Shadowing Practice: Life changes – A2 English Listening Test - Learn English Speaking with Video
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31 משפטים
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1
I used to work such long hours that I didn't have any time to enjoy life.
2
I was like a robot – get up, go to work, go back home, sleep.
3
I had no personal life and I started to feel really miserable.
4
I decided that I wanted to have more free time,
5
so I told my boss that I was going through some personal issues and that I needed to work part-time.
6
She agreed.
7
Now I have time to do everything I want.
8
I don't have as much money, but I'm much, much happier.
9
Jasmine is three weeks old today.
10
I remember a month or so ago thinking that I would go back to work within two or three months.
11
Now I know that's not going to happen.
12
I just can't imagine leaving her with someone else.
13
I'll miss my colleagues, of course, but work will pay me an allowance for a year, so I've decided to take that.
14
I worked as a singing teacher for ten years and I've had some really good success stories,
15
But I felt that I had gone as far as I could go in that career and I wanted a change.
16
I didn't just want to do a different job in music.
17
I wanted to do something completely different.
18
That's why I applied to do this engineering course.
19
It's challenging definitely, but I really love it.
20
For the last nine years, I've done the responsible thing.
21
I got a well-paid job close to home so that my wife didn't have to work, and I could be home by half past four to spend time with the kids.
22
It's worked, but I really began to hate work.
23
Now the kids are older, so after some discussion, my wife agreed I could get a job I loved, even though I will be home much later and earn less.
24
I started last week.
25
It's great.
26
My wife and I both had really good jobs, which we really enjoyed.
27
But we rarely saw our kids, and they started to have difficulties at school.
28
We began to think we were being selfish.
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Together, we were earning far more money than we needed.
30
So we decided that I would give up work and teach the children myself at home.
31
it's not easy but now we spend a lot more time together and it's good for all of us
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 31 sentences and 400 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:41. The speaker talks at a steady 149 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
12 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| earn verb | /ɝn/ | To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work. |
| rarely adverb | /ˈɹɛəɹli/ | Not occurring at a regular interval; seldom; not often. |
| difficulty noun | /ˈdɪfɪkəlti/ | The state of being difficult, or hard to do. |
| robot noun | /ˈɹoʊ.bɑt/ | An intelligent mechanical being designed to look like a human or other creature, and usually made from metal. |
| selfish adjective | /ˈsɛlf.ɪʃ/ | Holding one's own self-interest as the standard for decision making. |
| miserable adjective | /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/ | In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor. |
| colleague noun | /ˈkɒliːɡ/ | A fellow member of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization; an associate, a workmate. |
| allowance noun | /əˈlaʊəns/ | Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting. |
| jasmine noun | /ˈd͡ʒæzmɪn/ | Any of several plants, of the genus Jasminum, mostly native to Asia, having fragrant white or yellow flowers. |
| teach verb | /ˈtiːt͡ʃ/ | To pass on knowledge to. |
| sing verb | /ˈsɪŋ/ | To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice. |
| engineer noun | /ˌɛnd͡ʒɪˈnɪ(ə)ɹ/ | A soldier engaged in designing or constructing military works for attack or defence, or other engineering works. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| get up verb | To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb. |
| give up verb | To surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone). |
| go back verb | To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time. |
| go back to verb | To stem from; to originate in. |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 10 contractions and reduced forms, such as didn't, I've, can't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- Long words — get the stress right: difficulty /ˈdɪfɪkəlti/, miserable /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/, engineer /ˌɛnd͡ʒɪˈnɪ(ə)ɹ/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like earn, rarely, difficulty.
דקדוק בסרטון הזה
המבנים שהדובר משתמש בהם הכי הרבה, עם המילים המדויקות מהסרטון:
| מבנה | בסרטון |
|---|---|
| הווה מושלם (Present perfect) have/has + past participle — פעולה שקרתה בעבר ועדיין יש לה חשיבות או השפעה עכשיו | I've decided · I've had · I've done |
| עבר ממושך (Past continuous) was/were + -ing — פעולה שהייתה בתהליך בזמן מסוים בעבר | was going · were being · were earning |
| עתיד עם “will” will + verb — החלטה, הבטחה או ניבוי לגבי העתיד | I'll miss · will be |
| חובה: must / have to / need to להביע שדבר מה הוא הכרחי או חובה | needed to work · have to work |
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