B2の英語の短文

最新のB2（中上級）ディクテーションから選んだ英文です。再生して1文ずつ聞き、まとめてディクテーションで練習しましょう。

B2の英文9文：The Canopy Repair

Norwick's Saturday umbrella clinic drew a queue after a week of sideways rain.
Volunteers expected broken ribs, but one visitor arrived with an umbrella stitched from two different canopies.
It had belonged to her late mother, and its mismatched panels were deliberate, not damage.
She had planned to replace it until a technician noticed that one seam was still sound.
Using thread salvaged from another broken canopy, the team repaired the torn edge without hiding either color.
After watching, several shoppers chose repairs over discounts on new umbrellas at a nearby stall.
By noon, volunteers had fixed thirty-one umbrellas, including five whose handles needed custom wooden sleeves.
Clinic records showed that most failures began where canopy fabric met the ribs, not at the handles.
That detail prompted organizers to offer reinforced seam checks at the next monthly clinic.

The film A Receiver at Supper follows an inventor whose kettle alarm becomes entangled in family life.
Her first prototype mistakes a washing machine's vibrations for a boiling kettle, ruining Sunday soup.
Her father, a night baker, sleeps through ordinary alarms after his shifts, giving her invention personal stakes.
The device sends a light to a receiver, so it cannot help if either part is misplaced.
Bright daylight can also hide the flash, a practical weakness the film does not conceal.
Instead of presenting a polished success story, the director lets failed tests reshape their relationship.
During one late test, her father covers the receiver with a tea towel, expecting a louder warning.
That small gesture shows how easily a thoughtful design can fail to match someone's habits.
The middle section occasionally overexplains the circuitry, although its domestic humor keeps the pace warm.
Viewers drawn to intimate family dramas and inventive everyday details will enjoy its understated payoff.

By the time the repair crew reached the archive, rain had darkened the lowest shelves.
Water ran from a loose joint in the upstairs drainpipe, then seeped through a crack in the brickwork.
At first, the clerk assumed the damp had ruined only a stack of obsolete forms.
Years earlier, a caretaker had painted over that same stain whenever winter storms returned.
When the crew removed a warped panel, they uncovered a tin case wedged behind it.
Inside lay a survey map showing a passage sealed during renovations decades before.
The crack traced the old passage, which connected the archive to a forgotten street entrance.
Because the map recorded a public right of way, the town could not simply close it.
The clerk had been preparing to discard those forms, which documented the passage's closure.
After the pipe was repaired, she filed the map among records that could reopen the dispute.

短い文なら、少ない音に集中できます。テキストを見ずに聞いて書き取り、答えと比べましょう。特に聞き逃しやすいのは、冠詞、前置詞、語尾の -s・-ed です。確認したら、もう一度聞いて声に出してまねると、シャドーイングの練習にもなります。

よく使う英語のフレーズも、こうした文の中で音と一緒に覚えると、会話で聞き取れて使えるようになります。各セットはそのレベルのディクテーションから選ばれています。

どのレベルから始めればいいですか？

2〜3回聞けば文の大部分を書けるレベルから始めましょう。迷ったら、5分の無料レベルテストを受けてみてください。

短文と物語、どちらで練習すべきですか？

短文は苦手な音の練習に、物語は文脈の中で理解する練習に向いています。交互に使うのがおすすめです。