Shadowing Practice: How I met your Mother | Lily Runs Away (1) - Learn English Speaking with Video

בחר מצב תרגול

כל מצב פותח חדר תרגול במסך מלא.

62 משפטים
אם המשפטים קצרים או ארוכים מדי, לחץ על ערוך כדי להתאים אותם.
1
Marshall and Lily had been together for nine wonderful years until she dumped him and ran off to San Francisco.
2
The healing process was taking a long time.
3
I will not believe what just happened.
4
You go first.
5
I found a 1939 penny on the subway.
6
Just imagine the kind of history this little copper guy's seen.
7
Lily's back in town.
8
And you let me go first?
9
Have you seen her?
10
Uh, yeah.
11
I actually went apartment hunting with her today.
12
How's she doing?
13
You're not going to like it.
14
I am doing great.
15
This summer, best thing ever.
16
San Francisco is so happening right now.
17
She's happy?
18
Marshall had the worst summer of his life, and she's happy.
19
Yeah, and I suppose her art program was all fulfilling or whatever.
20
Oh, the art program.
21
Best thing ever.
22
Oh, my God.
23
This is your best work.
24
In all my years teaching, I've never seen anything so...
25
Needless to say, this is art.
26
I can't teach you anything.
27
Oh, jeez.
28
Such a...
29
God damn...
30
After what she needed to marshal, she should come back here devastated, crawling on all fours over the broken glass of her own shame and regret.
31
You never chose sides.
32
I respect that.
33
The next day, Robin and I went apartment hunting with Aunt Lily.
34
But I need the freedom to really chase my passion, which was painting, but now I think it's music or spoken word.
35
Maybe both.
36
God, isn't life amazing?
37
It is so great to see you, Ted.
38
Oh, I'm gonna get the key from the lockbox.
39
What?
40
She's miserable.
41
She's realized she's made a huge mistake.
42
Her and Marsha will be back together in a week.
43
I love it!
44
Um, no, you just want
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Lily to be miserable.
46
The truth is, she's happy.
47
Trust me, I've known
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Lily for nine years.
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Trust me, I'm a girl.
50
Yeah, but you're Canadian.
51
Why do you always have to bring that up?
52
You bring it up every time, and that's nothing to do with it.
53
Five bucks says she still wants Marshall.
54
You're on.
55
Five American bucks.
56
Damn it.
57
Okay, so how do we get the truth out of her?
58
Tequila.
59
It's her weakness.
60
Three shots, she'll tell you the truth about anything.
61
I hope this is my new home.
62
Yeah, I'm gonna take that first apartment.

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המלץ על סרטון

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “How I met your Mother”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: Lily, Marshall, apartment, truth. This video has 62 sentences and 390 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:44. The speaker talks at a steady 143 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 84% 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
miserable adjective/ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
buck noun/ˈbʌk/A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, salmonid, shad, skunk and kangaroo.
chase verb/t͡ʃeɪs/To follow at speed.
passion noun/ˈpæʃən/A true desire sustained or prolonged.
regret verb/ɹɪˈɡɹɛt/To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead.
copper noun/ˈkɒpə/A reddish-brown metallic chemical element (symbol Cu) with the atomic number 29; also, the metal made up of this element.
weakness noun/ˈwik.nɪs/The condition of being weak.
heal verb/ˈhiːl/To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
dump verb/dʌmp/To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
penny noun/ˈpɛni/In the United Kingdom, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of a pound sterling, or a copper coin worth this amount. Abbreviation: p.
subway noun/ˈsʌbˌweɪ/An underground railway, especially for mass transit of people in urban areas.
marshal noun/ˈmɑɹʃəl/A military officer of the highest rank in several countries, including France and the former Soviet Union; equivalent to a general of the army in the United…
fulfill verb/fʊlˈfɪl/To satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.).
crawl verb/kɹɔːl/To move by dragging one's body along or close to a surface, like a worm or insect, or on one's hands and knees, like a human baby.
devastated adjective/ˈdɛv.əˌsteɪ.təd/Ruined, ravaged.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordMeaning
come back verbTo return to a place.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

  • Have you seen her?
  • You're not going to like it.
  • I can't teach you anything.
  • Trust me, I'm a girl.
  • Why do you always have to bring that up?

דקדוק בסרטון הזה

המבנים שהדובר משתמש בהם הכי הרבה, עם המילים המדויקות מהסרטון:

מבנהבסרטון
הווה מושלם (Present perfect) have/has + past participle — פעולה שקרתה בעבר ועדיין יש לה חשיבות או השפעה עכשיוHave you seen · I've never seen · I've known
עבר ממושך (Past continuous) was/were + -ing — פעולה שהייתה בתהליך בזמן מסוים בעברwas taking · was painting
שם תואר מובהק (Superlatives) the -est / the most … — לציין את הגבוה או הנמוך ביותר בקבוצהthe worst · your best
עתיד עם “going to” be going to + verb — תכנון לעתיד או משהו שנראה שעומד לקרותYou're not going to like · gonna get · gonna take

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 13 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, you're, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

  • The “sh” and “zh” sounds: passion /ˈpæʃən/, marshal /ˈmɑɹʃəl/
  • Long words — get the stress right: miserable /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/, devastated /ˈdɛv.əˌsteɪ.təd/

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 miserable, buck, chase.

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