쉐도잉 연습: RE3 Unit 2A - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기

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Track 3.
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Reading 2A What is beauty?
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The search for beauty spans centuries and continents.
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Paintings of Egyptians dating back over 4,000 years show both men and women painting their nails and wearing makeup.
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On the other side of the globe,
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the ancient Maya of Central America considered crossed eyes beautiful and hung little balls between children's eyes to develop this look.
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In 18th century France, wealthy noblemen wore large wigs of long white hair to make themselves attractive.
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In cultures throughout the world, people have gone to extreme lengths to achieve beauty.
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Today, people continue to devote a lot of time and money to their appearance.
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According to a recent report, one out of three consumers globally say they are spending more money on beauty and health care products than ever before.
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Worldwide, sales of makeup, dieting, hair and skin care products, as well as gym memberships and cosmetic surgery,
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generate billions of dollars every year.
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And there is at least one good reason for the desire to be attractive.
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Beauty is power.
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Studies suggest that good-looking people make more money, get called on more often in class, and are perceived as friendlier.
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But what exactly is beauty?
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Trying to define it is difficult, and yet we know it when we see it.
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Or so we think.
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Beauty is health, says one psychologist.
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It's a billboard saying, I'm healthy.
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I can pass on your genes.
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And our awareness of it may start at a very early age.
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In one set of studies, six-month-old babies were shown a series of photographs.
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The faces in the pictures had been rated for attractiveness by a group of college students.
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In the studies, the babies spent more time looking at the attractive faces than the unattractive ones.
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The idea that even babies judge appearance makes perfect sense to many researchers.
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In studies done by psychologists,
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such as Victor Johnston at New Mexico State University and David Perrette at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland,
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men regularly showed a preference for women with certain features, larger eyes, clear skin, fuller lips,
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and a smaller nose and chin.
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Another study suggests that women prefer men with large shoulders and a narrow waist.
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According to scientists, the mind unconsciously tells men and women that these traits, the full lips, clear skin,
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strong shoulders, equal health, and genetic well-being.
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In other words, it's a fundamental part of human nature to look for these qualities in a mate.
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Not everyone agrees with this notion, however.
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Our hardwiredness can be altered by all sorts of expectations, predominantly cultural, says C.
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Loring Brace, an anthropologist at the University of Michigan.
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What is considered attractive in one culture might not be in another.
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Look in most Western fashion magazines, for example, and the women on the pages are thin.
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But is this the perfect body type for women worldwide?
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Douglas Yu, a biologist from Great Britain, and Glenn Shepard, an anthropologist at the University of California at Berkeley,
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say no. For them, what is considered beautiful is subjective and varies around the world.
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Ewan Shepard found in one study,
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for example, that native peoples in southeast Peru preferred shapes regarded as overweight in western cultures.
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Take another example.
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In every culture, one's hairstyle sends a clear message.
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In the huli culture of Papua New Guinea, men grow their hair long as a symbol of health and strength.
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boys in this culture learn from a young age to style and decorate their hair,
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a behavior more commonly associated with the opposite gender in many cultures.
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It is also the men in this culture who are the objects of beauty.
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For certain festivals and celebrations, men dress up and paint their faces.
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The more colorful a man is, the more masculine and attractive he is considered.
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For better or worse, beauty plays a role in our lives,
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but it is extremely difficult to define exactly what makes one person attractive to another.
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Although there do seem to be certain physical traits that are considered universally appealing,
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it is also true that beauty does not always conform to a single, uniform standard.
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In the end, beauty really is, as the saying goes, in the eye of the beholder.

이 클립의 말하기 목표

이 영상은 영상 영어 공부를 통해 문화적 맥락에서 아름다움을 논하는 능력을 키우고, 복잡한 주제를 명료하게 표현하는 fluency를 향상시키는 것을 목표로 합니다. 특히 IELTS 스피킹과 같은 고급 시험에서 요구되는 '논리적 설명'과 '문화적 예시 제시' 능력을 기르기에 적합합니다. 다양한 문화적 사례를 소개하는 대화를 통해, 구체적인 예를 들어 주장을 뒷받침하는 표현 방식을 연습할 수 있습니다.

유용한 표현 모음

  • span centuries and continents (수세기와 대륙을 아우르다)
  • go to extreme lengths to (극단적인 방법을 쓰다)
  • generate billions of dollars (수십억 달러를 창출하다)
  • perceived as friendlier (더 친절하게 인식되다)
  • unconsciously tells (무의식적으로 알려주다)
  • hardwiredness can be altered by (고유한 성향이 ~에 의해 바뀔 수 있다)

약점을 보완하자

이 영상은 영어 쉐도잉 연습에 적합하며, 특히 긴 문장의 리듬과 강세를 개선하는 데 도움을 줍니다. 예를 들어 "The search for beauty spans centuries and continents"와 같은 문장에서 'spans'의 강세와 'centuries and continents'의 연결 발음을 연습하면, 자연스러운 말하기 리듬을 익힐 수 있습니다. 또한, "What is considered attractive in one culture might not be in another"와 같은 복합문의 intonation을 따라하면, 질문과 명제의 구분을 명확히 할 수 있어 영어 발음 교정에도 도움이 됩니다. 쉐도잉을 할 때는 동영상의 발음을 정확히 모방하면서, 문장의 흐름을 따라가는 것을 우선으로 하세요. 이를 통해 긴 문장도 부드럽게 말할 수 있는 능력이 향상될 것입니다.

쉐도잉이란? 영어 실력을 빠르게 키우는 과학적 방법

쉐도잉(Shadowing)은 원래 전문 통역사 훈련을 위해 개발된 언어 학습 기법으로, 다언어 학자인 Dr. Alexander Arguelles에 의해 대중화된 방법입니다. 핵심 원리는 간단하지만 매우 강력합니다: 원어민의 영어를 들으면서 1~2초의 짧은 지연으로 즉시 소리 내어 따라 말하는 것——마치 '그림자(shadow)'처럼 화자를 따라가는 것입니다. 문법 공부나 수동적인 청취와 달리, 쉐도잉은 뇌와 입 근육이 동시에 실시간으로 영어를 처리하고 재현하도록 훈련합니다. 연구에 따르면 이 방법은 발음 정확도, 억양, 리듬, 연음, 청취력, 말하기 유창성을 크게 향상시킵니다. IELTS 스피킹 준비와 자연스러운 영어 소통을 원하는 분들에게 특히 효과적입니다.

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