シャドーイング練習: Why Britain Uses Separate Hot and Cold Taps - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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The mixer tap.
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Brilliant invention, and yet something that seems to have passed Britain by.
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You'll get Americans coming over here and asking why our taps look like they're from the 1940s.
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And even here, in my parents' bathroom, I'm visiting my folks this weekend, and I just have a new bathroom put in.
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Separate hot and cold taps.
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And there are all sorts of theories out there about why that might be, generally revolving around that we're British and stiff upper lip, and, you know, we don't need mixer taps, we've never had them and,
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well, that's partly true, but it also goes back to how houses in Britain were constructed after World War II.
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In most old British houses, there's a cold -water storage tank up in the attic.
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It's reasonably sized, about 250 litres, and that, in turn, feeds a hot -water storage tank that's for the central heating
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and for hot water in the bathroom and the kitchen and so on.
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But the trouble is, that might not be entirely safe drinking water, because that cold water storage tank, in some houses that weren't properly maintained,
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might have been open to the elements, or silted up, or covered with iron rust, or in one particular case that you can read about, have a couple of dead rats floating in it.
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That water might technically not be drinkable, and under the regulations it is not counted as drinking water.
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The cold, meanwhile, at least certainly in the kitchen and sometimes the bathroom too, that cold water comes straight from the mains.
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That counts as drinkable.
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So here's the thing, you have cold, safe, the regulations call it wholesome drinking water, and you have, well, almost certainly safe,
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but not technically, not legally under the regulations, hot water.
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And never the twain shall meet.
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If you have a mixer tap, then technically, the unsafe hot water, in worst -case scenario where there's a backwash valve failure and the mains turns off,
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that unsafe water could go back, backwash through all the systems and go out to contaminate the rest of the street or the rest of the water system.
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That's not legal, therefore, no mixer tap.
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You don't cross the streams.
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Nowadays, of course, it's a little bit different.
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This house had its hot water tank ripped out a few months ago.
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The attic is now just a big empty space again.
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And, well, there's a very modern, shiny bit of technology downstairs that heats up water on demand.
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All new -build houses, go this way, they've got mixer taps, it'll be absolutely fine.
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But, I remember being told as a kid, never drink from the hot water tap.
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And that stuck with me.
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Even now, if there is a mixer tap and I want to drink from it, I will run the cold water for a few seconds, just to make sure that anything that's unsafe has come out of it.
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Even now, old habits die hard, and sometimes these things just feel a bit safer.
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Thank you.
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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「Why Britain Uses Separate Hot and Cold Taps」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：tap, cold, hot, mixer, bathroom。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が32文、単語が510語あります。 音声の長さは2:49です。 話す速さは速く、1分あたり約181語です。音のつながりや弱く発音される音が多くなります。 単語の83%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14語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語発音意味
mixer 名詞/ˈmɪksə(ɹ)/ミキサー
technically 副詞/ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/厳密に
attic 名詞/ˈætɪk/屋根裏
litre 名詞/ˈli.tɚ/リットル, ㍑
downstairs 副詞/daʊnˈstɛɹz/階下
rust 名詞/ɹʌst/錆
stiff 形容詞/stɪf/硬い
float 動詞/fləʊt/浮かぶ, 浮く
construct 動詞/ˈkɑn.stɹʌkt/建設する, 建てる
invention 名詞/ɪnˈvɛnʃən/発明
nowadays 副詞/ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/現在, 現代では
valve 名詞/ˈvælv/バルブ
rat 名詞/ɹæt/鼠, ネズミ
scenario 名詞/sɪˈnɛəɹioʊ/脚本, 台本

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語意味
come over 動詞遣って来る
go back 動詞戻る, 帰る
turn off 動詞消す, 切る

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were constructed · is not counted · being told
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we've never had · has come

注意したい発音

話し手はdon't, I'm, it'llなど、短縮形や弱形を10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: backwash /ˈbæk.wɑʃ/, invention /ɪnˈvɛnʃən/
  • 長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/, contaminate /kənˈtæmɪneɪt/, reasonably /ˈɹiː.zən.ə.bli/

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. 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。
  3. 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。mixer, technically, attic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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