Shadowing Practice: 44 Audio Track - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Track 44 Good morning, everyone.
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In this opening part of the presentation, I'll cover the recent work that the biology department has been involved in based on animal intelligence.
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First, I'll give you a bit of basic background.
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In 2001, we focused on monkeys and their capability to either fashion crude tools or take advantage of naturally occurring ones.
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then in 2007 we turned our thoughts to higher level thinking
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and in particular numeracy we conducted a significant piece of research
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to find out whether birds are in fact able to count the findings amazed everyone
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and caused quite a stir around the world this helped to spur us on
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and allowed us to expand the department making it the world
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-class facility it is today however it's not without its drawbacks
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and there are several difficulties
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that are peculiar to this type of study firstly this type
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of research is generally prolonged as we have to spend extensive
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periods gaining the animal's trust in terms of resources it can
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also be very costly to run as we need to employ
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a large number of supplementary staff to assist us for the length of the study
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and finally there is the question of the physical facilities themselves.
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We often have to try to find more space just to simply house the animals, which can be quite an arduous chore.
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Which leads me to our present study and the one we are going to look at today.
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Our subject this time is elephants.
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We knew there was simply no way of accommodating them on campus, so I have been carrying out field work at the Bronx Zoo.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 21 sentences and 273 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:53. The speaker talks at a steady 145 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 86% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
naturally adverb/ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/In a natural manner.
occur verb/əˈkɜː/To happen or take place.
assist verb/əˈsɪst/To help.
resource noun/ɹɪˈzɔːs/Something that one uses to achieve an objective, e.g. raw materials or personnel.
expand verb/ɪkˈspænd/To change (something) from a smaller form or size to a larger one; to spread out or lay open.
difficulty noun/ˈdɪfɪkəlti/The state of being difficult, or hard to do.
presentation noun/ˌpɹɛzn̩ˈteɪʃn̩/The act of presenting, or something presented.
biology noun/baɪˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/The study of all life or living matter.
elephant noun/ˈɛlɪfənt/A large mammal of the family Elephantidae in the order Proboscidea, having a trunk, and native to Africa and Asia.
capability noun/ˌkeɪ.pəˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/The power or ability to generate an outcome.
monkey noun/ˈmʌŋki/A member of the clade Simiiformes other than those in the clade Hominoidea containing apes, generally (but not universally) distinguished by small size, tails…
accommodate verb/əˈkɑməˌdeɪt/To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
crude adjective/kɹuːd/In a natural, untreated state.
employ verb/ɪmˈplɔɪ/To retain (someone) as an employee.
stir verb/stɝ/To disturb the relative position of the particles (of a liquid or similar) by passing an object through it.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordPronunciationMeaning
carry out verb/ˈkæ.ɹi aʊt/To hold while moving it out.
find out verbTo discover, as by asking or investigating.

Pronunciation to watch

  • Long words — get the stress right: naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, difficulty /ˈdɪfɪkəlti/, biology /baɪˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, capability /ˌkeɪ.pəˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/, accommodate /əˈkɑməˌdeɪt/

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like naturally, occur, assist.

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