Shadowing Practice: CET-6 Listening Practice: Why Testing Yourself Beats Rereading - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Good morning, everyone. Let me begin with a quick question about how you study.
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When an exam is coming, what do most of you actually do?
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If you're like most students, you read your notes again, and then again.
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It feels productive, and the material starts to look wonderfully familiar.
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The trouble is that familiarity isn't the same thing as memory.
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Today I want to show you why testing yourself is far more effective.
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Psychologists call this the testing effect, or retrieval practice.
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Retrieval simply means pulling information out of your memory without looking.
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In two thousand and six, Henry Roediger and Jeffrey Karpicke tested this idea carefully.
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They asked university students to learn short passages about science topics.
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One group simply read a passage four times, in four separate study periods.
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Another group read it only once, and then tried to recall it three times.
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During those tests, they wrote down everything they could remember, with no help at all.
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Five minutes later, the students who had reread the passage did noticeably better.
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So far, rereading seems to win, which is exactly what most of us would expect.
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But the researchers also tested everyone again one week later.
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And this time, the picture was completely reversed!
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The repeated testing group remembered about sixty-one percent of the ideas.
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The group who had only reread remembered just forty percent.
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In other words, rereading helped in the short term, but testing lasted far longer.
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What surprised me most, though, was what the students themselves predicted.
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Those who had reread four times felt more confident that they would remember the passage.
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Their sense of fluency fooled them, and that confidence turned out to be misplaced.
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So how can you put this into practice tonight?
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After reading a chapter, close the book and write down everything you can recall.
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Then check what you missed, and test yourself again a few days later.
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It'll feel harder than rereading, but that struggle is precisely what makes memories last.
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See you next week, and do test yourselves before then!
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This C1 speaking lesson is built on the video “CET-6 Listening Practice: Why Testing Yourself Beats Rereading”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: passage, testing, students, reread, rereading. This video has 28 sentences and 343 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:16. The speaker talks at a natural 152 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 85% 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
The 12 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| reread verb | /ɹiːˈɹiːd/ | To read again. |
| retrieval noun | /ɹɪˈtɹiːvəl/ | The act of retrieving or something retrieved. |
| familiarity noun | /fəmɪliˈæɹɪti/ | The state of being extremely friendly; intimacy. |
| fluency noun | /ˈfluːənsi/ | The quality of smoothness of flow. |
| misplace verb | /mɪsˈpleɪs/ | To put something somewhere and then forget its location; to mislay. |
| noticeably adverb | In a noticeable way. | |
| wonderfully adverb | /wʌn.də(ɹ).fli/ | In an excellent manner. |
| psychologist noun | /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/ | An expert in the field of psychology. |
| yourselves | /jəˈsɛlvz/ | You (plural), used to intensify the subject as the group addressed. |
| researcher noun | /ˈɹiˌsɝ.t͡ʃɚ/ | One who researches. |
| sixty noun | /ˈsɪksti/ | A commercial lasting 60 seconds. |
| predict verb | /pɹɪˈdɪkt/ | To make a prediction: to forecast, foretell, or estimate a future event on the basis of knowledge and reasoning; to prophesy a future event on the basis of… |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| write down verb | To produce or set (something) down in writing; to record something. |
דקדוק בסרטון הזה
המבנים שהדובר משתמש בהם הכי הרבה, עם המילים המדויקות מהסרטון:
| מבנה | בסרטון |
|---|---|
| משפטי זיקה (Relative clauses) who / which + clause — מידע נוסף על אדם או דבר | students who had · win, which is · Those who had |
| סביל (Passive voice) be + past participle — הדגש הוא על מה שקורה, לא על מי שעושה את הפעולה | was completely reversed · be misplaced |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 3 contractions and reduced forms, such as isn't, it'll, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- Long words — get the stress right: familiarity /fəmɪliˈæɹɪti/, psychologist /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like reread, retrieval, familiarity.
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