 音声の長さは4:57です。 話す速さは1分あたり約176語で、日常会話に近い自然なペースです。 単語の86%は英語の頻出3,000語に含まれます。残りは練習の前に確認しておきましょう。
この動画の重要語彙
動画の中で特に難しい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。
| 単語 | 発音 | 意味 |
|---|---|---|
| incite 動詞 | /ɪnˈsaɪt/ | 扇ぐ, 嗾ける |
| spine 名詞 | /spaɪn/ | 背骨, 脊椎 |
| storyteller 名詞 | 語り部, ストーリーテラー | |
| protagonist 名詞 | /pɹəˈtæɡ.ə.nɪst/ | 主人公 |
| reef 名詞 | /ɹiːf/ | 礁, 暗礁 |
| aspire 動詞 | /əˈspaɪɚ/ | 希求する, 熱望する |
| dystopia 名詞 | /dɪsˈtoʊ.pi.ə/ | 暗黒郷, ディストピア |
| empathize 動詞 | /ˈɛmpəˌθaɪz/ | 同情する |
| filmmaker 名詞 | 映画製作者 | |
| obstacle 名詞 | /ˈɑbstəkəl/ | 障害, 邪魔 |
| villain 名詞 | /ˈvɪl.ən/ | 悪人, 悪党 |
| threaten 動詞 | /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/ | 脅す, 脅迫する |
| consist 名詞 | /kənˈsɪst/ | 編成 |
| elegant 形容詞 | /ˈɛləɡənt/ | 優雅な, 立派な |
| tendency 名詞 | /ˈtɛn.dən.si/ | 傾向, 趨勢 |
動画に出てくる句動詞
| 単語 | 意味 |
|---|---|
| clean up 動詞 | 掃除する |
| find out 動詞 | 見出す, 調べる |
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 | is often called · is captured · is forced |
| 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 | have experimented · You've spent |
注意したい発音
話し手はwe're, doesn't, gonnaなど、短縮形や弱形を8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。
- 「th」の音: empathize /ˈɛmpəˌθaɪz/, threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/
- 長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: antagonist /ænˈtæɡənɪst/, protagonist /pɹəˈtæɡ.ə.nɪst/, dystopia /dɪsˈtoʊ.pi.ə/, idealistic /ˌaɪ.di.əˈlɪ.stɪk/
日本語話者が苦手な音：
- /v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: villain /ˈvɪl.ən/, divide /dɪˈvaɪd/
- 子音の連続 — 間に母音を入れない: antagonist /ænˈtæɡənɪst/, spine /spaɪn/, protagonist /pɹəˈtæɡ.ə.nɪst/, remnant /ˈɹɛmnənt/, obstacle /ˈɑbstəkəl/
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。
- まず0.75倍速で一文ずつシャドーイングし、慣れてきたら通常の速度に戻します。
- 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。incite, spine, storyteller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。