Pratique du Shadowing: Read along and practice your vocabulary and pronunciation: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo
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Hey everyone, it's Adar.
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Thank you so much for joining me.
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Today we have a read -along episode where I will be reading an excerpt from a Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
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And you will be reading along with me.
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You can either listen to me read it while I explain tricky words, or you can actually shadow me and focus on pronunciation, rhythm, and stress.
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However you choose to use this episode, you will definitely benefit from it.
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And I know this because you all absolutely loved the previous episode I recorded,
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where different Harry Potter book and you asked me to make another one.
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So here it is.
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Now, if you're new to my channel, then hi, my name is Hadar.
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I'm a non -native speaker of English and I am here to help you speak English with clarity, confidence and freedom.
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So don't forget to check out my website, hadarshamish .com and also follow me on social media where I share daily tips to improve your pronunciation
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and your confidence in English.
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Also, if you want the script of the text that I'm going to use, I'm going to be reading in this episode and all the definitions to continue practicing on your own.
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Just click the link below because I have created a PDF with all the notes and it's absolutely free.
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So click on the link below this episode.
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If you're listening to the podcast in the show notes, and download the free resource to help you practice English with Harry Potter.
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All right, let's not wait any longer
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and let's get started with the excerpt from chapter 25 called "Shell Cottage" of the book,
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
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Something that I said at the beginning, when I talk about Harry Potter, the name, I'm going to use the American pronunciation.
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And the word 'Harry' or the name 'Harry' is pronounced a little bit with an 'eh' sound.
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'Harry'.
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And it's not 'Harry'.
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In British English, it's 'Harry'.
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I say 'Harry' because I use American pronunciation.
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pronunciation, keep it 'a' as in cat.
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'Ha', 'ha', 'Harry'.
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Alright, let's go.
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Bill and Fleur's cottage stood alone on a cliff overlooking the sea, its walls embedded with shells and whitewashed.
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So 'stood' has the lax /ə / sound.
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Stood.
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Stood.
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And try to say the phrase 'stood alone'.
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Alone has the long 'o' as in 'go'.
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Stood alone.
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The name 'flur' has the /ə / as in 'stir' sound in American English, of course, in French.
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That's a different pronunciation.
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Also, I read the word embedded.
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It's covered with a white coating and it's often used for building.
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Okay, let's continue.
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It was a lonely and beautiful place.
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Low, lonely.
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It was a lonely and beautiful place.
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Wherever Harry went inside the tiny cottage or its garden, he could hear the constant ebb and flow of the sea.
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like the breathing of some great, slumbering creature.
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So ebb and flow is a regular movement back and forth and it's also used for situations that change regularly.
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So for example, you can say: "His motivation to study has an ebb and flow.
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Some days he feels very focused, while on others he finds it hard to concentrate." ebb and flow.
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ebb and flow.
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Think of a sentence where you can use the phrase ebb and flow.
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And slumbering, that's another word we used, is sleeping or being in a restful state.
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Okay?
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Now, one more thing about pronunciation, first of all, the word "wherever", "wherever", that's a little tricky because of the "w" and the "r".
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So just, if it's hard, just say it a few times.
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Wherever.
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Wherever, wherever, wherever Harry went inside the tiny cottage or its garden.
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Alright, so let's continue.
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He spent much of the next few days making excuses to escape the crowded cottage.
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craving the cliff -top view of open sky and wide, empty sea, and the feel of cold,
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salty wind on his face.
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Cold, long O as in go.
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"cold".
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Now, the word "craving" means a strong desire for something.
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A lot of times we use it when we talk about food, but it doesn't always have to be.
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Let's continue.
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The enormity of his decision not to race Voldemort to the wand Still scared Harry.
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Now, I know that in the movie they say "Voldemort" with a "T", but apparently the author, J .K.
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Rowling, has confirmed: that the T is not pronounced.
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So we are not going to pronounce it, okay?
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And then "wand", even though it has an A, it's an "ah" sound.
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"Wand, want, want".
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Now, enormity is the extreme scale of something.
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And usually we talk about it when we talk about something in a negative way.
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Okay?
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The enormity of his decision not to race Voldemort to the wand, Still scared Harry.
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He could not remember ever before choosing not to act.
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It was full of doubts.
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No B.
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Doubts.
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Fall, not full.
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Fall.
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He was full of doubts.
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Doubts that Ron could not help voicing whenever they were together.
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Now, voicing means expressing something out loud.
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Okay, you need to voice your opinion.
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What if Dumbledore wanted us to work out the symbol in time to get the wand?
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Now, 'to work out' is a phrasal verb that means 'to figure out', which means that's another phrasal verb, to understand or to solve something.
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So think about it now.
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What if working out what the symbol meant made you worthy to get the hollows?
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Harry, if that really is the Elder Wand, how the hell are we supposed to fish off you -know -who?
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You know who.
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To finish off is to kill or to defeat.
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Let's continue.
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Harry had no answers.
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There were moments where he wondered whether it had been outright madness not to try to prevent Voldemort,
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from breaking open the tomb.
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So, "there were moments".
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This is a tricky pronunciation phrase: "there were".
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There were.
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There were moments.
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Long 'o' as in 'go'.
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Now, there was the word 'outright' there.
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So outright means completely or entirely.
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In other words, I could have said it had been a complete madness.
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Outright madness, not to try to prevent Voldemort from breaking open the tomb.
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Tense "oo" no "be".
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A tomb is a structure or space often made of stone where a dead person is buried.
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He could not even explain satisfactorily why he had decided against it.
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Satisfactorily is in a satisfying way.
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Satisfac - He could not even explain satisfactorily why he had decided against it.
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Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal argument that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.
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So let's explain some words here.
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Reconstruct is go back and put together, like to rebuild.
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And feebler is weaker or less convincing.
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Yeah.
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The odd thing was that Hermione's support made him feel just as confused as Ron's doubts.
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no b doubts doubts doubts now forced to accept
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that the elder wand was real she maintained
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that it was an evil object and that the way voldemore had taken possession of it was repellent not to be considered.
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Let's explain a few words here.
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Maintained is firmly insisted on a belief or opinion.
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In this case, Hermione strongly argued or held the view that the Elder Wand was an evil object.
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And the word repellent means disgusting and unacceptable.
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And here it means that the way Voldemort took the wand was horrible and morally unacceptable.
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You could never have done that, Harry, she said again I couldn't have broken into Dumbledore's grave.
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You could never have done that.
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That's a lot of words.
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Let's reduce it a little bit.
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You could never have done that.
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You could never have done that.
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You could never have done that, Harry.
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And then: "You couldn't have broken.
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You couldn't have broken." You couldn't have broken.
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You couldn't have broken into Dumbledore's grave.
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But the idea of Dumbledore's corpse frightened Harry much less than the possibility that he might have misunderstood the living Dumbledore's intentions.
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He felt that he was still groping in the dark.
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He had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs.
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whether he should not have taken.
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the other way.
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So, corpse is a dead body, and not to be confused with core,
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like the peace core, because then it's pronounced as core, but spelled correctly very similarly.
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So 'corpse' is pronounced like that, 'corpse', and that means the dead body, and 'cor', like the Peace Corps.
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is pronounced without the P and without the S.
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Groping is to feel around blindly looking for something, right?
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Like when you're searching for a light switch in a dark room, groping.
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And by the way, it could also mean inappropriately touching someone without their consent.
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To grope someone.
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Let's continue.
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From time to time, anger at Dumbledore crashed over him again,
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powerful as the waves slamming themselves against the cliff beneath the cottage.
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Anger that Dumbledore had not explained before he died.
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"Crashed over" is "surrounded him" or "overwhelming feeling".
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crashed over.
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For example, a feeling of sadness crashed over me.
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So imagine a wave crashing over you.
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Slamming is hitting.
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Next.
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"But is he dead?" said Ron, three days after they had arrived at the cottage.
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Izzy, Izzy, Izzy.
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Parisi, parisi, parisi.
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Look at those reductions and the H is not pronounced when it's connected, but is he dead?
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Said Ron three days after they had arrived at the cottage, Thank you.
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Harry had been staring out over the wall
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that separated the cottage garden from the cliff when Ron and Hermione had found him.
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He wished they had not.
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having no wish to join in with their argument.
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wished laxed i, wished, wished, wished.
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Thank you.
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"Yes, he is!
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Ron, please don't start that again !" "Look at the facts, Hermione," said Ron, speaking across Harry,
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who continued to gaze at the horizon.
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Some explanations: to gaze is to look steadily and intently.
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to gaze, and horizon is the line where the earth and sky meet.
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Gaze.
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Gaze at the horizon.
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Horizon.
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Not horizon, but horizon.
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"Gaze the horizon".
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The silver dough, the sword, the eye Harry saw in the mirror.
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So, "doe" is a female deer.
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Doe, doe, doe.
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And the word "sword" is pronounced without the "w".
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Sword.
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sword, the silver dough, the sword, The eye Harry saw in the mirror.
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Harry admits he could have imagined the eye.
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Don't you, Harry?
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I could have.
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said Harry without looking at her.
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but you don't think you did. Do you?
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This is a tag question where there is a statement
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and then a question where you kind of like paraphrase the last part.
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but you don't think you did, do you?
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And this is the intonation that you usually hear.
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a statement with falling intonation, but you don't think you did. Do you?
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But you can also say it like that: "But you don't think you did." Do you?
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So, the first option: "Do you?" Sounds like a genuine question, right?
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Like I'm really asking.
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And do you?
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Sounds as if I'm more certain or maybe even doubting what he's saying.
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It really depends on the intention and the tone of voice, but there is a different meaning to how I ask it.
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but you don't think you did. Do you? As strong?
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No. I don't.
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said Harry.
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"There you go," said Ron quickly, before Hermione could carry on.
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"If it wasn't Dumbledore, explain how Dobby knew we were in the cellar, Hermione." So, carry on is to continue,
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and cellar is a basement or a room below the house and usually used to store food or wine.
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I can't.
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But can you explain how Dumbledore sent him to us if he's lying in a tomb at Hogwarts?
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I don't know.
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It could have been his ghost.
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Could have been, could have been, could have been.
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It could have been his ghost.
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"Dumbledore wouldn't come back as a ghost," said Harry.
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There was little about Dumbledore he was sure of now, but he knew that much.
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He would have gone on.
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would have gone, would have gone, would have gone on.
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"What do you mean 'ganan '?" asked Ron.
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But before Harry could say any more, a voice behind them said: Okay, the next part I'm going to read with my best French accent
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because the character is French and it's written as if it's pronounced with a French accent.
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Eric Gripouk would like to speak to you.
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He is in the smallest bedroom.
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He says he does not want to be overheard.
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So the text is, now I'm going to do it with my natural accent.
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Harry, Griphook would like to speak to you.
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He's in the smallest bedroom.
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He says he does not want to be overheard.
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Overheard.
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Now we pronounce the H.
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Her dislike of the goblin sending her to deliver messages was clear.
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She looked irritable and she walked back around the house.
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Irritable is angry or upset.
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Irritable.
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Irritable.
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You can say it with an angry tone.
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Irritable.
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She walked back around the house.
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Thank you.
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Griphook was waiting for them, as Fleur had said, "In the tiniest of the cottage's three bedrooms,
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cottage's Cottages of the cottage, cottage's three bedrooms, in which Hermione and Luna slept by night.
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He had drawn the red cotton curtains against the bright cloudy sky, which gave the room a fiery glow at odds.
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with the rest of the airy, light cottage.
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Fiery is like fire.
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Fiery.
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Fiery.
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At odds with means in contrast to or not matching with.
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The opposite.
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Okay?
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Not in contrast with or not matching with something.
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I have reached my decision, Harry Potter.
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said the goblin, who was sitting cross -legged in a low chair, drumming its arms with his spindly fingers.
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So cross -legged is sitting with legs folded over each other at the ankles or knees.
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For example, the child sat cross -legged on the floor while listening to the story.
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And drumming is tapping fingers or hands repeatedly on a surface.
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I like this.
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And spindly is thin and long in a way that looks weak or fragile, like a spider spindly.
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Though the Goblins of Gringotts will consider it base treachery, I have decided to help you.
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Treachery is a particularly low, dishonorable and shameful act of betrayal.
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Treachery.
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"That's great," said Harry.
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"Relief surging through him." By the way, surging is rushing or increasing suddenly and powerfully.
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surging, /r / as in 'stir'.
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Surging, surging, surging.
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In return, said the goblin firmly.
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Same 'er' as in 'stir' firmly. For payment.
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Slightly taken aback, Harry hesitated.
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How much do you want?
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I've got gold.
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Taken aback is shocked or surprised.
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I was taken aback.
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"Not gold," long O as in go.
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"Not gold." said Rip Hook.
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I have gold.
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His black eyes glittered.
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There were no whites to his eyes.
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I want the sword.
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the sword of godrick gryffindor hmm glittered is sparkled or shined.
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In sword, remember that there is no W.
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Sword.
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Hairy spirits plummeted.
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"You can't have that," he said.
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Thank you.
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I'm sorry.
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Plummeted is to fall suddenly and far.
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Plummeted.
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Sunk.
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For example, you can use it when you talk about the stock market.
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The stocks plummeted 40 % during the scandal plummeted.
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Then said the goblin softly.
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we have a problem.
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All right, that's it.
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You did it.
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Good for you.
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I hope this was helpful.
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And don't forget to click the link below this video to download the PDF with the text
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and the notes about the vocabulary so you can practice it again and again and remember which word meant what.
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And that's it.
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If you enjoyed this episode, let me know in the comments.
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If you enjoyed the podcast, download the script from the show notes.
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Thank you so much for joining me and have a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful rest of the day.
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Enjoy reading books or listening to books.
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And I will see you next week in the next video.
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Bye.
Context & Background
In this engaging video episode, Hadar, a non-native English speaker, invites viewers to practice their English vocabulary and pronunciation through a read-along from "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows." The session is designed to help learners focus on difficult words while improving clarity and confidence in their spoken English. The interactive format encourages participants to either listen and learn or directly imitate (shadow) Hadar's pronunciation, rhythm, and stress patterns. This method not only aids in language retention but also fosters a deeper understanding of English phonetics, making it an excellent resource for learners at any level aiming to enhance their English speaking practice.
Top 5 Phrases for Daily Communication
- "Stood alone" - This phrase demonstrates a simple yet effective way to describe solitude, helping learners to express independence.
- "Ebb and flow" - A metaphor commonly used to describe changes in circumstances; essential for discussing feelings or situations.
- "A lonely and beautiful place" - A poetic expression that adds depth when describing locations or emotions.
- "Constant ebb and flow" - Useful for discussing ongoing situations, particularly in personal or academic contexts.
- "Embedded with shells" - A vivid description that enhances imagery when talking about nature or unique locations.
Step-by-step Shadowing Guide
To effectively tackle the content of this video and excel in your IELTS speaking practice, follow these steps:
- Listen Actively: Begin by listening to Hadar reading the excerpt. Pay close attention to his pronunciation and intonation.
- Pause and Repeat: After each sentence, pause the video and repeat what Hadar has said. Focus on mimicking his rhythm and stress. This technique, known as shadowspeak, helps internalize the language.
- Record Yourself: Use your phone or a computer to record yourself while shadowing. Listen to your recordings to identify areas for improvement in your pronunciation and flow.
- Break it Down: If a word or phrase feels challenging, practice it in isolation. For example, say “stood” several times until the pronunciation feels natural.
- Implement in Conversations: Make a conscious effort to use these phrases in your daily conversations or writing. This will deepen your understanding and make you more confident in using them.
By following these strategies, you can effectively improve your spoken English skills and enhance your learning experience with YouTube. Don’t forget to download the accompanying PDF mentioned in the video for additional practice and guidance!
Qu'est-ce que la technique du Shadowing ?
Le Shadowing est une technique d'apprentissage des langues fondée sur la science, développée à l'origine pour la formation des interprètes professionnels. Le principe est simple mais puissant : vous écoutez de l'anglais natif et le répétez immédiatement à voix haute — comme une ombre suivant le locuteur avec un décalage de 1 à 2 secondes. Les recherches montrent une amélioration significative de la précision de la prononciation, de l'intonation, du rythme, des liaisons, de la compréhension orale et de la fluidité.