Activity 17

シャドーイングするときは、リスニングしながら、耳に入ってくる内容を同時にリピートする。一度に１つの発音にフォーカスするようにしょう。ここに並べている単語は共通点のあるセットだ。１、２分ほど、これらの単語の発音を練習しよう。それから文節全体をシャドーイングしてみよう。

“cat”の”a”が入った単語発音を練習しよう。最後の２つの単語がそれぞれ”a”を含んでいるものの、その一方だけしかこの母音の発音を含まないことに注意しよう。

Hadashi no Tabi( HNT)の第2章全体をシャドーイングしてみよう。１０分間練習しよう。

The following words all contain the ‘a’ sound from ‘cat’. Practice pronouncing them for a minute or two (YouTube). Notice how the final two words each contain two letters ‘a’, but only one has the vowel sound. 

At, and, bad, bags, can, camping, has, have, had, manage, Japan, happy

 
Now listen to HNT Chapter 2 (where you’ll encounter those words) and shadow along.

Repeat until the 10 minutes are up.

HNT Chapter 2
Mami sent me a letter today. She wrote:

I’m happy. Soon you will come to Japan. I will meet you at Fukuoka airport. Soon we will be together again. We have lived alone for a few months, so we have much to talk about.

Japan has four seasons. So does New Zealand. But their seasons are opposite. Now, in New Zealand it is autumn. In Japan, it is spring.

The weather will be important for us, because Mami and I will be camping for much of the time. In New Zealand, I bought a small tent and two light sleeping bags. They are only for summer. If the weather gets bad, then we will get cold. In Japan, as we travel north, I hope that the weather will grow warm. We start from Satamisaki in the south, in April.

In two weeks, I fly to Japan. I like Japan. I have been there before. I even have a Japanese hobby. I enjoy writing haiku, but in English, not Japanese. Ten years ago, when I was first in Japan, I started writing them. I would like to write some haiku during my trip. I usually write one or two haiku each day.