シャドーイング練習: TEST 1. Part 1: Children´s Engineering Workshops. - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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IELTS 16, Part 1.
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You will hear a man phoning to find out about some children's engineering workshops.
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First, you have some time to look at questions 1 to 3.
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Now listen carefully and answer questions 1 to 3.
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Hello, children's engineering workshops.
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Oh, hello.
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I wanted some information about the workshops in the school holidays.
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Sure.
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I have two daughters who are interested.
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The younger one's Lydia.
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She's four.
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Do you take children as young as that?
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Yes.
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Our tiny engineers' workshop is for four to five-year-olds.
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What sorts of activities do they do?
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All sorts.
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For example, they work together to design a special cover that goes round an egg, so that when it's inside,
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they can drop it from a height and it doesn't break.
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Well, sometimes it does break, but that's part of the fun.
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Right.
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And Lydia loves building things.
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Is there any opportunity for her to do that?
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Well, they have a competition to see who can make the highest tower.
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You'd be amazed how high they can go.
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Right.
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But they're learning all the time as well as having fun.
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For example, one thing they do is to design and build a car that's attached to a balloon
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and the force of the air in that actually powers the car and makes it move along.
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They go really fast too.
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OK, well, all this sounds perfect.
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Before you hear the rest of the conversation, you have some time to look at questions 4 to 10.
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Now listen and answer questions 4 to 10.
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Now Carly, that's my older daughter, has just had her seventh birthday.
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So presumably she'd be in a different group?
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Yes, she'd be in the junior engineers.
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That's for children from six to eight.
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And do they do the same sorts of activities?
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Some are the same, but a bit more advanced.
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So they work out how to build model vehicles, things like cars and trucks,
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but also how to construct animals using the same sorts of material and technique.
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And then they learn how they can program them and make them move.
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So they learn a bit of coding?
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They do.
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They pick it up really quickly.
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We're there to help if they need it, but they learn from one another too.
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Right.
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And do they have competitions too yes with the junior engineers it's to use recycled materials like card
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and wood to build a bridge and the longest one gets a prize
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that sounds fun i wouldn't mind doing that myself
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then they have something a bit different
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which is to think up an idea for a five minute movie
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and then film it using special animation software you'd be amazed what they come up with
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and of course that's something they can put on their phone and take home to show all their friends
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exactly and then they also build a robot in the shape of a human
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and they decorate it and program it so
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that it can move its arms and legs perfect so is it the same price as the tiny engineers?
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it's just a bit more, £50 for the five weeks And are the classes on a Monday too?
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There used to be, but we found it didn't give our staff enough time to clear up after the first workshop
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So we moved them to Wednesdays The classes are held in the morning from 10 to 11 OK,
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that's better for me actually And what about the location?
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Where exactly are the workshops held?
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They're in building 10A.
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There's a big sign on the door.
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You can't miss it.
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And that's in Fradston Industrial Estate.
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Sorry?
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Fradston.
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That's F-R-A-D-S-T-O-N-E.
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And that's in Grassford, isn't it?
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Yes, up past the station.
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And will I have any parking problems there?
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No, there's always plenty available.
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So, would you like to enrol Lydia and Carly now?
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OK.
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So, can I have your full name and...

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この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が75文、単語が657語あります。 音声の長さは4:49です。 話す速さは1分あたり約136語で安定しており、シャドーイングしやすいペースです。 単語の87%は英語の頻出3,000語に含まれるため、語彙は分かりやすいです。

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13語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語発音意味
workshop 名詞/ˈwɝk.ʃɑp/作業場, アトリエ
technique 名詞/tɛkˈniːk/技術
carefully 副詞/ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/じっくり, 慎重に
seventh 形容詞/ˈsɛvənθ/七番目
robot 名詞/ˈɹoʊ.bɑt/ロボット, 人造人間
animation 名詞/ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/アニメーション, アニメ
presumably 副詞/pɹɪˈzuːməbli/おそらく, 思うに
construct 動詞/ˈkɑn.stɹʌkt/建設する, 建てる
balloon 名詞/bəˈlun/バルーン, 気球
attach 動詞/əˈtæt͡ʃ/付ける, 添付する
amaze 動詞/əˈmeɪz/驚かす
decorate 動詞/ˈdɛkəɹeɪt/飾る, 装飾する
recycle 動詞/ɹəˈsaɪkəl/再生する, リサイクルする

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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be amazed · are held
最上級 the -est / the most … — グループの中で一番the highest · the longest
「will」の未来表現 will + 動詞 — その場の決定、約束、予測will hear · will I

注意したい発音

話し手はshe'd, they're, you'dなど、短縮形や弱形を12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: workshop /ˈwɝk.ʃɑp/, animation /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/
  • 長い単語(アクセントの位置に注意): animation /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/, presumably /pɹɪˈzuːməbli/

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  1. 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。
  2. 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。
  3. 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。workshop, technique, carefully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。

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