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Nearly a million Twitter users leave as Elon Musk takes over.
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Nearly a million Twitter users leave as Elon Musk takes over.
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This is News Review from BBC Learning English.
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I'm Neil.
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And I'm Beth.
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Make sure you watch to the end to learn vocabulary to talk about this story.
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Don't forget to subscribe to our channel,
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like this video and try the quiz on our website.
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Now, the story.
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Almost one million.
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That's how many Twitter accounts have been deactivated since Elon Musk bought the social media platform last month.
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Musk's takeover has been controversial.
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Some people are worried about his approach to free speech,
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thousands of staff have lost their jobs,
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and there are plans to make some users pay a subscription.
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Many users are moving to an alternative called Mastodon,
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a free social network platform where posts are called toots.
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Eugen Rocko, the founder of the platform,
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tooted on Monday that he thinks the massive increase in users is pretty cool.
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You've been looking at the headlines, Beth.
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What is the vocabulary?
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We have flock, on fire and mammoth.
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This is News Review from BBC Learning English.
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Let's take a look at our first headline.
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This one comes from The National, a Scottish media outlet.
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Top Scottish Twitter users flock to Mastodon amid Elon Musk's Twitter takeover.
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OK, so Twitter users in Scotland,
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as well as many other places in the world, are leaving.
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And the word that we are looking at in this headline is flock,
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which is connected to birds, isn't it?
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Yeah, so flock as a noun is a group of birds.
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And remember the Twitter logo is a bird and you post tweets.
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Now, tweets is a word that is the sound a bird makes.
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Yeah, so the headline writer uses flock because of Twitter's connection to birds.
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It's used as a verb in the headline,
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but we can also see it as a noun to refer to a group,
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so a group of birds, or sheep.
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So what's the connection to sheep?
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Well, if you picture a field with one sheep and it moves over here,
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all of the other sheep follow it.
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Sheep are famous for following each other.
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So the headline writer has used this as well to describe all of these people moving from Twitter to Mastodon.
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They're following each other like sheep.
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And so there's a nice double meaning in this headline related to birds and sheep.
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But the word flock, is that one that we use in everyday English?
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Yeah, we do.
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So imagine a shop has a sale,
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then all of the shoppers might flock there because they want to buy something for a good price.
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Yes, and if your favourite singer or group is going on tour,
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people will flock to ticket websites to try and get a place at the concert.
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And also, if we make a good video,
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people flock to our website to watch it.
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I hope that happens.
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Yeah, same.
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Let's take a look at that again.
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Time for our next headline.
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This one is from CNN.
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With Twitter in chaos, Mastodon is on fire.
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So the headline says that Twitter is in chaos,
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lots of people are leaving,
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they're joining Mastodon, a rival.
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The expression we're looking at is on fire.
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Now this sounds a little bit dangerous,
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Beth, if something is on fire,
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that's not a good thing.
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Should I call the fire brigade?
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No, no, don't call the fire brigade.
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So this expression, on fire,
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is used to talk about a good thing,
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to say that something is amazing or it's doing well.
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So the headline writer is actually praising Mastodon,
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because it's so popular at the moment.
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Yeah, so often in this program we talk about metaphorical language.
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On fire literally means that something is in flames.
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That's not the sense here.
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No. In this headline, and also in informal conversation,
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we use on fire to say that we're impressed with something.
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Yeah.
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And not just social media platforms,
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we use it more widely.
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Yes, we do.
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So we often use it to talk about skills.
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For example, I watched my friend play football yesterday and she scored three goals.
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She was on fire.
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Yeah.
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And I saw you preparing this script this morning, Beth.
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You were on fire.
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Thank you, Neil.
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I think we're both on fire today.
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Let's take a look at that again.
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Time for our next headline, please.
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This one is from Slate.
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The headline is asking if Mastodon could become a social media mammoth.
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And mammoth is the word we're looking at.
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What is a mammoth?
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Well, they are extinct animals.
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They looked a little bit like hairy elephants.
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They have a big trunk.
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And they were absolutely enormous.
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Yes, and so size is the key in this headline.
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It's asking whether mastodon could become a really big social media platform.
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Exactly.
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And mammoth is also related to another very big and extinct animal that also looks like a hairy elephant,
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a mastodon, and that is the name of this new social media platform.
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Yeah, so there's a really nice double meaning in the headline, it's quite clever.
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It links the mammoth to the mastodon,
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another really big extinct animal,
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and also the name of this social media platform.
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We're looking at mammoth though,
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and as an adjective it can be used to describe really big things.
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Yes, it can.
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So, for example, this morning it took me over two hours to get to work.
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It was a mammoth journey.
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Yes, and I had a mammoth task at the weekend.
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I tried to get my kids to clean their bedroom and...
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took a long, long time.
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Let's have a look at that again.
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We've had flock move together in a large group.
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On fire – impressive, because something is done very well.
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And mammoth – something very big.
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Don't forget there's a quiz on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.
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Thank you for joining us and goodbye.
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Bye.
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このビデオは、BBC Learning Englishのニュースレビューの一部で、エロン・マスクがTwitterを買収したことに伴うユーザーの動向について話しています。約100万人がTwitterを離れ、代わりにMastodonという新しいソーシャルネットワークに移行しています。この状況は、自由な言論に対するマスクのアプローチや、職を失った従業員の数といった問題も引き起こしています。視聴者は、関連する語彙を学ぶことができ、英語のスピーキングスキルを向上させるための具体的な情報が提供されています。
日常コミュニケーションのためのトップ5フレーズ
- flock（群れをなす）: 何かに群がることを意味し、日常会話でもよく使われます。
- on fire（進行中）: 何かが非常に活発であることを示す表現。
- mammoth（巨大な）: 非常に大きい、または重要なものを指します。
- subscription（購読）: 定期的にサービスや商品を購入することを意味します。
- alternative（代替）: あるものの代わりに使用される別の選択肢を指します。
ステップバイステップのシャドウイングガイド
このビデオを使用して英語の発音を良くするための具体的な方法を示します。シャドウイング練習を通じて、リスニング力とスピーキング力を同時に向上させることができます。以下のステップを参考にしてください。
- ビデオを視聴: まずは全体を通して見て、内容を理解します。
- キーワードに注目: 上記のフレーズや新しい語彙に注意を払い、意味を確認します。
- 再生速度を変える: 難しい場合は、再生速度を遅くして聞き取りやすくします。
- シャドウイングを実践: 聞こえたセリフを「shadow speak」し、声に出して繰り返します。この過程で、英語の発音に慣れていきましょう。
- 録音して確認: 自分の声を録音し、ネイティブスピーカーの発音と比較してみることで改善点を見つけます。
このようにして、毎日の英語の練習にシャドウイングを取り入れることで、IELTS スピーキング対策にも役立つスキルを身に付けることができます。
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。