Shadowing-Übung: How An Igloo Keeps You Warm - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video
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For thousands of years, humans and plants and animals long before that have been using frozen sky water to keep warm.
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Which sort of doesn't make sense, because snow is cool.
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You might even say it's ice cold.
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No one knows for sure who built the first igloo, but with the right fit and the right physics,
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snow can actually warm you better than the inside of a tauntaun.
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You'll be okay, Luke!
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So how can something cold keep you cozy?
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The vast, frozen
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Arctic is one of the most forbidding environments on our planet.
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Yet the Inuit have managed to live there for about 5 ,000 years.
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Out on the pack ice, winter temperatures reach 50 degrees below zero.
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And when it's that cold, surviving means finding shelter.
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It's not an area known for its forests.
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So nomadic hunters learn to build with the only thing available, snow.
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Eskimo languages really do have dozens and dozens of different words for snow, because there are a lot of different types,
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and the type of snow you choose can dictate whether your igloo keeps you warm, or turns you into a homo sapiensicle.
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To understand this, we need to know a little something about being cold.
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When your body temperature starts to plummet, you're feeling heat leave you you.
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Cold can't move into your body.
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In fact, there's no such thing as cold.
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Where have I heard that before?
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Oh, right.
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Think of heat as an actual quantity of stuff.
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The more you give away, the colder you feel.
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And this trading of heat can happen in three different ways, by convection, conduction, and radiation.
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All three are at play in an igloo.
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A person inside will radiate body heat, which moves around the igloo by convection and is lost through the walls by conduction.
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This is exactly what happens in your house.
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Living insulation does the same thing.
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Fatty tissues like blubber help stop heat transfer in whales and seals, but for animals who don't have as much junk in the trunk,
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they cover themselves in air.
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Sea otter fur, for example, is about a thousand times denser than human hair.
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It's snuggly stuff.
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This is the softest thing I've ever felt in my life.
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You are adorable but the secret to its insulation power is in its texture.
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Otter fur is spiky, so it traps insulating air molecules.
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And that is exactly what snowflakes do.
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Powdery, fresh snow can be up to 95 % trapped air.
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This makes it an excellent insulator, but the same way you have to pack it in your hands to make a snowball,
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it isn't dense enough to build with.
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Solid ice, on the other hand, makes a good windbreaker, but it's too heavy to lift.
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Inuit hunters took the Goldilocks approach.
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The secret to good igloo snow is somewhere in the middle.
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Traditional igloo blocks aren't molded, they're cut out of the ground.
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That tightly packed ground snow is dense enough to hold up, but because it still has far more air pockets than a block of ice,
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it's light, and still a pretty good insulator.
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As usual, animals figured this one out long before humans.
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Polar bears, groundhogs, even birds like grouse all make snow burrows to stay warm.
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Even before that, plants were tucking into snow to avoid death by freezing.
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During the warm months, heat energy from the sun builds up in soil, and just like the roof above your head,
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a deep covering of snow prevents that heat from escaping onward and upward.
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The snowy blanket above stops ice crystals from forming inside plant roots and shoots and seeds.
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Not freezing to death is a pretty good motivator for any animal to get crafty,
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but our big primate brains took it one step further with igloos.
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Their engineering maximizes warmth and stability.
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Cartoon igloos look like flat -bottomed half -spheres, but in reality they're neither of those things.
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If you were to slice a real igloo in half, you'd see a shape called a catenary.
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This gradually sloping shape is the same one that would form
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if you held a chain from both ends and let it droop.
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A catenary arch distributes weight more evenly than a half circle, without bulging or buckling.
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In fact, it's one of the most stable arches in nature, so sound that we still use it today.
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Inside, snow houses are carved in different levels.
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The hot air rises and the cold air sinks down into the lower part, away from where you would eat, sleep, and chill.
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To boot, body heat melts the innermost layer of the walls, strengthening the barrier between between you,
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your airy snowblock insulation, and the frigid great beyond.
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When you live in an igloo, you act as a living furnace.
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Over time, the temperature in your icy abode can hover some 40 to 60 degrees above the surrounding air,
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but bring a friend to your igloo party and you'll get warmer faster.
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Stay cozy, and stay curious.
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Wortschatz und Sprechhinweise zu dieser Lektion
Diese Sprechübung basiert auf dem Video „How An Igloo Keeps You Warm“. Diese Wörter kommen am häufigsten vor: snow, igloo, heat, cold, warm. Dieses Video enthält 56 Sätze und 872 Wörter zum Nachsprechen. Der gesprochene Teil dauert 5:12. Der Sprecher spricht in natürlichem Tempo, etwa 167 Wörter pro Minute, ähnlich wie im Alltagsgespräch. Nur 79 % der Wörter gehören zu den 3.000 häufigsten im Englischen, der Wortschatz ist also anspruchsvoll.
Wichtiger Wortschatz in diesem Video
15 lernenswerte Wörter aus dem Video, mit Aussprache und Bedeutung:
| Wort | Aussprache | Bedeutung |
|---|---|---|
| freeze Verb | /ˈfɹiːz/ | gefrieren |
| dense Adjektiv | /ˈdɛns/ | dicht |
| insulation Substantiv | /ˌɪnsəˈleɪʃən/ | Isolation |
| hunter Substantiv | /ˈhʌntɚ/ | Jagdhund |
| trap Substantiv | /tɹæp/ | Falle |
| arch Substantiv | /ɑɹt͡ʃ/ | Bogen |
| vast Adjektiv | /væst/ | beträchtlich, weit |
| pocket Substantiv | /ˈpɑ.kɪt/ | Tasche, Sack |
| stable Substantiv | /ˈsteɪ.bəl/ | Stall, Pferdestall |
| curious Adjektiv | /ˈkjʊɹ.i.əs/ | neugierig |
| soil Substantiv | /sɔɪl/ | Erde, Grund |
| crystal Substantiv | /ˈkɹɪstəl/ | Kristall |
| layer Substantiv | /ˈleɪ̯ɚ/ | Lage, Schicht |
| physics Substantiv | /ˈfɪz.ɪks/ | Physik |
| seed Substantiv | /siːd/ | Samen, Saat |
Phrasal Verbs, die du hören wirst
| Wort | Bedeutung |
|---|---|
| give away Verb | weggeben |
| hold up Verb | warten |
Sätze zum Wiederholen
Kurze, vollständige Sätze aus dem Video, die du im Alltag wiederverwenden kannst:
- You might even say it’s… ice cold.
- Where have I heard that before?
- Here's an idea, you should go check it out.
Grammatik in diesem Video
Die Strukturen, die der Sprecher am häufigsten verwendet, mit den genauen Worten aus dem Video:
| Struktur | Im Video |
|---|---|
| Present Perfect have/has + Partizip Perfekt – eine vergangene Handlung, die jetzt noch wichtig ist | have managed · have I heard · I've ever felt |
| Passiv be + Partizip Perfekt – wichtig ist, was geschieht, nicht wer es tut | is lost · aren't molded · are carved |
| Komparativ -er than / more … than – zwei Dinge vergleichen | better than · denser than · more evenly than |
| Superlativ the -est / the most … – das Höchste oder Niedrigste einer Gruppe | the most forbidding · the softest · the most stable |
Aussprache, auf die du achten solltest
Der Sprecher verwendet 12 Kurzformen und abgeschwächte Formen, zum Beispiel they're, you'll, aren't. Sprich sie in der kurzen Form, so wie du sie hörst.
- Die „th“-Laute: strengthen /ˈstɹɛŋ(k)θən/, warmth /wɔɹmθ/
- Die Laute „sh“ und „zh“: insulation /ˌɪnsəˈleɪʃən/, tissue /ˈtɪʃ.(j)u/, radiation /ˌɹeɪ.diˈeɪ.ʃən/, shelter /ˈʃɛltə/, conduction /kənˈdʌkʃən/
- Lange Wörter – auf die Betonung achten: insulation /ˌɪnsəˈleɪʃən/, stability /stəˈbɪlɪti/, radiation /ˌɹeɪ.diˈeɪ.ʃən/, adorable /əˈdoɹ.əˌbəl/, catenary /ˈkætəˌnɛɹi/
Laute, die Deutschsprachigen schwerfallen:
- /w/ — mit runden Lippen, nicht wie das deutsche „w“ (/v/): quantity /ˈkwɑn(t)ɪti/, whale /ˈweɪl/, warmth /wɔɹmθ/, upward /ˈʌpwɚd/, onward /ˈɒnwəd/
- Stimmhafter Auslaut — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ am Wortende nicht verhärten: freeze /ˈfɹiːz/, seed /siːd/, surround /səˈɹaʊnd/, mold /moʊld/, upward /ˈʌpwɚd/
- /æ/ — offener als „ä“: trap /tɹæp/, vast /væst/, gradually /ˈɡɹæd͡ʒuəli/, barrier /ˈbæɹi.ə/, blanket /ˈblæŋ.kɪt/
So übst du mit diesem Video
- Höre dir das ganze Video einmal an, ohne zu sprechen, und notiere die Wörter, die du nicht kennst.
- Beginne mit 0,75-facher Geschwindigkeit, sprich Satz für Satz nach und wechsle zur normalen Geschwindigkeit, sobald es leichtfällt.
- Nimm dich auf und vergleiche mit dem Original; achte dabei auf Wörter wie freeze, dense, insulation.
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