シャドーイング練習: What the World Eats | practice English with Spotlight - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Welcome to Spotlight.
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I’m Dave Bast.
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And I’m Liz Waid.
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Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting.
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It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live.
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“Peter Menzel and I invited ourselves to dinner with 30 families in 24 countries.
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We wanted to explore people’s oldest social activity: eating.” These are the words of writer Faith D’Aluisio.
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Peter Menzel is her husband.
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He is also a photographer - he takes beautiful pictures.
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Together, they travel the world.
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Faith writes about the things and people they see.
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And Peter takes pictures.
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In the mid 1990s, Faith and Peter began to notice how people’s diets across the world were changing.
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They decided to write a book about their observations.
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Today’s Spotlight is on this book called Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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Food is a very important part of family life.
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It is part of everyone’s history and culture.
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Faith D’Aluisio and Peter Menzel wanted to show how diet affects health and culture.
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And they wanted to present this information in a beautiful way.
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In their book, Faith explains: “To learn more about how diets are changing, we watched normal families all over the world.
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We watched as they farmed, shopped at the market, cooked, and ate.
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At the end of each visit, we created a picture of the family.
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The Madsen family lives in Cap Hope village in Greenland.
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Five people live in the home.
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They spend $277 each week on food.
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They also hunt animals to eat fresh meat.
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These are animals that live in ice cold water such as polar bears, walrus, and arctic geese.
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Many people in Greenland hunt these large animals for their meat.
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The Mendoza family live in Todos Santos Cuchumatan, Guatemala.
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Eight people live in the home.
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They spend $25 a week on food.
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The Mendoza family only eat meat less than once a week.
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They spend most of their money on fruits and vegetables like bananas, zapote, passion fruit, avocados, green beans, and red chili peppers.
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The Al Haggan family lives in Kuwait City, Kuwait.
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Eight people live in the Al Haggan home.
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They spend $221 on food each week.
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Much of the food they eat is imported from other countries.
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They buy it at a western style market.
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The Revis family live in North Carolina, in the United States.
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There are four people in the family.
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They spend $342 each week on food.
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They spend a lot of their money on fast food from eating places like McDonalds, Taco Bell and pizza places.
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The Aboubakar family is from Darfur, Sudan.
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But they live as refugees in the country of Chad.
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D’jimia is a single mother.
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She has five children.
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The family spends a little over one dollar on food each week.
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Food does not cost as much here as in some other places.
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In other countries, where food costs more, this amount would be equal to about $24.
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Most of their meals are a thick liquid porridge made from the grain sorghum.
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D’jimia also receives food aid in her refugee camp.
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Some days the family lacks food.
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They must make difficult decisions.
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They must decide who gets more food, and who gets less.
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These are just a few of the examples of the families in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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All of the pictures in the book show the different food cultures of people around the world.
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Some people grow most of their food on their own land.
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Other people buy almost everything at a market.
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Others do not even cook much of their food.
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They buy food that is already prepared.
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People reading the book can also see how money influences food.
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Some families have enough money to eat any kind of food they want.
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They can buy food imported from other countries at the market.
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But many people must eat only what grows in their own area, depending on the season.
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Some families eat a large amount of food.
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And other families must divide a limited amount of food.
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The book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats is not about food politics.
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The book’s authors, D’Aluisio and Menzel, are not exploring why hunger exists in the world.
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They are only sharing what they experienced.
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The purpose of the book is to help people understand how other people live.
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The book also encourages people to look at their own family and how they eat.
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Remember the Revis family from the United States?
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After seeing their picture in the book, the Revis family felt shame about the food they were eating.
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Mrs. Revis told D’Aluisio and Menzel: “Everyone in our family felt very troubled by the large amount and kinds of food on the table for the picture.
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Before my son eats something now, he will say to me, ‘Mom, how healthy do you think this food is?’ That never happened before”.
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People have different customs but we share many similarities.
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D’Aluisio and Menzel found that around the world people love food.
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And people in every culture love to welcome new friends to eat with their family.
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What are the cultural food customs in your family?
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What foods are common in your culture?
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You can share your thoughts on the script page of this program on our website at www.radioenglish.net.
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The writer of this program was Rebekah Schipper.
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The producer was Liz Waid.
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The voices you heard were from the United States and the United Kingdom.
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All quotes were adapted for this program and voiced by Spotlight.
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You can listen to this program again, and read it, on the internet at www.radioenglish.net.
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This program is called, "What the World Eats".
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We hope you can join us again for the next Spotlight program.
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Goodbye.

このレッスンについて

今回のレッスンでは、世界各国の食文化や人々の食事について考察します。特に「Hungry Planet: What the World Eats」という本を通じて、異なる家庭の食生活を観察し、その背景にある文化や歴史を学びます。英語のリスニングやスピーキング力を高めるための聞き取り練習を行い、英語の発音を良くする方法を探ります。また、具体的な状況に基づいた語彙を学び、より効果的に英語を話せるようになります。

重要な語彙とフレーズ

  • 食事(しょくじ) - meal
  • 家庭(かてい) - family
  • 文化(ぶんか) - culture
  • 観察(かんさつ) - observation
  • 健康(けんこう) - health
  • 食料品店(しょくりょうひんてん) - grocery store
  • 調理(ちょうり) - cooking
  • 狩猟(しゅりょう) - hunting

練習のヒント

このビデオは、様々な家庭の食生活について語っています。スピードは比較的ゆっくりで、明瞭な発音が特徴です。以下のヒントを参考に、効果的にシャドーイングを行いましょう:

  • 再生速度を調整:ビデオの再生速度を少し遅く設定し、発音やイントネーションを正確にマネすることをお勧めします。
  • 声を出して練習:聞こえてきたフレーズをすぐに声に出して繰り返し、shadow speechを使って発音を練習しましょう。
  • メモを取る:重要な語彙や表現を書き留め、後で復習することで、記憶を定着させます。特に、IELTS スピーキング対策として役立つフレーズを重点的に練習してください。
  • リズムに合わせて:話し手のリズムに合わせて声を出すことで、より自然な流暢さを身につけます。

これらのテクニックを用いて、英語の発音を良くするよう努め、あなたの言語能力を向上させましょう。シャドウイングの効果を最大限に引き出すために、定期的に練習を続けてください。

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 imported · is already prepared · were adapted
過去進行形 was/were + -ing — 過去のある時点で進行中だった動作were changing · were eating
義務:must / have to / need to 何かが必要であることを伝えるmust make · must decide · must eat
現在進行形 am/is/are + -ing — 今まさに、または最近起きていることare changing · are not exploring · are only sharing

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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