シャドーイング練習: Vol 3 - test 6 - section 4 - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

レッスンを作成中...
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Section 4.
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You will hear a student presentation about a type of palm tree called the lontar palm
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that grows on an island in Indonesia.
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First, you have some time to look at questions 31 to 40 on page 7.
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Thank you.
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Now listen carefully and answer questions 31 to 40.
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As part of this semester's geography project, I'm going to talk about a tall palm tree called the lontar,
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which mainly grows on the island of Roti in the south of the Indonesian archipelago.
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Now the lontar is a truly amazing example of how one tree can sustain human life.
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The locals call it the tree of life, and with good reason, because the tree provides them with virtually everything they need in the way of food,
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drink, utensils, and shelter.
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The Lontar juice is the most amazingly refreshing juice you'll ever taste.
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The juice is collected from high in the tree in a process known as tapping.
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Basically, a slice is cut into part of the tree and the sap flows slowly from it into a container.
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It's then collected twice daily.
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Male and female lontar trees are different.
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Male lontars can be tapped all their lives, so they are preferred.
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If the female tree is left untapped, a large fruit develops, like a coconut in appearance.
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The watery interior of the fruit can be drunk, but these fruits are often left to fall to the ground as animal feed.
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Men and older boys climb to the tops of the trees to do the tapping.
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They don't use safety equipment, but make things easier for themselves by tying stones to the trunk.
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What is amazing is that
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so much of the equipment they use in the tapping process is actually made from the tree itself.
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The men attach all the tools they need to a belt that they wear when climbing the tree.
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In most cases, climbers own particular trees within their family.
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Ownership involves not only care of the trees themselves, but also a share in the maintenance of the fence, which belongs to the local community.
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Anyway, more about this incredible juice.
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Tapping reaches a peak at the end of the dry season, which runs from September to October,
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villagers work frantically to get their harvest in before the rains come and it gets too wet and windy to climb.
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Whatever juice isn't drunk immediately has to be processed as quickly as possible, as it turns sour very rapidly.
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In the rainy season, when no fresh juice is available, the locals drink a concentrated form with water added.
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The locals also use this rainy season version of the drink in other ways.
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For example, it can be used to make biscuits of brown sugar.
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But the lontar palm supplies much more than sustenance for the Rotanese.
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The broad lontar leaves are woven into a huge number of things.
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Containers for watering the garden and bags for transporting chickens to market.
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People also use them to cover the roofs of their homes.
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When the leaves are replaced every five years or so, the old ones are burned on the garden as a fertilizer.
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So you see, the leaves are never wasted.
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The Rotanese also make a distinctive hat out of the leaf.
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Design-wise, they were inspired by 16th-century Portuguese helmets.
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There are many for different occasions, ranging from simple ones for everyday use to larger and more elaborate hats used for a celebration,
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which are painted in bright colors.
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The lontar leaf even provides the Rotanese people with a unique musical instrument known as the sassando.
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The leaf is made into a sounding board and has strings attached, which are plucked in the manner of a harp.
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and the sound produced is also similar.
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But even that isn't all.
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The stalks of the lontar leaves can also be used.
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They are really strong and grow up to 1.5 meters long, and local people produce ropes from them.
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Even when a lontar tree becomes old and unproductive and no longer can be used for tapping, the whole tree is cut down
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and the thick trunk is utilized for building houses their immense strength means
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that they are highly valued for this purpose now one thing i haven't spoken about is
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that is the end of section four you now have half a minute to check your answers
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Thank you.
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Thank you.

このレッスンの語彙とスピーキングのポイント

このC1レベルのスピーキングレッスンは、動画「Vol 3 - test 6 - section 4」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:tree, lontar, juice, tapping, palm。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が55文、単語が728語あります。 音声の長さは6:54です。 話す速さはゆっくりで、1分あたり約106語です。一つ一つの音をまねる余裕があります。 英語の頻出3,000語に含まれる単語は79%だけなので、語彙は難しめです。

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
rainy 形容詞/ˈɹeɪni/雨が降る, 雨の
attach 動詞/əˈtæt͡ʃ/付ける, 添付する
trunk 名詞/tɹʌŋk/幹
container 名詞/kənˈteɪ.nəɹ/容器
archipelago 名詞/ˌɑɹkəˈpɛləˌɡoʊ/群島, 列島
biscuit 名詞/ˈbɪs.kɪt/ビスケット, クッキー
unproductive 形容詞/ˌʌn.pɹəˈdʌk.tɪv/非生産的
villager 名詞/ˈvɪlɪd͡ʒɚ/村人, 村民
watery 形容詞/ˈwɔtəɹi/水っぽい
weave 動詞/wiːv/編む, 織る
windy 形容詞/ˈwɪn.di/風の吹く, 風の強い
amazingly 副詞/əˈmeɪzɪŋli/すごく
refresh 動詞/ɹɪˈfɹɛʃ/爽やかにする
immense 形容詞/ɪˈmɛns/広大, 莫大
coconut 名詞/ˈkəʊ.kə.nʌt/ココナッツ, 椰子の実

注意したい発音

話し手はisn't, don't, haven'tなど、短縮形や弱形を6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。

  • 長い単語(アクセントの位置に注意): archipelago /ˌɑɹkəˈpɛləˌɡoʊ/, unproductive /ˌʌn.pɹəˈdʌk.tɪv/, amazingly /əˈmeɪzɪŋli/, geography /d͡ʒiˈɑɡɹəfi/, elaborate /ɪˈlæb.ə.ɹeɪt/

日本語話者が苦手な音:

  • /r/ と /l/ の区別 — /l/ は舌先を歯茎につけ、/r/ はどこにもつけない: archipelago /ˌɑɹkəˈpɛləˌɡoʊ/, frantically /ˈfɹæn.tɪk.li/, elaborate /ɪˈlæb.ə.ɹeɪt/
  • /v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: unproductive /ˌʌn.pɹəˈdʌk.tɪv/, villager /ˈvɪlɪd͡ʒɚ/, weave /wiːv/, distinctive /dɪˈstɪŋktɪv/, harvest /ˈhɑɹ.vəst/
  • /f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: frantically /ˈfɹæn.tɪk.li/, refresh /ɹɪˈfɹɛʃ/, geography /d͡ʒiˈɑɡɹəfi/

この動画での練習方法

  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。rainy, attach, trunk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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