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6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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Hello, this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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I'm Neil.
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And I'm Georgie.
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Neil, have you ever ridden a horse?
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Yes, I have.
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I can't say that I enjoyed it much.
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I was a bit scared, to be honest.
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How about you?
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I used to ride horses a lot, actually.
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My favourite thing was to ride a horse through the countryside.
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I love horses, they're so majestic and lovely.
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The relationship between humans and horses has been close throughout history, but recently this has gone beyond riding horses for fun or using them for work.
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Equine Assisted Services, sometimes called horse therapy, is a health trend where caring and interacting with horses is used to heal physical and mental illness.
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Here's Dachyani Navanayaga, presenter of BBC World Service programme The Conversation, to explain.
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Equine Assisted Services is now an umbrella term which encompasses a whole range of treatments involving activities and interactions with horses to promote better human wellbeing.
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Equine Assisted Services is an umbrella term, a term for a large number of different things which all belong to a single common category.
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So horse therapy includes many activities, from feeling the horse's movement, which can help children with muscle disorders like cerebral palsy, to simply grooming the horse, which can help calm anxiety.
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Grooming a horse means cleaning and brushing the horse's coat of hair.
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Various animals can be used in therapy, but horses are particularly suitable as they're very sensitive to human emotions.
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Being in contact with them affects the limbic area of the brain dealing with stress.
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In this episode, we'll hear more about the horses helping people work through mental, emotional and physical challenges, and as usual, we'll learn some useful new vocabulary.
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And remember, you'll find all the words and phrases from this episode on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.
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But now I have a question for you, Neil.
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We've heard some of the special qualities horses possess, but which of the following about horses is also true?
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Is it a horses always sleep standing up, b horses can make over 100 sounds or c horses have almost 360 degree vision?
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Well, I'm sure I've seen a horse lying down, so I don't know about its vision though, so I'm going to say B.
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A horse can make over a hundred sounds.
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OK, well we'll find out the answer later in the programme.
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Horse therapist Claudia Nicholson first felt the healing power of horses as a child.
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She now runs her own centre for equine-assisted learning in the south of England, where she spoke with BBC World Service programme The Conversation.
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I would spend hours on end sitting in a stable with my pony.
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I was going through puberty, my parents had separated, I had a lot of unanswered questions,
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and I would feel met and safe and held with the connection of the pony.
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As a child, Claudia spent hours on end with her pony.
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Phrases like days or hours on end mean days or hours doing something continuously without stopping.
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Spending time with her pony helped Claudia through puberty, the stage of life when a child grows into an adult because of changes in their body which allow them to have children.
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It was her teenage experiences that led Claudia to start her own horse therapy centre.
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She works a lot with teenage girls and children in care.
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A child in care is a child who's being looked after by the local authorities because they cannot be cared for by their parents or family.
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Here, Claudia talks more about her work with children and horses to BBC World Service's The Conversation.
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It would take maybe a few sessions for a relationship of trust to be formed.
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And it's quite extraordinary to see a child that's experienced a lot of trauma, especially these children in care.
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They can be brushing the pony's body.
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They might want to have a cry which they've been holding on to.
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The horse regulates them.
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Many of the children Claudia works with suffer trauma.
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It takes time for them to build a bond of trust with their horse.
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The phrase bond of trust is a strong feeling of reliance and confidence between two people.
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Horses really are special animals.
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They sense human feelings like fear or sadness through breath, heart rate and movement and respond with gentleness and calm.
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This makes them perfect animal therapists.
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And that's not all, right Georgie?
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Let's find out the answer to your question.
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Yes, Neil.
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Well, I asked you which sentence about horses was true and you said that horses can make over 100 sounds.
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Sadly, that was the wrong answer.
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The correct answer was C.
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Horses have near 360 degree vision, which is surprising.
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Wow, that's amazing!
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OK, let's recap the vocabulary we've learnt, starting with umbrella term, a term used to describe many different things which all belong to a single common category.
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Grooming an animal, like a horse or a dog, means brushing and cleaning its coat of hair.
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If you do something for hours on end, you do it continuously, without stopping.
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Puberty is the stage of life when a child grows into an adult because of changes in their body which allow them to have children.
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A child who is in care is being looked after by the local authorities because they cannot be cared for by their parents.
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And finally, a bond of trust is a strong feeling of reliance and confidence between two people.
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Once again, our six minutes are up, but remember, you'll find a quiz and worksheet for this episode over on our website bbclearningenglish.com.
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See you there soon, but for now it's goodbye.
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Goodbye.
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Warum das Sprechen mit diesem Video üben?

In der heutigen globalisierten Welt ist es wichtiger denn je, Englisch sprechen zu üben. Das Video behandelt die heilende Beziehung zwischen Menschen und Pferden und bietet viele Gelegenheiten, neue Vokabeln und Redewendungen zu lernen. Durch das Sprechen über emotional aufgeladene Themen wie Trauma und Heilung können Lernende ihre Fähigkeit, über persönliche Erfahrungen und Gefühle zu kommunizieren, verbessern. Das Sprechen im Kontext bringt auch einen emotionalen Bezug und fördert das Gedächtnis. Außerdem können die im Video verwendeten Begriffe den Lernenden helfen, die Englische Aussprache zu verbessern, indem sie lebendige und authentische Inhalte wiederholen.

Grammatik & Ausdrücke im Kontext

Das Video enthält mehrere nützliche grammatische Strukturen und Ausdrücke:

  • "would spend hours on end" – Dies ist eine gängige Formulierung, um kontinuierliche Aktivitäten zu beschreiben. Der Ausdruck hilft Lernenden, Zeitangaben in einem Kontext zu verwenden.
  • "can help calm anxiety" – Hier wird die Modalverbform 'can' genutzt, um Fähigkeiten oder Möglichkeiten auszudrücken. Dies ist nützlich für alle, die über Potenziale sprechen möchten.
  • "take time for them to build a bond of trust" – Der Ausdruck zeigt, wie wichtig Geduld im Aufbau von Beziehungen ist und bietet eine gute Gelegenheit, über den Prozess des Kennenlernens zu sprechen.

Durch das Üben dieser Strukturen können Lernende ihre Sprachfertigkeit und ihren Ausdruck durch aktives shadow speech verbessern.

Häufige Aussprachefallen

Bei der Aussprache gibt es einige herausfordernde Wörter, die aufgrund ihrer Klangkombinationen verwirrend sein können:

  • "Equine" – Die richtige Aussprache kann oft missverstanden werden. Achten Sie auf die richtige Betonung, um Missverständnisse zu vermeiden.
  • "Regulates" – Dies kann eine schwierige Aussprache für Nicht-Muttersprachler sein, da das 'g' schwierig zu betonen ist.
  • "Trauma" – Bei diesem Wort neigen viele Lernende dazu, das 'au' wie 'ao' auszusprechen. Es ist wichtig, die korrekte lautliche Verbindung zu üben.

Um die Englische Aussprache zu verbessern, ist es sinnvoll, das Video mehrmals anzusehen und die schwierigen Wörter laut nachzusprechen. Dies ist eine hervorragende Methode, um shadowing site und shadowspeaks für eine authentische Aussprache zu nutzen.

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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