Shadowing-Übung: Chapter 5 - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video

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Chapter 5 Thursday, Taking Photos I phone Jeff.
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Hey, Jeff, are you asleep?
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I'm not now, he says.
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What's happening?
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I have a name for you.
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Are you ready?
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Yes.
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Anna Lund.
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He doesn't say anything for a minute, then...
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Anna.
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It's Anna.
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Are you sure?
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It's Anna's laptop.
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Perhaps she did it or perhaps her spark and flash friend did it, but it's her laptop.
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Right.
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Jeff Clayton's voice is angry.
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I'm calling the police in the morning.
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They can come to the office and when Anna walks in, Wait!
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I say.
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Here's the bad news.
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Anna or her friend downloaded the Blanding's file, but they didn't keep the file on her laptop.
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It went onto a memory stick.
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I took some screenshots of the file download.
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We can show the police those, but they don't prove anything.
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Somebody took the file from the office computer, yes, but the file's not on her laptop now.
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But the download happened on her laptop, says Jeff.
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Of course she's the thief.
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Listen, Jeff, what's she going to say?
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She's going to say, what file?
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What are you talking about?
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Where is this file on my laptop?
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I don't know anything about a file.
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She's not stupid, and she's going to be ready for any question.
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She did it, yes, but we can't prove it.
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Yes.
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Yes, I see.
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You're right, Shirley.
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Jeff's voice is very unhappy.
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So, what are we going to do?
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Well, the Trojan horse was plan A, and now I have plan B, I say.
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Where is the Blanding's file now?
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We need to know that.
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Maybe Spark and Flash have got the file already.
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But maybe they haven't, and maybe Anna is meeting somebody tomorrow,
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so I'm going to watch Anna all day.
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Where does she go?
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Who does she meet?
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OK, what can I do? asks Jeff.
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Go into the office tomorrow. Be normal.
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Be nice to Anna.
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Nice to everyone.
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Talk about work, the weather, the football, whatever.
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We know about Anna, but she doesn't know that.
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We don't want her to worry.
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OK, I get it, Jeff says.
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Watch and listen.
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Text me when Anna does anything.
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When she leaves the office, goes to lunch, makes a phone call.
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Use my Sally Hawker mobile number.
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I sleep for three or four hours, then get up, drink more coffee and call a taxi.
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I want to be outside Anna's apartment before the buses start in the morning.
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I wear my student disguise.
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I have long hair, a big hat and a wonderful long skirt with red and yellow flowers all over it.
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It's a great skirt.
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People look at the skirt and not at the face.
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Anna leaves her apartment at eight o'clock, walks down the street to the bus stop and gets on the first bus.
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There are lots of people on the bus.
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Anna goes upstairs and I sit downstairs.
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She gets off the bus and walks to the office, and I'm twenty metres behind her.
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She doesn't meet anybody.
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She doesn't talk to anybody.
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I text Jeff.
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Anna arriving now.
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Nothing happened.
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A text comes back from Jeff.
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OK.
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I find a sandwich bar not far from the Clayton office.
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I sit by the window and from there I can see the door of the Clayton office.
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I'm hungry.
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I eat two chicken and tomato sandwiches on brown bread and drink two cups of tea.
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I read on my iPad, watch the clock, and when the waiter gives me a hard look,
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I buy another cup of tea.
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Seven cups of tea.
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It's a long morning.
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A text arrives on my phone.
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Anna, leaving for lunch now.
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Everything normal.
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We talked about last night's football.
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When Anna comes out, I'm standing in the street looking into a shop window.
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She walks quickly for ten minutes and then goes into a big pub by the river.
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It's lunchtime and the pub is noisy, full of people.
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I go in at another door and look around for Anna.
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She's with a man, a tall man with red hair.
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Is he just a friend or...?
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No, he's more than a friend.
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Anna is kissing him.
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He's kissing her back.
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He has his arm around her.
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They're excited, happy, laughing.
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I move a little nearer to them.
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I get my phone out, hold the phone to my ear but take photos, lots of them.
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Nobody looks at me.
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I'm just a student in a long flowery skirt talking on my mobile phone.
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I take a taxi back to my office and sit down at my big laptop.
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I download the photos to the laptop.
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The camera in my phone is a good one, and these photos are really good.
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So who is this guy with Anna?
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Some people work for Spark and Flash Design and I have all the names.
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I begin with the people at the top of the company, put their names into Google and hit search.
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I'm looking for photographs.
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Yes!
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Got him!
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The third name brings up lots of photographs of a tall man with red hair.
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He has a Facebook page with all his photos on it.
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Stupid man.
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Stephen Nyberg, Director, Spark and Flash Design.
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I meet Geoff Clayton in Richmond Park again.
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This time it's raining, so we sit in his car and make a plan.
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Plan C.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.

Kontext und Hintergrund

Das Video "Chapter 5" zeigt einen spannenden Dialog zwischen Shirley und Jeff, der sich um ein gestohlenes Datei dreht. Die Situation ist dynamisch: Shirley hat Hinweise auf Anna gefunden, aber Beweise fehlen. Der Gesprächsstil ist natürlich, mit alltäglichen Ausdrücken und emotionalen Nuancen – perfekt fürs Üben von realistischem Englisch. Solche Szenen helfen, nicht nur Wörter zu lernen, sondern auch die Kontextverständnis und die Fähigkeit, sich in Gesprächen zurechtzufinden.

Top 5 Phrasen für die tägliche Kommunikation

  • "Are you asleep?" – Ein informeller Weg, nach dem Zustand eines anderen zu fragen. Perfekt für private Gespräche.
  • "What's happening?" – Ein häufiges Frage, um nach aktuellen Ereignissen zu fragen. Einfach und universell anwendbar.
  • "I see." – Ein klares Zeichen für Verständnis. Wird oft verwendet, um zu signalisieren, dass man die Aussage des Gesprächspartners verstanden hat.
  • "Be normal." – Ein Ratschlag, um sich nicht auffällig zu verhalten. Gut für Situationen, in denen man diskreet sein möchte.
  • "Be nice to..." – Ein Hinweis, freundlich zu jemandem zu sein. Nützlich für soziale Interaktionen.

Schritt-für-Schritt-Shadowing-Anleitung

Um das Shadowing (auch "shadow speech" genannt) mit diesem Video effektiv zu üben, folge diesen Schritten: Zuerst höre den Dialog ein paar Mal ganz durch, um den Kontext zu verstehen. Achte auf die Intonation – Jeffs wütende Stimme oder Shirleys klare Planung. Dann wähle kurze Abschnitte (2-3 Sätze) aus. Stoppe das Video nach jedem Abschnitt und wiederhole sofort, so nah wie möglich an Tonhöhe und Tempo. Nutze eine shadowing site, um dir die Wiederholung zu erleichtern. Übe jeden Abschnitt bis du ihn flüssig sagen kannst. Das hilft, deine Englisch-Sprechfertigkeit zu verbessern und die natürliche Rhythmik zu lernen. Mit "shadowspeak" übst du nicht nur das Hören, sondern auch das Sofortreagieren – ein unverzichtbares Werkzeug fürs tägliche Englisch sprechen üben.

Was ist die Shadowing-Technik?

Shadowing ist eine wissenschaftlich fundierte Sprachlerntechnik, die ursprünglich für die professionelle Dolmetscherausbildung entwickelt und durch den Polyglotten Dr. Alexander Arguelles populär gemacht wurde. Die Methode ist einfach aber wirkungsvoll: Du hörst englisches Audio von Muttersprachlern und wiederholst es sofort laut — wie ein Schatten, der dem Sprecher mit nur 1–2 Sekunden Verzögerung folgt. Anders als passives Hören oder Grammatikübungen zwingt Shadowing dein Gehirn und deine Mundmuskulatur, gleichzeitig echte Sprachmuster zu verarbeiten und zu reproduzieren. Studien zeigen, dass es Aussprachegenauigkeit, Intonation, Rhythmus, verbundene Sprache, Hörverständnis und Sprechflüssigkeit signifikant verbessert — was es zu einer der effektivsten Methoden für die IELTS Speaking-Vorbereitung und reale englische Kommunikation macht.

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